If Mission to the Unknown were found, would it get it's own release?

[Candlelight]

I know the BBC/2Entertain/Restoration Team want each story on it's own (or in a box set, but still in it's own casing) but given Mission to the Unknown is a single episode story would it get it's own DVD? Or as an extra on another story? It's a season three story and the nearest is... The Ark...?

Or would they re-release the three surviving episodes of The Daleks' Master Plan with it?

 

[Captain Pike]

Re: If Mission to the Unknown were found, would it get it's own releas

Maybe do a re-release of LiT with it included. Or bundle it with the three surviving episodes of DMP (you could also include some sort of cut-down telesnap recons ala Marco Polo to fill in the gaps if you really wanna do it justice).

It might be considered a single story, but it's also inextricably linked with DMP through the virtue of being a true prologue. It'd also be cheap of them to release a single 25 min episode on a DVD without substantial extra's to compensate, so I think you really gotta package it with whats left of DMP.

 

[Pseudo]

Re: If Mission to the Unknown were found, would it get it's own releas

It might be worth releasing it with a CGI or otherwise cheaply animated "The Dalek's Master Plan" DVD boxset.

But I doubt it.

 

[Piper]

Re: If Mission to the Unknown were found, would it get it's own releas

At this point they'd probably either bung it on The Chase, or do a second Lost in Time with that and a couple of other Hartnell serials with missing eps that haven't been released yet - The Reign of Terror and The Tenth Planet maybe.

Sigh. I really wish they'd release The Reign of Terror.

 

[Candlelight]

Re: If Mission to the Unknown were found, would it get it's own releas

At this point they'd probably either bung it on The Chase

The Chase is due out March 1st, which means the pressing is complete and nothing else can be added.

 

[Piper]

Re: If Mission to the Unknown were found, would it get it's own releas

At this point they'd probably either bung it on The Chase

The Chase is due out March 1st, which means the pressing is complete and nothing else can be added.

In which case that's probably not an option any more.

 

[23skidoo]

Re: If Mission to the Unknown were found, would it get it's own releas

I'd say they'd be more likely to add it to any sort of future release of DMP. They've already issued the surviving episodes of DMP in the Lost in Time box set, so they probably wouldn't double-dip people in that way. And it's pushing it enough that they issued Black Orchid and Sontaran Experiment (2-episodes) on their own. DVD-format releases are expected to continue until at least 2013 (according to the Doctor Who Information Network). Maybe by then they'll have found a way to upconvert the old video to high-def, so maybe a reissue on Blu-Ray would include MTTU if it was found by then and the rest of DMP was still missing.

They'd probably sit on it until such a time as they were able to combine it with either a relocated or restored DMP. That or make it available for download through iTunes or something. I've heard whispers that, despite people saying the BBC never wants to animate another episode again after what I guess must have been a debacle over The Invasion (the way people carry on about this point I get visions of landfills in the desert being filled with unsold DVDs of The Invasion), there might still be animated reconstructions done in the future, in particular Tenth Planet Episode 4 which would allow the DVD release of the first Cyberman story and the first regeneration. So anything is possible.

Also, given the quality of the unofficial Loose Cannon reconstructions of these episodes (you'll need to Google on that point) and the commercial release of the off-air soundtracks, someone's bound to just do the animations on their own and either make them available unofficially a la Loose Cannon, or sell them to the BBC. People who say this won't or can't happen need to wake up to the fact it's 2010 - go on YouTube and you'll find home-made animations, including some related to Doctor Who, that are superior to what the BBC did with The Invasion.

The best case scenario, of course, is finding out that in someone's basement is a pristine kinescope of the missing epsiodes, or someone was naughty and walked away with films or tapes that shipped overseas and they get found buried in a crypt or something.

Alex

 

[Rarewolf]

Re: If Mission to the Unknown were found, would it get it's own releas

They'd want to get it out ASAP before it leaked. It could always include the official recon of Galaxy Four, prepared but unused on The Time Meddler DVD. Maybe a photogallery from DMP. But anything else would take time and money.

Thered be no reason not to release it on its own.

 

[Candlelight]

Re: If Mission to the Unknown were found, would it get it's own releas

Maybe by then they'll have found a way to upconvert the old video to high-def, so maybe a reissue on Blu-Ray would include MTTU if it was found by then and the rest of DMP was still missing.

My DVD recorder upscales stuff now, but by technical standards it's very crude.

Besides, material originally shot on 405-line cameras upscaled to 1080? No thanks.

 

[Candlelight]

Re: If Mission to the Unknown were found, would it get it's own releas

It would be extra handy if it were released with something else. Then a single disc release of the single episode would be ok if it was accompanied by a larger story.

 

[Phillip Culley]

Re: If Mission to the Unknown were found, would it get it's own releas

They'd probably sit on it until such a time as they were able to combine it with either a relocated or restored DMP.

No they wouldn't - they would find some excuse to get it out as soon as they could. Whether it's a special budget DVD, a Lost in Time 2 or a bonus disc with another Hartnell story, they would get it out as soon as they could.