RWels
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Post by RWels on Oct 17, 2019 19:59:22 GMT
Wasn't there at some point a very small news item about people getting stopped in Iran which COULD be read like it was to do with these telerecordings? Of course, it needed both wishful thinking and comfirmation bias; but the DW fandom has an ample supply of that!
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Post by Ronnie McDevitt on Oct 17, 2019 20:50:11 GMT
Check this thread for more on Iran/Marco Polo - missingepisodes.proboards.com/thread/12815/query-marco-least-episodes-tehran?page=2At the foot of page 1 Paul Vanesis gives a pretty comprehensive account of the situation. On the second page Paul Vs post COULD be assumed to be deterring Ray Langstone from interfering into the matter or he may have messaged him that there was no certainty the episodes were in that country. Read into that what you will.
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Post by RWels on Oct 18, 2019 7:52:20 GMT
I think Iran appeals more to the imagination for being relatively inaccessible and mysterious (even though you can go there on holiday and people do - and come back). Perhaps if we rub the film can, the spirit of William Hartnell will appear! Thailand or Ethiopia aired all episodes of Marco Polo, whereas Iran only received two (correct me if I'm wrong).
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Post by Richard Marple on Oct 18, 2019 13:08:22 GMT
I'll impressed if any Dr Who episodes survived the post revolutionary purge of the archives.
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Post by John Wall on Oct 18, 2019 13:24:26 GMT
I'll impressed if any Dr Who episodes survived the post revolutionary purge of the archives. It’s certainly a possibility, but would they necessarily be able to read English?
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Post by Robert Mammone on Oct 21, 2019 6:58:38 GMT
I'll impressed if any Dr Who episodes survived the post revolutionary purge of the archives. It’s certainly a possibility, but would they necessarily be able to read English? English is taught there*, at the primary school level. It's a literate society, but how many are fluent/familiar with English is unknown. *Thank you Wikipedia.
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Post by Richard Marple on Oct 21, 2019 12:31:07 GMT
It’s certainly a possibility, but would they necessarily be able to read English? English is taught there*, at the primary school level. It's a literate society, but how many are fluent/familiar with English is unknown. *Thank you Wikipedia. Also a lot of the leaders of the revolution were students & other members of the "educated elite" who ironically could see through the Shah's propaganda.
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Post by Jon Preddle on Oct 21, 2019 20:12:46 GMT
As far as I can tell, Doctor Who was broadcast in both English and Arabic in Iran, with one of the audio streams transmitted over the radio. Although they speak Farsi / Persian in Iran, it's very similar to Arabic, so there wouldn't have been a full Farsi dub, but possibly instead there was a Farsi narrator talking 'live' as it went out.
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Post by lousingh on Oct 21, 2019 22:25:12 GMT
As far as I can tell, Doctor Who was broadcast in both English and Arabic in Iran, with one of the audio streams transmitted over the radio. Although they speak Farsi / Persian in Iran, it's very similar to Arabic, so there wouldn't have been a full Farsi dub, but possibly instead there was a Farsi narrator talking 'live' as it went out. One of my late Dad's friends left Iran in 1978. He said that many people could speak a blend of Farsi, Arabic, and often Urdu. They could have just gone with an Arabic-only print and got away with it.
Oh, and when I said, "blend", I really meant it. It would be like being fluent in English, French, and Spanish, when a sentence like "I drank 4 beers too fast" could be said as "je drank quatro bieres too rapidamente".
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Post by Jon Preddle on Oct 22, 2019 0:12:18 GMT
One of my late Dad's friends left Iran in 1978. He said that many people could speak a blend of Farsi, Arabic, and often Urdu. They could have just gone with an Arabic-only print and got away with it. The Iran TV station aired a run of 53 episodes, of which only the first 37 had been dubbed into Arabic, which means the other 16 had to have been in English only, but possibly with Arabic/Farsi narration spoken 'live'.
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Post by Nicholas Fitzpatrick on Oct 27, 2019 23:10:32 GMT
One of my late Dad's friends left Iran in 1978. He said that many people could speak a blend of Farsi, Arabic, and often Urdu. They could have just gone with an Arabic-only print and got away with it. The Iran TV station aired a run of 53 episodes, of which only the first 37 had been dubbed into Arabic, which means the other 16 had to have been in English only, but possibly with Arabic/Farsi narration spoken 'live'. None of those 16 (or 53) episodes are missing.
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Richard Develyn
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Post by Richard Develyn on Nov 21, 2019 10:01:37 GMT
Anyone predicting anything for the 23rd?
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Post by John Wall on Nov 21, 2019 10:09:26 GMT
Anyone predicting anything for the 23rd? Yeah, light rain and a gentle breeze 😇
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Post by Vaughan Stanger on Nov 21, 2019 11:57:19 GMT
Anyone predicting anything for the 23rd? Yeah, light rain and a gentle breeze 😇 Which won't be blowing in the right direction.
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Post by John Wall on Nov 21, 2019 13:20:29 GMT
We’re only a few weeks from MBW. If there is anything I’d expect it then.
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