{"id":792,"date":"2011-12-15T11:12:05","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T16:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/?p=792"},"modified":"2023-08-08T10:56:26","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T14:56:26","slug":"recovered-dr-who-episodes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/2011\/12\/15\/recovered-dr-who-episodes\/","title":{"rendered":"No Longer Lost in Time and Space: Two Recovered Doctor Who Episodes"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ScreenshotGood news from a jumble sale. The BBC reports<\/a> that two presumed lost episodes from Doctor Who<\/em> have turned up in the care of a retired television engineer who bought them in the 1980s.<\/p>\n

As noted in our examination of the only partially extant “Marco Polo<\/a>,” the BBC routinely wiped the expensive video tapes for re-use, resulting in the presumed loss of quite a few episodes from Doctor Who<\/em>‘s early years. As Shaun Ley of the BBC observes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The find makes only a modest dent in the number of missing episodes, with 106 instalments broadcast between 1964 and 1969 still being sought.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The two episodes, “Air Lock” from William Hartnell’s Season Three opener “Galaxy Four” and the untitled part 2 of Patrick Troughton’s “The Underwater Menace,” will apparently be made available via DVD at some point in the future.<\/p>\n

I’d certainly prefer sooner rather than later, as I’m slowly closing in on Season Three in the Doctor Who Project<\/a>. I have the novelization ready to go, but being able to see at least one of the four episodes of “Galaxy Four” would be of some help, as I don’t think the novelizations capture all of the Hartnellizations in the televised script. Until then, I’ll have to make do with the short clips the BBC has made available.<\/p>\n

(Image via the BBC<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Good news from a jumble sale. The BBC reports that two presumed lost episodes from Doctor Who have turned up in the care of a retired television engineer who bought them in the 1980s. As noted in our examination of the only partially extant “Marco Polo,” the BBC routinely wiped the expensive video tapes for … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[56,14,15,179],"class_list":["post-792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-fiction","tag-bbc","tag-doctor-who","tag-first-doctor","tag-second-doctor"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pedXm-cM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6132,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792\/revisions\/6132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}