The Doctor Who Thread

[Rob4]

Tom Baker talks to Australian children 5 min clip, just scroll down
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-08-...ralia/12568918

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Rob4

Tom Baker talks to Australian children 5 min clip, just scroll down
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-08-...ralia/12568918

Tom has a new book out later this year.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Untitled-me...s=books&sr=1-1

[Susan Foreman]

Who: Before And After #139a

Name: Leonard Grahame
Year(s): 1965
Stories: The Daleks' Master Plan Episode 7: The Feast Of Steven
Character(s): Darcey Tranton

Before Who:
Films - None
Television - ITV Play of the Week: The Night of the Big Heat

After Who:
Films - They Came From Beyond Space (1967)
Television: The Wednesday Play: Everybody's Rich Except Us, Z Cars: I Don't Want Evidence, The Troubleshooters: Some Days You Just Can't Win

Who: Before And After #138b

Name: Royston Tickner
Year(s): 1965 / 1972
Stories: The Daleks' Master Plan Episode 7: The Feast Of Steven / The Sea Devils Episode 1
Character(s): Steinberger P. Green / Robbins

Before Who:
Films - Becket (1964)
Television - Dimensions of Fear: Thoughts of Death, The Avengers: Box of Tricks*, Sergeant Cork: The Case of the Knotted Scarf, Armchair Theatre: Little Doris, Festival: Stalingrad, The Plane Makers: One Out: All Out!, Smuggler's Bay: Found... and Lost Again, ITV Play of the Week: The Other Man, Z Cars: Finders Keepers, Thorndyke: The Case of Phyllis Annesley, The Thursday Theatre: Write Me a Murder, Front Page Story: Runaways, The Wednesday Play: Wear a Very Big Hat, The Sunday Drama: Suspense Hour - Curtains for Sheila, The Riviera Police: Take It Sideways and Pray

After Who:
Films - Work Is a 4-Letter Word (1967), All Neat in Black Stockings (1968), Goodbye Mr. Chips (1969), Anne of the Thousand Days (1969), The Keep* (1983)
Television: Gideon's Way: Boy with a Gun, Breaking Point, City 68: The Visitors, Half Hour Story: Its Only Us, The Wednesday Play: Mrs. Lawrence Will Look After It, Tom Grattan's War: The Fire Raisers, Mr. Rose: The Jolly Good Fellow, Out of the Unknown: Get Off My Cloud, Manhunt: Only the Dead Survive*, Manhunt: What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?, Timeslip* [6 episodes as George Bradley], Last of the Baskets: End of the Peer, The Flaxton Boys [6 episodes as Sgt. Cornfield], Armchair Theatre: Man Charged, Country Matters: An Aspidistra in Babylon, Lord Peter Wimsey: Murder Must Advertise, Porridge: Men Without Women, Rogue's Rock [27 episodes as Will Polberry], South Riding: Forgive Us Our Trespasses, Angels: Interim, Going Straight: Going Off the Rails, Some Mothers Do 'Ave Em: Moving House, Secret Army: The Big One, The Return of the Saint, Danger UXB: Dead Man's Shoes, Robin's Nest: September Song, Shoestring: An Uncertain Circle, George and Mildred: In Sickness and in Health, Worzel Gummidge: Worzel and Saucy Nancy, Nanny: Now Look What You've Done, The Shillingbury Tales: The Shillingbury Cloudburst, Minder: Back in Good Old England

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The Dalek Supreme from Planet of the Daleks (1973)

[Susan Foreman]

Call me Cynical Susan, but something here doesn't add up!

Seven missing DOCTOR WHO episodes identified, in negotiations to be returned to the UK / The Wert Zone

"The location of seven currently-officially-missing episodes of Doctor Who has been confirmed by episode hunter Philip Morris, currently leading efforts to recover the missing material. Negotiations are underway to get the missing material returned to the BBC.

As was common at the time (from its inception until the 1970s), the BBC used to produce television programmes with no expectation that they would ever be repeated or commercially released. Once aired, it was common for the tapes containing TV shows to be wiped and re-used to save money. Doctor Who was a victim of this process, with 147 episodes junked between 1967 and 1978. These episodes consisted almost entirely of material from the First and Second Doctors (William Hartnell and Patrick Troughton), the first six seasons of the show, aired from 1963 to 1969 and filmed in black-and-white, which was considered even less valuable in the colour era. Some material from the Third Doctor, Jon Pertwee, was also destroyed, but later recovered via black-and-white copies that were digitally re-colourised.

The advent of the home video format in the late 1970s and intervention from fans made the BBC change its mind quite rapidly and almost as soon as it stopped the purge of its archives in 1978 it began trying to reclaim the lost material. In some cases BBC engineers had saved episodes and kept them safely at home, or sold them to private collectors. The most valuable resource, however, was the BBC's foreign sales department. Since Doctor Who began in 1963, it had been sold widely abroad, particularly in the Commonwealth, and in many cases those countries had hung onto their copies of old episodes. Between 1978 and 2013, 50 missing episodes of Doctor Who were recovered from these sources and returned to the archives.

This now leaves 97 episodes - one eighth of the total number of episodes of the entire series - missing. 26 serials are affected, with 10 serials completely missing altogether.

