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Post by Peter Stirling on Jun 5, 2013 22:40:24 GMT
We all know why episodes where junked becouse of high cost of producing Dr who etc. When the junking stopped in 1978 did the cost go down too ? was it cheaper to make Dr who in 1978 then 1963 ? The production cost for a 1960s Dr Who was around £5000 per episode- chicken feed in the TV world. . |
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Post by Jon Preddle on Jun 5, 2013 22:44:44 GMT
Yes, I realise the rights for the earlier Pertwee seasons would have expired by then, but I'd have thought they might still have had something of Season 11 still knocking about. Sales of S11 were still happening, but only Time Warrior and Monster of Peladon from that season were still being sold after 1978, with the last in 1981. The PAL tapes of part 1 of both Dinosaurs and Death to the Daleks had been wiped by 1976, so those two were off the menu, and as to why Spiders wasn't part of the package is unknown; perhaps the BBC thought it was best not to sell Pertwee's last unless they had a firm offer for Baker as well. |
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Post by Nicholas Fitzpatrick on Jun 6, 2013 1:09:46 GMT
The PAL tapes of part 1 of both Dinosaurs and Death to the Daleks had been wiped by 1976, so those two were off the menu ... When were the NTSC tapes for Canada made then? Death to the Daleks was first aired in Canada in December 1977. |
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Post by Sue Butcher on Jun 6, 2013 2:54:07 GMT
Perhaps Enterprises still had a PAL tape copy of DTTD 1 after Engineering wiped the PAL master. I've also heard that Dinosaurs 1 was wiped by accident, having been mistaken for a stray copy of Invasion 1, before Enterprises could get a colour tape copy for sales purposes.
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Post by Jon Preddle on Jun 6, 2013 4:32:45 GMT
The PAL tapes of part 1 of both Dinosaurs and Death to the Daleks had been wiped by 1976, so those two were off the menu ... When were the NTSC tapes for Canada made then? Death to the Daleks was first aired in Canada in December 1977. I was a little premature with my wipings. The PAL master copy of Part 1 of "Death" would have been wiped sometime early 1978. |
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Post by Charles Daniels on Jun 6, 2013 6:24:47 GMT
I've also heard that Dinosaurs 1 was wiped by accident, having been mistaken for a stray copy of Invasion 1, before Enterprises could get a colour tape copy for sales purposes. I've heard this same theory, but unless I'm very much mistaken it has been quite thoroughly debunked. |
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Post by Michael D. Kimpton on Jun 6, 2013 9:46:40 GMT
I've also heard that Dinosaurs 1 was wiped by accident, having been mistaken for a stray copy of Invasion 1, before Enterprises could get a colour tape copy for sales purposes. I've heard this same theory, but unless I'm very much mistaken it has been quite thoroughly debunked. That's quite right. The Invasion was junked years earlier... |
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