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Post by Alex Taylor on Oct 31, 2013 18:30:28 GMT
Depends on what you're referring to, I suppose. If money has changed hands over the recent recoveries then that's nobody's business apart from those parties involved.
I assumed James was referring to the long-standing claims - going back decades - that private collectors have sold, or are offering for sale, still-missing episodes for large sums of money, usually in the order of a few thousand pounds. There has never been any evidence to substantiate these rumours.
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Post by garysrothwellx on Oct 31, 2013 18:37:04 GMT
Agreed Alex. If it were true, then someone would have infiltrated it by now and we'd have evidence. Even if the the First Rule of Dr Who Video Club is....
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Post by Travis Mann on Nov 1, 2013 6:35:32 GMT
Agreed Alex. If it were true, then someone would have infiltrated it by now and we'd have evidence. Even if the the First Rule of Dr Who Video Club is.... ...get it back to the BBC so we can have fewer missing episodes? ..Or is that not the first rule?
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Post by Neil Lambess on Nov 1, 2013 8:12:39 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? I was just having a think about the reverse...... "what episodes do we currently have , that were the least likley to be found " clearly the 3 Masterplan were very unlikley but also.(IYSWIM....in the sense that we only have NTSC or black and white prints of most of the Pertwee era..prior to colour recovery and the umatic discoveries ) Invasion of the dinosaurs 1 The Daemons Mind of Evil Ambassadors of death Planet of the daleks 3 just for starters ,are episodes that we are VERY lucky to still have......possibly luckier than some of the Hatrnell survivors such as Web, War Machines, Time meddler, and various episodes from Romans, Daleks ,that have multiple film prints... in most cases the low number of Pertwee survivors is due to the sales tapes been wiped for resuse by overseas broadcasters , but it would be an interesting excercise to apply the logic surrounding the likleyhood of certain Hartnell and Troughton 16mm prints chances of survival against the chances of the known 16mm film print sales of of Pertwee...(jon ...youre needed!) its quite a scary thought how gutted the Pertwee era would be if the US distributors had wiped and reused the last remaining tapes in the 70s .How Many Pertwee survivors "were " less likley to have survived than Web and EOTW....!
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Post by Neil Lambess on Nov 1, 2013 8:19:23 GMT
.......in fact wasnt Invasion (of the Dinosaurs) ep1 in the same boat as Feast of Steven in that it was never sold overseas due to the master tape been wiped , and was never believed to have been telerecorded?
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Post by Brad Phipps on Nov 1, 2013 23:28:14 GMT
.......in fact wasnt Invasion (of the Dinosaurs) ep1 in the same boat as Feast of Steven in that it was never sold overseas due to the master tape been wiped , and was never believed to have been telerecorded? It was only sent to Australia but they didn't air it, so it was more like the other eps of Masterplan rather than Feast!
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Post by williamb on Nov 2, 2013 0:53:38 GMT
.......in fact wasnt Invasion (of the Dinosaurs) ep1 in the same boat as Feast of Steven in that it was never sold overseas due to the master tape been wiped , and was never believed to have been telerecorded? Wiped! (Updated) Page 198. Not that it matters now, but I've always found it weird that the Android Invasion was "erroneously detailed that it ran to five episodes" by Whose Doctor Who. Perhaps the mysterious "5th" episode was "Invasion"?
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Post by steven g on Nov 2, 2013 1:25:38 GMT
I'm sure it was either Part Three of The Time Warrior or of Invasion Of the Dinosaurs which was the last episode to be telerecorded. (But I might be wrong..)
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Post by John F Brayshaw on Nov 2, 2013 1:59:42 GMT
FoS - hmm - not sent overseas - most likely always been in the UK.....
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