The last time missing material was returned to the archive was in 2013, when Philip Morris recovered nine missing episodes from a TV station in Nigeria. These episodes constituted all of the missing material from the serial The Enemy of the World and four of the five missing episodes from the immediately succeeding serial, The Web of Fear. In the case of The Web of Fear, it was revealed that the remaining missing episode (the third) had also been identified, but had been removed from the station by persons unknown before the rest of the serial was sent back to the UK.

Morris has since confirmed that the identity of the people who took the episode has become known and very delicate negotiations undertaken to hopefully return the episode.

Five additional episodes were recovered by Doctor Who fan Ian Levine the same year from Taiwan, but these were additional copies of episodes already in the archives. Nevertheless, the discovery promoted renewed interest in Taiwan as a location of interest to episode hunters.

During the Time Space Visualiser 2 online event earlier this year, Morris confirmed that "at least" six more episodes currently officially listed as missing have been identified in the hands of private collectors. The principle block to them being secured is not money, but rather the fear of the collectors that fans might learn their identities and berate or harass them. Even more delicate negotiations to secure the anonymity of these collectors are required before they can be returned to the BBC archives.

The hunt for the missing episodes has gained some urgency in recent years. 1960s BBC film stock is fairly durable, but after being left in tin cans in dusty back shelves of basements in places like Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong and Nigeria, it's possible that some old stock will have become unusable: some reports have surfaced of promising leads ending only in old warped cans filled with unidentifiable goop that may have once been film stock. It is also already known that at least one TV station in Sierra Leone had a very large stock of the missing episodes (almost all of them, according to some records) before being levelled to the ground in the civil war in that country in the late 1990s. Time is not on the hunters' side here, but it is good to know at least some more missing episodes from the show have survived."

[iank]

Morris has said it's BS on Twitter.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Morris has come across as a bit of a **** recently.

Having a pop at Emily Cook for her Lockdown rewatches. He basically thinks it's not been 'proper' Who since Tom left so seemed annoyed that she wasn't 'doing' classic Who stuff.

Although the Lockdown rewatches weren't for me i think the idea of them was brilliant and brought both fans and those connected with the show together in a really shitty time. So to slag off the organiser, well it sucks in my opinion.

He's turning into Ian Levine.

[Susan Foreman]

Who: Before And After #140a

Name: Conrad Monk
Year(s): 1965
Stories: The Daleks' Master Plan Episode 7: The Feast Of Steven
Character(s): Assistant Film Director

Before Who:
Films - None
Television - Z Cars: A Place Of Safety*, The Wednesday Play: A Crack in the Ice

After Who:
Films - The Trygon Factor* (1966)
Television: Dixon of Dock Green: Just to Scare 'em, The Champions: Autokill*

Who: Before And After #140b

Name: Robert Jewell
Year(s): 1965
Stories: The Daleks' Master Plan Episode 7: The Feast Of Steven
Character(s): Bing Crosby
NOTE: Was a regular 'monster' in Doctor Who. Appeared as: a Dalek in The Daleks / Doctor Who And The Daleks film / The Dalek Invasion of Earth / Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 film / The Chase / Mission to the Unknown / The Daleks' Master Plan / The Power of the Daleks / The Evil of the Daleks / The War Games; A Zarbi in The Web Planet; and a Macra in The Macra Terror

Before Who:
Films - None
Television - None

After Who:
Films - Terrornauts (1967)
Television: None

Who: Before And After #140c

Name: Bryan Mosley
Year(s): 1965 / 1966
Stories: The Daleks' Master Plan Episode 7: The Feast Of Steven / The Daleks' Master Plan Episode 11: The Abandoned Planet
Character(s): Prop Man / Malpha
NOTE: When playing the Prop man, he is billed as 'Buddy Windrush'

Before Who:
Films - Billy Liar (1963)
Television - Armchair Theatre: Roll on Blooming Death, Z Cars: Affray, Armchair Theatre: Always Something Hot, Armchair Theatre: The Front Room, Armchair Theatre: Little Doris, Sergeant Cork: The Case of the Fenian Men, Villains: Network, Emergency Ward-10 [4 episodes as Mr. Cartwright], Armchair Mystery Theatre: The Last Reunion, The Avengers: The Gravediggers*

After Who:
Films - Where the Bullets Fly (1966), Far From the Madding Crowd (1967), Charlie Bubbles* (1968), Get Carter* (1971)
Television: Adam Adamant Lives!: D for Destruction, Adam Adamant Lives!: The Survivors, Z Cars: Finch And Sons, The Saint: When Spring Is Sprung, Mr. Rose: The Less-Than-Iron-Duke, Out of the Unknown: The Last Lonely Man, The Avengers: Homicide and Old Lace, ITV Playhouse: Arthur Wants You for a Sunbeam, Family at War: The Night They Hit No. 8*, The Adventures of Don Quick: People Isn't Everything, The Flaxton Boys: 1890 - The Discovery, Hadleigh: Exposure, Queenie's Castle [9 episodes as The Landlord], Coronation Street* [Over 1000 episodes as Alf Roberts. Appeared sporadically between 1961 - 1967 and then as a regular between 1971 - 1999], Kate: From a Stranger

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Colin Howard's artwork for 1973's Frontier in Space vhs release in 1995.

Zero chance of avoiding spoilers when you bought this in Woolies was there?

[The Reaper Man@Cult Labs]

Ordered today.