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Post by Ian Williams on Aug 15, 2013 10:16:51 GMT
For years I have had a very strong childhood memory of Daleks and Patrick Troughton from the early seventies. A memory that I am now certain is from "Power of the Daleks". The only problem is according to all the broadcast dates, I can't have this memory! I was born in 1971. "Power of the Daleks" according to gallifreybase.com was last screened in Australia on 20 of June 1968. So here are my questions. Could "Power of the Daleks" (or any other early Doctor Who featuring Daleks) have been broadcast in Hobart, Tasmania post 1971. What would have been the broadcast date? I note that according to the list of bicycling of the tapes, Hobart was the final broadcast destination of the print in Australia in the '60s. I am sure my memory isn't from the Ok Computer (? is this the right title) documentary. ABC Hobart in the '70s was a maker of Schools material, so I am guessing that the Computer documentary was made here. Thus, is there any chance of this material turning up in Hobart? Have any of you guys checked out Hobart? Or has the 2003 post missingepisodes.proboards.com/thread/3389?page=1 the definite fate of all the Australian Prints? I just would like to know, before I contact friends at ABC Hobart (I don't want to enquire if this enquiry has been made to them multiply times before. Cheers, Ian Williams
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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 Aug 15, 2013 11:11:34 GMT
When you say a childhood memory, how old do you reckon you would have been?
Richard
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Post by Charles Daniels on Aug 15, 2013 11:21:26 GMT
I want to throw out a totally weird idea here.
I used to be mates with this guy who ran drive in theaters. He told me that in Australia, eastern Europe, Africa, pretty much everywhere outside of the US, old prints of American and British shows were fair game to screen at drive ins
In fact he told me he once saw a Pertwee story screened in such a way.
So any chance these prints found there way to some unofficial screening?
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Post by Ian Williams on Aug 15, 2013 11:38:33 GMT
When you say a childhood memory, how old do you reckon you would have been? Richard I think I would have been 4 or 5 (1975-77). It was definitely before we gained a Colour tv in 1978. Of course I could have seen it (if at all) before the Australian return date of 1975. The tricky question is to work out whether it was shown after the last currently documented showing. I could have only seen it on abc Hobart Tasmania on a black and white tv.
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Post by Marty Schultz on Aug 15, 2013 11:45:03 GMT
I want to throw out a totally weird idea here. I used to be mates with this guy who ran drive in theaters. He told me that in Australia, eastern Europe, Africa, pretty much everywhere outside of the US, old prints of American and British shows were fair game to screen at drive ins In fact he told me he once saw a Pertwee story screened in such a way. So any chance these prints found there way to some I unofficial screening? I have never heard of that in Australia. It did (I think) happen in South African cinemas/ film rentals.
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Post by Charles Daniels on Aug 15, 2013 11:48:06 GMT
I want to throw out a totally weird idea here. I used to be mates with this guy who ran drive in theaters. He told me that in Australia, eastern Europe, Africa, pretty much everywhere outside of the US, old prints of American and British shows were fair game to screen at drive ins In fact he told me he once saw a Pertwee story screened in such a way. So any chance these prints found there way to some I unofficial screening? I have never heard of that in Australia. It did happen in South Africa. I imagine he meant way out in out back areas or something. I don't know. But good to hear that it did happen somewhere, not that I ever doubted him on it though :-)
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Post by Steven Christopherson on Aug 16, 2013 0:07:54 GMT
I started watching Doctor Who in Australia in 1976 with Planet of the Spiders. I know roughly at the same time my Grandmother and Auntie tried to get me to watch a Troughton that was on tv one day. I remember the opening title sequence and not being interested because I'd just seen Pertwee change into Baker. My Auntie said, "it's the same Doctor Who". If the guides are to go by that was early to mid 1976 so anything is possible. And no, I have no recollection what the episode in question was, but having looked at Jon Preddle's information there were a small amount of Troughtons held back by the ABC so it would've been one of that bunch.
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Post by Marty Schultz on Aug 16, 2013 0:43:54 GMT
I started watching Doctor Who in Australia in 1976 with Planet of the Spiders. I know roughly at the same time my Grandmother and Auntie tried to get me to watch a Troughton that was on tv one day. I remember the opening title sequence and not being interested because I'd just seen Pertwee change into Baker. My Auntie said, "it's the same Doctor Who". If the guides are to go by that was early to mid 1976 so anything is possible. And no, I have no recollection what the episode in question was, but having looked at Jon Preddle's information there were a small amount of Troughtons held back by the ABC so it would've been one of that bunch. I remember ABC Troughton repeats in the 80s - Krotons and Mind robber etc Still probably have them on VHS.
