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Post by Simon Broad on Feb 15, 2012 23:34:32 GMT
Hiya,
Just read the new issue of DWM and it says marco polo sold the most film prints than any other dr who story so why haven't any eps been found or at least clips??
Simon
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Post by Brad Phipps on Feb 15, 2012 23:57:37 GMT
Because I have all the copies and I'm not giving them up until the BBC give me $17,000,000,000,000,000.
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Post by John F Brayshaw on Feb 16, 2012 0:16:15 GMT
Hiya, Just read the new issue of DWM and it says marco polo sold the most film prints than any other dr who story so why haven't any eps been found or at least clips?? Simon As been brought up before there could be a good chance since the shows are individually named put into say history or cultural archives by mistake. We would all love to see it in it's entirety but the reconstruction will do until a find, or it's animated. Personally I hope more Troughton's surface....
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Post by Rob Moss on Feb 16, 2012 0:35:56 GMT
Hiya, Just read the new issue of DWM and it says marco polo sold the most film prints than any other dr who story so why haven't any eps been found or at least clips?? Simon Perhaps because all of the film prints have been destroyed..?
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Post by John Andersen on Feb 16, 2012 0:44:30 GMT
Hiya, Just read the new issue of DWM and it says marco polo sold the most film prints than any other dr who story so why haven't any eps been found or at least clips?? Simon When the BBC sold programs to other countries, they didn't make 20 prints for 20 different countries that bought the program. They made one print and sent it around to several countries. When those prints from overseas sales were destroyed, the only other copies were at the BBC. When they started destroying the prints at BBC Enterprises, that cooked our goose.
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Post by Jon Preddle on Feb 16, 2012 2:01:03 GMT
Just read the new issue of DWM and it says marco polo sold the most film prints than any other dr who story... I haven't read the issue yet, but if it says that, it's wrong. Marco was sold to 23 countries, whereas others, such as the first three serials and Keys of Marinus, were sold to 34.
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Post by George D on Feb 16, 2012 4:22:36 GMT
I guess they didnt like poor marco as much
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Post by Damian Morse on Feb 16, 2012 10:16:50 GMT
Something will turn up eventually - whether its clips, fragments, episodes or a trailor.
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Post by tomspilsbury on Feb 16, 2012 10:22:48 GMT
Just read the new issue of DWM and it says marco polo sold the most film prints than any other dr who story... I haven't read the issue yet, but if it says that, it's wrong. Marco was sold to 23 countries, whereas others, such as the first three serials and Keys of Marinus, were sold to 34. It doesn't say that. It says that Marco Polo was the most widely sold of all the missing Doctor Who episodes.
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Post by Simon Broad on Feb 16, 2012 10:29:03 GMT
Well yes, that means its probaly the most likely ep to be found even though we haven't found any eps or clips
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Post by Richard Bignell on Feb 16, 2012 10:33:21 GMT
Not necessarily. As John indicates above, you could easily have served all 23 countries with just a tiny handful of prints.
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Post by Simon Broad on Feb 16, 2012 10:40:06 GMT
Well eithiopia where the last country to show marco polo have they been checl if they still have it?
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Post by John Wall on Feb 16, 2012 10:48:05 GMT
I started a thread recently asking just how many prints of the various missing episodes were made and never got any definite information.
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Post by Richard Bignell on Feb 16, 2012 10:49:17 GMT
Well eithiopia where the last country to show marco polo have they been checl if they still have it? Yes.
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Post by Richard Bignell on Feb 16, 2012 10:55:27 GMT
I started a thread recently asking just how many prints of the various missing episodes were made and never got any definite information. There really isn't any definite answer to that, John. Once Enterprises has made their master negative of the episodes, they likely would have only struck positive prints as and when they were needed according to the number of sales they had and when they were actually made. They simply didn't have the room to store multiple copies in the hope they that might sell. So, if Country X purchased the rights to show Marco Polo and Country Y had already finished with it, they would simply arrange for it to be forwarded on. If another country on the other side of the world needed it at the same time, then they probably would have sent a second set of telerecordings. Unless Enterprises duplication records ever turn up, we'll probably never know for certain.
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