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Post by Douglas Wulf on Nov 4, 2018 20:27:53 GMT
There's an entry for *every* Doctor Who episode in the BFI catalogue, both existing and missing. Does this episode fall into the existing or missing category?
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Post by Douglas Wulf on Oct 11, 2018 14:39:23 GMT
Phil confirms on Facebook no Who in this batch of returns. Good he's confirmed. Stand down everyone (unlikely I realise) I suspect it can be interpretted to mean the opposite as well if sufficient effort is made In fact, it doesn't even take a great deal of effort.
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Post by Douglas Wulf on Oct 11, 2018 14:38:26 GMT
Phil confirms on Facebook no Who in this batch of returns. Good he's confirmed. Stand down everyone (unlikely I realise) Yes, no Who in THIS batch of returns, but what about the other batches?
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Post by Douglas Wulf on Oct 10, 2018 23:47:56 GMT
Ed, are you a massive eccentric in real life? I imagine you being so, you're certainly a character on here. Well, Ed is just simply aware that there have consistently been Omnirumors (never refuted in any unambiguous way) that Phil Morris' global Omnisafari plus the efforts of other intrepid missing episode hunters have yielded big, big results. Curious enough, even though it's been no secret that such as comprehensive search has occurred, the actual results of the search have been kept quiet. We don't know yet one way or the other for sure, but there have been plenty of optimistic comments from Phil Morris, especially in the last week. Therefore, it's not unreasonable to have some level of optimism about the whole situation. I certainly do!
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Post by Douglas Wulf on Oct 8, 2018 15:26:54 GMT
I thought this would be a zinger of an idea of 'spreading the word': www.airships.com/history.phpOne could fly one of these around London, with an appeal for lost TV written on the side, and a number to call the BBC. Goodyear has always used such craft to promote their tyre company. Germany used them a hundred years ago above London to send the city lots of messages!
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Post by Douglas Wulf on Oct 6, 2018 22:37:03 GMT
I'm not saying that the omnirumour is 100% true but if it was and all 97 episodes were returned, how would the BBC even release them? How would they even anounce it? Whether just a couple episodes or upwards of 97 missing episodes were found, there are currently Blu-ray season sets of Classic Doctor Who being released and this may lead to an resolution of the missing episode situation. Eventually, Seasons 1 through 6 (plus Pertwee seasons with certain missing color episodes) will be released in some format. At that time, decisions will need to be made about what goes on these season sets for the 97 missing episodes. Animations? Telesnap recons? Skip missing episodes? Or, if we have been lucky, recovered episodes? I am hopeful that at least as these Blu-ray sets are released that we will finally get some clarity about what has been found or has not been found.
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Post by Douglas Wulf on Oct 6, 2018 18:16:12 GMT
I reckon that his search is over now as he specifically said that he wouldn't be showing anything until his search was complete. The fact that he's now showing his non-who recoveries is great as it means that we should probably be getting another who anouncement sometime next year! Yes, this is the reason for optimism now. As we were often reminded, nothing would be revealed until the search was complete (the Enemy, Web and Sky at Night reveals were exceptions to this). However, something has now been revealed. This would suggest that the search is complete (maybe). Therefore, we might have optimism that more recovered episodes can now be revealed. Furthermore, Phil Morris was recently quoted as saying that people who are say that the number of missing episodes of Doctor Who will remain at 97 are talking nonsense. Therefore, we might also have optimism that more recovered episodes of Doctor Who can now be revealed.
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Post by Douglas Wulf on Oct 5, 2018 20:41:39 GMT
It's marvelous to learn of these additional recoveries made by T.I.E.A. Congratulations to Phil Morris and everyone involved with this find! And I see that Phil Morris has just tweeted "Morecambe and wise 2 lost editions plus lots more to be revealed." So ... Lots more congratulations!
