Success!
Thanks due entirely to a tip from an interested party (you know who you are
,) the programme 'Skytruckers' has now been transferred to DVD.
Given that I don't have a video capture card, nor one of those handy-dandy machines that records analogue video & TV straight to DVD, I had to contrive to get the signal electronically through a digital video camera down through firewire onto PC, thence to my DVD burner. I had tried shooting a TV screen using the camera in its conventional mode but this produced unacceptable patterning!
The whole exercise nonetheless gave me a chance to re watch this really great documentary.
There have been some requests from quite far afield, though I am confident that even NTSC (the American TV standard) can be catered for.
In keeping with the Mod's request, anyone wishing to receive a copy should only ask via PM to give me their postal address.