Top 10 Moments in Doctor Who History: #6

[numutabin]

What's interesting is while many of 1-3's shows are missing, what's odd is even with the Tenth Planet (1's original last ep) lost-every regeneration is NOT missing, so in a way that's a blessing...

[MightyNeonFraa]

To be fair, you can't really blame BBC for not predicting the popularity of TV box sets in the future. They've only really taken off in the last half of this decade or so and up until the late nineties to early two thousands owning an entire series on VHS was laughable because of the tremendous space and cost collecting a dozen or more VHS sets would take. Plus we're talking about Beta tapes at best, the idea of owning a TV series on cassette was laughable at the time.

[jjhartwell99]

Zoe looks very sad in this clip. Sigh.

[ufodavros1]

yes I understand about the purges and junking of doctors #1 #2 and even *3 many episodes...do the scripts for these episodes survive?...with the scripts radioplays set to cgi cartoons (think jar-jar-binks and gollum tech...or shrek or avatar) they could be recreated with $!

[CHEESOdorito]

It actually wasn't too much to do with economical reasons at the time (although it was a problem that contributed).

Back in 1967, the London Fire Department visited and the BBC archive and warned the BBC that their services would cease unless they found a way of tidieng up their archives and sort their archive material properly (as until then the archive was becoming over jammed with TV shows and films and inserts which is a massive fire hazzered). The BBC were short of money so started junking

[CHEESOdorito]

that appeared to have no more comercial value (and could not be screened again due to rights issues), and as colour was well on it's way the old black and white Doctor Who episodes weren't looked on very fondly. The reason why Patrick Troughton was so badly affected was the popularity of the show had been winding down since the Hartnell era and hadn't been shipped abroad as much.

[britfrenir]

This is the first regeration where the doctor looked at his face to see how it came out because the time lords did not let him pick it. The 4th doctor liked that this nose was not as big as the third's which was the second one to look at his face.

[silvereagle2061]

I miss Zoe

[dutchycooper]

The war games is definately one of the all time best stories, well paced even when spread over 10 episodes. About the missing episodes, all hope is not lost, they might turn up in some unusual places, theyv found episode copies in places like african tv stations, tomb of the cybermen one of the all time classics was found complete in hong kong, the bbc should send someone out n see if they can find more

[britfrenir]

I once read in Doctor Who Monthly that a Dalek episode turned up at a church.

[ShootStyleZombie]

you really can't fault BBC for destroying footage for their shows honestly, it wasn't a practice they just did, it was fellow British TV company, ITV that was guilty as well but even here in the US, CBS and NBC were just as guilty of this practice, TV was new at that time as well and this was practically standard practice for most companies

[Stacey01]

*Gets tissues* *Cries*

[Gallifrey1991]

that clip of Jamie in Scotland; did they just steal that clip from The Highlanders??

[glnelson1956]

Another great choice for your "Top Ten" list TheBigBlueBox. This is an important transition in Who history, the end of the Troughton and B&W era of DrWho.

I am not very familiar with the Troughton era having seen only "Tomb of the Cybermen". But I was impressed with Patrick Troughton's Doctor.

It is a shame the BBC lost so many of his episodes, as this is an important time in DrWho history.

[germanchap]

I wish someone had a TARDIS so they could stop BBC from being retards and purging the most successful show. I mean serously if it was your most successful show why would you throw away the old episodes?

[SnakeOnAPlane]

DVD collectors, this epic finale is coming out on DVD later this year.

[BritishAlienCompany]

When he says goodbye to Jamie and Zoe always gets to me! Undoubtedyl, one of the ebst moments in doctor Who history! As you said at the beginning, the BBC must be kicking themsleves for deleteing one of the best periods of Doctor Who history!