RWels
Member
Posts: 2,854
|
Post by RWels on Jan 2, 2016 20:58:09 GMT
...they should have been forging their own path. ... And miss the chance to peddle it to an existing fanbase? Next thing you'll be telling me that the latest James Bond movies are Bond in name only and don't resemble the originals at all anymore. Surely not! A reboot is a euphemism for a hijack, if you ask me.
|
|
|
Post by scotttelfer on Jan 6, 2016 16:58:11 GMT
IIRC the reel the pilot was considered lost until about 1981, when I assume there was some kind of audit / recataloguing of the archive. I know some odd episodes of things have been remade, like The Grove Family & Quatermass. The "pilot" was definitely in among the archive audit of 1977. I'm not aware of it going missing afterwards but stranger things have happened. Also, just because nobody else has said it and its almost a tradition in any discussion of this episode, the term "pilot" isn't correct in this context. It's normally used, but this was never intended as a test for the show, they genuinely screwed up production and started all over again. This isn't an isolated incident either, another episode was refilmed in a similar manner (The Dead Planet, the first episode of The Daleks, although that no longer exists, only the final scene which was used for the start of the second episode instead of the final scene of the broadcast version of the first episode).
|
|
|
Post by Richard Marple on Jan 6, 2016 17:43:52 GMT
OK I must have misread a feature on surviving episodes.
|
|
|
Post by Richard Bignell on Jan 6, 2016 23:13:40 GMT
It's actually noted by the term "pilot" in the original 1963 paperwork, Scott.
|
|
|
Post by scotttelfer on Jan 12, 2016 1:04:00 GMT
It's actually noted by the term "pilot" in the original 1963 paperwork, Scott. Okay, must have missed that. Still isn't really a pilot episode, at least not in the way the Americans would use the term, probably in the slightly more casual way of slapping it on the first episode. This wasn't a test episode to get the show picked up, it was an attempt to film the first episode that was an all round disaster. OK I must have misread a feature on surviving episodes. Having had a look around, the 1981 date appears to match up with The Web of Fear 1 being found, which was found internally at BBC Worldwide after being missed from the initial listing was made by Ian Levine and friends in 1978.
|
|
|
Post by Richard Marple on Jan 12, 2016 13:28:15 GMT
I've got the feeling I was reading Dr Who: A Celebration when I made the mistake.
|
|