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And talking of lost episodes...

... I'm sure you've all seen the news by now

*faints*

(I have to say I'm a bad person, because when I saw it go up on my flist, I thought it was a joke because of which two episodes it was... :lol:)

Burninated DW:
~~108~~ 106 episodes.

(I linked to the Radio Times article, because what exactly does the guy mean at the end, hmm?)

ETA: I am slightly out of shock and it is real. So let there be joy: THERE IS MORE WILLIAM HARTNELL AND PATRICK TROUGHTON IN THE WORLD! I have already seen a picture of a Rill!

Vicki!

And, most importantly, more Ben and Polly! ♥. And I would a million times rather see a duff ep than try to listen to it.

*JOY*

Also, since nothing seems impossible now, I shall choose to interpret those last words as "oh, yes, I am on the trail of the Power of the Daleks" because why not?

ETA2: Also what sort of film collector who lives in England - in Hampshire - picks up some Doctor Who and doesn't even think to look on the internet for which episodes are missing? I don't know. I think if I was a film collector I would be checking that sort of thing. (Oh, who cares?)

ETA3: THERE ARE CLIPS ON YOUTUBE. Look at Patrick Troughton. It would be worth it if they'd just found this minute: Underwater Menace clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OTPKZLeO1U

And Galaxy 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSX364eepsk

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There must be someone out there who wanted to see these two episodes returned above all others, and wished reallyhard. I wonder who it is?

I don't know, but I@ve been wishing as hard as possible for The Power of the Daleks. I've even had concerted wishing sessions with people, so, hey, my turn next!

But, generally, I don't care which eps. *joy*

It's just that if it had been something with Zoë or Sam, I'd have had to check that I hadn't, in some thoughtless moment, sold my soul in exchange for it :-)

And seconding *joy*. Without anyone having to take one-way trips to 1969, either. That we know about.

Well, if someone did time travel back to 1969 it won't be/wasn't us, because we would have gone for different episodes. Indeed, there might, um, also be an extant copy of The naked Sun in the world, if it was me. ;-)

It sounds like he has some more leads to follow up on!

YES. I am going to choose to believe he knows where the Power of the Daleks is, because why not? :lol:

Anyway, lost DW! We know what a Rill looks like & there is more Ben and Polly in the world. Yay.

LOL

Indeed there is!

HOORAY! (hooray, what a wonderful day, for I they have found my Doctor Who!)

And I'm so disappointed with my flist, you're the first person who posted about it :D

I think I was quite quick? And I'm not even on Twitter.

And YES, :lol:!!! Let us rejoice for we have back bits of two stories we think are probably pretty duff! (And I mean that most siincerely! Actually, episode 3 of The Underwater Menace is quite fun. But it has Two and Ben and Polly, and that's all I need to know.)

Hey, I can't say anything - I have to shamefully admit I fell asleep twice while trying to watch Hartnell. So yeah... I'm probably not going to watch these two - but it doesn't mean I can't rejoice that they exist!! :D

Aw. (btw, did you try to watch The Romans? That one is fun. You might like that. Unless you fell asleep trying to watch that, in which case there is probably no hope for you. ;-D)

Quite! :-) And if you ever have a bad case of insomnia, there are now some more b&w episodes with which to fight it!

No, I haven't tried that one - I should! I tried An Unearthly Child, and thoroughly enjoyed episode 1, and then it turned into two cavemen arguing about which one of them invented fire and I fell asleep. And then I tried The Daleks... I think I survived to episode 3 with that one, but again... not much beyond that :)

Well, that is quite a natural reaction. Also, it is really good to watch early Who 1 episode at a time, anyway! But The Romans is about the one DW where they really have a holiday. Well, apart from Ian and Barbara getting kidnapped and sold into slavery and thrown to the lions and things. The Doctor has a lovely time pretending to be a lyre player who can't be play the lyre, Vicki tries to poison Nero and then they burn down Rome and have a good laugh about it. Because Dennis Spooner apparently saw them making Carry On Cleo and thought 'What a good idea'. Which is why I love Hartnell era DW. Well, now, let's have cave people grunting/a dramatically stuck switch/shrink everybody/comedy historicals/tragedy!/a sing-a-long Western and nobody says, "No, DW always fights aliens!" But, yes, sometimes it is like watching stuff happening a long way away through a dark tunnel.

