Really enjoyed all the Dr Who stuff that's been on the telly recently and thought is would be interesting to watch the whole thing from the start.
Having looked into it the early series were about 50 episodes and lots of them are lost.
My plan is now to watch the early Hartnoll ones then skip to the Troughton ones and watch the ones where there is a whole intact serial (it's this time when most of them seem to be missing)
I figured from Pertwee on I'd watch all of them (assuming I can sit through the insufferable Colin Baker).
Anyone else tried this and got any tips and recommendations?
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Since the Beeb gave a general amnesty on tech, director and producers on stuff they ahem kept fro their showreels etc an awful lot of wiped BBC stuff has tipped up.
One was an ex Beeb cameraman who was responsible for all the TOTPs now cliched special FX, he ahd Dr Who stuff and a whole lot besides. Including rare TOTPs appearances like the one of Bowie and Mick Ronson et al doing Starman and others.
As I understand it the BBC will obviously monetise and bleed them first with DVDs etc but they intend eventually for it to go up for the newer iteration of iPlayer for license payers as part of the larger project of archiving and making it available.
Now my info is most likely out of date so if you still have Beeb contacts I would ask around. I believe the issues they are grappling wiht now is how to technically stop non license fee payers form around the world form gaining access.
To that end if the info out there is correct then there is a limited beta of it somewhere like BBC America/North America, with the idea prove its security their first on a small number, then roll it out.
So I wouldn't hold my breath.
There are certainly specialist websites dealing with the repatriation of Dr Who and other BBC stuff from all over the world.
As I say this could have changed or been shelved since I last got wind of the and some of it may not be entirely accurate.
Poor old Colin Baker he was a bit of a doofus but I reckon he was poorly served by the scripts of the time due to the wrangling/death knell (from the cloister bell maybe) going on behind the scenes by JNT and co.
The "painting" solution is also reminiscent of the events of "The Gallifrey Chronicles" which has the Time Lords being saved from aprevious Time War - readers of these books would be looking more than the televised Time War than they actually got - in the novels events, it was hinted pretty heavily the Doctor was on The Other Side when the War began.
I'm liking where the 50th Special has left things. Let's get Trenzalore out of the way and move on, eh?