Doctor Who, the BBC's hit sci-fi series, originally aired between 1963 and 1989, before returning in 2005. For a more detailed history of the lost episodes including the latest news, check out our separate Doctor Who missing episodes post dedicated to the missing eps. I think that in many cases the searches are extremely sensitive involving commercial concerns, NDAs and financial negotiations and having them publicised on the Internet can be counterproductive. To visit the group, now with over 6,200 members, either click the link below or the blue 'Sign Up' Button. And just like Rory, there’s a chance they could still be out there somewhere. This timeline is an attempt to chronicle the Doctor Who missing episode recovery rumours, as discussed online in news articles and forums during the 2000’s. Missing Episodes (Doctor Who) Out Of The Archive. Unlike the other recovered story from the haul of 11 complete episodes found by Phillip Morris (of which 9 were missing), The Web of Fear (1968) does have a reputation to live up to. The Nexus (Chit Chat) Inside The Spaceship (General Doctor Who) ... Views Last Post : new: FORUM RULES - NEW MEMBERS PLEASE READ! While the BBC had ordered they be returned or destroyed, over the years a variety of episodes thought to have been lost forever have resurfaced. Further clarification would be appreciated. This is, of course, completely unconfirmed. TV Talk - More missing Doctor Who episodes recovered? So, to be more accurate, the continued existence of seven missing Doctor Who episodes has been confirmed, with the hope that one day they will be returned to the BBC. “The universe is big. Breaking News: Matt Smith to leave Doctor Who May (2) April (3) March (4) February (5) January (3) 2012 (138) December (4) November (7) October (15) Enter: Paul Vanezis, a freelance producer, director and archive consultant, who has worked on Doctor Who since the mid-1990s. Even more delicate negotiations to secure the anonymity of these collectors are required before they can be returned to the BBC archives. “And that was very important, because those extracts were some of the only surviving examples for certain episodes for Doctor Who,” said Vanezis. Jodie Whittaker is the latest incarnation of the Doctor. There are rumours that "there's some out there in private collections that aren't being shared," adds Jordan. “What Tom Baker is doing is cementing interest in the series to perpetuate sales of Doctor Who in Australia,” Vanezis said. Tweet. There are rumours that “there’s some out there in private collections that aren’t being shared,” Jordan said. Copyright © 2021 The New Daily. But it is a sentiment that will no doubt strike a chord with Whovians, who have spent decades waiting with bated breath for their own miracle. We discuss the 60's era of Doctor Who only, with a special focus on the missing episodes, in a friendly and welcoming manner. Doctor Who fans hope the missing episodes may one day be recovered. The principle block to them being secured is not money, but rather the fear of the collectors that fans might learn their identities and berate or harass them (as has happened, to some degree, in the past, even to Morris himself despite his success in recovering episodes from overseas). Missing Doctor Who Episode Rumours. Doctor Who, the BBC's hit sci-fi series, originally aired between 1963 and 1989, before returning in 2005. “So the theory is that it does exist, but it’s in a private collection somewhere. 1967's ' The Macra Terror ' is the latest lost Doctor Who story to be painstakingly recreated with new animated visuals. Tweet. The location of seven currently-officially-missing episodes of Doctor Who has been confirmed by episode hunter Philip Morris, currently leading efforts to recover the missing material. First off, persistent rumours are circulating that all seven episodes of the First Doctor adventure "Marco Polo" have been recovered. Get The New Daily free every morning and evening. Why make this stuff up? Please try again. Which is understandable, but, y'know, in that case stop publicising them on the Internet and then moaning when people talk about them.We also know from the overall history of the missing episode search that the paperwork trail can also be incredibly promising, but often ends in disappointment (the film in question having been destroyed years earlier, or allowed to deteriorate into becoming unusable), but we also have these occasional very solid finds, like all of Tomb of the Cybermen or effectively all of Enemy of the World showing up, which keeps the hope alive. “But ultimately, that’s a complete side issue, because what you see is really happy kids meeting their hero for the first time. 15 June 2013. So is there any truth to the rumour that the BBC wiped the tape copy of Tenth Planet 4. Wow great find for your Archive Department. Arriving in Central Asia in 1289, the Doctor and his companions join the caravan of the famous Venetian explorer Marco Polo as it makes its way from the snowy heights of the Pamir Plateau, across the treacherous Gobi Desert and through the heart of imperial Cathay. Seven