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Post by maxstenner on Nov 20, 2021 18:19:06 GMT
In 1965, Chicago TV station WFLD’s program director Cliff Braun auditioned Doctor Who and were offered a package up to The Crusade but turned it down. What were the stories auditioned? Could they have been missing stories?
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Post by Jon Preddle on Nov 20, 2021 18:54:07 GMT
In 1965, Chicago TV station WFLD’s program director Cliff Braun auditioned Doctor Who and were offered a package up to The Crusade but turned it down. What were the stories auditioned? Could they have been missing stories? Since a sales contract would start from the first episode of Series 1 - An Unearthly Child - so most auditions would likely include that, plus since the BBC tended to favour the more SF-themed serials and Daleksmania was still a thing in 1965, they would also send a couple of episodes from the first Dalek story. And a few countries were also offered The Sensorites, which was the only other full-on SF serial from the first production block. . |
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Post by Robert Lia on Nov 20, 2021 19:30:30 GMT
Now a print of Dalek Invasion of Earth episode 3 popped up in the USA in the late 70's out of know where. I know the owner of the print. Perhaps this story as also offered as an audition story as well?
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Post by John Wall on Nov 20, 2021 19:42:33 GMT
Now a print of Dalek Invasion of Earth episode 3 popped up in the USA in the late 70's out of know where. I know the owner of the print. Perhaps this story as also offered as an audition story as well? It was shown at the end of 1964 so could have been used in 1965 - the location work makes it a good ‘un 👍 |
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Post by Robert Lia on Nov 20, 2021 20:01:01 GMT
Yes I remember when he gave me a copy of it around 1982 I had gotten a copy of teh BFI extract from episode 2 and we watched both of them together. 45 minutes of William Hartnell.
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Post by John Wall on Nov 20, 2021 20:19:05 GMT
Has that print been compared with others? Sometimes there are differences such as the amount of zooming in which can indicate how many times it was telerecorded.
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Post by Robert Lia on Nov 20, 2021 20:31:12 GMT
Nope as far as I know it has been in his possession since the late 1970's. But as the film negatives exist for this story and its not the only copy. The owner is in his mid 80's now and has dropped out of site. But from memory it did not appear to be zoomed in.
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Post by John Wall on Nov 20, 2021 20:33:28 GMT
iirc the print of WoF1 found by PM in Nigeria was different to the print that already existed suggesting that the story was telerecorded twice.
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Post by Robert Lia on Nov 20, 2021 21:06:14 GMT
Very true but no film negative existed for The Web of Fear. Ah well its good to have a copy to compare it to as well. I think one of the Time Meddler episodes recovered twice exposed a similar problem
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Post by John Wall on Nov 20, 2021 21:15:10 GMT
The method of telerecording changed/improved over time which is why some stories were redone.
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Post by Robert Lia on Nov 20, 2021 21:40:01 GMT
Yeah I remember they changed over from stored field recording or something like that. I would be it an early recording as it was not to long after 1965 that Terry Nation withdrew teh sales right to Dalek story's.
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Post by John Wall on Nov 20, 2021 22:52:58 GMT
I think it might have been after Evil?
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Post by Jon Preddle on Nov 20, 2021 23:54:27 GMT
The print of Dalek Invasion MIGHT be been Terry Nation's. He relocated to the USA in 1979, so maybe he gave it to someone or sold it...?
A couple of the TRs that were sent to the ABC in Australia have turned out to be different to other prints that have tuned up - eg The War Machines ep 2 and Web of Fear 1, which suggests the BBC did a second set of prints after the sale to Australia, although why this was done is unknown.
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Post by Robert Lia on Nov 21, 2021 1:03:20 GMT
I can tell you when my mate bought the film at a convention in the late 1970s it had been removed from its film reel and canister and was taped up with rubber bands and a a note attacked that said simply "Dr. Who". He never new Terry Nation though at least if he did he never mentioned it. He did know Gerry Davis as he introduced me to him and I made some NTSC camera copy's of his existing Dr. Who and Doomwatch episodes for him.
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Post by brianfretwell on Nov 25, 2021 15:25:52 GMT
Yeah I remember they changed over from stored field recording or something like that. I would be it an early recording as it was not to long after 1965 that Terry Nation withdrew teh sales right to Dalek story's. I think it went from skipped field to stored field, early recordings would be of half vertical resolution (about 180 lines). This was mentioned many years ago when I asked if skipped field recordings would give better results when Vidifired. |
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