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Post by John Green on Feb 20, 2012 19:16:19 GMT
Maybe someone could compare the ratings for the different stories in popularity polls over the years? To some extent,rankings would depend upon whether people were able to see the video or hear the audio or read the novelization or depend upon hearsay. I've been interested in the way that Marco Polo-which I enjoyed when it was last on TV-has become so desired,perhaps because not a tittle of moving image is known?
Revisions of Underwater Menace and Galaxy 4 started the minute the discoveries were confirmed,with the already-known UM episode described as unrepresentative,while the camerawork and facial expressions/body language added new dimensions to our ability to appreciate both stories.I suspect the same could be said for other misplaced stories.The few seconds of 'Old Jamaica' getting stabbed,in the censor clip from The Smugglers brought home to me that we were talking about a real Doctor Who BBC drama here,not just a title on a list. Just as Doctor Who tends to dominate the discussion of classic/misplaced television,so Power,Evil,Tenth Planet 4...and Marco Polo are occupying people's thoughts. And I quite like some of the Sylvester McCoy's!
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Post by Charles Daniels on Feb 20, 2012 20:23:10 GMT
It's just a little galling that the recently recovered Bowie footage was shown on telly and the recently recovered Sky at Night featuring Arthur Clark is being given away with the latest Sky at Night magazine. I completely understand that these episodes need cleaning and restoration for a commercial release, but would it be impossible for the episodes to be shown in a rough cut version to those that care? TBH the clips shown after the recovery announcement looked distinctly viewable to me. Was it that these clips had already undergone some restoration? A few tramlines wouldn't detract from my pleasure in seeing these down at the BFI. Oh yeah. I would happily watch a print which was just someone pointing a 8mm at a telly married with a fan sound track in which you could hear the neighbour mowing their lawn. But it seems to me that these Doctor Who episodes are more commerically exploitable than the Sky At Night Footage, and maybe even the Bowie footage. And I can see why they'd be weary of letting ropey copies go out to the fans for free. They'd be traded and downloaded all over the place, and potentially hurt sales. And really those sales are what justify these orphaned episodes and clips being restored and commerically released.
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Post by Charles Daniels on Feb 20, 2012 21:47:43 GMT
Maybe someone could compare the ratings for the different stories in popularity polls over the years? To some extent,rankings would depend upon whether people were able to see the video or hear the audio or read the novelization or depend upon hearsay. I've been interested in the way that Marco Polo-which I enjoyed when it was last on TV-has become so desired,perhaps because not a tittle of moving image is known? For me the intense desire to experience Marco Polo started when I fully expected it to be repeated on PBS. I had my Programme Guide, had looked through all the stories, read the plot description with the Doctor actually gambling away the TARDIS, and was looking forward to that one most of all the Hartnells. So I was terribly disappointed when it was skipped for some reason, and decided to investigate why. I wasn't really prepared for the horror of the truth. The one that really drove the point home to me was Celation. I mean - watch all the recons you want. Listen to the audio all you like. You will NEVER EVER imagine that performance and movement from Celation. And if that detail is missing, what else is?
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