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Post by lousingh on Apr 3, 2022 20:52:17 GMT
I am glad you keep up with this information, John.
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Post by lousingh on Apr 2, 2022 20:06:09 GMT
The prints were shipped to broadcasters not embassies. The annual BBC Handbooks do make reference to programmes being shown in British Embassies. They don't say which programmes nor which Embassies. It would have been under the Non-Theatric sales arrangement, or similar to that which the BFBS had for its military bases in West Germany and the Falklands. My late father was a diplomatic functionary in the Indian government when it was founded. My late mother's late father was China's ambassador to the UN when it was founded. The idea that missing Doctor Who episodes not only could but *should* end up in British embassies was their idea. According to them, when some public entity comes into possession of materiel which they know came from another country (and usually private entities too), if they don't know how to return it, they are expected to turn it over to the embassy. So if some janitor finds a missing episode of Doctor Who and does not know the name of the intermediary for the BBC in his country, international protocol dictates that the local government should turn it over to the British embassy to return to the BBC. This process breaks down at the end because the embassy staff usually have far more important things on their agenda than determining if a 30 year old can of episode 5 of "The Power of the Daleks" means anything.
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Post by lousingh on Jan 31, 2022 23:24:13 GMT
I still say that the best places left are British embassies in countries where they got shipped to.
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Post by lousingh on Jan 31, 2022 23:19:57 GMT
In case you did not know, there was a 3rd Yeti story slated for season 6 called "Culloden" which was to be Jamie's last story. When I asked Terrance Dicks at a con in 1985, he said the story was yanked because "The Dominators" was trimmed to 5 episodes. He also said that they only mused about bringing back the Yeti, but were never serious.
I wish that I had asked Jon Pertwee about this when I saw him at a con in 1984.
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Post by lousingh on Jan 26, 2022 23:54:55 GMT
I remember a couple of rumours about The Highlanders in the 1980's. The hardest one to believe was that Fraser Hines had it.
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Post by lousingh on Jan 15, 2022 23:32:41 GMT
I am missing something. What are you referring to?
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Post by lousingh on Jan 14, 2022 23:06:55 GMT
I just read that my friend James C. Armstrong, Jr. died while awaiting a kidney transplant last June. He was one of the big guys in Doctor Who in this country. He will be missed.
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Post by lousingh on Sept 4, 2021 19:39:01 GMT
Has there ever been a rumour about episodes of The Space Pirates existing? đ I did. In 1984.
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Post by lousingh on Sept 4, 2021 19:34:56 GMT
I liked, and still like, City of Death - but fandom must never descend to the level of defining what is, or isnât, good. To me itâs one of those stories where everything comes together, thatâs what, to me, makes a âclassicâ. The JN-T era would see overseas locations, but in most cases they added little - Arc of Infinity and Two Doctors for example. With a story revolving around the Mona Lisa - probably the most famous painting in the world - Paris âworkedâ and added to the story. Julian Glover and Catherine Schell were well used guest stars - and John Cleese and Eleanor Bronâs cameos worked well. By then it had become the Tom Baker show and the humour/jokiness dominated but in CoD it was harnessed appropriately. The special effects and model work were good, everything worked. As with much of the Hinchcliffe era itâs something that I can pull out over forty years after it was made, put the DVD in the player and be guaranteed a treat đ Imo at least City of Death remains a superb story well deserving of its âclassicâ status. Indeed, it impressively elevates itself far above the inevitably limiting child-orientated remit of the show via some masterfully interwoven subtext to explore the true nature of art and the âvalueâ it renders to society. As such all of the characters perceive art (and the Mona Lisa specifically of course)differently: Duggan views art merely as a financial investment to be protected at all costs, the Countess for the ephemeral social clout and prestige its acquisition bestows, Scaroth as a means to raise hard currency to fund a higher cause and Romana as a dispensable expressionist medium that even âcomputersâ can credibly emulate. But of course itâs ultimately the Doctor himself who comprehends the truest and purest worth inherent of artistic endeavour: beauty.  Regardless, throw in some wry digs at the expense of the bumptious art critic fraternity (courtesy of Cleese and Bron) and âCity of Deathâ is nigh on perfect! You just donât (normally) get that sort of philosophical cogitation in âkidsâ TV. Neither then and most certainly not nowâŚÂ This is a great analysis of what I like about City of Death. The characters are great, the humour advances the story, the philosophical discussions about art are very clever, and the way the plot threads are tied together is quite clever. I think I like season 17 more than most. The OTT humour does sometimes get to me because it undermines the serious parts of each story.
