MYTH MAKERS ep 1-4 sent to which country's?

[Ben]

Guest-Lance said:

Probably Right,

The past two episode recoveries had no mass rumors preceding thier discovery, in the case of the Lion and Day of Armageddon ( Great Episode ). Does anyone here believe that 2005 will unyeild any missing episodes in light of the new series and all? Or what about that rumor that two episodes of Masterplan and one episode of Celestial Toymaker exist somewhere in Canada? Any opinions would be appreciated.

Thanks,Lance.

Got any more information on that Canada rumour? Sounds suspiciously like an old rumour (which was later confirmed as a lie by the person who started it) resurfaced.

[Ash Stewart]

Sounds like this load of tosh to me:

The Visions Tale

A fan at the Visions convention (1994?) in Chicago was shown Mission to the Unknown, Daleks' Masterplan 11 & 12 and The Celestial Toymaker 1-4 by a chap called Lei. This Lei obtained the seven episodes and other unspecified episodes from his father, who ran a TV station in Northern Canada. His father, instead of destroying the episodes when he was supposed to instead kept them. Apparently Lei was to return the episodes to the BBC, but somewhere along the line things went wrong and he no longer sees why he should do this. It has been suggested that he owns all the missing episodes, but some are in quite bad condition. On top of this he was also said to be copying the episodes onto laser disc…

Exactly how much of this is true has yet to be proved, but my guess is this; none of it! For a start, the fan who was shown the seven episodes later confessed that she was only shown the one Episode, the only one not missing… Secondly chances are that Canada never got "all" the episodes of Doctor Who at all. According to Richard Molesworth's list of Who sales on the Restoration Team's site, the only missing tale they bought was Marco Polo (but more on Canada later…). In any case, no-one was sold Daleks' Masterplan 7 and only Australia even looked at the other eleven episodes of Daleks' Masterplan and its prequel, Mission to the Unknown… Thirdly, the copying the episodes onto laser disc aspect is very dubious. How many people have access to a laser disc pressing plant? And exactly how much would it cost? A lot, I would say… Nah, as intriguing as the story is, the more you think about it, the more you realise it is just some sad fan's wish fulfilment fantasy.

There are several variations on this tale. In some versions, Lei is female, in some called Leanne. Some of the tape formats the episodes “exist” on either don’t exist, or last just 4 minutes. Also, “Lei” was reported to be no relation to the TV company’s owner, and in fact just a volunteer summer worker!

[Ben]

That's the exact one I was thinking of, Ash.