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Post by Mark Brown on Jan 10, 2006 15:22:30 GMT
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Post by Wright Blan on Jan 10, 2006 19:13:20 GMT
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Post by Brad Phipps on Jan 10, 2006 20:59:45 GMT
Copy the whole link into your browser, but it basically says:
Dr Who fans go psychic
BARMY fans of Doctor Who want to hire a psychic to track down missing episodes of the hit show.
More than 100 programs of the sci-fi classic are lost and now fans are turning to out of this world powers to locate them.
Fan Martin Brown said: "If people can use psychics to reunite family with deceased loved ones then it is quite conceivable we can use a psychic to track down these missing episodes.
"These shows are important to the heritage of Dr Who."
Members of the world's largest Doctor Who forum, Gallifrey One, have banded together in their search.
One desperate fan, Supervoc posted on the forum: "I am on my knees in hope and desperation. I will be through the roof if even just one more story is found. We must live in hope!"
Another Ian7 said: "I am convinced there are countless missing episodes yet to be found. I know it is going to happen. I have complete and utter faith. I believe we should all have this faith. Think it. Feel it. Wish it. It is going to happen!"
The missing tapes of the cult classic date from 1964-1969 when William Hartnell and Patrick Troughton played the doc.
The episodes were wiped by the BBC in the mid-seventies along with dozens of other old television favourites
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Post by LanceM on Jan 11, 2006 3:07:38 GMT
This sounds a lot like the old episode premonitions thread.
Lance.
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Post by Gary Robinson on Jan 11, 2006 10:55:28 GMT
It also said many are thought to be in the Middle East ,for some reason?
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Post by Laurence Piper on Jan 11, 2006 17:48:20 GMT
I've been trying to will the Rediffusion library back into existence in the archives for over 20 years now..!
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Post by Brian D not logged in on Jan 11, 2006 18:03:02 GMT
Laurence, I got confused yesterday when I was listening to a programme on Radio 2 about Lord Haw Haw and related matters presented by Russell Davies. I'm sure at the end it said the programme was a production for the BBC by 'Associated Rediffusion' - has AR retained an existence in the media, is this a completely unconnected body, or did I mishear?
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Post by TheBrain on Jan 11, 2006 18:34:23 GMT
I sense that there is a film, in a can, in a room, it's all going hazy. £50 please
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Post by James Phillips on Jan 11, 2006 20:59:56 GMT
Laurence, I got confused yesterday when I was listening to a programme on Radio 2 about Lord Haw Haw and related matters presented by Russell Davies. I'm sure at the end it said the programme was a production for the BBC by 'Associated Rediffusion' - has AR retained an existence in the media, is this a completely unconnected body, or did I mishear? Victor Lewis-Smith bought the rights to the name and indeed the logo for his own production company. So, no formal connection, other than name and spinning star logo! |
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Post by Brian D not logged in on Jan 11, 2006 22:23:01 GMT
Thanks for clearing that up, James
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Post by Jeff Stone on Jan 13, 2006 8:16:07 GMT
If this even turns up so much as a clip, I'll be the first to thank Ian for thinking of it. As it is not likely to uncover anything but confidence tricksters, however, I'll go with the consensus that it's a barmy idea.
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Post by williamM on Jan 13, 2006 16:43:14 GMT
well why not, lets try, if it doesn't work it'll be good for a laugh.
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Post by ethantyler on Jan 14, 2006 1:28:40 GMT
Sidestepping the fact that this is the silliest idea EVER (in relation to missing episode hunting, at least), how exactly is this supposed to work? Would the psychic make contact with deceased film prints that were burnt to death? Do film prints make contact with psychics?
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Post by williamM on Jan 14, 2006 15:17:32 GMT
I think its like that thing the CIA tried in the 70's whatever that was called.
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Post by Jeff Stone on Jan 15, 2006 10:01:36 GMT
I think its like that thing the CIA tried in the 70's whatever that was called. Remote viewing. It apparently worked fairly well, but was far too imprecise and spotty to be a reliable intelligence tool. No-one has any idea how and why it worked at all. Research on it came under the rubric of MK-ULTRA and its' various offshoots and successors - the amusingly named ARTICHOKE etc - and continues today in a limited fashion. The Soviet KGB poured vast amounts of roubles into the concept as well, to little tangible result. |
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