missing DOCTOR WHO episodes identified. We discuss the 60's era of Doctor Who only, with a special focus on the missing episodes, in a friendly and welcoming manner. But if you're a fan hoping … We were promised lots for the 50th Anniversary of Doctor Who. “The thing you need to understand about Australia’s role in Doctor Who is that it was kind of the core market … If the ABC didn’t buy a particular series, the chances are the BBC wouldn’t sell it anywhere else,” he said. The Nexus (Chit Chat) Inside The Spaceship (General Doctor Who) ... Views Last Post : new: FORUM RULES - NEW MEMBERS PLEASE READ! As my colleague said to the journalist at the People, there are ongoing rumours about missing Doctor Who episodes and we can't confirm these … Probably not, but it leads to an interesting footnote about the missing episode community and the belief by some that there are several undiscovered missing episodes of Doctor Who and other TV shows that are not in … Rumours continue among Who fans that they are … 15 June 2013. But now, he's just taken to Twitter, claiming he's seen proof and it's all true. The location of seven currently-officially-missing episodes of Doctor Who has been confirmed by episode hunter Philip Morris, currently leading efforts to recover the missing material. Part of what makes Morris a polarizing figure is the rumor that he actually recovered 90 missing Doctor Who episodes, and he is holding on to them. “Rather than doing the sensible thing of building a larger archive to hold all of the material, they basically said, ‘Well a lot of the black-and-white stuff we’re not going to get resale value on it and we’re not going to be showing it again, so let’s just destroy it’,” said Darran Jordan, vice-president of the Doctor Who Club of Australia and author of Whovian, The True Story of Btr and Doctor Who. There are multiple sources reporting this. As was common at the time (from its inception until the 1970s), the BBC used to produce television programmes with no expectation that they would ever be repeated or commercially released. Morris, who continues to search for missing episodes, confirmed in April that at least six were known to be in the hands of private collectors, sending fans into a spin. Of interest to collectors is an archive of photographs and copies of plans from The Power of the Daleks – the completely missing third serial of the fourth season first broadcast by the BBC in six weekly parts from November 5-December 10, 1966. Paul Vanezis mentions these events in this post on the Missing Episodes forum. It is also already known that at least one TV station in Sierra Leone had a very large stock of the missing episodes (almost all of them, according to some records) before being levelled to the ground in the civil war in that country in the late 1990s. So last month, he decided to investigate. “That was in 1967 or 1968 [that the series went into storage], and those films haven’t been seen since,” Vanezis said. I'm a bit confused about how Phillip Morris on Twitter can "debunk" what he said in some considerable detail and at length and was captured on video.https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=179&v=qGEFROSQeIM&feature=emb_title(Morris's interview begins at 2 hours 53 minutes)"“I have a lot of friends who are collectors… and I will tell you straight away now that at least six episodes – missing episodes – exist, to my knowledge, in the hands of private collectors. 1960s BBC film stock is fairly durable, but after being left in tin cans in dusty back shelves of basements in places like Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong and Nigeria, it's possible that some old stock will have become unusable: some reports have surfaced of promising leads ending only in old warped cans filled with unidentifiable goop that may have once been film stock. COVID is causing medicine shortages. There, his companion Rory – thought to have been erased from existence through a crack in the universe – mysteriously reappeared. Morris has since confirmed that the identity of the people who took the episode has become known and very delicate negotiations undertaken to hopefully return the episode. Rumours of the discovery of more missing Doctor Who episodes have surfaced – although still entirely unconfirmed by the BBC at this point. Is this true ?Because all Philip Morris does daily is have twitter rants about how much he hates Chibnall, Whittaker, and everything about the 13th era. The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow. While the ABC had purchased the series, the Film Censorship Board recommended so many cuts “it would have rendered it unwatchable”. And so, the episodes were relegated to a storage room at the ABC’s Gore Hill studio, which was sold in 2003. Doctor Who missing episodes; 19:00, 16 JAN 2021. Be it Betamax, VHS, Laserdisc, DVD, Blu-ray, or even UHD/4K, these missing episodes will (hopefully soon) land into our hands to be placed on the shelves of our personal collections to share with our family and friends to create even more fans of the institution known as Doctor Who!E. The hunt for