 |
| The late, great William Hartnell as the original DOCTOR WHO. Images: BBC. |
It was terrific news last week that two long believed wiped episodes of classic Black and White DOCTOR WHO, from the Time Lord incarnation eras of William Hartnell and Patrick Troughton, had been returned to the BBC Archives, via a private film collector/ex-videotape engineer, for eventual release on DVD some time next year (
Two More Lost Episodes Of Doctor Who Recovered | SFX and
BBC - Doctor Who - Missing Episodes Recovered! (Updated) - News & Features).What's even more intriguing, however, was that it came from someone who previously thought that the BBC already had the episodes in the archives when they hadn't for over forty years! This creates the need to make people across the UK and beyond (many overseas TV channels like Australia, Canada and even Nigeria played bought in television programmes from Blighty) even more aware of the fact that so much classic British series and historical event television, not just WHO, are missing from the BBC archives, some of which might have escaped a near eight year mass junking period by the corporation in the late sixties and early seventies.
 |
| The Doctor and companions Steven (Peter Purves) and Vicki (Maureen O'Brien) encounter the Chumblies in Galaxy Four, long missing from the BBC, of which an episode was recovered last week. |
 |
| A couple of Atlantean fish people, as seen in the Patrick Troughton story The Underwater Menace, of which another lost episode has been found. |
If anyone out there knows someone who may have had some old film cans given to them, has contacts with film collectors/people who have worked in television during the sixties to eighties who may have copies or saved items from destruction, or if there are other retired engineers out there who can help track down rarities, then please get in touch through the links below, and help us save/preserve TV history.
Thank you!
Back to WHO, here's a link to the missing episodes out there (
Doctor Who missing episodes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) and a pictorial look at some of the classic adventures which fans, and the BBC, are desperate to find...
 |
| The Doctor and Marco Polo (Mark Eden) meet Kublai Khan (Martin Miller) in the long missing classic story Marco Polo. |
 |
| The Doctor takes on the game playing ethereal menace of The Celestrial Toymaker (Michael Gough). |
 |
| Patrick Troughton's first story as The Doctor, Power of the Daleks, is also missing. |
 |
| The classic monster tale The Macra Terror has long been rumoured to exist in its entirety in private hands. |
 |
| The original final battle with the Daleks, in Evil of the Daleks, exists only as a few surviving clips. |
 |
| Second Doctor companion Victoria (Deborah Watling) is terrified by the emergence of The Ice Warriors, of which there are still two missing episodes. |
 |
| Jamie (Fraser Hines) and the army are terrorised by remote controlled Yeti in the one episode surviving The Web of Fear. |
 |
| The Doctor (Patrick Troughton) demonstrates the first use of the Sonic Screwdriver to Victoria in the completely missing Fury from the Deep. |
There are also some excellent animated reconstructions of lost WHO episodes here:
doctor who reconstruction - YouTube
No comments:
Post a Comment