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Post by lousingh on May 8, 2018 13:56:12 GMT
Get a job in the BBC archives. It would be a means of financial support for a start and you'd be in a perfect position to make the tapes "disappear" at the appropriate time. Then bring them back to the present (Or take the long way to 2018 if there's no way back) so that there's no butterfly effect. Also a few certain bets would make life very comfortable such as England 66 or Red Rum. You could always bribe people in the 1970's for all of the tapes to go "walkies" when they are supposed to be junked. Alternatively, make your own copies when BBC sell them overseas and just make sure not to omit the Dalek stories. While you are at it, could you rescue the missing episodes of The Avengers, among others? Now, if you don't mind, I need to do something that sounds a lot like a coin being run up and down a piano string.
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Post by RWels on May 15, 2018 23:08:34 GMT
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Post by A Barron on Dec 13, 2020 0:56:34 GMT
I have a few ideas of what I would do.
The first is if I had no money I would just camp every skip and dump into which the British Broadcasting Corporation junked its prints and then take them to the British Film Institute.
The second would be to get a job at the British Broadcasting Corporation and have a lot of the prints go "walkies". This would be better in some respects as I may be able to find the original ending of "The Highlanders" where Jamie stays behind as well as the original version of "Horse of Destruction" which featured a cut scene between Vicki and Katarina. It would also mean I might be able to get my hands on the "Feast of Steven" if it never was transferred to film. (I found a source that said that Philip Morris has said he thought it might have been; no idea how accurate it is.)
Third would be to write a letter to the Free Masons or some other secretive society or organisation saying: "To whomever it may concern. I am a time traveller from the future. To prove this is true Kennedy will be assassinated in an open top car in November of 1963. Around the same time a television programme called Doctor Who will start to air. Get copies of all it episodes as well as Dad's Army, Z-Cars and pretty much everything really and wait until [The date I left the future] then release them to the public."
Forth. I have thought for sometime that it would be a good idea to put the results of the past few centuries or horse races on my phone just in case I somehow end up in the past. (I am not crazy, just for a bit of fun) That way I could then use that in formation to get lots of money and use that to preserve Doctor Who, either by recording it or bribery.
Fifth. If I have my phone or any piece of future technology, I just walk into a place with scientists, spout some rubbish about the dangers of time paradoxes, then make demands.
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Post by richardwoods on Dec 13, 2020 11:21:23 GMT
Wouldn’t it be easier to take back some VHS recorders with VHF band 1 & 3 on (there were plenty of them & yes although they aren’t designed for it, they can record 405), along with an unlimited supply of tapes, and set the timers to record all the missing stuff. Only 2 1/2 channels to choose from and one of them is 625.
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Post by Jaspal Cheema on Dec 13, 2020 21:49:32 GMT
I believe that every missing episode fan has, at some point, imagined themselves thrown back in time for whatever reason and getting the opportunity to save the missing episodes, but that raises a question. Not that it's remotely likely to happen, but if, for the sake of argument, someone were to be magically transported back to 1960, how would they actually go about saving the episodes, given that they'd have no money, no identity, and probably no friends. It wouldn't be as easy as going up and saying that the tapes will be valuable in twenty years and you wouldn't be able to buy them or copy them for legal reasons. You could try to steal them, but that would require breaking into the BBC, stealing every single episode, and then escaping without being caught. Alternatively, you could try to buy an early video recorder and try to record the episodes as they aired, but that would be extremely expensive. My ultimate point is, what would be the best strategy for saving the missing episodes in a freak time travel incident? I don't know about going back in time to recover the episodes but the bit about not having any money,no identity and no friends is highly likely!
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Post by RWels on Dec 13, 2020 22:02:45 GMT
I don't know about going back in time to recover the episodes but the bit about not having any money,no identity and no friends is highly likely! No need to travel through time for that - I can do that just as well staying where/when I am now!
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Post by Pete Morris on Dec 17, 2020 17:28:25 GMT
Assuming I found myself transported to the past, with no warning, no preparation, no money, no 21st century technology, my option are limited. Also assuming I know only what I remember, right at this moment, and can't look it up. Some of you have details memorised about where and when every lost episode was last seen, but I don't.
I can think of only two things I could do.
1) Ask John Cura for help. Tell him that his photos will be one day very valued. See if I can persuade him to increase the number of photos. And to do it for every episode.
2) Get Ian Levine's help. Tell him a few years early that Doctor Who episodes are being lost. Get his influence earlier to stop the wiping. Get him involved earlier in the hunt for missing episodes. And suggest that he look in Sierra Leone.
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Post by RhysH on Jan 29, 2021 13:36:15 GMT
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Post by Gary Wilson on Jan 31, 2021 11:34:39 GMT
How do you know that someone hasn't gone back.......and that's how we have managed to secure a few serials and orphans from the skip!!!! Remember, you can't change history....not one line!
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Post by Richard Develyn on Jan 31, 2021 12:16:25 GMT
Ok, so here's a funny thing that I've often wondered about.
I started watching Doctor Who with Tom Baker, because I actually wasn't in England until 1973.
When I was 13, a friend lent me two Doctor Who Target paperbacks - Abominable Snowmen and Day of the Daleks. I then proceeded to devour these target books at the rate that they were published.
Of course, I wanted to watch the originals, and round about 1977/8, when I was 14/15, I seriously considered writing to Jimmy Saville to see if he could fix it for me to do so. Top of my list would have been Moonbase, Ice Warriors, Snowmen and Web, from Troughton's era, as well as a great deal of Pertwees.
I never did, and subsequent revelations about Jimmy Saville to one side this is still something I have always regretted. Of course, by 1977/8, quite a lot of junking had already happened, but some might have been saved, and the thought of my tearful face on prime-time television, mirrored no doubt by many others around the country, might at least have suggested to the powers that be that to some of us the destruction of this material was a tragedy.
Richard
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Post by kurt devery on Jan 31, 2021 15:11:43 GMT
In the event of a time travel accident don't know how i would do it but i would do my hardest to rescue Web 3 if only to stop us all going made decades later with it's seemingly never ending saga over it's existence ha ha😆
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Post by Pete Morris on Jan 31, 2021 17:27:08 GMT
Maybe it went missing in Nigeria because you time traveled to rescue it.
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Post by kurt devery on Jan 31, 2021 17:33:22 GMT
Very good ha ha. Shades of Day Of The Daleks love the last post
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Post by RhysH on Feb 4, 2021 9:02:23 GMT
Just to add that part 3 is now out of the above series of YouTube vids. This is focused on the Pertwee recoveries and restorations. Very detailed and a good watch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnpDyHlODmI
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Post by Darren Jones on Feb 5, 2021 1:41:14 GMT
The book is even more detailed.
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