the missing episodes has gained some urgency in recent years. In fact, it has been denied many, many times, but the rumors persist. There are rumours that "there's some out there in private collections that aren't being shared," adds Jordan. “The ethos of how extraordinary these episodes are has sort of grown over time as people who do remember them talk about how fabulous they were,” Jordan said. 10 Most Controversial Doctor Who Episodes Of All Time What Culture 08:46 8-Jan-21 Report: Experts Investigate Death Of Doctor Who Died Two Weeks After Receiving Vaccine The Daily Caller 04:35 8 … While there’s no official premiere date for Doctor Who series 13 just yet, the BBC has revealed that the new episodes will be released in 2021, probably in … He's dropped hints in tv interviews, on podcasts, in magazine articles, but the where/when/what stuff is noticeably thin on the ground. As a Doctor Who website, posting a news item relating to missing Doctor Who episodes is a particularly conflictive task. If he hasn't found anything, then front up and say that. The episodes were part of two Second Doctor stories: “The Enemy of the World” and “The Web of Fear.” While the former was completed, the latter is still missing one episode. That is, until 1996, when Vanezis’s colleague Damian Shanahan tracked them down to the National Archives of Australia. This blog is being continually updated, so keep checking the latest and previous posts for new content. So is there any truth to the rumour that the BBC wiped the tape copy of Tenth Planet 4. Back in 2013, nine previously missing episodes were returned to the BBC archive. "Two missing episodes of Doctor Who (probably) exist; alas, we probably won’t get to see them for a while, if ever. "The 7 episodes have not been returned to the BBC, so they remain officially missing from the BBC archive. Vanezis points to the Dalek’s Master Plan, the mostly-missing third serial of Doctor Who, which aired in the UK from November 1965 to January 1966. Missing Episodes (Doctor Who) Out Of The Archive. But it is a sentiment that will no doubt strike a chord with Whovians, who have spent decades waiting with bated breath for their own miracle. All rights reserved. “It’s a very big deal in the sense that they are the Holy Grail. This individual was eventually reprimanded, but not before junking more returned material – including Doctor Who films – recently returned from overseas. As my colleague said to the journalist at the People, there are ongoing rumours about missing Doctor Who episodes and we can't confirm these finds. Once aired, it was common for the tapes containing TV shows to be wiped and re-used to save money. In a storeroom in Jos, a little-known tourist town in Nigeria’s Middle Belt, Philip Morris’s heart skipped a beat. Tolkien Never Won a Hugo Award, The World of Cyberpunk 2077 by Marcin Batylda, Bethesda confirm no news on STARFIELD until 2021, Blogging Roundup: 2 June to 1 August 2020. BBC bosses have admitted they are “hopeful” more missing Doctor Who episodes will be made available next year. Donations to the Wertzone help cover costs and support the site. A lot of the uncertainty is because of Morris’ vagueness. The 11th incarnation of the Time Lord, played by Matt Smith, was, of course, alluding to his time-travelling adventures to Pandorica: a fabled (fictional) jail hidden underneath Stonehenge in 102AD. Phil Morris says the above is utterly fake. You see, about 97 episodes of Doctor Who are missing – not through time or space, but from the BBC’s archives. Even if he has just found paperwork about the final fate of prints in, say, African nations that had bought them, that would be a fascinating insight into what happened way back when. Most of it is junk food, says new research, The New Daily uses cookies. In a dimly lit prison in Roman Britain, the Doctor turned on his trademark charm. For two decades, he’d been aware of a mysterious film languishing in the National Archives, simply titled Doctor Who. Subscribe for free to get the latest breaking news and analysis sent to your inbox. In front of a captive classroom audience, Baker – wearing his trademark grin – is asked whether he’s scared of monsters and how the TARDIS got its name. Phil Morris talks absolute rubbish and is only interested in keeping up his own standing in the eyes of the Dr Who fan community. Paul Vanezis on the Radio Free Skaro podcast about 18 months ago said he knows a collector who has 2 missing episodes - 1 Hartnell and 1 Troughton. - Will Doctor Who have a very special surprise for us in November? This timeline is an attempt to chronicle the Doctor Who missing episode recovery rumours, as discussed online in news articles and forums during the 2000’s. Five additional episodes were recovered by Doctor Who fan Ian Levine the same year from Taiwan, but these were additional copies of episodes already in the archives. Part of what makes Morris a polarizing figure is the rumor that he actually recovered 90 missing Doctor Who episodes, and he is holding on to them. What negotiations are required. And while the fate of these films remains