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missing doctor who epsiodes found

thx1138thx1138
edited October 2013 in Chit chat
http://tv.uk.msn.com/news/nine-missing-dr-who-episodes-found

Nine long-lost episodes of Doctor Who which have not been seen since the 1960s have been recovered after they were tracked down to a store room in Nigeria, gathering dust.

The discovery will cause much excitement for devotees of the long-running series, for which there are dozens of missing episodes dating back to its early years

The previously lost nine shows were among 11 traced to a television relay station and the find brings back to life an entire six-episode story, while another is almost complete.


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I just wanted to be first with something :D
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  • DarenDaren
    edited October 2013
    ......................... Grrr, wish the deleting of posts was re-enabled. At least for new posts.
  • MouseyMousey
    edited October 2013
    thx1138 wrote: »
    they were tracked down to a store room in Nigeria, gathering dust.
    I bet that's where Mire Mare ended up!
  • spiderspider
    edited October 2013
    Mousey wrote: »
    I bet that's where Mire Mare ended up!

    heh :D
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  • fogfog
    edited October 2013
    there is another 96 missing
  • David JonesDavid Jones
    edited October 2013
    I hadn't realised that the London Underground Yettis one was missing until now. I remember bits of that from when it was originally broadcast :)

    I probably have other memories of missing episodes in here :)
  • zx1zx1
    edited October 2013
    I never realised how many episodes were missing but it's a pity that some episodes (along with many other tv shows from that era) are probably lost forever thanks to the BBC thinking there was no point in keeping them. Thanks BBC:sad:
    The trouble with tribbles is.......
  • mel the bellmel the bell
    edited October 2013
    i found one under the fridge

    oh no wait that was crumbs Oo
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  • David JonesDavid Jones
    edited October 2013
    zx1 wrote: »
    I never realised how many episodes were missing but it's a pity that some episodes (along with many other tv shows from that era) are probably lost forever thanks to the BBC thinking there was no point in keeping them. Thanks BBC:sad:
    The BBC was in an awkward position. At the time there was no perceived value to the old episodes. TV repeats hadn't taken off in a big way. The BBC was constantly criticised for the repeats it did do as it was and there were always calls to reduce the licence fee with the number of repeats being cited as part of the reason. There were only two, maybe 3 TV stations. And the BBC is publicly funded so it needs to account for its actions and video tape & storage were expensive at the time. It's quite likely that if some visionary at the time had said keep these they'll be worth a fortune in the future they would have been severely laughed at and reminded how much it would cost to keep them.

    Hindsight is a wonderful thing and it all seems obvious now. Shame it happened as it did, but consider this... what are YOU throwing away (or failing to maintain) today that you or somebody else will want in the future?

    I know I'm guilty of not keeping track of my own source code.

    Things you may not realise you're losing :-

    Anything on tape (video/audio). Tape signals fade. Valuable family memories could be lost. Time maybe to get them converted to a digital format?

    Digital data and converted analog data (such as video/audio) that you've not re-copied lately. DVDs fail over time, hard drives can get magnetically damaged. Keep multiple backups and check every 5 to 10 years that they're still readable and re-archive anything that you really care about.
  • zx1zx1
    edited October 2013
    *runs off to check his beloved speccy tape collection*
    The trouble with tribbles is.......
  • fogfog
    edited October 2013
    mel the bell wrote: »

    oh no wait that was crumbs Oo

    tumblr_lue2km3fBd1r5jl7oo1_400.jpg

    . that were always set in the artic to save drawing
  • thx1138thx1138
    edited October 2013
    we have a fragment of a lost episode of Tommorrows World on cine film.

    Grandad was involved with part of an edpisode, and he set his cine camera up and filmed the telly when it was broadcast :D
  • zx1zx1
    edited October 2013
    The idiots wiped the edition of Juke Box Jury that had all 4 Beatles on it as guests but the audio still exists, a silent copy was rumoured to be found in New Zealand so it would just be a simple matter of syncing the sound and picture but it hasn't been broadcast, i don't even know if the BBC asked for it back.
    The trouble with tribbles is.......
  • cidcid
    edited October 2013
    Wiping old episodes was common in all countries. In Spain a lot was lost forever by the "spanish BBC" (TVE, Televisi?n Espa?ola).

    But the world winner in deleting tapes is... NASA. They wiped the original tapes of the Moon Landing.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11_missing_tapes
  • spectrumlinuxspectrumlinux
    edited October 2013
    thx1138 wrote: »
    we have a fragment of a lost episode of Tommorrows World on cine film.

    Grandad was involved with part of an edpisode, and he set his cine camera up and filmed the telly when it was broadcast :D

    It would be great to view that.
    How was your Granddad involved with the show? Can you provide further details? Sounds really interesting.
    If I am correct, Tomorrows World was removed from the BBC's lineup.
    Loved watching it as a lad.
  • thx1138thx1138
    edited October 2013
    My granddad worked at London Transport mending buses, as did my dad for a while. Grandad belonged to a workers camera club.

    Here are some videos already uploaded, my granddad appears fleetingly in one of them

    https://www.youtube.com/user/oopy2u/videos

    Tomorrows World did a feature on an experimental "conducterless bus", the proto type bus had a turnstile and coin-ops, overarching idea, doing away with conductors had legs, but the coin-op was silly. Anyway, he helped get the proto-type made up, and they did a feature on it, so he filmed it with his cine camera.

    My dad thinks he has a few more boxes of stuff to go through, but is very slow uploading it all.

    edit: a still photograph of said proto-type appears about 35 seconds into this clip

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZLPbf9xzQU
  • spectrumlinuxspectrumlinux
    edited October 2013
    thx1138 wrote: »
    My granddad worked at London Transport mending buses, as did my dad for a while. Grandad belonged to a workers camera club.

    Here are some videos already uploaded, my granddad appears fleetingly in one of them

    https://www.youtube.com/user/oopy2u/videos

    Tomorrows World did a feature on an experimental "conducterless bus", the proto type bus had a turnstile and coin-ops, overarching idea, doing away with conductors had legs, but the coin-op was silly. Anyway, he helped get the proto-type made up, and they did a feature on it, so he filmed it with his cine camera.

    My dad thinks he has a few more boxes of stuff to go through, but is very slow uploading it all.

    edit: a still photograph of said proto-type appears about 35 seconds into this clip

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZLPbf9xzQU

    That footage was amazing.

    I can see turnstiles being unworkable on a bus, with folk getting on and off.
  • Scottie_USAScottie_USA
    edited October 2013
    thx1138 wrote: »
    they were tracked down to a store room in Nigeria, gathering dust.

    Either that or the BBC has been victim to another Nigerian Phishing scam.

    The tapes actually contain Dr Woo acted by local villagers of Davrobo.
  • zeropolis79zeropolis79
    edited October 2013
    David Jones wrote: »
    I hadn't realised that the London Underground Yettis one was missing until now. I remember bits of that from when it was originally broadcast :)

    I probably have other memories of missing episodes in here :)

    David - there are 97 missing episodes now, all of which have been reconstructed using audio recorded by fans and using photographs taken from the TV screen, existing video footage and CGI.. If you want copies, send me a message and I'll see what I can arrange.
  • Zaph0ddZaph0dd
    edited October 2013
    thx1138 wrote: »
    we have a fragment of a lost episode of Tommorrows World on cine film.

    Grandad was involved with part of an edpisode, and he set his cine camera up and filmed the telly when it was broadcast :D

    You might want to make a post on the Missing Episodes Forum, they would be very interested in anything you have.

    http://missingepisodes.proboards.com/thread/7651/bbc-tv-tomorrows-world
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