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Post by williamM on Dec 16, 2005 15:51:30 GMT
how will we know when all the suriving episodes have been recovered?
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Post by Wright Blan on Dec 17, 2005 4:52:34 GMT
A half recorded trailer that wasn't even supposed to be there in the first place is rather different from whole, complete programmes which would be catalogued. I think it's the clips from the other month rather than the trail from last year that he was refering to. Yes, it's the clips from the other month.
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Post by Ash Stewart on Dec 17, 2005 9:47:34 GMT
Ah, yes, forgot about those.
Similar point, though; a few seconds of, let's face it, fairly generic Dalek "action" is rather different from whole episodes. There may be a 10 second clip from Episode 2 of The Underwater Menace in a 70s Zambian documentary on Plato*, but really... what are the chances...?
And we will never *know* when all surviving episodes have been recovered; it's an impossible thing to prove that no more episodes sit, undiscoverd, in an attic in a pub in Brentford*. We may believe they have all been recovered, but we'll never know for sure.
For all we know (and I dearly hope not), all surviving episodes may have been discovered...
* - to pluck examples at random...!
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Post by B Thomas on Dec 17, 2005 10:03:23 GMT
I can just see the next rumour doing the rounds...
Hordes of excited newbie fans raiding the attics of every pub in Brentford angrily demanding the return of [insert name of favourite lost "classic" episode] in cliched whinny voices...
Let the anorak games begin... ;D
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Post by Ash Stewart on Dec 17, 2005 16:48:48 GMT
*Pst* The Flying Swan: ask to speak to Neville, the part time barman.
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Post by B Thomas on Dec 17, 2005 23:39:36 GMT
Yes - he'd know, wouldn't he? Neville, in secret the gatekeeper of the Missing Episode Hoarder's Masonic Lodge...
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Post by Neville on Dec 19, 2005 12:32:57 GMT
Oi, keep it shtum, or you're both barred!
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Post by MrMason on Dec 20, 2005 12:46:53 GMT
:oBOAZ
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Post by EET on Dec 20, 2005 13:29:35 GMT
"how will we know when all the suriving episodes have been recovered? "
Unless they all turn up I don't think we will.
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Post by Matthew K Sharp on Dec 20, 2005 13:44:07 GMT
how will we know when all the surviving episodes have been recovered? A cock will crow three times at dusk.
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Post by william mcgregor on Dec 20, 2005 15:11:40 GMT
how will we know when all the surviving episodes have been recovered? A cock will crow three times at dusk. but what if no one hears it
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Post by Brad Phipps on Dec 20, 2005 19:43:18 GMT
I can just see the next rumour doing the rounds... Hordes of excited newbie fans raiding the attics of every pub in Brentford angrily demanding the return of [insert name of favourite lost "classic" episode] in cliched whinny voices... Or the BBC is flooded with archive requests for all Plato documentaries from the 1970s.
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Post by Matthew K Sharp on Dec 21, 2005 4:37:00 GMT
A cock will crow three times at dusk. but what if no one hears it It will set up a website to tell people. It will be one of many Doctor Who websites run by... (fill in the rest yourselves)
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Post by Jeff Stone on Dec 29, 2005 14:49:40 GMT
We will know when all surviving episodes have been found when the world ends. For does it not say in the Book Of Revelations, Ch 6 Vs 12...
"And I watched as he opened the sixth and final film can; and lo, the sun turned black as sackcloth, and the Moon was blasted out of orbit by a nuclear waste explosion, and geese learned how to fill out complex drivers' license application forms without assistance.
"A hellish wind tore across the face of the water, the stars dropped like fruit from the scarred heavens, and Brannon Braga at last managed to write a Star Trek script that wasn't absolute crap."
It is also foretold in the Good Book that Ian Levine will vanish into another dimension when the last extant missing ep is found, because his work in this reality will have been completed.
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