we dont need a new doctor... the show had its run, let it rest in peace

bikkle wrote:

devicenull wrote:we dont need a new doctor... the show had its run, let it rest in peace

You may be right, but that's not going to stop me from watching it. :P

ultraseven wrote:this is good. they've lowered my expectations to basically nothing.

OK... I'm going to make the offer, even though it's early. Anybody who gets their hands on a recording from overseas and brings it over to Japan can borrow my entire Betamax-format Dr. Who collection (nearly every available episode from the start until the next-to-last season). Yeehah!



Doctor Hoo?

bikkle wrote:

omae mona wrote:Anybody who gets their hands on a recording from overseas and brings it over to Japan can borrow my entire Betamax-format Dr. Who collection.

I hope you plan on lending out your Betamax player too, otherwise they might as well be encoded in mr. sparkle's Yak Butter codec.

Well, the next thing I was gonna do was bring up the "and you gotta bring your own betamax player" caveat... Don't ask me how, but somehow the tapes ended up with me here in Japan, but the betamax player ended up stashed in my parent's attic (and has been there for the last 10 years or so AFAIK).

Actually, if anybody wants to pick up the player (now in California), they can keep it. When the tapes were made (circa 1985-1989) almost none of those episodes were available for purchase. Nowadays, I should probably be upgrading to DVD anyway. I have a hunch the 19 year old videotape ain't holding up so well, And I want to see those big budget special effects with the mind-blowing digital clarity that only DVD can provide! Plus I heard the BBC needs the licensing revenue to replace the lightbulbs on the daleks.

omae mona wrote:
OK... I'm going to make the offer, even though it's early. Anybody who gets their hands on a recording from overseas and brings it over to Japan can borrow my entire Betamax-format Dr. Who collection (nearly every available episode from the start until the next-to-last season). Yeehah!

How many of the lost episodes you hording?

vvx wrote:How many of the lost episodes you hording?

Shhhhh! All those missing tapes from the BBC archives are actually here with me in Tokyo.

Sadly, the tapes basically represent what PBS could get their hands on in the mid-to-late 80s. A medium amount of Hartnell episodes, a handful of Troughton episodes, and then a pretty solid showing from Pertwee onward, I think. I should open up the dusty old box and see what's in there. I think a bit more material has surfaced since that time, but I ain't got any.

omae mona wrote:... my entire Betamax-format Dr. Who collection (nearly every available episode from the start until the next-to-last season). Yeehah!

That might be of GREAT historical value.
See The Doctor Who Restoration Team

The Doctor Who Restoration Team wrote:...experimental restoration of a monochrome Jon Pertwee story back to its original colour form. So successful were the test results that the BBC Archives and BBC Video co-funded the restoration of three complete stories for transmission and video release.

Pertwee Colour Restorations
.... four out of five episodes of `The Demons' existed in two basic forms - as 16mm black & white broadcast quality film recordings, and as non-broadcast quality colour tapes, recorded on U-matic video cassettes in the U.S. 525-line NTSC format. Only episode four existed as a UK standard 625-line PAL colour transmission tape.
The black & white film recordings had been made in the early seventies by BBC Enterprises, for sale to foreign TV stations that had yet to make the move to colour transmission. ....

Taro Toporific wrote:

omae mona wrote:... my entire Betamax-format Dr. Who collection (nearly every available episode from the start until the next-to-last season). Yeehah!

That might be of GREAT historical value.

Nah, I kinda doubt it.

The Doctor Who Restoration Team wrote:Many of Jon Pertwee's episodes only exist as NTSC standards conversions recovered from overseas TV stations over the last few years. The quality of the PAL to NTSC conversions is fairly poor, being made in the mid-seventies on equipment that is considered extremely crude by today's standards. However, the crude nature of the conversions may actually turn out to be a blessing...

Anything I got, WTTW in Chicago has got, and WTTW's copy hasn't passed through analog broadcast + had one more generation of loss onto a crappy consumer-grade Betamax deck.

bikkle wrote:

Billie Piper to play Doctor Who's new sidekick

Billie Piper is Doctor Who companion

I was wondering when the MOST important new doctor casting choices would be released.

bikkle wrote:No Daleks in Doctor Who's return

Talks between the BBC and the estate of late sci-fi writer Terry Nation, who created the Daleks, broke down over issues of editorial control. ...The Terry Nation estate said it was "bitterly disappointed".

RESURRECTION OF THE DALEKS
The Daleks will return in the new series.
Doctor Who | News | 04 August 2004
It's official! The Daleks are coming back after all. We've received the following press release:
Mal Young, BBC Controller of Continuing Drama Series and Tim Hancock, agent for the Terry Nation Estate announced today (Wednesday, August 4) that the Daleks will return in the new series of Doctor Who which is currently in production for transmission on BBC One in 2005.
Hancock says: "I am absolutely delighted that the Terry Nation Estate and the BBC have been able to reach agreement on terms for the use of the Daleks in the new Doctor Who series.
....more...

perfect timing...i always wanted to be one growing up...time for a career change....