uncertain, Whovians hope they may one day re-emerge. There was an error submitting the form. As the bona fide Whovian tells it, there was “one episode in particular” that Morris had made a point of photographing. Doctor Who missing episodes; 19:00, 16 JAN 2021. The Nexus (Chit Chat) Inside The Spaceship (General Doctor Who) ... Views Last Post : new: FORUM RULES - NEW MEMBERS PLEASE READ! This has left 97 episodes - one eighth of the total number of episodes of the entire series - officially missing. Since Doctor Who began in 1963, it had been sold widely abroad, particularly in the Commonwealth, and in many cases those countries had hung onto their copies of old episodes. Is there a chance the missing Doctor Who episodes will ever be found? In many cases, the ABC was “a bit nervous about some of the scenes being too violent”, says Jordan, and they were “literally cut out of the film”. As an example of the extent of Enterprises activities, the earliest story currently regarded as missing (though rumours persist that it was also recovered alongside the episodes of The Enemy of the World and The Web of Fear) is Marco Polo (1964) which was the most widely-sold Doctor Who serial. Holy crap. But half a season made last year, a one off special and the Christmas special have left some fans annoyed, disappointed and wanting more. Paul Vanezis mentions these events in this post on the Missing Episodes forum. It’s what every fan longs to see,” Jordan said. Really ? Thankfully Roberts has clarified his theatrics in an audio interview released yesterday by Radio Free Skaro. Similarly, where these episodes … In reference to the Taiwan tapes, I draw your attention to this page on this extremely comprehensive site: https://broadwcast.org/index.php/Taiwan_PrintsThere is some ambiguity as to the existence of the tapes... Do we have any idea which episodes these might be? If it seems that more episodes of Doctor Who from the 1960s are appearing in animated form lately, there is a very good reason. This is monumental news for all Whovians, young and old! “So they were literally getting old episodes of Doctor Who, taping them up and burning them.”. ‘Lost’ episodes of TV series have become sought-after items, not least among Doctor Who fans. … During the Time Space Visualiser 2 online event earlier this year, Morris confirmed that "at least" six more episodes currently officially listed as missing have been identified in the hands of private collectors. Some material from the Third Doctor, Jon Pertwee, was also destroyed, but later recovered via black-and-white copies that were digitally re-colourised. For decades, the fate of these censored clips remained a mystery. To visit the group, now with over 6,200 members, either click the link below or the blue 'Sign Up' Button. "Not sure what is "false" and "fake" about that since he said it himself.It is entirely possible that Morris is concerned that publicising the story makes the recovery of the episodes more difficult - which has been a continuous problem throughout the whole history of recovering material - and it may also be possible that his own statements at Time Space Visualiser 2 were perhaps a tad exaggerated and he's been rowing back on that. It was 2013, and Morris, the director of Television International Enterprises Archive – a company that helps TV stations search for lost footage – had just stumbled upon a slice of history: Nine missing episodes of the iconic series, buried away in a local television relay station. Time is not on the hunters' side here, but it is good to know at least some more missing episodes from the show have survived. They could search in Mexico, in that country a dubbing of the serials of the first and second doctor was made into Latin Spanish under the name of "Doctor Mystery" (Doctor mystery). It may be part fool’s hope, but nevertheless, there is hope. The advent of the home video format in the late 1970s and intervention from fans made the BBC change its mind quite rapidly and almost as soon as it stopped the purge of its archives in 1978 it began trying to reclaim the lost material. As a Doctor Who website, posting a news item relating to missing Doctor Who episodes is a particularly conflictive task. This is, of course, completely unconfirmed. 11yrs since he found the episodes in Africa. In fact, it has been denied many, many times, but the rumors persist. "Also there’s currently 97 missing, if that sexist has found 7 then it would take the total down to 90 because we are already at 97. Nevertheless, the discovery promoted renewed interest in Taiwan as a location of interest to episode hunters, although some questions were raised about the find. Before these early episodes could be broadcast to local audiences, they were sent to the Film Censorship Board for classification and approval. Negotiations are underway to get the missing material returned to the BBC. It’s possible more episodes will turn up, but it isn’t likely they all will. There seems to be nothing new here. At this point decades, the BBC 's foreign sales department get phone. 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