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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."
Found what? Sorry not the most grammatically friendly sentence around.
one question that has always had me lost.. should it be Dr. Who or Dr. Whom?
Ummm... I honestly don't know whats worse -
1) Sitting in your parents' darkened basement, in 3-month old clothes, unwashed and playing EverQuest
or
2) Sitting in your parent's darkened basement, in 3-month old clothes, unwashed, and watching 30-year old "SciFi" shows.
or
3) Just like my roommate and his loser friends - sitting in a cramped small room with 10 desks, unwashed, rejected, in 4-day old clothes - playing DND and talking about raping/pushing into a wall an imaginary girl in their DND campaign.
It should be called 'Dr. Who Cares.'
It was a lousy show when I was a kid. And I'm sure it hasn't improved.
The kids on the bus on the way to high school in the late 1980s thought Dr. Who was cool. The other thing they liked was to quote line-by-line the dialogue from the previous evening's Monty Python episode on PBS--another not-interesting show.
Dr. Who was brutal. When a six-year-old kid can watch a show and realize that he can create both better special effects *and* a more compelling storyline, it's time for the Brits to realize that the "tele" from their empire sucks--including their pathetic Monty Python, er, program. (And the only thing worse than the brits who think this crap is cool are the U.S. dorks that think they are both educated *and* cool by following British television....)
G.--
It's crazy to think that the BBC did something so stupid as to burn television show reels that took countless hours to film and wouldn't cost very much to store, but that's life ... I'm just wondering why there isn't any fan who can step forward with an old TV recording or something. If a lot of people were watching these shows on TV (as I gather they were, I'm way too young to have lived through any of it), you'd think maybe someone recorded at least ONE of the missing 115 episodes?! Geez ...
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