Dr Who and the first 4 episodes on BBC iPlayer
Dr Who and the first 4 episodes on BBC iPlayer
"Doctor Who's Very First Story Won't Be Part of the BBC's Streaming Archive"
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/doctor-w ... ccounter=1
My favourite bit is this:
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[Rights holder Stef] Coburn further stated that as part of his continued claim against the BBC he plans to sell his father’s rights relating to “An Unearthly Child” to “an ENEMY of the BBC, possessing ALL the resources required to act against them.”
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And according to a podcast I was listening to that mentioned the story, the ENEMY he's referring to is... Russia!
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/doctor-w ... ccounter=1
My favourite bit is this:
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[Rights holder Stef] Coburn further stated that as part of his continued claim against the BBC he plans to sell his father’s rights relating to “An Unearthly Child” to “an ENEMY of the BBC, possessing ALL the resources required to act against them.”
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And according to a podcast I was listening to that mentioned the story, the ENEMY he's referring to is... Russia!
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Yes. He sounds delightful
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His brain madness got him banned from Wikipedia years ago. I strongly suspect the BBC is just waiting for him to keel over.
Anybody who comes into the n3ta forest will be lost.
Everybody will become a Homfrus.
Everybody, Homfrus.
So, he's not here any more.
Everybody will become a Homfrus.
Everybody, Homfrus.
So, he's not here any more.
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If I owned the rights to An Unearthly Child, I'd only allow the show to be broadcast on the moon.
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Still, it at least led to this magnificent moment of lunacy:
Cthulu bum you!
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Wow... that's... blimeys!
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All the other doctor who episodes are on the iplayer now
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Which means I can spend all winter watching alll the doctor who episodes I've never seen before
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Even the terribly animated versions of the lost ones
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(I'm not going to watch those it's okay)
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Anyway at the moment I'm watching the edge of destruction. The tardis is broken, everyone has amnesia, and William Hartnell is being an absolute bastard to absolutely everyone. Wonderful stuff
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This ended with the very greatest plot reveal ever: doctor who had left the "travel back to the beginning of time" button on
so then he turned it off
so then he turned it off
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Watch the animated Fury from the Deep just so you can see everyone with terrifying gibbon arms.
Anybody who comes into the n3ta forest will be lost.
Everybody will become a Homfrus.
Everybody, Homfrus.
So, he's not here any more.
Everybody will become a Homfrus.
Everybody, Homfrus.
So, he's not here any more.
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Woo! Spearhead From Space, here I come!
Re: Dr Who and the first 4 episodes on BBC iPlayer
the keys of marinus - terry nation has six episodes to do as many different random science fiction plots and places as possible (acid seas! sentient plants! snow! and so on), which he does pretty well, even if doctor who isn't even in half of them
does have these amazing brain creatures though
so it gets a 10 out of 10 from me
does have these amazing brain creatures though
so it gets a 10 out of 10 from me
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i wish i was one of those brain things
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I'd like to see one of those brain things on 90 Day Fiancé.
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unfortunately they're all dead now
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In which case, they'd fit in perfectly on the show!
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The Sensorites - Episodes 1 and 2: Doctor Who lands on a spaceship where the crew are all being psychically manipulated into abject fear by mysterious aliens beyond their comprehension and its kinf of weird and unsettling and intriguing. Episodes 3-6: Everyone forgets entirely about all of this and instead they just hang around on a planet with the aliens, who have by now been revealed to be weird old men who are scared of the dark and loud noises for some reason
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anyway i still liked it, even if the first two episodes (or really probably just the first episode actually) were much more interesting than the rest of it, which seemed to be plotted almost at random half the time.
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also i watched the aztecs one, which i thought i'd seen before but i hadn't (i must have read the book when i was little, i assume, although i don't even seem to have the book so maybe i didn't)
this was bloody brilliant, mostly because the baddy is incredible, just some guy having great fun being some absurdly theatrical shakespearean villain ultra iago-ing all over the screen for a month.
this was bloody brilliant, mostly because the baddy is incredible, just some guy having great fun being some absurdly theatrical shakespearean villain ultra iago-ing all over the screen for a month.
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He went on to play Penny's dad in Just Good Friends and the man in the Terrys Chocolate Orange Raiders of the Lost Ark spoof advert. John Ringham, what an actor.dng wrote: ↑Fri Nov 10, 2023 9:39 pm also i watched the aztecs one, which i thought i'd seen before but i hadn't (i must have read the book when i was little, i assume, although i don't even seem to have the book so maybe i didn't)
this was bloody brilliant, mostly because the baddy is incredible, just some guy having great fun being some absurdly theatrical shakespearean villain ultra iago-ing all over the screen for a month.
Cthulu bum you!
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Anyway, I got as far as Enemy of the World and I'm having a break as Milton Johns gives me the heebie jeebies.
Cthulu bum you!
