"A Fan-Made Recreation of a Lost Doctor Who Episode" Topic

… Is Being Officially Premiered by the BBC.

"In recent years, the BBC has made great strides in attempting to either recover or recreate the missing history of Doctor Who's lost episodes. Whether that's the incredible rarity of actual recovery or animated reconstructions, for one of the most intriguing lost tales they've now turned to an alternative medium: fan films.

This morning the BBC announced that next week—timed exactly to when it was first broadcast—the Doctor Who YouTube channel would exclusively premiere a brand new, live-action reconstruction of "Mission to the Unknown." Except it's not an official product, per se—it's a fan film, developed by students and staff at the University of Central Lancashire…"
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Armand

Who lost the episode, and where?

Anyone send out a search-party to look for it?

Inquiring minds want to know.

This sounds like something for the Doctor to investigate.

Can't they just google it?

Thresher01, it's a sad story actually; The BBC was fond of reusing betamax tape back in the 1960s and 1970s, and would frequently tag shows for erasing and the tapes to be reused. Unfortunately, many Doctor Who episodes where amogn those erased and had not been transferred to film stock ( the usual long-term stoarge in those days ) and unless a copy had been sent overseas and not returned, or someone still ahd a cinecapture/kinescope copy ( That is, a version filmed during a broadcast with a 16mm film rigged to a TV ), those episodes were "lost".

Several "lost" episodes have been partially recovered; Pasrt of "Tomb Of The Cybermen" were foudn in Hong Kong, with a complete sountrack in addition, and a full soundtrack of "Power Of The Daleks" turned up in a Kenyan TV station I beleive.

Not solely a BBC or even English thing either: ITV almost lost their rival show "Timeslip" with all but one episode retained, and the rest all gathered together from cinecaptures saved by cast and crew fro recent DVD release. And all the 175 different shows on the old Dupont Network in the US, the episode of "Louisiana Hayride" featuring a new singer named Elvis Presley, all four years of Vampira's show, almost all of Jack Parrs and the first ten years of Johnny Carsons "The Tonight Show" episodes, all of Shari Lewis's Saturday morning show ( the first to be filmed in color – taped over with the 1964 Republican and Democratic Conventions coverage ) and many others are also gone.

Without these odd shows how will Hollywood write new shows?

(smile)

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Armand