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Simeon D Carter
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Re: Tobys tapes.
« Thread Started on Apr 16, 2012, 8:57am »
Are those copies of The Ice Warriors known about? It would be good to know for certain if they were junked.
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« Reply #1 on Apr 16, 2012, 10:10am »
Hi Toby,

We're getting a little thin on the ground for leads here, hense why anyone with any possible recordings from way back is being discussed! Thanks for popping by and claifying.
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« Reply #2 on Apr 16, 2012, 9:42pm »

Apr 16, 2012, 8:57am, Simeon D Carter wrote:
Are those copies of The Ice Warriors known about? It would be good to know for certain if they were junked.


Yes, these copies have been speculated about for a few years now. As Toby has mentioned immediately above your post, these copies were then recorded over - probably, as he says, within days of his watching them.
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Re: Tobys tapes.
« Reply #3 on Apr 26, 2012, 6:32pm »
Hi Toby,what was the quality of the playback like back in 1967?Was it a fuzzy mess or was it reasonably sharp?Intrigued to know what it was like back in those early days!
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« Reply #4 on Apr 27, 2012, 8:05am »
Such a shame they were taped over ! An incredible near miss and a rare example of an important off-air recording made in the '60's.Can you imagine how much revenue your recording would have generated over the years-video,DVD,missing soundtracks...?
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« Reply #5 on Apr 27, 2012, 9:32am »
Someone will be along soon who'll suggest peeling back VT layers to get at the original signal that went onto the tape. Even if we find out later that the reels have long been disposed of...
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Re: Tobys tapes.
« Reply #6 on Apr 27, 2012, 10:30am »

Apr 27, 2012, 8:05am, Jaspal Cheema wrote:
Such a shame they were taped over ! An incredible near miss and a rare example of an important off-air recording made in the '60's.Can you imagine how much revenue your recording would have generated over the years-video,DVD,missing soundtracks...?


I love the way that a domestic recording wiped nearly 45 years ago is being described as a near miss..!
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« Reply #7 on Apr 27, 2012, 11:24am »
Sorry,what I really meant is that years before Ian Levine approached the BBC and decade before the commercial release of Doctor Who on video,a member of the public managed to watch an entire story outside of its normal terrestrial transmission!But I suppose a near miss means that the BBC erased it,a miss would mean that it still existed!
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« Reply #8 on Apr 27, 2012, 9:38pm »

Apr 27, 2012, 10:30am, Rob Moss wrote:

Apr 27, 2012, 8:05am, Jaspal Cheema wrote:
Such a shame they were taped over ! An incredible near miss and a rare example of an important off-air recording made in the '60's.Can you imagine how much revenue your recording would have generated over the years-video,DVD,missing soundtracks...?


I love the way that a domestic recording wiped nearly 45 years ago is being described as a near miss..!


Is this considered the earliest known example of recording an episode (or in this case story) off-air?
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Re: Tobys tapes.
« Reply #9 on Apr 28, 2012, 9:43am »
Yesterday at 8:05am, jazcheema139 wrote `An incredible near miss ' ????????
Erm.... the tapes were recorded over when the BBC still had their copies and The Ice Warriors was shown overseas later than this -so nothing incredible or near about it I'm afraid.
Interesting to hear Tobys own recolections though as yes there have been murmurings about this for years.
Certainly seems there was no intention of keeping the recording long term and it went the way of most off-air recordings of the time. I'm sure there were tapes of Cup Finals etc, made regularly then recorded over in due course.
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