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Dr Who Detective Philip Morris Hints At More Rediscovered Episodes
BigBadBus writes: In late 2013, Philip Morris announced that he had found 9 missing episodes of 1960s Dr.Who, which completed the 1968 story "Enemy of the World" and most of "The Web of Fear." He has now gone on record to talk about the only episode of these stories that he didn't find — namely part 3 of "Web of Fear" and teases of more episode finds to come.
Episodes keep trickling out of the past, it seems; we've mentioned a few small finds in 2004 and 2011, too.
I understand the drive to find original footage, but at the same time the animated replacement episodes being produced allow the incomplete serials to be told again.
People are free to do what they want in life if they can manage to be paid for it, but it seems to me that when Phillip Morris retires it's time to give up.
As the submitter of this article, I thought readers might like to see a list of missing and recovered episodes, all from the first 6 years on my website
My web domain.
Use the TARDIS to travel back to the first broadcast, capture it on a VCR, and be done with it?
http://www.rimmell.com/bbc/new...
Hands up if you never watched the show and only ever read the books, which by the way were brilliant.
Most of those episodes are a snooze fest.
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Dr Who Detective Philip Morris Hints At More Rediscovered Episodes
It's called "Doctor Who." It's never been called Dr Who.
And that's not just nerdly outrage talking. Dr Who is someone else entirely. Sort of.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
You're just trying to distract us from the hundreds of thousands of lung cancer deaths you're responsible for each and every year.
#DeleteChrome
A horrible death.
Nothing he does now can make up for the billions in misery he caused.
No, well even l never respect you.
The rumour at the time of the 50th anniversary was that there were many more episodes than the two mentioned that were found, but negotiations between the BBC and the finder(s) were ongoing. There are estimates that it was close to 75% of all missing episode.
I will swear to you up and down that when I was a kid in Tampa, FL, I saw the full episode of "The Power of the Daleks" (first episode of the second doctor). But when I found it again a few years ago, there were only telesnaps. I'm willing to believe that my memory is faulty. But the thing is, the episode plot was totally familiar to me, and I recognized scenes. Also, I would be surprised if any PBS station (either WEDU or WUSF there) would play telesnap episodes.
The Slash software limits headline lengths. Of the following two headlines, which have the same character count, which is preferable?
There is a lost season of Gillian's Island out there.... I swear I saw 3 of the episodes.... plus secret commentary from the actors talking about the lost season themselves....
There is a lost season of Gillian's Island out there.... I swear I saw 3 of the episodes.... plus secret commentary from the actors talking about the lost season themselves....
It's entirely possible, in fact it seems that the entire series has gone missing! I can't find any mention of "Gillian's Island" anywhere.
WTF does this mean?
"In June 2013, Bleeding Cool ran a story stating that a bunch of Doctor Who‘s missing episodes had been discovered by a man touring the broadcasters of Africa. That part of the story was true and the man was Philip Morris, though the number confirmed as discovered was far fewer, nine in total."
"though the number confirmed as discovered was far fewer". Fewer than what? No number was mentioned anywhere in that paragraph. Idiots.