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Post by robertdean on Aug 16, 2013 4:39:32 GMT
I have a vivid memory from a b&w show inwhich a guy in a pyramid turns black and dies, for years i thought it was one of the last parts of one of the yeti Doctor Who's but i was born in march 75, so couldn't have seen it but yet the memory is so clear and i can still picture it and we only had abc and our local channel(which started at like 3 or 4 in the afternoon until 1981/2) til the early 2000's.So am sure it was ABC. But as i've never seen it again, don't know. As for the kroton and mind robber repeats from 1986, i so wanted to see more Troughton, but it was straight into spearhead and i remember being a tad disappointed.
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Post by Jon Preddle on Aug 16, 2013 5:12:48 GMT
I have a vivid memory from a b&w show inwhich a guy in a pyramid turns black and dies, for years i thought it was one of the last parts of one of the yeti Doctor Who's but i was born in march 75, . Sounds like Pyramids of Mars.
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Post by Michael B on Aug 16, 2013 6:46:03 GMT
I have a vivid memory from a b&w show inwhich a guy in a pyramid turns black and dies, for years i thought it was one of the last parts of one of the yeti Doctor Who's but i was born in march 75, so couldn't have seen it but yet the memory is so clear and i can still picture it and we only had abc and our local channel(which started at like 3 or 4 in the afternoon until 1981/2) til the early 2000's.So am sure it was ABC. But as i've never seen it again, don't know. As for the kroton and mind robber repeats from 1986, i so wanted to see more Troughton, but it was straight into spearhead and i remember being a tad disappointed. Sounds to me like a guy being exterminated in the Egypt part of MASTERPLAN
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Post by robertdean on Aug 16, 2013 7:59:07 GMT
I have a vivid memory from a b&w show inwhich a guy in a pyramid turns black and dies, for years i thought it was one of the last parts of one of the yeti Doctor Who's but i was born in march 75, . Sounds like Pyramids of Mars. I wish it was Pyramids of Mars but that scene on mars didn't make me go "squee, so that's where i seen it from" and be overly excited when i saw the edited vhs It's a b&w(i'm guessing as we only had a b&w tv, late70's on abc,not sure where our feed came from whether adelaide or victoria as we were only an hour from vic. Boarder) i definately remember a glass pyramid, i can see it clearly and something happens to it and this guy falls down and starts to turn black.I've always thought he was in it or near it,but am not 100%, but def. pyramid and guy going black as he dies stands out so clear. I've asked loads of friends and no-one remembers it,but when listening to Web part 6 it seems to be it to a tea,and when dwm printed the telesnaps a few years back i did go that's it and got terribly excited,as it even has a glass pyramid, that seems like the one i really clearly remember and sergent arnold even goes black like charcol.But like i said it can't have been as it was returned in 1975, it must just have been some other show shown on abc similar to dr who
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Post by Arthur Chim on Aug 16, 2013 8:00:54 GMT
I started watching Doctor Who in Australia in 1976 with Planet of the Spiders. I know roughly at the same time my Grandmother and Auntie tried to get me to watch a Troughton that was on tv one day. I remember the opening title sequence and not being interested because I'd just seen Pertwee change into Baker. My Auntie said, "it's the same Doctor Who". If the guides are to go by that was early to mid 1976 so anything is possible. And no, I have no recollection what the episode in question was, but having looked at Jon Preddle's information there were a small amount of Troughtons held back by the ABC so it would've been one of that bunch. Yes, I also recall seeing a Troughton repeat around the mid 70s, maybe have been The Krotons during school holidays (ABC Melbourne). I was excited that it was a Troughton story but it wasn't one of my favourites.
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Post by Sue Butcher on Aug 17, 2013 3:39:53 GMT
The Krotons wasn't sent back to the BBC until 1976, a year after most of the other black and white prints. Maybe the ABC hung on to it because they still had the rights and were waiting for a slot to repeat it?
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Post by bevanthomas on Aug 18, 2013 2:52:58 GMT
I recall reading somewhere that, in Australia, "The Space Pirates" was routinely held back for repeat on rainy days, school holidays, cancelled sports events, et. al. In fact, it was the most repeated serial in the seventies, wasnt' it? About four or five times it was screened, I think.
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