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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2015 16:42:24 GMT
I would think that it would be found by now if that was the case.
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Post by Simon Bolton on Mar 15, 2015 18:19:20 GMT
I've just finished watching the Loose Cannon recon. of Marco Polo, sorted for me by my mate from down the pub. It's fantastic. I've never even listened to it before so this is really the first time I've come across it (unless I was in my pram in the front room when it was first aired...) I was particularly surprised to find it's such an early story, near the beginning of the first season. It's incredibly assured and the production values are stunning. I've found the current DWM articles very useful when watching it too. Also I didn't realise quite how curmudgeonly the 1st Doctor could be, though after riding a horse across a desert for five days, who wouldn't be. Very Capoldi. I loved it. Recons are a pretty good substitute for the real thing if it's never found; but wouldn't it be nice?
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Post by richardwoods on Mar 15, 2015 18:36:41 GMT
It does seem bizarre that it was one of the widest distributed story and yet nothing survives. Let's hope something survives somewhere and turns up. To be honest, it's the only bit of the post Web / Enemy furore that rang true to me at the time, (Marco supposedly recovered too but delayed due to problematic renovation), but sadly this seems to have been a load of rhubarb like the rest of the rumours too.
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Post by Jon Preddle on Mar 15, 2015 21:23:06 GMT
All the countries that aired Marco Polo also aired The Daleks, but we're not exactly tripping up over spare prints from that first Dalek story, are we? So it's not at all bizarre when you think about it.
But if dozens of overseas prints of the other 19 episodes from the first batch of 26 were turning up on a regular basis, that *would* give one good cause to think it bizarre that random copies of Marco Polo weren't turning up as well.
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Post by williamb on Mar 15, 2015 22:58:38 GMT
And The Daleks at least was translated into other languages. Marco Polo was not, so far as I've been told.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2015 23:54:01 GMT
I've just finished watching the Loose Cannon recon. of Marco Polo, sorted for me by my mate from down the pub. It's fantastic. I've never even listened to it before so this is really the first time I've come across it (unless I was in my pram in the front room when it was first aired...) I was particularly surprised to find it's such an early story, near the beginning of the first season. It's incredibly assured and the production values are stunning. I've found the current DWM articles very useful when watching it too. Also I didn't realise quite how curmudgeonly the 1st Doctor could be, though after riding a horse across a desert for five days, who wouldn't be. Very Capoldi. I loved it. Recons are a pretty good substitute for the real thing if it's never found; but wouldn't it be nice? Simon Actually Capaldi is very Hartnell if you know what I mean.
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Post by George D on Mar 16, 2015 3:00:36 GMT
All the countries that aired Marco Polo also aired The Daleks, but we're not exactly tripping up over spare prints from that first Dalek story, are we? So it's not at all bizarre when you think about it. But if dozens of overseas prints of the other 19 episodes from the first batch of 26 were turning up on a regular basis, that *would* give one good cause to think it bizarre that random copies of Marco Polo weren't turning up as well. The space stories were sold to more stations than historicals so in theory more should show up. That being said, while nothing is plentiful, it makes sense that It's the later stories and the historicals that have the most gaps. (Although why they decided to save the gunfighters is a mystery to me)
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Post by richardlong on Mar 16, 2015 9:06:21 GMT
All the countries that aired Marco Polo also aired The Daleks, but we're not exactly tripping up over spare prints from that first Dalek story, are we? So it's not at all bizarre when you think about it. But if dozens of overseas prints of the other 19 episodes from the first batch of 26 were turning up on a regular basis, that *would* give one good cause to think it bizarre that random copies of Marco Polo weren't turning up as well. The space stories were sold to more stations than historicals so in theory more should show up. That being said, while nothing is plentiful, it makes sense that It's the later stories and the historicals that have the most gaps. (Although why they decided to save the gunfighters is a mystery to me) The survival of The Gunfighters is just random chance isn't it? I don't think they ever "decided" to save any episodes of Doctor Who.
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Post by Richard Marple on Mar 16, 2015 18:13:36 GMT
I did hear the odd episode was archived so the BBC would have a record of old programming, at least what some of the DWM profiles mentioned at one time.
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