But try something like The Romans, The Aztecs, The War Machines and things. Or watch bit by bit and get slowly addicted to the never-ending adventure. (Each story just cliff-hangers into the next.)

Also: have you seen the clips? Is Patrick Troughton not the best thing ever? Apart from the Chumbley, obviously. :-D

(Sorry. Apparently I have not calmed down overnight.)

I really liked the Romans. I loved how they travelled back in time and the problem wasn't some alien life form masquerading as Romans that was causing menace, just actual Romans!

And YAYYYYYYYY for more episodes!!!! *does happy dancing*

I KNOW!! It is amazing!!! :-)

That... actually sounds promising! In a loltastic sort of way. I'll definitely be on the lookout for that!

(Also, yes, I've seen the clips, and OMG Patrick Troughton <3)

There is srs stuff in the Hartnell era, but the loltastic is just the best. (The Sensorite who learns from a human that all the Sensorites look the same without their sashes and goes, "I had never thought of that!" and immediately concocts an evil plan to swap sashes and kill people is one magical moment that can never be forgotten.) The Romans, The Myth Makers and The Gunfighters are all intentionally comedies, though. The Hartnell era is the craziest, I think. I love it. But you might have guessed that by now. ;-D

Anyway, I have calmed down now (although you probably can't tell from this comment). Patrick Troughton, yes. ♥ "Just one question: why would you want to blow up the world?" And apparently he wears a silly hat as well! The universe knew what we needed to cheer us up, clearly.

I may still be hyper. But also, if you like The Romans, I think you would enjoy The Chase. It is one of those things that is really quite bad but is charmingly silly and adorable. It makes no sense and has a doppleganger that doesn't look even a tiny bit like the Doctor. It strikes me as being your sort of thing! But only an episode or two at a time. :-) And the ending: William Hartnell makes me cry again.

Also, Vicki. In both the Romans and The Chase, they start off having a nice holiday/just doing stuff aboard the TARDIS, and Vicki is BORED. She was promised adventure, and she wants it now! ♥

(I promise I will try and calm down, but I cannot hide my scary love for 1960s Who right now. I love all DW, but 1960s Who makes me want to draw hearts round everything.)

Yay yay yay! *Spins and twirls with glee*

Yes!!! :-)

What was I saying in my other comment?! Which, btw, I posted before I saw this post. It's amazing what turns up! Fingers crossed that Isaac Asimov stuff turns up somehow. ::hugs Lost Spook exuberantly::

*hugs back*

I must calm down, or I will pay for it soon, but OH MY. YES. *joy*

I'm quite pleased to have more Troughton, even if it's that one. ("Nothing in the world can stop me now!!")

I'd love to have "The Crusade" in its entirety...

YES!! See the clip! I mean, I thought I knew which episodes I most wanted back. It turns out all I really want is to be able to see Patrick Troughton's expressions. And he wears a silly hat, judging by a piccy I have seen on my flist this morning. And Ben and Polly!! *flail*

And Galaxy 4! One day, I would have given in and listened to it, and by all accounts, it would have been painful. Now I can watch Vicki patronising the Doctor and playing with Chumblies instead with apparently nice direction. :-)

So actually, I find I don't CARE what they find, as long as they find it! *sigh* *joy*

*may still be hyper*

Wow That's Awesome!!

It really, really is! We thought it was stuck at 108 missing forever! *dances*

Still squeeing right now - I can just about hope to see all of 'Evil of the Daleks' one day again now!

