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Post by John Wall on Dec 22, 2011 20:55:48 GMT
As a BBC man I'd be interested if Paul thinks this idea has any currency? I imagine random people contacting the AR team re Doctor Who might result in annoying them but an insider discussing BBC heritage might get their ear? A few years ago there was an appeal on BBC2 for missing Dads Army.
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Post by PAUL COTTON on Dec 22, 2011 21:02:23 GMT
I believe it was on an antiques roadshow, that someone presented a Hartnell story rehearsal script for valuation. It had apparently been found in a filing cabinet, that had been presumabely sold off from the BBC. As I recall a member of the owner's family had written on the back the script, rather reducing its value.
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Post by John Green on Dec 22, 2011 23:52:14 GMT
If anything,I suspect that a large find isn't out of the question. I've just been reading about how Mr.Levine,a well-known Who enthusiast has (I should use capitals) every DC (Superman,etc.) comic.Amazing. Imagine if we were trying to find some missing Superman comics and he approached us? I think there are people out there with phenomenal audio-visual collections,but in the nature of thing they aren't going to reveal themselves/be discovered every day.There's no reason to think that some of these collections might be huge. Think about it Jean Genie John (is it John) has lots more footage.His one collection seem the equivalent of months' (or years'?) of previous finds. If they can find a boarded-up room with Chaplin out-takes (as they did in the 70s) anything is possible. Isn't there a mathmatical model that shows that buses will come in twos,that finds will generally cluster? Something to do with Frederick the Great's Hussars having accidents? It was on an old Open University prog.! In the last few months two previously-lost episodes turned up plus a new copy of a Hartnell Romans.Like colies of the First Folio,it seems that no two copies of any episode need by the same in terms of magnification,etc.
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Post by John F Brayshaw on Dec 27, 2011 5:05:10 GMT
Here why doesn't AR do a Doctor Who Special? It is the most popular and biggest Shows for the BBC, so why can't AR do a show and do the appeal to see if anyone has the Apex 2 inch tapes or 16 mm reels for the 50th Anniversary? Don't say it isn't possible ~ the BBC likes good PR.
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Post by Andrew Parker on Dec 27, 2011 12:09:03 GMT
The chap who returned the Bowie clip said he had loads of stuff from that era, maybe he's got colour versions of Mind of Evil and/or Ambassadors of Death.
The irony would be if he returned a colour version of episode three of Planet of the Daleks, or episode one of Invasion of the Dinosaurs.
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Post by John Green on Dec 27, 2011 13:35:30 GMT
Was it a childhood themed A.R.,or a special where the Who script turned up? I saw it but can't remember. With both the Who episodes that have just turned up,and the Bowie,the people who had them (to whom many thanks are owed) weren't aware of how rare the pieces they had were,and the former is a friend of the man responsible for overseeing the BBC's heritage.Both worked in the industry.One had regular contact with his peers,we know. So...if they didn't know about the hunt,what are the chances that anyone out of the loop would have an inkling?
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Post by Jon Preddle on Dec 28, 2011 2:25:42 GMT
Was it a childhood themed A.R.,or a special where the Who script turned up? I saw it but can't remember. It was an Antiques Roadshow-esque special, one of the six little mini docos that preceded the BBC's repeat of "Planet of the Daleks" in 1993, and was fronted by David J Howe. The script in question was a draft rehearsal for "The Rescue" under one of its earlier working titles, "Dr Who and Tanni".
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Post by PAUL COTTON on Dec 28, 2011 10:29:27 GMT
The feature I saw on an Antiques Road Show was rather more recent than that. Probably no more than 3-4 years ago and defintively post 2005. It may have been the same script of course.
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Post by John Green on Dec 28, 2011 13:41:46 GMT
Jon, I remember! I loved those documentaries.Another was on UNIT,I think? The valuations were all Who-themed,of course,and I think everyone they talked to was a kid. I think the profile of the audience has changed quite a bit since,even in the eyes of the BBC.
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Post by Richard Bignell on Dec 28, 2011 15:11:32 GMT
The feature I saw on an Antiques Road Show was rather more recent than that. Probably no more than 3-4 years ago and defintively post 2005. It may have been the same script of course. There was a brief two-minute item around 2006. Someone had found two BBC scripts in an old filing cabinet they had bought, one of which was The Time Meddler #2 and the other from an edition of Not Only But Also (which gained the greater attention). Both were rather overvalued.
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