Completed story for 50th Anniversary Celebration

[Greg H]

Jul 10, 2008 14:16:45 GMT JOHN SMITH said:

As for TV archives in Africa. Would ITV let employees from the BBC rummage around in their archive, or vice versa'. No, thought not. So why should the BBC be let rummage around in some foreign TV station's archive, even if they wanted to look.

Ackshully, I suspect if there was a good reason, there would be collaboration between BBC and ITV archive staff. I seem to recall that when ITV did their little missing episodes thing a while back, doctor who and hancock were listed amongst the most desirable footage to recover. That was in no way required of them.

[JOHN SMITH]

Jul 10, 2008 16:42:28 GMT Stuart Huggett said:

Jul 10, 2008 11:18:29 GMT JOHN SMITH said:

I tried to include EVERY story in the poll, but could not put more than 8 fields which is why I only included the stories which seem to be the biggest fan favourites of the missing ones.
If anybody can say how to include more than 8 then I will amend the poll.

When you create a poll on these boards (or any Proboards site), there's a line of text below your inital 8 fields that states 'click to display more answer fields' - this will give you a total of 35 fields to fill in (you don't have to fill in all them though). However, you can't add more fields once your poll has been created, as far as I know.

I tried clicking on that before I posted the poll, it still only let me put 8 though. Maybe it had something to do with the long posting explaining the reason for the poll??

[who04]

I voted for WEB OF FEAR, but if it was listed, I would have voted for Reign Of Terror. That would translate nicely to animated episodes and wouldn't cost much more than the Invasion to create.

[Stuart Huggett]

Jul 10, 2008 19:24:50 GMT JOHN SMITH said:

Jul 10, 2008 16:42:28 GMT Stuart Huggett said:

When you create a poll on these boards (or any Proboards site), there's a line of text below your inital 8 fields that states 'click to display more answer fields' - this will give you a total of 35 fields to fill in (you don't have to fill in all them though). However, you can't add more fields once your poll has been created, as far as I know.

I tried clicking on that before I posted the poll, it still only let me put 8 though. Maybe it had something to do with the long posting explaining the reason for the poll??

It can take a moment for the fields to reset themselves with all 35 spaces, but maybe your computer was playing-up at the time anyway. The length of your explanatory posting shouldn't have made any difference at all (you'll notice there's a set limit to the length of the question you can ask - your question got cut-off before the end of the sentence when it exceeded this length).

[garrettgilchrist]

Watch the video!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9-faPpeRLo

I posted in the other thread, but might as well post here top. I'm currently animating lost episode material, such as from Evil of the Daleks episode 7. (The Guardian wrote a newspaper article about my work recently.) I was doing this as a pilot to show Dan Hall and Mark Ayres and the DVD release team but they don't seem too interested. Still, you never can tell.

I hope fans will support me in this endeavor. It would be marvelous to get real official funding, but any fan interest helps. I'm still looking for additional animators to help out as well.

[Tom Spychalski]

I voted for Power, Evil and the Web of Fear, any of those would be wonderful!!

Watch the video!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9-faPpeRLo

Not bad, the humans are of course harder to do then the Daleks, but that was good, if you do the whole thing, I'd watch it! ;D

[JOHN SMITH]

Jul 11, 2008 22:31:40 GMT garrettgilchrist said:

Watch the video!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9-faPpeRLo

I posted in the other thread, but might as well post here top. I'm currently animating lost episode material, such as from Evil of the Daleks episode 7. (The Guardian wrote a newspaper article about my work recently.) I was doing this as a pilot to show Dan Hall and Mark Ayres and the DVD release team but they don't seem too interested. Still, you never can tell.

I hope fans will support me in this endeavor. It would be marvelous to get real official funding, but any fan interest helps. I'm still looking for additional animators to help out as well.

Superb efforts. Difficult to decide what to watch, your animation or telesnaps of original footage.

[Robert Kenyon]

Voted here for "The Web of Fear", though for me, the 2 stories that always have been joint top of the list from the missing group are "The Web of Fear" and "Fury from the Deep".

[John Andersen]

Jul 11, 2008 22:31:40 GMT garrettgilchrist said:

I hope fans will support me in this endeavor. It would be marvelous to get real official funding, but any fan interest helps. I'm still looking for additional animators to help out as well.

I appreciate your efforts, Sir. You seem to be one of the very few that are doing any kind of constructive work in bringing back the lost episodes for all Doctor Who fans to see.

[Paul Ryan]

It's great work Garrett. Really hope you make some headway with 2 Entertain or the Beeb with this endeavour.

[samevans]

voted for Master Plan ;D good idea by the way!

[Greg H]

Web and fury!!!! (of course!!!)

And yep, tygerbug, your animation skills are ninja Cant wait to see the next installment

[garrettgilchrist]

Thanks guys. I've got two people here who appreciate your choice of Dalek's Master Plan as most wanted story.





The official DVD folk have shown negative interest in my work (which is worse than zero interest) but I fully intend to keep going with it. Best wishes!

[John Andersen]

Aug 2, 2008 1:33:52 GMT garrettgilchrist said:

The official DVD folk have shown negative interest in my work (which is worse than zero interest) but I fully intend to keep going with it. Best wishes!

Don't listen to them. It is extremely easy for others to be critical without offering a better solution to the problem. People didn't appreciate Bram Stoker's novel "Dracula" when it was first published. In fact, his work was not appreciated until after he was already dead, but it eventually became known as a classic.


Doctor Who fans support the efforts of their fellow fans who try to bring the lost episodes back to life. You are not being paid for your work and this work takes up your free time where you could be doing other things. What you do is a labor of love, and you give fans hope where it appears that the lost Hartnell and Troughton episodes have been abandoned by the BBC. Is one way of animating the correct or the best way? Maybe a combination of techniques from several animators? As time goes by, we will eventually find out. Fans working together and combining skills will make all the difference in the future.


One way or another, the lost episodes will eventually be brought back to life. It will probably take decades of work by the fans, but it will eventually get done. With the fans recording the audio from the lost episodes on their original transmissions and the animations, the Doctor Who fans will be able to correct the error the BBC made when it destroyed so many classics from the Hartnell and Troughton eras. It is a pity when the fans appear to have done a better job in preserving the program than the BBC.

[who04]

Since its highly unlikely that any missing episodes will miraculously turnup in time for the 50th Anniversary, and the BBC won't invest in any further animations of lost episodes, I would love to see an epic TV movie of the telling of the Time War. The current Doctor (whoever that might be) could be narrating the story to a companion. The BBC would have to sign-on McGann and Eccleston, with McGann doing most of the film and regenerating into Eccleston toward the end. This would finally tie-in the Classic series with the new. Now THAT would be a fitting 50th Anniversary celebration story.........OK, so I'm a dreamer and hate the fact that Russell T. Davies began the "new series" without a regeneration story.