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Post by zaqwilson on Oct 10, 2018 18:04:45 GMT
Oct 11, 2013. I was at work. Opened Yahoo to check on the market. In the main Yahoo page, the top ten trending items 1) Dr Who 2) Doctor Who 3) Enemy of the World 4) *unrelated* 5)Missing Episodes Revovered 6) Patrick Troughten 7) *unrelated* 8) Web of Fear....
I had to sit and stare at the list for over a minute in disbelief before I started clicking.... Then I thought the loony rumors might be true, massive recovery, this is just the first reveal... 14 months later (Dec 2014), I then lost my false hope in the 90...
I hope this will repeat in the future.
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Post by zaqwilson on Oct 9, 2018 15:08:47 GMT
Do we have any remote viewers on here? They could remote view the location of all material..... or, better yet, teach us how to remote view the ME's contents! The would eliminate the need to even recover them.
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Post by zaqwilson on Oct 8, 2018 21:47:42 GMT
Don't close the thread.... Ed has livened things up around here. Cheers!
I can't call this the omnirumor.... it's the 'omnispeculation'
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Post by zaqwilson on Oct 8, 2018 16:22:42 GMT
Great example here of the cyber-bullies coming out of the closet and ganging-up. Just laughable really. The point of the thread was to contribute anything to this Aztecs film can image, not for people who don't like themselves to deflect their personal insecurities onto someone else so they can feel all the better for it. I though the point of this thread, like many others, was to let people like me know what is and might be going on without me having to keep tabs on it myself? Im busy, i dont have time to search for stuff.... I want the forum to find it for me!
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Post by zaqwilson on Oct 6, 2018 0:50:29 GMT
I am extremely sceptical about this kind of thing, usually - because usually, the people doing the speculating are doing so on non-existent evidence. Now, Philip Morris' announcement tonight does nothing to change that absence of evidence where DW recoveries are concerned. But given that it is Mr. Morris - a proven bagger of DW MEs - doing the announcing, I am cautiously optimistic that some more DWs may have been found, as he has led people to believe all along by nods and winks. The most obvious candidate is, I suppose, WoF 3. 'An embarrassment of riches', Omnirumour-style? That I doubt. The nature of what was announced tonight points to orphan episodes if anything. The absolute most I am hoping for is that the old 'MEW' rumour was true, and the third serial found was in fact 'Marco Polo', held back in 2013 due to poor state of preservation or some such reason. But there's many a slap twixt cup and lap, as someone once said...
If Marco Polo or indeed any other serial was held back, it certainly wasn't for quality reasons. He's mentioned in an interview that the only bad quality copy of Doctor Who he's found so far was a duplicate Pertwee episode. It's entirely possible he's not found anything that is missing from the archives and it really is just a bunch of Pertwee and Baker duplicates, but quite frankly if that little bit of information on the supply chains is all he gets from the rest of his finds (utterly ignoring all the non-Who material he is finding), I'm still going to be happy.
He has only admitted ambassadors of death part 2 IIRC.... and that was many years ago. He might have found other vinegar mush since...and, likely, he has not told us everything he knows or has found. Someday, I hope the veil is lifted and he tells all. A book or documentary might not sell big, but I'd bet DW fandom would eat it up.
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Post by zaqwilson on Oct 5, 2018 22:15:31 GMT
Any missing material recovered is cause for celebration.
I'm honestly not expecting anything, but it stirs a bit of cautious optimism.
Crossing fingers, but won't uncorked the champagne.
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Post by zaqwilson on Oct 5, 2018 22:11:38 GMT
Gotta add to my reason for season 4.... I wanna see more of "the Pat in the Hat!"
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Post by zaqwilson on Oct 3, 2018 23:11:39 GMT
Being that its a global business and they are working with materials from all four corners, the sheer volume of materials they 'preserve' it would make sense to have his own team. The thought that his work revolves around DW is quite egocentric.
