And apparently these aren't what they were talking about a few months ago, so there's potentially one more episode recovered too.
Just to clarify, cause it seems some confusion in the thread.
1)
These ARE from the collection that FiF has been talking about over the last few months.
They knew there was 1, but after securing the collection, they found 6 episodes in total, two of which (DMP 1 and 3) were missing.
The others were 2 episodes of The Daleks, 1 episode of The Chase and 1 episode of The Web Planet.
2)
@Qonundrum @The Nth Doctor
The material wassecured a very short time ago, a matter of weeks, possibly less than a fortnight, and have not been restored or digitized in any way yet (listen to that hiss on the soundtrack of the clips…).
The reason the picture looks quite good is these episodes were bought, but the collector never viewed them. He got them on the side of a larger bundle of films about canals and waterways and was not a Doctor Who fan.
The episodes are not in ‘ramshackle condition’. The collection itself was described as being organised in a ramshackle way.
3)
Paul Vanezis, long standing ME expert knows of another collection which contains 2 missing episodes (most likely Hartnell), but for reasons unknown, it’s a no-go right now. The collector said ‘they have other fish to fry’, whatever that means.
FiF have alluded to other collectors they are negotiating with. So there’s potentially and likely more to come.
Paul Vanezis in the last 24 hours was asked directly, what are the chances of more coming back within the next two years, on a 1-10 scale. 1 being low, 10 being high.
His answer?… 10. A confidently expressed 10 at that.
4)
Finally Phil Morris said something about The Tenth Planet 4, but nobody cares about that dickhead anymore so maybe don’t put any stock in that.
Exciting times.
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