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And by the way, it isn't just Ice Warriors. they also meet William Shakespeare, blood sucking alien Plasmavores, The Judoon - a clan of galactic stormtroopers and a sinister intelligence at work in 1930's New York.
Sounds cool!
Is it actually true that there is no trace or copies of the lost classic episodes to watch & buy? How'd they get lost anyway? They should have made a back up just in case! To be a true Doctor Who fan, I want to start from the very start & learn & understand everything I can about it!
I got into Doctor Who only from when Christiphor Eccolston played as The Doctor, but from there, I don't know that much.
I want to see the other Doctors, assistants, where they went, who they met, what enemies they fought, what planets they visited, who The Master & Davos really were & what they were like & more. Of course I will never know unless they are found!
What are people suppose to do if they're in my shoes & want to do the same? I really want to watch them!
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This is a very simple story that says a lot about bureaucratic management.
During the 70s the BBC was running low on staorage space for its transmissions.
So they took the oh-so-clever decision of taping over older master copies.
Unthinkable in the modern digital age, of course, where backups are so easy. But a lot of programmes got badly hit, historically, including a whole lot of Hartnell and Troughton Who.
Those that have been recovered have been those that were copied and sent overseas and have turned up subsequently; but some of it is lost forever.
However, it was only the picture tape that went. We still have full audio recordings of all of it, so we know the content, and enough set photographs to know the look also.
Don;t feel too bad. A lot of early Who was rubbish. I mean, Who has always had a strike rate of about 1 in 4 stories ebing terrible, but the early ones were more like 3 in 4. They did ludicrous amounts of episodes with a lot of wasted time. I think all the good ones are intact.
Also, Troughton was just fantastic, crap plot or not. There are entire swathes of his run that basically entirely depend on him as a character to be drama at all.
Tenant seems to have based himself a bit on Troughton, mannerism wise, though Troughton remains the only cowardly Doctor to date. Lines like "You can't kill me! I'm a genius!" wouldn't sound right from many mouths...
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So do you mean the footage is gone, but we still have the sound & there are photographs to put two & two together to work it out? I wouldn't have thought that Doctor Who then got bad ratings because tv then was, well, people would watch anything I think & it was a sci fi drama so full of action & such. Why did it get such bad ratings anyway...?
I hope the episode where The Doctor goes to the future & sees Daleks fighting each other. I've heard of this & wanted to see for myself to just find out why this happened.
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It didn't get bad ratings! It very quickly got excellent ratings. I'd simply be lying if I said I thought much of it was any good. It didn't really stablilise until the Third Doctor.
Your Dalek tory description there is vague. But if you want a Dalek story to put what you have seen already into context, I HIGHLY recommend Genesis of the Daleks, released earlier this year on DVD.
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That's with Davros, which is one I'd like to see, yes. Did you ever see the one where Daleks were fighting among themselves? I read it in the Doctor Who card magazine.
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Does anyone know why uk gold and bbc three only run the ecclestone and tennant series when we all know they have the ability to show every existing dr who episode ????
Does my head in...would love to see the Hartnell and Troughton years as i wasnt around
plus Pertwee and Tom Baker would be welcome
They been repeated like a million times already, & to think I had to tape it when it was on again because I thought that might be the last time it was on for a while! I could've taped them a dozen times by now!
I want to watch the old ones too, because I've never saw them before. I wasn't born when they aired. I suppose they don't show them because they want to make money from the DVDs. I'll buy the DVDs then, but they're like ex-pen-sive or what!?
They're like £15.99 a DVD! I dunno what's included but I'm hoping the whole series...if it's a few episodes, I'll have to wait until xmas or something, or my birthday, in a month! Doctor Who DVDs!!!
Dunno nothing about The Master only he's a Time Lord. His he dead or still alive? I realised that Time Lords must have had names like that. You've got The Doctor, then The Master. There could be The something or other & so on...but I wouldn't know.
Wasn't Romana a Time Lady? I heard about her...
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They finally started showing the Tenth Doctor episodes here in the US last week...yeah, I've seen them all already, but meh, watching it again anyway. Stupid cuts for commercials, though...they're so annoying.
i watched a bunch of Tom Baker and Pertwee episodes early this year on Uk Gold..and it was EARLY..i think they started at 6.00 a.m
through various resons ive missed out on seeing any Hartnell episodes on any channel and the majority of Troughton ones too...i just think they should ease back on the new ones and put them on again
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