Post by Doug Wulf on Aug 14, 2007 21:34:37 GMT
Please excuse me if this thread seems redundant as I have posted at other websites, but the concept I describe below involves widely distributing information to certain key places. Thus, I'm posting in multiple locations.
Paul Vanezis, Sue Malden, and others are looking into the archive holdings in Africa and will hopefully be successful in finding something. However, archive searches would not have turned up the print of ‘The Lion’ held by Bruce Grenville or ‘Day of Armageddon’ held by Francis Watson.
I think that one valuable thing that Doctor Who fans could do would be to publicize the missing episodes of Doctor Who and other lost episodes of British TV in key overseas places (as well as alert others to it in the UK) via online postings or other means. Every episode of Doctor Who that has been recovered thus far has been found either in the UK or in a country to which that episode was originally sent in the 1960s or 1970s. We know which overseas locations would be most important.
These are: Australia (sent 107 missing episodes), Singapore (sent 98 missing episodes), New Zealand (sent 92 missing episodes, though only 39 are not logged as destroyed or sent away), Zambia (sent 73 missing episodes), Hong Kong (sent 61 missing episodes), Nigeria (sent 30 missing episodes), Uganda (sent 26 missing episodes), Sierra Leone (sent 25 missing episodes), Ethiopia (sent 11 missing episodes, but was perhaps at the very last in line to receive bicycled prints of these 11 episodes), Canada (sent 7 missing episodes plus some chance of recovering color Pertwee episodes). There are a handful of other places as well.
Of course, fans can try to locate and purchase 16mm prints from overseas, but I for one am not interested in attempting that. However, attempting to publicize which episodes are missing and who to contact at the BBC would be a positive step. The BBC can then deal with people claiming to have lost episodes directly.
On the RT forum, I asked specifically and received permission from Steve Roberts to use the RT email address as a contact for lost material.
Online posting on overseas forum websites is (generally) free and could serve to get the word out more widely. This is a needle-in-a-haystack strategy, but with enough fans posting to enough websites globally, there could be a success. It would also be an effort separate from checking the archives.
After this posting, I will post first a message to a general audience (in the UK or worldwide) plus messages tailored specifically to each country in particular. The top of the message is a short version that would suffice. The bottom of each message is an optional list of all the missing episodes specifically associated with that geographical location.
Please help to spread the word via posting to discussion forums or via email worldwide.
Paul Vanezis, Sue Malden, and others are looking into the archive holdings in Africa and will hopefully be successful in finding something. However, archive searches would not have turned up the print of ‘The Lion’ held by Bruce Grenville or ‘Day of Armageddon’ held by Francis Watson.
I think that one valuable thing that Doctor Who fans could do would be to publicize the missing episodes of Doctor Who and other lost episodes of British TV in key overseas places (as well as alert others to it in the UK) via online postings or other means. Every episode of Doctor Who that has been recovered thus far has been found either in the UK or in a country to which that episode was originally sent in the 1960s or 1970s. We know which overseas locations would be most important.
These are: Australia (sent 107 missing episodes), Singapore (sent 98 missing episodes), New Zealand (sent 92 missing episodes, though only 39 are not logged as destroyed or sent away), Zambia (sent 73 missing episodes), Hong Kong (sent 61 missing episodes), Nigeria (sent 30 missing episodes), Uganda (sent 26 missing episodes), Sierra Leone (sent 25 missing episodes), Ethiopia (sent 11 missing episodes, but was perhaps at the very last in line to receive bicycled prints of these 11 episodes), Canada (sent 7 missing episodes plus some chance of recovering color Pertwee episodes). There are a handful of other places as well.
Of course, fans can try to locate and purchase 16mm prints from overseas, but I for one am not interested in attempting that. However, attempting to publicize which episodes are missing and who to contact at the BBC would be a positive step. The BBC can then deal with people claiming to have lost episodes directly.
On the RT forum, I asked specifically and received permission from Steve Roberts to use the RT email address as a contact for lost material.
Online posting on overseas forum websites is (generally) free and could serve to get the word out more widely. This is a needle-in-a-haystack strategy, but with enough fans posting to enough websites globally, there could be a success. It would also be an effort separate from checking the archives.
After this posting, I will post first a message to a general audience (in the UK or worldwide) plus messages tailored specifically to each country in particular. The top of the message is a short version that would suffice. The bottom of each message is an optional list of all the missing episodes specifically associated with that geographical location.
Please help to spread the word via posting to discussion forums or via email worldwide.