Comments on: Rulers of the solar system

Rulers of the solar system

feelinglistless — Thu, 15 Jan 2004 16:03:14 -0800

Back to the archive, one tape at a time. A new old episode of previously missing Doctor Who has turned up. It's episode two of The Dalek Master Plan which means we've now got three of the twelve parts that make up that story. Nine to go... (a clip with lots of Daleks in can be seen here).

By: Mwongozi

Mwongozi — Thu, 15 Jan 2004 16:59:28 -0800

These guys have been restoring old Doctor Who episodes for DVD, and the site goes into great detail about how they do it. Fascinating reading.

By: ghastlyfop

ghastlyfop — Thu, 15 Jan 2004 16:59:41 -0800

You are a nerd!

By: wendell

wendell — Thu, 15 Jan 2004 17:27:50 -0800

Which is why British National Security will never let Triumph the Insult Comic Dog anywhere near a Doctor Who convention...

By: grumblebee

grumblebee — Thu, 15 Jan 2004 19:23:39 -0800

I'm not enough of a DR Who fan to really understand what's going on here, and I feel like an idiot, but I'm confused. A lost VIDEO has been found, so they're releasing an AUDIO CD???? Is this the soundtrack of the video, a radio adaptation or what?

By: markavatar

markavatar — Thu, 15 Jan 2004 19:39:27 -0800

Although I haven't seen Dr Who since I was a kid watching it on PBS in the early 80's, I've been fascinated by the idea that there are what, apparently more than a hundred lost episodes, ever since I read a blurb about the situation a couple years ago. A quick google finds this page sumarizing the situation as of a couple years ago. Anybody got other links that cover this?

By: sebas

sebas — Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:25:30 -0800

Exterminate, Exterminate!

By: Civil_Disobedient

Civil_Disobedient — Fri, 16 Jan 2004 01:44:49 -0800

To this Dr. Who nerd, the news is comparable to finding a copy of the Declaration of Independence pasted on the back of a worthless painting. All the mystery and cult-like status of the lost episodes is confirmed when you read that some janitor stole a couple of tapes in the 70's and has been sitting on them for the past three decades. So cool! I have almost a hundred episodes on tape (old VHS tapes from the 80's when PBS would air entire episodes), and thought I would try to go through them and XViD 'em, but the quality was so degraded that poor little VirtualDub couldn't compete. I am astonished at the amount of effort the BBC is putting into restoring and releasing old episodes on DVD. They are really going all out, though at the current rate of completion, the entire show won't be finished for decades and decades.1

By: Scoo

Scoo — Fri, 16 Jan 2004 07:45:30 -0800

Yeah, the Daleks are real scary...until they try to chase you up a flight of stairs.

By: filmgoerjuan

filmgoerjuan — Fri, 16 Jan 2004 08:51:58 -0800

Actually, they took care of that stair climbing issue (warning: RealVideo) And yes, I *am* a Dr. Who nerd...and fiercely proud of it.

By: feelinglistless

feelinglistless — Fri, 16 Jan 2004 10:44:50 -0800

Is this the soundtrack of the video, a radio adaptation or what? The BBC hold copies of all of the 'lost' episodes as Audio from some off air recording that some fans did while they were watching the orginal broadcasts using a microphone taped to the speaker on the TV. They're releasing cleaned up versions of those.

By: davros42

davros42 — Tue, 20 Jan 2004 16:58:36 -0800

It's great that they keep finding more of these. I still can't believe the BBC was stupid enough to chuck out it's archives in the first place.