And more Vicki and Professor Zarloff = Win. My only niggle is my inner cashman bemoaning the knowledge that they'll have to re-release Lost in Time now and I have to buy the new version!

What's interesting is given the way this was found, that guy who owned them might actually have more - he needs to have help looking through all those spools just in case!

I think I've seen somewhere that they're going to do LiT2, so a new DVD? I think there have been some slivers of things found, also that stuff from Cornish TV recorded on location for The Smugglers, including apparently a trial run for the Hartnell-Troughton regeneration. I'd imagine they'd use that to bulk it out? But, yeah, I wondered if they might just rerelease LiT, but it sounds as though they won't. *crosses fingers*

The article says he doesn't have any more. What is intriguing is the rather hopeful comment from the other chap at the end. Does he mean something specific by that? *hopes*

But anyway, 106 is better than 108 whatever happens. I'm so gleeful just to have seen those clips!

Ohhh, nice! I know they're also talking about doing animated versions of Tenth Planet and Ice Warriors after they've tackled Reign of Terror. And then the material from Shada is being coupled with the 30th Anniversary documentary I can fondly remember seeing at a mere 6 years old (and recalling how Wendy Padbury called Cybermen 'really sexy'!)

It is a wonderful thing - I saw the released clips of the two episodes before I went to bed and whilst they're not A-List who stories it is exciting to have some stuff back - I homestly thought after 7 years since Masterplan Episode 2 that that was probably it for the finds.

And yeah, I would love it if those 'threads' he mentions turn out to yield something (particulrly if that something has Daleks, Cybermen or Yeti in it!).

Aww. Your six yr old memory is a little confused, I think, because it was actually Toyah Wilcox who found the Cybermen sexy on that documentary. I don't think Wendy Padbury was in it, though Deborah Watling was (I have the video edition, you see :-D And, no. I don't know why they interviewed Toyah Wilcox and not Wendy Padbury. However, it is on the DVD release schedule now, too!!)

YES. I don't think I know what I want any more. I badly want more Ben and Polly, and I'd love the bit in the Highlanders where Polly decides to be an orange seller. Or the Macra Terror! How about episode1 , and we can see Patrick Troughton get tidied and rapidly untidied again? But I don't mind Cybermen/Yeti/Daleks, as long as they also contain Ben & Polly, or the Brig. :-D (Oh, I'll take ANYTHING they find, thanks.)

Edited 2011-12-12 13:28 (UTC)

Ha! Actually for a long time I thought it was Katy Manning who said it (only to remember that Jo never faced the Cybermen so it seemed a little weird)! In any case I'm gonna love seeing it again (cause I really did think Red Post Boxes were good subs for Daleks).

I would be happy with a great many thing - the Crusade being complete (its my favourite pure historical, though I've yet to see Aztecs), Power or Evil, either of the Yeti stories (particularly Ep2 of Web of Fear with Colonel Lethbridge!), Moonbase or Wheel (first Zoe!)... just the thought that some more stuff could be out there and it's believable for the first time in years is very exciting. :D

I have a problem with that one because the TV version was v different to the video version, and I had both on tape (one recorded for a while), so I can't remember whether the bit where Toyah Wilcox says that is the video version or not. But I do know it was her. I promise. ;-D)

I've learnt after yesterday: I will be happy no matter what they find, as long as they find it. Although now that I think about it, I would love to see Polly doing her orange seller thing in The Highlanders...

The joy of more Troughton is hard to overestimate...

I cannot understand why the internet has not exploded from the awesome of being able to see his expression, topped by a picture of him wearing an amazingly silly hat. How can other people remain calm and unmoved?

I am gleeful just to have seen Vicki patronising the Doctor and playing with a Chumbly.

I think I'm more dizzy over this than previously because it really, really did look as though we'd had our lot. It's hard not to hope again now, but even if 106 is it - ten times better 106 than 108!!

And Ben and Polly! I love them so much, and there's so very little of them left.

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