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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."
Things started going badly south during the Colin Baker era and the Sylvester McCoy episodes were just awful. What a shame that just as they finally had the ability to create decent special effects the writing fell apart.
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Here I'll digest it for everybody:
I guess all this Deep Space Nine watchin I been doin has overwritten my Simpsons quote database.
"Derp de derp."
If you were channel surfing at all, let alone with a remote control, you are too young to remember Doctor Who.
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I'm just feeling lucky that ALL(yes ALL) of the Tomb of the Cybermen episodes were restored. It seemed like the best story that was lost forever.
With the Dalek Master plan, there's only 9 more episodes to go before that's recovered. 5 and 10 are intact, but aren't very interesting since you're only getting a fraction of the story.
As for "The Moonbase", it was a horrible story. The special effects were very 1950s-esque right down to the Cybermen's saucer that looked like a dinner plate. Nowhere near as cool as the Invasion, where most of the episodes of that are intact.
C'mon people, start searching your basements for more DW episodes.
I was looking up the DvDs for Tom Baker episodes and its two episodes per DVD for $20-30 a piece. Same thing with the new classic Star Trek DVDs, which look great but are also a ripoff considering other series like the X-Files gives a whole season for $70-90.
Depending on how long ago it was, there might not have been VCRs around.
-Bucky
You do realise that the US Doctor Who fan club dwarfs it's British, Canadian, Australian, etc counterparts by an order of magnitude?
There far more extreme hard-core US science fiction nerds who watch Doctor Who than British ones. I doubt their watching re-runs, buying books, videos and DVDs to look "cool". Believe me, as sci-fi goes, Doctor Who is as far from "cool" as you can get. Doctor Who's appeal was never "cool", it was a focus on storylines that deviated from the "Captain kisses alien girl, crewmember in red uniform dies" variety.
"Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue." - David Brent, Wernham Hogg
Sylvester McCoy was well-cast and actually a very good Doctor; as Timbotronic said, it was the writing and realization of the scripts that was so appalling. I wish he could have had the same quality of writing and production to work with that the earlier Doctors did (and they really could have left out the corny music in his episodes!!).
For those of you who have never watched Doctor Who, don't start with the last ones with Sylvester McCoy. But if you really enjoy a good Doctor and can ignore some of the tackiness, he's at least worth a look-see (and his companion, Ace - played by Sophie Aldred - is a great character too).
There is inteligent life saving the next generation of media. What is the most used record of early human history? The bible. It was preserved because so many human beings had copies. While countless records were being destroyed by the fire of the great library of alexandria the ones that were saved where the popular plays that were widely distributed. We won't have to worry about losing star trek one day because so many trekkies have almost every copy of every episode. Large portions of old time radio exsist to day because people broke the rules and copied them off the air and donated them after the originals were lost.
"A good friend will bail you out of jail. A true friend will be sitting next to you saying, 'damn....that was fun!'"
One of the things that's always fascinated me about the Dalek future history is that we've already seen the final episode. We know what happens, some umpteen hundreds of thousands of years from now. All of the Pertwee, Baker (funny), Davidson, Baker (annoying), McCoy episodes are just filling in the gaps between now and then.
So, I don't know what operating system they're running (PepperShakerOS?), but whatever it is, there's a human emotions loadable module for it. And Troughton's Doctor saw what happened after they tried to "insmod human_emotions".
Likewise. I even managed to double-dork myself with the lame insmod joke.
You cannot apply a technological solution to a sociological problem. (Edwards' Law)