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Post by lousingh on Aug 27, 2021 2:40:41 GMT
There were copies of the original episode 14 of The Trial of a Time Lord out there.
There is the Doctor Who Scripts Project, which had scripts of all stories which were missing episodes at the time. Back in the day, this resources, the telesnaps on bbc.com, and the audiotapes were the best we could do when wanting to experience the missing episodes.
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Post by lousingh on Aug 17, 2021 22:42:01 GMT
Stuff I know there are at least larger fragments out there: The Power of the Daleks, Episode 1 Traitors (The Dalek Master Plan, Episode 4)
(aside from what Paul and Philip have mentioned) Stuff I have heard are out there, although no confirmation: Another episode of Galaxy Four At least 1 episode of The Highlanders
Guys bragging: Several people connected with upper-level DW fandom in the US who claimed to have seen 65 missing episodes when there were 130+ missing. If true, there are at least 30 more to be found. (One of them tried to pick up a friend of mine at a Con with the draw of seeing a missing episode.)
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Post by lousingh on Jun 24, 2021 0:49:26 GMT
I like Nemesis , but not the original TV version ,always go for the VHS extended version ,hoping that they either include that VHS version or have a new extended version on the collection blu ray set (the DVD release of that story was a bit shoddy ) Agreed, and thatâs got to be the most obvious âNemesis âspecial featureâ on any future Season 25 boxset as the previous DVD release nonsensically omitted the extended version. Instead the extra footage was relegated to a collection of âdeleted scenesâ. Presumably though the excellent Canadian (?) documentary that also featured on the âNemesis VHS tape hasnât got a chance of being included? Again, it wasnât on the subsequent DVD, presumably due to rights issues. P.S. To clarify, I only mentioned âNemesis as itâs one of the very few instances of a âWho story where I genuinely donât understand the fan hate. And there are a lot who dunk on it in my experience. How could they, itâs got Courtney Pine in it for goodness sake! The lack of an extended edition baffles me. The story is just so much better with all that extra material. And I liked the extra material for The Curse of Fenric.
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Post by lousingh on Jun 20, 2021 23:34:32 GMT
Am I the only one here who likes most of Sylvester McCoy's run?
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Post by lousingh on Jun 19, 2021 18:01:55 GMT
I posted this in another thread when The Avengers episode "The Frighteners" was found.
I have been watching Callan starring Edward Woodward. There are several episodes missing from its first two season. My knee-jerk reaction was to look for a telesnap reconstruction. And then it dawned on me -- there are almost certainly no telesnaps. There are unlikely to be audio tapes. And the fandom is unlikely to have been widespread enough and passionate enough to make a reconstruction for both to exist. So as a fan of that series, I would have to dig for novellisations.
It made me realise how lucky we all are. Not only did we have novellisations to try and imagine the missing episodes, but we had audios and telesnaps as well. Some fans were able to recover edited footage. And then we had fans with the passion and wherewithal to reconstruct the missing episodes from their memories and all the materials available to them. And then we had fans willing to risk life and limb to find missing episodes for all of us to enjoy. And we have others who remake episodes in college, create animated versions of missing stories, etc. We are incredibly lucky.
I can and will stay mad at the BBC for destroying the old episodes, but let me bow my turban to those who have made my current Doctor Who experience possible. I am better for all their efforts and more appreciative of the effort people have put into the work to make it possible.
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Post by lousingh on Apr 19, 2021 23:34:59 GMT
It's something a local theatre group or school drama club could do. Someone will within the next year and it'll look real. Oh, please let it be true. I would love to see someone pilot this.
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