"This won't hurt a bit..." Topic

I suspect the?? only way to get the missing episodes will be from the brains of people who have watched them.

I suggest a crowd funder to preserve as many as possible until such a time that we can extract them.

Ok.

So I think it could work like this.

No extraction necessary.

I hope to try it on my self at some point.

As most missing Dr Whos still have audio, this may work. It won't bring the shows back, but who knows?

Find people who saw the episode in question. Hopefully ones who have not been exposed to much else.

Play the audio for them, maybe a bit at a time? And have them describe what they remember happening.

Its a start.

I plan to play a film I saw years back, but not since, with the video cable pulled. Then I can make notes. Then play it back with video and see how I go.

It may not work, maybe I can't remember it. On the other hand it may be scarily close. I expect something in between.

It would be quicker (and more consistent quality) to generate the visuals of the lost episodes with CGI, and loop in the dialogue (there are no doubt loads of pics from back then that could be scanned to at least get the "look" right.) Think of it like an animated storyboard.
The problem(s), of course, would be getting permissions to do it from the various license-holders, funding, etc.
Also, many of the scripts/shooting notes may still exist, so that's another potential source of information.
A good idea, if you can get the right people interested… ;-)

You'll know that a number of lost episodes have been reconstructed by matching the surviving audio recordings with a modern animation. At least it gives you something to look at, and a good idea of what the original looked like.

Many episodes were the subject of "Telesnaps" where an individual had set up a camera in front of the telly on a timer to take a picture every few seconds.
These were invaluable and for lost stories provided the ONLY visual record.
They have been used to flesh out missing episodes on video releases and were no doubt vital to the animators.

However if you opt for the Mind Probe.. trouble is, our memories are unreliable.

I watched "The Dalek Invasion of Earth" as a child, and in my memory, when Barbara drove a truck into a Dalek roadblock they went BANG all over the place, like skittles.

When I watched the DVD decades later.. the truck just shuffled them aside like wheelie bins. Hugely disappointing.

Maybe the Skittles were in the film?

Tely snaps are good.

I think there are missing eps without them though. It was only done if asked by the director or such.

I dislike the cgi. Got annoyed after watching Evil (I think it would was) after watching cgi, to find trly snaps were an option. Cue the dog in the Ute.

I think it would be better to simply use the existing footage and edit it together. Maybe alter the mouths for dialogue, change background, so on.