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Post by zaqwilson on Oct 3, 2018 23:04:12 GMT
As I do love the positive, glass half full, positive outcome, good days to come etc, this really is r...e...a...c...h...i...n...g. Dont misread, I hope your right, but i cant imagine it is the case. If it is, i'll give you all my Kudos and praise your crystal ball.
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Post by zaqwilson on Oct 3, 2018 22:57:33 GMT
Season 4. It would return most episodes. Contains many of my favorite stories. No complete serials extant. Season 3 & 5 are tied in second place, but that all because of DMP vs Snowman, Wheel, Fury. Third place to Season 6, as I want to see Space Pirates as I think it is underrated and poorly represented by its remnants. Never was to interested in missing material from 1 & 2, besides, they are already well represented. To be honest, I just want them all and I want them now. <=This may come as a shock.....
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Post by zaqwilson on Oct 2, 2018 19:47:14 GMT
As most of the RT are (i believe) on this panel, they probably get a good chuckle out of our speculation...
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Post by zaqwilson on Oct 2, 2018 19:42:24 GMT
I find it very plausible that an actor could be cast in a role and know little to nothing about the archival status of the shows beginnings 50 years ago. I find it very implausible that an actor playing the current doctor would be aware of unannounced discoveries. "IF" there are a bunch of episodes back, its being kept under a tight lid with information on a strict need to know only. If there was a mass recovery, kept quiet, why would they give this information to current actors. Their jobs have nothing to do with recovery. If they knew, word would be out spread far and wide.
When JW said she would watch them all after shes done playing the doctor tells me she likely knows little of the older portions of the show or the status of ME's.
Im still of the mind that something have been recovered, but not much. Probably being kept till either enough is found to make a commercial release worthwhile (a small majority would make a great fuss about one orphaned episode being released, but it wouldn't sell well to the general public).
A theory I read (not believed, but read--like all) is that recoveries will be held till either the search is as exhausted as reasonably possible and/or interest in the current show wanes where a large recovery could re-ignite interest.
Until my eyes see something, I'll consider it as wishful thinking.
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Post by zaqwilson on Sept 13, 2018 20:55:33 GMT
I stand corrected then. I know I read the bit about a repeat some where but I cant remember where I read it off the top of my head. I do know that when Jon Pertwee episodes aired in the Los Angeles Market starting in July 1975 we had one repeat of each story same with the Tom Baker episodes that aired starting in August 1978 we had like 5 runs of those story's. I remember reading the same about rebroadcast rights with sales. Its been a while, but within the past 5 years. I defer to the more learned Dr Who researchers on this panel. Goodness! I always figured if I read it somewhere it had to be true....
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Post by zaqwilson on Sept 7, 2018 16:22:36 GMT
I saw it once. Can probably go the rest of my life without seeing it again, but don't wipe it. It exists. It was broadcast. We have lost enough through short sightedness. Future generations may desire it. New who fans need to be able to look back and see it if they choose. Take the bad with the good. To me its similar to the Star Wars Holiday Special in a way. If wiped, it might take on mythical status and be perceived as far superior to the reality. Easy to destroy, hard to create (or recover). Just because I believe its lacking in quality, im sure there are others who adore it for one reason or another. I think we should not tempt fate with further wiping. Lets preserve what we have. Having less than stellar productions extant help us to value the good ones even more. I must add, that sometimes train wrecks are hard to watch ...but... sometimes you just cant turn away....
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Post by zaqwilson on Aug 15, 2018 23:00:51 GMT
This was spotted a year ago. I think it's just some not very clever wording from Getty's part. Some further details appear once you sign in and it mentions it's missing. Are there any other examples of cataloguing that people have found that feature erroneous information such as this? I wish people would be more careful... Likley too many to count. Some are just miss represented, most are genuine errors, a few *might* be the just to rile and stir up a buzz. Example, when I worked at my college library, we would sometimes create bogus index cards and entries for items such as Guttenberg bible, Stephen King novels that never existed, the necronomicon, etc. Most were ignored, but once we had a guy almost tear the place appart to find a bogus item. When it couldn't be found, conspiracy was claimed.
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