Doctor Who!

[tony ingram]

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do the ben actually have a list of some or all the dr who episodes that are missing.
maybe their website or the dr who website has a lit of them.

There's a list here if you scroll down http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_...ssing_episodes

[tony ingram]

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cheers mate.

its hard to believe that so many are missing.

i thought only say 20 odd where missing until i head that on the telly the other morning.

i just noticed the missing parts of the ark was found.
it saod that on the bbc dvd of it.

from what i remember its a nine parter.
it runs 3 hrs 10 mins.

The Ark wasn't a nine parter, only a four parter, and it's been available for years; i don't think it was ever lost. I'd say you were getting your titles mixed up, but there's never been a nine part Doctor Who story. There have been eight parters, a ten parter, a twelve parter and even a fourteen part story, but never nine.

[darren]

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do the ben actually have a list of some or all the dr who episodes that are missing.
maybe their website or the dr who website has a lit of them.

[darren]

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It's only 106. It was 109 before The Dalek Masterplan part 2 turned up in 2004.

cheers mate.

its hard to believe that so many are missing.

i thought only say 20 odd where missing until i head that on the telly the other morning.

i just noticed the missing parts of the ark was found.
it saod that on the bbc dvd of it.

from what i remember its a nine parter.
it runs 3 hrs 10 mins.

[tony ingram]

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Even the episiodes copied onto film for export were often junked.

The costs of keeping film archived are quite expensive, & after sales of B&W programming started to drop off the BBC started to dispose of programming they felt had no further value.

Luckily many reels were kept by overseas stations, & some BBC staffers managed to sneak home some prints.

And then, of course, there was Ian Levine, who saved a stack of films including the first Dalek story from destruction (as he's been reminding everyone constantly for about thirty years. We appreciate it Ian, honest).

[Richard1978]

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Even the episiodes copied onto film for export were often junked.

The costs of keeping film archived are quite expensive, & after sales of B&W programming started to drop off the BBC started to dispose of programming they felt had no further value.

Luckily many reels were kept by overseas stations, & some BBC staffers managed to sneak home some prints.

[tony ingram]

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from what o heard a lot of programmes where just taped over in those days.
im sure back in the sixties etv they never thought of keeping those old episodes of dr who.

Well, there was no such thing as home video and it was BBC policy never to repeat anything more than twice in the sixties, so they weren't thought to have any value. They just took up space. That was the thinking. TV was regarded as disposable, as a medium.

[tony ingram]

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this is great news mate.

i was listening to the tv today and it was said 1 hundred and nine episodes where missing and for people to look in there attics etc.

It's only 106. It was 109 before The Dalek Masterplan part 2 turned up in 2004.

[darren]

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I still cannot believe that so many tapes were wiped from early tv progs. So much classic tv has been lost, maybe forever if they don't turn up like these have from other sources :cry:

from what o heard a lot of programmes where just taped over in those days.
im sure back in the sixties etv they never thought of keeping those old episodes of dr who.

[darren]

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The BBC has confirmed that two episodes of Doctor Who from the mid sixties which were believed to be lost forever have been recovered. The third episode of the William Hartnell story Galaxy Four and the second episode of the Patrick Troughton story The Underwater Menace were discovered in the private collection of a retired engineer who bought the film cans at a school fete in the 1980s but did not realize until recently that they were episodes not held in the BBC archives. The episodes are currently being restored with a view to a DVD release sometime next year. This brings the total number of Doctor Who episodes still missing down to 106! The Underwater Menace part two is now the earliest known surviving Patrick Troughton episode.

this is great news mate.

i was listening to the tv today and it was said 1 hundred and nine episodes where missing and for people to look in there attics etc.

[kazboot]

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I still cannot believe that so many tapes were wiped from early tv progs. So much classic tv has been lost, maybe forever if they don't turn up like these have from other sources :cry:

[tony ingram]

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Yeah it is a bit odd that these tapes get found in far off parts of the world and such like....

A lot of the episodes were sold to foreign TV stations. The BBC wiped the original copies, but copies from abroad are still turning up. The copy of The Underwater Menace part two they've just found was from Australia's ABC network, apparently.

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Yeah it is a bit odd that these tapes get found in far off parts of the world and such like....

[HG]

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Merged Doctor Who threads.

[willpurry]

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The mystery is who donated them to the fete, and where did they get them from?