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Post by Douglas Wulf on May 28, 2018 3:04:11 GMT
Ian Levine has already done precisely this - he's taken unused footage (and some newly generated material) and edited it into the original episodes to create a full-length two-parter. By the look of it, the unused footage didn't come from a broadcast quality source. But we've covered this before - it's never going to be released for contractual reasons as mentioned. Question: Couldn't they negotiate to release it with all the profits going to the same charity? I think it would be a boon for them because "scarf-wearing, anoraked completists" like me might buy it just to have it. That seems to me as if it would be possible to renegotiate its release if, as you indicate, the profits would again go to charity. The footage itself is interesting as a historical artifact. However, it would indeed be nice is something more might be made out of it with a wrap-around plot of some sort. Also, there is the footage of Anthony Ainsley from the video game that, curiously enough, has him in a prison cell at the end, which (by chance) lines up with where the Master is found at the start of McGann's TV Movie.
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Post by Douglas Wulf on May 22, 2018 22:37:24 GMT
What in the name of Allah is Dimensions in Time? Something that might make more coherent sense if dubbed into Farsi!
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Post by Douglas Wulf on May 22, 2018 15:15:08 GMT
This is approximately on the topic of missing episodes of Doctor Who ...
Does anyone here know if essentially all the footage created in the making of Dimensions in Time was retained or was some of it discarded? I seem to recall that much of the raw footage was kept.
The reason I ask is that I have often thought that it might be possible to take all the footage from that strange project together with the footage of Anthony Ainsley as the Master in the Destiny of the Doctors computer game and edit those clips into some larger storyline (such as with Paul McGann as the Doctor) that would make for a somewhat more coherent plot. It wouldn't be easy, but it might be possible to piece together something closer to a silk purse out of the original sow's ear.
This occurred to me again because of the Season 12 box set. A remounted version of Dimensions in Time would be a fun bonus on a box set of McCoy's final season.
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Post by Douglas Wulf on Apr 23, 2018 14:02:47 GMT
Have Marco Polo and the Crusade have been Truly found since 50th Anniversary?
Since the 50th Anniversary? ... No.
Prior to? ... Well, I think so!
But have they been Officially found? ... Officially, no.
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Post by Douglas Wulf on Feb 24, 2018 17:08:34 GMT
There is also T.I.E. (Europe) Ltd. Plantage Middenlaan 38, Amsterdam. Place Malesherbes 24, Paris 17e. Place du Cirque 4 Geneva. with names of representatives and phone numbers. Also, as the Broadwcast website indicates, “TIE engages the services of a shipping agent, Messrs B & B Couriers Ltd, who maintain offices at London Airport and have representatives in New York, Africa and the Far East.” There could be shipping records with this company that could indicate where films were sent, etc. I assume that's all be looked into already. This shows that there weren’t “hubs”. There would be no justification for a “hub” in Paris AND Amsterdam AND Geneva. I would guess that they are offices where TIE, Ltd. representatives work, but there may be no films stored. Maybe films were simply kept either at the UK hub or else with the various stations. However, TIE, Ltd. had to be kind of a big organization because it set up a dozen or more independent stations around the world from scratch. That would take a fair number of people to accomplish.
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Post by Douglas Wulf on Feb 24, 2018 7:11:29 GMT
There is also
T.I.E. (Europe) Ltd. Plantage Middenlaan 38, Amsterdam.
Place Malesherbes 24, Paris 17e.
Place du Cirque 4 Geneva.
with names of representatives and phone numbers.
Also, as the Broadwcast website indicates, “TIE engages the services of a shipping agent, Messrs B & B Couriers Ltd, who maintain offices at London Airport and have representatives in New York, Africa and the Far East.” There could be shipping records with this company that could indicate where films were sent, etc. I assume that's all be looked into already.
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Post by Douglas Wulf on Feb 24, 2018 7:08:31 GMT
TIEA may not have had "hubs" exactly, but there were somehow offices or representatives of some in various places, to include in Africa and in the Middle East.
For example, from a picture (from 1972) on the Broadwcast website ...
T.I.E. (SALES), LTD., P.O. Box 3738, BEIRUT, LEBANON Cables: Habibsatel, Beirut. Tel: 235570.
Someone was checking the P.O. Box at least and answering the phone.
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