What would happen if...?

[John W King]

First, please read nothing into posting. It is purely me speculating.
Most of us want all 96 missing Dr. Who episodes to be found and restored.
But what would happen if this did happen and all the episodes had been recovered at approximately the same time? (As per the omni rumour)
Stage 1. All episodes recovered and taken to a central location
Stage 2. Restoration work begins. 96 episodes could take a long, long time to restore.
Descision 1. Is an announcement made when all 96 episodes have been restored or part of the way through the restoration?
Descision 2. Will the restored episodes be made available to the public and if so in what format? I think most of us would prefer DVD for consitency.
Stage 3. Release to public begins. NOTE:- The missing episodes fall into 2 groups
a) Missing stories (9) b) Stories completed with missing episodes. (17 stories)
Assuming Dalek Masterplan is divided into 2 parts that would make 26 stories to be released. (26 DVDs)
NOTE:- At a cost of £15 + per DVD. That's at least £380 to shell out......!
Descision 3. What order to release the stories and at what rate?
It would make finacial sense to alernate releasing a) Missing stories with b) Stories completed and at a rate of 1per month.
That would take just over 2 years to release everything.
It would be better to release the least popular tales first and hold back the great classics.
Stage 4. Releases begin.
1. Tenth Planet (for publicity) 2. The Smugglers 3, Space Pirates 4. Myth Makers 5. Underwater Menace
6. The Massacre 7. Invasion 8. The Highlanders 9. Web of Fear 10. The Savages
11. The Faceless Ones 12. The Crusaders 13. The Moonbase 14. Land of Fear 15. Ice Warriors
16. Galaxy 4 17. Abominable Snowmen 18. Celestial Toyroom 19. Wheel in Space 20. Marco Polo
21. Macra Terror 22. Fury from the Deep 23. Dalek Master Plan (1) 24.Dalek Masterplan (2)
25. Evil of the Daleks 26. Power of the Daleks.
Stage 5. Release of the Complete Story of Doctor Who - a 14 DVD set with clips from each story, 1 disc for each
Doctor.
Stage 6. Colourisation of all B & W episodes begins.....
This is meant as a bit of fun or guidance for anybody who might be lucky enough to recover a large number of episodes.
And NO! I know absulutely NOTHING!
But it makes you think how much it might cost YOU to get all those episodes and how long it may take once releases begin.

[johnbarbour]

if only we could have the luxury of arguing over the release schedule.... sigh. But John, how could you hold back the classics....!?! The country would rise up and march on the BBC (and your home).

[thomgray]

This is a beautiful bit of fantasy. To push it even further I would add that as each originally incomplete story was released, a flurry of the original DVD releases for the same title would appear on eBay and in second-hand stores as they are essentially obsolete. Rather like the standard editions of the DVDs that have since been released as Special Editions!

Thanks for posting such an indulgent thread

[lousingh]

How about this non-indulgent version.

They get some number of episodes in the canisters, but they are in such rough shape that not much can be salvaged. Suppose, though, that there are bits of each film that might be salvageable.

Question 1: Is it worth it to the BBC to restore as much as they can?
Question 2: How long might that take if there were, literally, thousands of them?

For instance, suppose they found 7 cans of, say, "The Massacre", with one copy of "War of God" and two copies each of "The Sea Beggar", "Priest of Death", and "Bell of Doom". Maybe "War of God" is in such horrible shape that they can only salvage a few minutes. From the other episodes, after a lot of work, they could manufacture 10-15 minutes of each episode cumulatively from the two prints.

Besides me, who here would buy this if it were released? How about fans in general? Would the BBC consider the time and effort worth bothering about? If so, suppose you have hundreds of these things. What would the triage do - something has to wait, right?

[thomgray]

I'd definitely buy a DVD of these clips, perhaps if they were presented in a Lost In Time-style box set. Perhaps we could have Lost In Time: Special Edition, which also included the orphan Galaxy 4 episode and those Dalek clips found after 2004. I know we have them already on other DVDs but it'd be nice to have everything in one place

[scotttelfer]

Aug 11, 2016 19:04:03 GMT lousingh said:

How about this non-indulgent version.

They get some number of episodes in the canisters, but they are in such rough shape that not much can be salvaged. Suppose, though, that there are bits of each film that might be salvageable.

Question 1: Is it worth it to the BBC to restore as much as they can?
Question 2: How long might that take if there were, literally, thousands of them?

For instance, suppose they found 7 cans of, say, "The Massacre", with one copy of "War of God" and two copies each of "The Sea Beggar", "Priest of Death", and "Bell of Doom". Maybe "War of God" is in such horrible shape that they can only salvage a few minutes. From the other episodes, after a lot of work, they could manufacture 10-15 minutes of each episode cumulatively from the two prints.

Besides me, who here would buy this if it were released? How about fans in general? Would the BBC consider the time and effort worth bothering about? If so, suppose you have hundreds of these things. What would the triage do - something has to wait, right?

I'm sure they would. Lot of hype and then sell it as quickly as possible, then further releases to make more money.

It's the films that don't have the same desirability as Doctor Who you'd have to worry about. Probably get a clean up, a digital back up made then stored away in the correct conditions for preservation, but no special treatment.