Doctor Who!

[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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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).

[darren]

Re: Two More Lost Doctor Who Episodes Found!

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.

[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.

[tony ingram]

Re: Two More Lost Doctor Who Episodes Found!

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.

[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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It's now emerged that until 1999 a TV station in Sierra Leone probably had all but one stories from the first three years of Doctor Who, which they bought back in the sixties. That includes close to thirty episodes still missing from the BBC archives. Then, they had a war and the entire archive was destroyed, as indeed was the television station. Bye bye missing sixties Doctor Who.

War. What is it good for? Absolutely nothin'.

[Richard1978]

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I've not heard that before, but a TV archive in Cyprus was destroyed when the Turks occupied the north of the island in 1974.

It is thought that some episodes Dr Who were stored there.

Some others have been recovered from Cyprus, along with a lot of early Z Cars that was thought to have been lost forever.

[trouser_mouse]

Re: Doctor Who is 48 Today!

I love Doctor Who and always have since I was about 5! I used to get DW videos for my birthday when I was a kid, had a pretty great collection.

I like Matt Smith a lot, he's definitely got something of 'the Doctor' about him Series 5 kicked ***, series 6..not so much. But it'll be interesting to see where they go with the next series.

Loved Chris Eccleston too, but wasn't too keen on David Tennant (or a lot of RTD's writing).

They are good, but I prefer the Colin Baker audios. He has been allowed to do stuff he never got to do on-screen. Some of his audios are completely amazing. And Colin is a consumate audio actor!

Yeah, CB's audios really let him shine and Paul McGann has had some great ones, too! Loved Chimes of Midnight.

[darren]

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peter davison episodes.

peter davison 1982 until 1984

Castrovalva
Four To Doomsday
Kinda
The Visitation
Black Orchid
Earthshock
Time-Flight

Arc of Infinity
Snakedance

Mawdryn Undead
Terminus
Enlightenment
The King's Demons

20th Anniversary Special
The Five Doctors
Warriors of the Deep
The Awakening
Frontios
Resurrection of the Daleks
Planet of Fire
The Caves of Androzani

[darren]

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jon pertwee stories

Jon Pertwee stories 1970 until 1974
Spearhead from Space
Doctor Who and the Silurians
The Ambassadors of Death
Inferno

Terror of the Autons
The Mind of Evil
The Claws of Axos
Colony In Space
The Daemons

Day of the Daleks
The Curse of Peladon
The Sea Devils
The Mutants
The Time Monster

The Three Doctors
Carnival of Monsters
Frontier In Space
Planet of the Daleks
The Green Death

The Time Warrior
Invasion of the Dinosaurs
Death to the Daleks
The Monster of Peladon
Planet of the Spiders his last.

[trouser_mouse]

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The Caves of Androzani is amazing.

I always liked Peter Davidson, he had a really great quality about him - his run was also consistently pretty good quality. I think he was also the unluckiest Doctor when it came to companions - the android, whiny Nyssa and the less said about Adric the better!

[tony ingram]

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The Caves of Androzani is amazing.

I always liked Peter Davidson, he had a really great quality about him - his run was also consistently pretty good quality. I think he was also the unluckiest Doctor when it came to companions - the android, whiny Nyssa and the less said about Adric the better!

Nyssa was at least decorative. Tegan was just a nightmare.

[trouser_mouse]

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Nyssa was at least decorative. Tegan was just a nightmare.

Rabbits!

It's very true - if only the Cybermen had been a bit more trigger happy in Earthshock!

[Marine Boy]

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Aw, I liked both Nyssa and Adric, ... not Tegan so much. I quite liked Davidson (Davison?) but why did he deliver all his lines out of breath? It's something that's been brought up by fans for years.