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Post by John F Brayshaw on Jan 4, 2012 5:05:34 GMT
Mybe we could use less "Trolling" and keep up with the search?
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Post by gregbakun on Jan 4, 2012 14:50:16 GMT
I'm confused, are you saying that I'm trolling?
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Post by B Thomas on Jan 5, 2012 8:51:51 GMT
No, I think his comment was directed at me. Perhaps he thinks I'm a troll? Either way it's a curious way to spend one's first month on the site - throwing around terms like 'troll' when longer-term members make innocous comments...
EDIT: and in answer to your earlier question, my "Well... that's that then." was in reference to your reply that you wouldn't be updating this thread - I thought this to be a reaction to the sudden off-shoot of unrelated queries* concerning The Space Pirates: 4 - rather than concentrating on your original post. My apologies if I was being too presumptive...
(*And, yes, I accept that one of the first ones to do so was me.)
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Post by Rob Moss on Jan 5, 2012 11:19:59 GMT
Probably because it was plucked from a junking at random, just like the two dalek episodes returned in 2004. You misunderstand what I'm asking. I'm wondering why Leighton thinks that Space Pirates: 4 specifically ended up in the hands of a collector, rather than being bandsawed. Hello, Leighton..? Space Pirates: 4..?
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Post by gregbakun on Jan 5, 2012 15:32:52 GMT
No, I think his comment was directed at me. Perhaps he thinks I'm a troll? Either way it's a curious way to spend one's first month on the site - throwing around terms like 'troll' when longer-term members make innocous comments... EDIT: and in answer to your earlier question, my "Well... that's that then." was in reference to your reply that you wouldn't be updating this thread - I thought this to be a reaction to the sudden off-shoot of unrelated queries* concerning The Space Pirates: 4 - rather than concentrating on your original post. My apologies if I was being too presumptive... (*And, yes, I accept that one of the first ones to do so was me.) Nope. Nothing like that at all. I just didn't want anyone to think I was going to be updating this thread weekly about a bunch of articles that had nothing to do with missing episodes of Doctor Who. I din't want to outstay my welcome pushing my blog on people. Plus I can't be a troll. I am 6'1" and I understand trolls are much shorter.
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Post by John F Brayshaw on Jan 5, 2012 22:28:43 GMT
Greg, what you are doing is good, I never implied you were trolling. Just some comments from others....
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Post by gregbakun on Jan 5, 2012 23:56:51 GMT
Greg, what you are doing is good, I never implied you were trolling. Just some comments from others.... Very cool!
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Post by John F Brayshaw on Jan 6, 2012 0:36:35 GMT
BTW I have "liked" your facebook page also hopefully more will join if they haven't already....
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Post by gregbakun on Jan 6, 2012 4:30:10 GMT
BTW I have "liked" your facebook page also hopefully more will join if they haven't already.... Thank you! I appreciate it. I hope more join too.
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Post by David Cann on Jan 6, 2012 8:20:45 GMT
Very good article Greg - it's interesting to hear about your own personal experiences of missing Who, especially in the 90s! What's ironic is that, in fact, it's possible that many of the missing Hartnell's were in existance in the 90s - in Sierra Leone! Your blog looks like a thoroughly entertaining and interesting one - I will definitiely be checking back on it in the future! Great job And, lo and behold, after your article, three missing episodes (two from DW, and the Disney short) turned up within a couple of weeks! You've got the magic touch LOL One thing I did notice when going onto articles tagged 'Doctor Who' is that you seemed to have stopped your (new) Series 5 reviews following 'Victory of the Daleks'... is this a tagging error or did you just stop after the first three episodes? Anyway, great job... I hope that you write more about missing television soon! ;D
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Post by gregbakun on Jan 7, 2012 3:35:33 GMT
Very good article Greg - it's interesting to hear about your own personal experiences of missing Who, especially in the 90s! What's ironic is that, in fact, it's possible that many of the missing Hartnell's were in existance in the 90s - in Sierra Leone! Your blog looks like a thoroughly entertaining and interesting one - I will definitiely be checking back on it in the future! Great job And, lo and behold, after your article, three missing episodes (two from DW, and the Disney short) turned up within a couple of weeks! You've got the magic touch LOL One thing I did notice when going onto articles tagged 'Doctor Who' is that you seemed to have stopped your (new) Series 5 reviews following 'Victory of the Daleks'... is this a tagging error or did you just stop after the first three episodes? Anyway, great job... I hope that you write more about missing television soon! ;D Hi David! Thank you for the very kind word about the blog. It is funny how I stopped after Victory of the Daleks! It just became too much to try and write two articles a week. The Doctor Who article and a British television article. My problem with writing about Doctor Who is that so many people do it, especially when it comes to the new stuff that I was thinking it was getting lost. I thought it was funny too that after I wrote that article about my experience with missing episodes that stuff started to turn up. I am trying to figure what else to write on the subject to try and get more episodes back! Actually, sometime this year, I plan on writing an article as a US version of Cheques, Lies and Videotape. The UK version Ed did is very fascinating and I was around in the late 80's (age 14) tape trading and meeting people who had interesting ideas for trade and how they would hold episodes over other people, and etc. I think it will be an interesting article (hopefully) and is on my list of things to publish on the site this year. Take care, Greg
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Post by gregbakun on Nov 23, 2012 15:34:42 GMT
As I alluded to above back in January, in the next couple of days I will be publishing an unofficial companion piece to Ed Stradling's wonderful documentary Cheques, Lies and Videotape. This is a US perspective on the video trading aspect of Doctor Who from the 1980s and early 1990s. I will be including bootleg video covers and video clips of some of the poorer quality episodes I had received to remember a period of time when this activity was crazy. Here is a clip from the camera copy of Episode 3 of The Wheel in Space. It is awful! Look how far we had come in terms of quality since then! It's a fun look at what some of us used to go through to see material we have always wanted to see. The clip duration is only 1:19. To go to my blog, please click this link: www.from-the-archive.co.uk/
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Post by George D on Nov 24, 2012 5:37:12 GMT
I remember those days... and we were very excited to have those rare shows at the time.
Today, multi region dvds are commonplace and digital files can be played on most computers. But in those days to see shows from uk in america was very difficult.
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Post by Robin Stephenson on Nov 24, 2012 13:39:21 GMT
You misunderstand what I'm asking. I'm wondering why Leighton thinks that Space Pirates: 4 specifically ended up in the hands of a collector, rather than being bandsawed. Hello, Leighton..? Space Pirates: 4..? Excellent question- rather random! Got to say the surviving episode is a bit rubbish although if another one was ever found would be interesting to see if it led to a reappraisal much in the way TUM seems to have done.
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Post by Robin Stephenson on Nov 24, 2012 13:48:12 GMT
Well, 2 eps returned from Australia ended up in the hands of a film collector from Hampshire in the early 1980s. I am convinced Space Pirates 4 went the same way I did actually think that SP4 would be the surprise today at the BFI. However, I can say that ep 2 of Underwater menace is significantly better than ep 3 and perhaps fans will now look more favourably on this story. I thought missing believed wiped was next w-e? Sadly work commitments prevented me from attending. While I would love there to be more Who discovered the likes of Paul and Richard have indicated that nothing has turned up. As other people have asked why Space Pirates 4 particularly- and the Traitors for that matter?
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