Post by John W King on Jul 23, 2016 20:35:23 GMT
Love John Stewart's last 3 postings. I'd also like to thank those who enjoyed my memories of early Troughton. Like John I found Troughton's early episodes disturbing and at times silly. How do I know how accurate my memories are of missing episodes? Simple. First was the broadcast. I then made a few notes a short time afterwards. These began as a few lines. By the time of the rejuvenation/regeneration it was a whole pages. I stopped making notes with the Frontier in Space - I was at college and had no time and my notes ran to several detailed pages. I would go through episodes in my head for many years until the target novels came along. But first the 3 Frederick Mueller published books. These were the first test of my memory. DR WHO IN AN EXCITING ADVENTURE with the Daleks is a great book which I still read but was initially disappointing because the initial chapters are so different from An Unearthly Child. Because the story is written from Ian's perspective certain plot details in the Daleks story I could tell were different. And the glass Dalek!!! The same was apparent to me with the Zarbi. Not so sure with the Crusades. Anyway then came my writing in detail my memories of Unearthly and the Daleks. When Doctor Who Weekly published their versions of these stories I began to realise my memory was amazingly accurate. The Five Faces of Doctor Who (which I videod on Video 2000 format) proved the accuracy of my memories. Then, of course video and finally DVD and no longer just memories but copies of the actual programmes.....apart from those 96 missing episodes. Some of the reconstructions mainly seem quite accurate (particularly Tenth planet 4 and Power 1). A recent Loose Canon Marco Polo is excellent and Mission to the Unknown. However there are several episodes that I missed on transmission that at tnis moment are missing. Masterplan 12..... Please, please keep searching guys. Turn our memories back into real programmes. Until then keep sharing memories.