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This article is pretty infuriating
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radi ... hem-to-bbc
although it does also have a sort of "we'll only show you our perpetual motion machine when we've been granted a patent based on nothing whatsoever" vibe about it as well
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radi ... hem-to-bbc
although it does also have a sort of "we'll only show you our perpetual motion machine when we've been granted a patent based on nothing whatsoever" vibe about it as well
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"of course we've got loads of lost doctor who episodes but you can't have them because you'll send us to jail and also when we die our relatives will just throw them away for some reason and it's all the bbc's fault"
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well i hope the bbc do throw them in jail now
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and their children
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Planet Of Giants - Honey, I Shrunk The Tardis
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Contains an excellent cat
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person quoted says the story is bollocksdng wrote: ↑Sat Nov 11, 2023 1:15 pm This article is pretty infuriating
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radi ... hem-to-bbc
although it does also have a sort of "we'll only show you our perpetual motion machine when we've been granted a patent based on nothing whatsoever" vibe about it as well
https://x.com/drwhopodcasters/status/17 ... 36050?s=20
Cthulu bum you!
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the bbc should have archived them in the first place shouldn't they
even people who were in the shows who wanted copies for themselves, the bbc refused them. They actively went out of their way to destroy stuff. So sometimes the cast/crew would sneak stuff out. The bbc should be thankful they did
fucking short sighted idiots
even people who were in the shows who wanted copies for themselves, the bbc refused them. They actively went out of their way to destroy stuff. So sometimes the cast/crew would sneak stuff out. The bbc should be thankful they did
fucking short sighted idiots
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i'm glad you agreer
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i agree with everyone
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about everything
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its my new philosophy
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The Rescue - only two episodes long, and pretty slight I suppose, but does contain two pretty great monsters and an oddly baffling ending
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Vertical monster is pure nightmare fuel!
Horizontal monster is a bit of a cutie!
Horizontal monster is a bit of a cutie!
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Re: Dr Who and the first 4 episodes on BBC iPlayer
I recall that when Peter Cook heard they were going to wipe most of Not Only But Also, he offered to buy the tapes off the BBC. They refused. He then also offered to cover the cost of brand new tapes that could replace the ones they were going to wipe. They still refused. Monty Python also came within a hair's breadth of getting wiped, until the BBC made loads of sales of it to America. Before that, the Pythons actually made the backup plan of dubbing the shows they'd made so far onto early domestic video formats of the time (U-Matic, etc).endar wrote: ↑Sat Nov 11, 2023 4:33 pm the bbc should have archived them in the first place shouldn't they
even people who were in the shows who wanted copies for themselves, the bbc refused them. They actively went out of their way to destroy stuff. So sometimes the cast/crew would sneak stuff out. The bbc should be thankful they did
fucking short sighted idiots
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this graham chapman/douglas adams thing only survives because graham chapman recorded it off the telly onto whatever weird video player he had at the time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saxhV4gzm5c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saxhV4gzm5c
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Ah yeah, Out Of The Trees. It's a bit like a lost Python episode with just Chapman, and all the other usual parts played by different people. Before the recording was discovered, only the script remained and some weird American bloke claimed he had full copyright over it.
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I read the same or something very similar to this. it's truly mind-boggling why they'd go to such lengths to destroy and wipe. It's almost as if they were afraid of something. Naughty unspeakable things going on behind the scenes getting caught on camera, for instance. Wouldn't want that getting outCandyDarling wrote: ↑Tue Nov 21, 2023 4:16 pmI recall that when Peter Cook heard they were going to wipe most of Not Only But Also, he offered to buy the tapes off the BBC. They refused. He then also offered to cover the cost of brand new tapes that could replace the ones they were going to wipe. They still refused. Monty Python also came within a hair's breadth of getting wiped, until the BBC made loads of sales of it to America. Before that, the Pythons actually made the backup plan of dubbing the shows they'd made so far onto early domestic video formats of the time (U-Matic, etc).endar wrote: ↑Sat Nov 11, 2023 4:33 pm the bbc should have archived them in the first place shouldn't they
even people who were in the shows who wanted copies for themselves, the bbc refused them. They actively went out of their way to destroy stuff. So sometimes the cast/crew would sneak stuff out. The bbc should be thankful they did
fucking short sighted idiots
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Doctor Who and the Dakeks - IN COLOUR
I've only watched the first 20 minutes of this but I'm not sure what the point of it is really. Weirdly garish colours, but at the expense of visual clarity (everything seems to have smudgy blurred 70s video artefacts on it), plus shite new music (I think), plus edited to oblivion (2 and a half hours or so down to 75 minutes).
Worst of all is an absolutely terrible Marvel moveies style ident at the start, with loads of doctor who scenes wrapped round big letters spelling out WHO, that then morphs into saying WHONIVERSE. Just incomprehensibly terrible, and presumably now going to be appended to the start of absolutely all dr who things forever
I've only watched the first 20 minutes of this but I'm not sure what the point of it is really. Weirdly garish colours, but at the expense of visual clarity (everything seems to have smudgy blurred 70s video artefacts on it), plus shite new music (I think), plus edited to oblivion (2 and a half hours or so down to 75 minutes).
Worst of all is an absolutely terrible Marvel moveies style ident at the start, with loads of doctor who scenes wrapped round big letters spelling out WHO, that then morphs into saying WHONIVERSE. Just incomprehensibly terrible, and presumably now going to be appended to the start of absolutely all dr who things forever
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I bet this is all disneys fault
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(Or just some new Russell T Davies madness I suppose)
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What the fuck does WHONIVERSE even mean
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I've watched it all now and it was awful