Two long-lost episodes of 'Doctor Who' have been found

https://apnews.com/article/doctor-who-lost-episodes-found-daleks-6849b09faa6eca9377b2a0db45d47ff8

35•cf100clunk•2h ago

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stevekemp•1h ago

Dupe from ten hours ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47360978

ljf•1h ago

Direct link to the BBC article: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g7kwq1k11o

Great news that they will be on iPlayer soon, along with every other (available) episode of Dr Who :)

mrlonglong•1h ago

We have all the voice recordings, feed that into AI along with the extant episodes and it should be able to regenerate (geddit?) the missing episodes.

waltbosz•18m ago

Feels a bit like Jurassic Park

benj111•17m ago

From a utilitarian pov yes. But that's completely missing the artistic point. Why shoot a film when you could just feed the script into an AI?

mrlonglong•13m ago

It could recreate missing episodes using the extant episodes. That's something worthwhile doing until someone finds them. It's not creating a complete new series.

skerit•1m ago

Do we also have stills of all the episodes? Or only audio?

pessimizer•46m ago

I was afraid this would never happen again. Two very good episodes, too.

I just pray that we'll get to see a few more Troughton episodes. He's the doctor that set the standard that all future doctors followed, yet the least known because the moronic BBC wiped basically his entire run, and now we only have about half of it.

Tom Baker was "my Doctor" because he's the one who made me love the show when I was a kid, but Troughton (and Zoë and Jamie) are my favorite era.

edit: Zoë and Jamie are from way back when the companions were expected to be useful, before Sarah Jane. Zoë was better at math than the Doctor; imagine them doing anything like that now.

NetMageSCW•17m ago

Companions are still useful, they just bring different skills to the Doctor (humanity?).

MrGinkgo•23m ago

Film cans? I thought the whole reason the series was missing was because it was shot on video, and then the tapes were wiped after shooting?

Uvix•19m ago

Film prints were made for overseas sales.

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