Hello...where to start

[Tom Spychalski]

Hello.

I'm a long time Doctor Who fan, who has been missing out on this end of fandom.

I have read Unlimited Rice Pudding, joind Ian Levine's forums awhile back, and am wondering where else either in print or on the net, to look for good info to start getting into the missing epiosdes stuff.

I also would like to ask what the chances are of finding anything in America, and where anything like that might be. (I take it in the hands of private collecters.)

I tried to register here before but had problems doing so...
Also, since browsing here for awhile as a gues would like to state that I am indeed me, and really asking these questions, lest I am thought a fake.

[Ash Stewart]

All the best (and some of the not so good places for pieces on missing episodes are linked to at the DW Gateway:

archive.whoniversity.co.uk/gateway/index.html

Richard Molesworth's article (linked to from there) is a particularly good example.

This one has some good info as well:

www.angelfire.com/magic/thedoctorwhonexus/

As for in print, there are few in print that have missing episode info. Dick Fiddy's book is a good overview of missing TV in general, though the DW section is slight;

www.amazon.co.uk/Missing-Believed-Wiped-Searching-Television/dp/0851708668/sr=8-1/qid=1167385191/ref=sr_1_1/202-0990385-1543836?ie=UTF8&s=books

[Ash Stewart]

Oh, and:

www.raidersofthelostarchive.co.uk/

[Steven Sigel]

Very unlikely that you would find any missing epiosdes in the USA since the B&W episodes were not aired here until the 1980s (well after the missing episodes went missing).

[Tom Spychalski]

Thanks much for the information, when I have some free time I will look into it!

[wrightblan]

stevens said:

Very unlikely that you would find any missing epiosdes in the USA since the B&W episodes were not aired here until the 1980s (well after the missing episodes went missing).

Then again, the original manuscript for Dracula did show up on the US. So anything's possible.

[Peter Elliott]

wrightblan said:

stevens said:

Very unlikely that you would find any missing epiosdes in the USA since the B&W episodes were not aired here until the 1980s (well after the missing episodes went missing).

Then again, the original manuscript for Dracula did show up on the US. So anything's possible.

Not to forget the 1960 episode of "The Avengers" that turned up in UCLAs archive along with some other lost British TV gems...

[Steven Sigel]

peterelliott said:

wrightblan said:

Then again, the original manuscript for Dracula did show up on the US. So anything's possible.

Not to forget the 1960 episode of "The Avengers" that turned up in UCLAs archive along with some other lost British TV gems...

Sure, there have been a few things in the US (I've found a couple of missing BBC shows here myself) -- but that doesn't alter the fact that it's unlikely that they would be here (not impossilble).

To illustrate the point : So far, the # of missing Hartnell or Troughton 16m T/Rs of Dr. Who that have been returned from the USA is --- drum roll -- ZERO...