Okay... What the hell is this?
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Although the Meddling Monk had not yet been identified as a Time Lord either. He was simply "from the same planet" as the Doctor.
The two movies were my introduction to Doctor Who, before I ever saw any of the TV series, and it was liking the movies that encouraged me to try the TV series when the Tom Baker episodes were shown in New York.
They're both good examples of what Doctor Who could've been like if they were produced by the better funded, much more showy 1960s ITV in comparison to the more cash strapped, callous BBC (who even thoughtlessly neglected or even destroyed many 1960s episodes).
As I understand it, that was because there were several distinct branches of the BBC at that time, and each assumed (wrongly) that a different branch had the "master tape" of the episodes in question.
I think that might be the case sometimes but for the most part the BBC did know what it was doing and knew it was leaving no copies behind. It just wasn't considered important in those days - the tape was expensive and they never expected to show any of these programmes again.
I don't think things were as bad for ITV as they were regional licenses and some companies kept it while others didn't - so Granada kept most of its stuff but some other regions didn't. Live material suffered particularly.
For example there are missing episodes of the Avengers and I read somewhere that ITV wiped its footage of the moon landings!
I don't think things were as bad for ITV as they were regional licenses and some companies kept it while others didn't - so Granada kept most of its stuff but some other regions didn't. Live material suffered particularly.
For example there are missing episodes of the Avengers and I read somewhere that ITV wiped its footage of the moon landings!
Oooh, you don't want to open this debate with me...
There are several mentions in the Hartnell and Troughton era that the Doctor might be a more advanced human - certainly he's from another planet, but that could perhaps be a future Earth colony. Obviously, the whole Time Lord mythology came along later and overwrote that, and I'm certainly not arguing with that - but at the time they made the films, it wasn't so clearcut. Then again, the flipside to that argument is that the Dalek movies never once state that the Doctor is a human/earthman. Obviously, one can infer that from the films, but it's not definite. For all we know, he's an alien exile living in hiding on Earth.
I really didn't mean to reignite a flame war over these films.
Based on what I've read here thus far nothing about these films remotely connects with the Doctor Who series I've been following since Nine, Ten, & now Eleven premiered.
Nothing against them, but they just don't interest me as a result.
Well, maybe in a slightly "Fringe" otherworld sort of way, but even then, not very.
Based on what I've read here thus far nothing about these films remotely connects with the Doctor Who series I've been following since Nine, Ten, & now Eleven premiered.
Nothing against them, but they just don't interest me as a result.
Well, maybe in a slightly "Fringe" otherworld sort of way, but even then, not very.
Someone once suggested that maybe the Cushing Dr is the TenB character, who has made his own TARDIS in that parallel universe and that Susan is the daughter of the child he had with Rose! I guess then Tom must be a descendant of Wilf?
Really? Last I looked they were dirt cheap!
When was that?
Go ahead and try now. They aren't available new anywhere (at least, not region 1), and are $25+ used, per movie.
Amazon has the three-pack with the two movies and the previously-mentioned Dalekmania for $84.
I think that was me. Funny, I was watching Family of Blood during BBCA's marathon and there is a shot of Tennant in old age make up that made him look a bit like Cushing's Doctor.
Cushing was my first Doctor, having seen both films on one of those Saturday Afternoon Science Fiction film shows that were common on TV when I was a kid.
That's not a bad theory. If we must shoehorn the Dalek movies into the TV canon, then Cushing could well be an older Ten B.
That would have a bearing on existing TV continuity, as it would mean that the Doctor's name really is Doctor Who. Of course, we don't know that it isn't.
^ Maybe he changed it for his passport or something.
Although, how he doesn't know about the Daleks in the first place is a problem
Although, how he doesn't know about the Daleks in the first place is a problem
Or10b has an odd sense of humor.
The Robomen were in somewhat kinky slick jumpsuits.
Wikipedia has a complete list with individual pages for many serials/episodes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Doctor_Who_serials
Thanks, I actually found that a few days ago.
Apparently the majority of stories missing are from the First through Third Doctors? is that correct?
Apparently the majority of stories missing are from the First through Third Doctors? is that correct?
None of the Third Doctor episodes are missing. There are some with color episodes missing, but black and white versions of those episodes do exist.
It's the First and (mostly) Second Doctors whose episodes are missing. I believe only eight of the Second Doctor's twenty-one stories are complete.
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