UK TV Missing Programmes recovery - sorry, no Who.

[wamdue]

I think this missing episode things proves two things

1) Time Travel is not possible

2) the episodes are lost, proper lost.

I think this because if Time Travel were ever made possible, the first Doctor Who fan to get his/her hands on a TARDIS would go back in time, and resuce the episode.

yet episodes remain lost, so its clear that no one has gone back in time yet to save the episodes.

 

[Whofan]

Regarding Starsuperion's point, the Doctor's aging is possibly accelerated in The Dalek's Masterplan (This also kills one of his human companions, Sarah Kingdom). Of course since he was already fairly "old" at this point, it didn't alter his appearence like in Leisure Hive or Sound of Drums.

 

[starsuperion]

It would have been if the McGann TVM had gone to series... Except they were actually going to remake stories that *do* still exist!

That is an interesting tidbit, I had no idea what they might have had planned for McGann had that series ever been given the green light. Is there an online resource that can give me an idea, of what the BBC producers had planned should the McGann era ever been??

There's a whole bunch of stuff in the "Regenerations" book that came out a couple of years later. Really, it looks like we dodged a bullet...

that bad eh?

Regarding Starsuperion's point, the Doctor's aging is possibly accelerated in The Dalek's Masterplan (This also kills one of his human companions, Sarah Kingdom). Of course since he was already fairly "old" at this point, it didn't alter his appearence like in Leisure Hive or Sound of Drums.

hmm.. well put.. I forgot about those!

 

[Phillip Culley]

I think this missing episode things proves two things

1) Time Travel is not possible

2) the episodes are lost, proper lost.

I think this because if Time Travel were ever made possible, the first Doctor Who fan to get his/her hands on a TARDIS would go back in time, and resuce the episode.

yet episodes remain lost, so its clear that no one has gone back in time yet to save the episodes.

The grandfather paradox stops them from going back and just saving them - otherwise you would go back in time, save them from being missing and as a result you would never need to build a time machine. Of course without building a time machine, you'd never go back and would never rescue them, so now they're missing. Therefore you build a time machine and the circle goes on and on and on forever.

What's more likely is that someone from the year 2050 builds a time machine, rescues the missing episodes and then sets it up so they're not discovered until 2051, saving the world from exploding in a paradoxical nightmare.