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Post by John Wall on Oct 26, 2021 21:05:30 GMT
As I've said many times before, the number of prints struck of an episode has ZERO bearing on its chances of survival. To meet the bicycling demands, there were probably no more than 10 copies made of the first 26 episodes of season 1, probably no more than 7 of the rest of season 1 and season 2, and probably no more than 3 for the bulk of seasons 3 to 6 (of course, even fewer prints were made of MTTU and TDMP, Tenth Planet, Power, Evil and Tomb). S1 (a) 26 x 10 = 260 S1 (b) 16 x 7 = 112 S2 39 x 7 = 273 S3 32 x 3 = 96 {not taking into account MTTU and TDMP} S4 43 x 3 = 129 {not factoring in fewer prints of TTP and TPOTD} S5 40 x 3 = 120 S6 44 x 3 = 132 That's somewhere in the region of 1120 film prints made of seasons 1 to 6. But out of those, only around 150 broadcast prints have turned up - some 13% - mostly all being orphans, only a handful of complete stories. And the number of episodes for which multiple copies have turned up is less than 15. That's a sobering statistic. It speaks rather well to the efficiency of the BBC junking process. There are vast swathes of TV down the plug hole 👎
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Post by Natalie Sinead on Oct 27, 2021 10:20:36 GMT
Thankfully, powers which Equity and others had abused to hold the BBC and ITV to ransom were taken away in the eighties.
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Post by John Wall on Oct 27, 2021 10:31:40 GMT
Thankfully, powers which Equity and others had abused to hold the BBC and ITV to ransom were taken away in the eighties. As the number of channels increased the ability to generate new content wasn’t there.
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