How likely that any more missing epidoes turn up?

[Jeff Stone]

The simple answer is:

NO-ONE KNOWS.

We may never find so much as another clip, and then again 47 Troughton episodes might turn up under a
cabinet in a Lesotho TV archive tomorrow.

As a great woman once said: "Why not assume we'll have good luck? It makes the waiting more bearable til we find out the truth."
Jeff

[John Stewart Miller]

andrew said:

Film loan procedures from the BBC film library did not and do not require borrowers to sign for receipt or certify return. Despite this the system works pretty effectively - indeed if there was another layer of bureaucracy (given the thousands of items sent out every week) the whole thing would grind to a halt. It used to be the case that large amounts of material in the library did not have any back up, this is almost never the case now. The print of "The Traitors" must, incidentally, have been a spare sent to the film library by Enterprises...

The film library did have "The Power of the Daleks" #6 and "The Wheel in Space" #5, and they were junked (in the late 60s) - the components had been allocated can numbers, which would not have happened if they had not been received. The idea that there was a copy of "Celestial Toymaker" #2 is false, there is a typographical error on the record card for that episode that makes it look like a film recording logged for it was the whole episode, whereas in fact it was the recap insert. There was a negative for "The Ice Warriors" #3 but that was junked in 1969 (the copies of 1,4,5 and 6 were positive prints, not negatives, incidentally), similarly the negative of "The Crusade" #1 was junked around that time.

I was fascinated by this, wondered if you have any idea if there was any policy behind the depositing Andrew?

The reason I say this is I could find a logic to the 35mm print material being sent on, presumably due to 35mm prints being costly (and not recycleable). The only logical possible reason for the 16mm oddments quoted would be that they contained scenes which would represent the serials well if a producer for a documentary, or say if 'points of view' wanted to reuse them. I can't imagine the Archive (then) would be prepared to commision and strike prints from a negative for use due to the costs involved.

[jamie mccrimmon]

Jeff said:

We may never find so much as another clip, and then again 47 Troughton episodes might turn up under a
cabinet in a Lesotho TV archive tomorrow.

As a great woman once said: "Why not assume we'll have good luck? It makes the waiting more bearable til we find out the truth."
Jeff

First, I'd probably scream the house (and the rest of the estate) down, if that hapenned, and second, I was just wondering; which woman was that?

[WilliamM]

Jeff said:

The simple answer is:

NO-ONE KNOWS.

We may never find so much as another clip, and then again 47 Troughton episodes might turn up under a
cabinet in a Lesotho TV archive tomorrow.

As a great woman once said: "Why not assume we'll have good luck? It makes the waiting more bearable til we find out the truth."
Jeff

That Cabinet would be fairly easy to spot ;D

[Zorba The Geek]

the said:

your their should be "There"

There (eg over THERE)

Their (eg Belonging to somebody or company)

Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to the All-Star Anal Retentive Pedantry Hour.

Zorba

[WilliamM]

step away from the Bouzouki sir