Richard Develyn
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Living in hope that more missing episodes will come back to us.
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Post by Richard Develyn on Mar 30, 2013 19:21:45 GMT
In time, in your opinion, particularly in the light of:
a) Viewers of the original series ageing out b) Animation of missing episodes c) The production of more and more episodes of the new series
Just an easter poll, but interested to know what people think.
Richard
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Post by Greg H on Mar 30, 2013 19:25:59 GMT
Like all things, it will pass eventually. I think it will take quite a while though. The classic series is still gaining new fans who are introduced through the new. In 100 years time I expect very few people will care less!
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Post by Mark Vanderlinde-Abernathy on Mar 30, 2013 19:27:01 GMT
I'm a 29 year old fan who was brought into this via the New Series. The recovery of Air Lock and UM2 has created a frenzy of new fans eager to find more episodes. I don't think it will wane for quite some time.
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Post by Jason berg on Mar 30, 2013 19:32:42 GMT
I'm 44 and remember watching Jon pertwee and tom baker as a child, so older fans are still around
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Post by stevendoig on Mar 30, 2013 19:35:03 GMT
I'm 34, and most of my Who pals are around this age.
Hoping to live for aboot another 50 years.
I'd suspect the majority of fans interested in Missing Episodes are those who witnessed the hiatus 89 - 05 with nothing to do but watch all the Classic Who stuff.
Therefore when the Classic Who fans all snuff it, the interest will wane.
So, aye - give it 50 years!!
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Post by Richard Tipple on Mar 30, 2013 19:37:55 GMT
I predict as the number of people who are interested in missing episodes decline, the small number that are left will become obsessed with the subject. I'm imagining a Dan Brown 'search for the grail' esq hunt 1000's of years after the episodes were listed as 'destroyed'..
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Post by Richard Tipple on Mar 30, 2013 19:39:38 GMT
So, aye - give it 50 years!! ..and the 100 anniversary show is on the cards.. with a special virtual reality episode and people will be speculating at the holographic return of Hartnell!
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Post by Jason berg on Mar 30, 2013 19:43:35 GMT
They also said it wouldn't go passed its first year now look at it 50 years on
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2013 19:53:52 GMT
To answer the OP...
NO. As long as there are Doctor Who fanatics, there will always be interest. There are fanatics and there are Doctor Who fanatics who want to know who dusted the Time Space Visualiser, who stirred the BBC tea clockwise, and who swept the floor after the shooting of scene 4 in episode 5 of "The War Games."
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Post by Simeon Carter on Mar 30, 2013 20:08:23 GMT
Well I'm only 15 but that doesn't stop me from being interested in the missing episodes. I became a fan in 2005, first became aware of the missing episodes around 2006 and here I am now.
I don't think that interest will ever die. There will always be people watching the new series and looking back at the vast gap in the show's history whether they watched many of the classics or not. The matter is inescapable. Over 1/8 of the show's episodes no longer exist! Whether people will be actively looking for further surviving material is another question...
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Post by Dave Wood on Mar 30, 2013 20:49:30 GMT
I think the interest will continue, particularly during this celebratory 50th anniversary year, where interest in the past (especially with the Adventures in Space and Time drama) is likely to reach a peak never seen before.
I was born in 1972, I became a fan 1977, I became utterly obsessive 1978/79/80 and was shocked and pretty angry when we first saw those first (empty)archive holdings lists. I didn't know anything about previous Doctors until Dr Who Weekly started in 1970 and those blurry old photos on poor newsprint quality paper still inspired me and I became ridiculously excited when things started flowing back in the early 1980s (even in those pre VHS/DVD days when the best we could ever hope for was a thirty second clip on Tele Addicts/Did you See?/Open Air/Blue Peter/Pebble Mill/Windmill etc. Anyone who didn't live through that era could have no idea how exciting it was to see clips of Dalek's Masterplan, The Seeds of Death and The Daleks on Tele Addicts gameshow - even though the audience were disrespectfully braying with laughter on the voiceover).
I was agog when those old shows (minus cretinous laughter) were rerun in full on BBC2 in the early 1980s (An Unearthly Child/The Krotons/The Three Doctors/Carnival of Monsters/Curse of Peladon/Genesis of the Daleks) and it fuelled my excitement for ever more and I found them utterly magical and much better than the contemporary episodes. There was the same excitement with the VHS releases. My family didn't get a VHS player until late 1986 and I was constantly teased by richer school mates who had had players from 1984 and had hired and enjoyed Revenge of the Cybermen VHS and utterly lied to me about how amazing it was.
As long as the current show is in production (or for at least as long as it's within the living memories of all those new fans who have been inspired by the show and cared enough to look at some of the old stuff) there's a very good chance that the interest in missing episodes will remain active and live.
As technology continues to improve and communication across the whole world gets better and better with broadband and easy internet access there's the hope that old prints will either be resold online or be rediscovered as archives are transferred to digital formats. It's not such a silly idea, the missing Avengers episode (Girl on A Trapeze) turned up precisely because UCLA happened to post their holdings online via their own website. Hopefully in future some individual collectors may be inspired to do the same, and if our web browsers improve we might find that content more easily (rather than being constantly directed to dodgy nudey sites in East Europe, or boring loans/insurance sites in UK).
I don't think there's any reason to be pessimistic for the future quite yet. If nothing else I think the show will outlast me. It started 9 years before I was born and I hope it will be healthy and thriving when I'm long gone. It's quite a thought that (like Sherlock Holmes) this is a character that will straddle the generations and there will soon be a time where no single living person will have been able to have seen the whole catalogue. of adventures.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2013 21:45:12 GMT
I certainly think the 1981 5 faces repeats was the start of the mania over missing episodes partly because so many of us were mystified why such a crap Patrick Troughton adventure was shown. Why couldn't they had shown a Dalek, Cybermen, Ice Warriors or Yeti adventure instead? It was around then that the magazine first published some list of what episodes were missing and it became clear that the Troughton era had been decimated.
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Post by Simeon Carter on Mar 30, 2013 22:41:33 GMT
I think the interest will continue, particularly during this celebratory 50th anniversary year, where interest in the past (especially with An Adventure in Space and Time drama) is likely to reach a peak never seen before. Fixed that for you.
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Post by Rowan Abblitt on Mar 30, 2013 23:52:26 GMT
I'm 15, and I started watching when ABC (Australia) started their three year rerun of the entire series in 2003. I first became aware about there being missing episodes about three or four weeks into the broadcasts when, at the end of Edge of Destruction, Susan was looking at a footprint, and the next day, the Tardis was landing on Marinus! It confused me a great deal until my parents said some were missing. This is slightly O/T, but does anyone know why The War Games weren't shown during this rerun? It annoyed me because I knew we had that one.
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Post by Jon Preddle on Mar 31, 2013 0:05:59 GMT
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