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Lost Doctor Who Episode Found
JSDopefish writes "In an event that most Doctor Who fans thought couldn't happen, another lost episode of Doctor Who has turned up. It's Episode Two of the 1965 William Hartnell serial, 'The Dalek Masterplan.' No word yet as to how it will be released, this news is just breaking today apparently. This is great news for fans, as the last time a lost episode was turned up was in 1999, and most folks had given up hope there were any others left to be discovered. For those who don't know, in the '70s the BBC routinely junked old stories. Not just Dr Who, but all their shows. Repeats and sales weren't an issue then. There's something like 115 or so lost Doctor Who episodes total."
Just misplaced in time. They'll show up eventually.
They should take all the "lost" ones and put them on a dvd collection.
Get your 100 tacos ready!
(sorry, had to be said...)
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Could the episode appearing just now, out of the blue, be part of their masterplan?
EXTERMINATION is near!
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Windows 2150 AD.
"Is there a mention in any publications (The Dr. Who Technical Manual, for instance) what software the Dalek's ran?"
MacOS. See that plunger on their hand? What else would run such an elegant prosthesis?
"Derp de derp."
> Is there a mention in any publications (The Dr. Who Technical Manual, for instance) what software the Dalek's ran?
um, DavrOS?
- Muggins the Mad
is what we need to recover a the old episodes. Just zip out 30 to 40 light years record the old broadcasts and then bring it all back.
that or build a time machine.
Sorry. It was closed source. Davros never liked the GPL. Besides, he didn't want any Thrals getting their hands on the source.
Viv
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"um, DavrOS?"
That's a bad pun, but it made me laugh. I just hope nobody makes a TarDOS joke.
"That's a bad pun, but it made me laugh. I just hope nobody makes a TarDOS joke."
Time And Relative Disk Operating System? Hmm yeah, I can see why they shortened it to Windows.
"Derp de derp."
I know I'm a young, but Doctor Who?
;)
There's no place like
I, for one, welcome our rediscovered Dalek overlords.
Okay, I'll embarrass myself here. I had thought of that when the series was airing here, and decided that the kaled mutations must have bred true. I mean, there was no one to build another facility while Davros was out of commission, but the Dalek numbers kept increasing.
All of this lead me to the mental image of Daleks chasing one another around, screeching "Inseminate! INSEMINATE!"
There, I said it.
clearly time travel will never exit because someone would go back in time and beat to death the bbc ppl who trashed all the old dr who episodes.
Another evening of dodgy old b/w film on the BBC soon folks..
"You lied to me! There is a Swansea!"
ust keep finding them lost epiusodes every couple months...
My days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle...
(and I say that as someone who finds even modern Hollywood blockbusters distractingly artifact-ridden on most DVD releases)
I think you need a smaller tv set.;)
Is this a sigs-optional kind of place? 'Cause I am totally down with that if you know what I mean.
Was all BBC programming in black & white back then? In the US, most TV shows were in color by 1965. I guess maybe it is due to aftereffects of the war..?
Oh, yeah, unexploded ordanance kept all those shipments of colour film stock for decades, not to mention rationing.
"Private Eye" (UK satirical news magazine) suggested a Dalek on Viagra would screech "Fornicate! Fornicate!"
Maybe they use Macs as well. I guess with one big plunger, they would want a computer that only has one big mouse button.
Bob.
Neither will anyone else :-P
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?