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Post by Brad Phipps on Dec 17, 2012 21:50:04 GMT
Maybe they're a secret geographical code to the location of the missing Fury from the Deep episode. A tantalizing set of Longitude and Latitude numbers that'll lead us to one of the most sought after serials in this fandom! In years to come, Wiped will be viewed like The Davinci Code...
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Post by Mark Vanderlinde-Abernathy on Dec 18, 2012 0:12:52 GMT
Well, we already have thought about exploring the Mormon archives. Why not bang on the door of the Vatican Library?
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Post by Sue Butcher on Jan 19, 2013 10:31:28 GMT
Which stories are least likely to have more episodes found? Are they the ones which were junked in both Australia and NZ rather than returned to the BBC?
Also, were the audition copies lower quality than the prints which were sold for broadcast?
And why on earth are there three surviving episodes of "Master Plan", the story that couldn't be sold? There would have been more prints made of "Power", surely?
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Post by John Wall on Jan 19, 2013 10:49:23 GMT
Jon Preddle can probably answer most of those. It seems that there may have only ever been a couple of prints of stories like "Power"
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Post by Alex Taylor on Jan 19, 2013 11:00:05 GMT
The usual list goes 'Mission', 'Masterplan' (cos no-one bought them), 'Tenth Planet', 'Power' (cos so far as we know there were only two sales-copies of each).
Australia's copies of 'Tenth Planet' and 'Power' were returned to London in the mid-70s and presumably junked. New Zealand's copies went on to Singapore, and we don't know what happened to them after that, but they were most probably junked when Singapore had finished with them.
I don't think anyone knows yet where the three surviving 'Masterplan' episodes came from - whether they are the prints sent out to Australia for evaluation, or copies run off for some other reason.
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Post by Jaspal Cheema on Jan 19, 2013 13:43:07 GMT
I don't know about you,but ( fortunately ) WIPED now seems horribly out of date.It already needs to be happily up-dated and the final few chapters about possible whereabouts of future findings just seem wrong! It's still a great book just unfortunate that episodes get found and the book instantly becomes dated.Let's hope there'll be lots more updated editions to come!By the way,is Richard working on a future up-date?
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Post by Richard Bignell on Jan 19, 2013 14:38:57 GMT
It was announced some time ago that the second edition is being released next month.
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Post by Richard Tipple on Jan 19, 2013 16:47:34 GMT
It was announced some time ago that the second edition is being released next month. I missed that. Welcome news indeed!
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Post by Jon Preddle on Jan 19, 2013 19:40:21 GMT
Also, were the audition copies lower quality than the prints which were sold for broadcast? As far as can be determined the prints sent for auditioning purposes were subsequently used (in the case of a successful sale) as the broadcast print. Although Tenth Planet and Power of the Daleks were sold only to the same three countries, there's no absolute certainty that *only* two prints were struck. Sure, only two sets of each were distributed, but there's no reason why the BBC couldn't have had further sets 'on the shelf' of these and every other story which were never used and subsequently junked, giving them the exact same chances as any other missing ep of turning up again.
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Post by Jaspal Cheema on Jan 19, 2013 20:46:31 GMT
By the way Richard,when will the next edition of your wonderful NATEOTL be released?I managed to grab the last copy of the current issue at the Riverside Studios preview of remastered episodes and animations ( RECONS)event!
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Post by B Thomas on Jan 19, 2013 23:52:29 GMT
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Post by Sue Butcher on Jan 20, 2013 0:00:50 GMT
I'd assume that Enterprises had a set of prints for their own reference, as well as the negatives.
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Post by dennywilson on Jan 20, 2013 5:15:13 GMT
I'd assume that Enterprises had a set of prints for their own reference, as well as the negatives. Perhaps four prints, and a set a negatives?
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Post by D. Frame on Jan 20, 2013 7:38:26 GMT
It's not so disastrous as it looks. This is the agricultural burning season. The farmers set fire to their own fields to burn brush, crop stubble and pasture grasses. So a troubled country or not, this happens every year.
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Post by B Thomas on Jan 20, 2013 11:51:46 GMT
It's not so disastrous as it looks. This is the agricultural burning season. The farmers set fire to their own fields to burn brush, crop stubble and pasture grasses. So a troubled country or not, this happens every year. Ahem... well, yes. However these fires often burn out of control and there is limited infrastructure there to cope sometimes. I've been in Africa during the fire seasons (albeit down south - not in West Africa) and it can lead to quite a cost in property. Incidently, this slash-and-burn technique in farming is blamed in spreading dessert areas. Centuries/millenia of this practice is cited as the reason Australia is largely dessert today...
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