Has The Smuggler been found?
Last year, the Doctor Who fan world was treated to a great surprise when 11 missing episodes were recovered. Those included the entirety of “The Enemy of the World” and all but one episode of “The Web of Fear”. It was an impressive announcement and only served to whet our appetites for more. So in that spirit, let’s check in on the current rumour mill and see what’s happening.
First off, persistent rumours are circulating that all seven episodes of the First Doctor adventure “Marco Polo” have been recovered. There are multiple sources reporting this. Now the story itself was one of the most widely-sold non-Dalek stories, and is very highly-regarded. It’s also the first story to have all the footage missing, and the earliest story to have any missing footage. Finding it would be a real boon.
I am inclined to think this rumour is true.
Last year, the Doctor Who fan world was treated to a great surprise when 11 missing episodes were recovered. Those included the entirety of “The Enemy of the World” and all but one episode of “The Web of Fear”. It was an impressive announcement and only served to whet our appetites for more. So in that spirit, let’s check in on the current rumour mill and see what’s happening.
First off, persistent rumours are circulating that all seven episodes of the First Doctor adventure “Marco Polo” have been recovered. There are multiple sources reporting this. Now the story itself was one of the most widely-sold non-Dalek stories, and is very highly-regarded. It’s also the first story to have all the footage missing, and the earliest story to have any missing footage. Finding it would be a real boon.
I am inclined to think this rumour is true.
- 3/13/2014
- by Chris Swanson
- Obsessed with Film
Feature Cliff Chapman 11 Feb 2014 - 07:00
Cliff takes us through ten Doctor Who stories still lost, from Marco Polo to Fury From The Deep...
Doctor Who was for the first twenty six years a series of serials, so episodes make up stories or serials, e.g. Power of the Daleks is a story or serial made up of six episodes, rather than ‘an episode’. Around 250 weekly instalments of Doctor Who were shown between 1963 and 1969. As of January 2014, 97 of these are not held by the BBC, or known to survive, and cannot be viewed - although they can be experienced in a number of ways. Although recent returns have massively helped in evening up the scores, you’ll note that there’s a slight bias towards Hartnell against Troughton for completely missing stories. Troughton still fares worse, however as he has fewer fully existing stories, seven complete stories versus Hartnell’s fifteen.
Cliff takes us through ten Doctor Who stories still lost, from Marco Polo to Fury From The Deep...
Doctor Who was for the first twenty six years a series of serials, so episodes make up stories or serials, e.g. Power of the Daleks is a story or serial made up of six episodes, rather than ‘an episode’. Around 250 weekly instalments of Doctor Who were shown between 1963 and 1969. As of January 2014, 97 of these are not held by the BBC, or known to survive, and cannot be viewed - although they can be experienced in a number of ways. Although recent returns have massively helped in evening up the scores, you’ll note that there’s a slight bias towards Hartnell against Troughton for completely missing stories. Troughton still fares worse, however as he has fewer fully existing stories, seven complete stories versus Hartnell’s fifteen.
- 2/10/2014
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
London, December 24: Ian Levine has revealed that he had smashed Sinitta's record on Simon Cowell's head.
The record producer said that he had smashed the 'So Macho' record on the 54-year-old music mogul's head in a packed nightclub after he tried to force him to play it, the Mirror reported.
The 60-year-old English songwriter was DJing at the gay club Heaven and Cowell was trying to make his former girlfriend a star by cashing-in on the gay market.
Levine added that the record splintered into about six pieces leaving the 'Syco' boss looking horrified. (Ani)...
The record producer said that he had smashed the 'So Macho' record on the 54-year-old music mogul's head in a packed nightclub after he tried to force him to play it, the Mirror reported.
The 60-year-old English songwriter was DJing at the gay club Heaven and Cowell was trying to make his former girlfriend a star by cashing-in on the gay market.
Levine added that the record splintered into about six pieces leaving the 'Syco' boss looking horrified. (Ani)...
- 12/24/2013
- by Arun Pandit
- RealBollywood.com
Ballpark Film Distributors takes all UK rights to British crime thriller; sets release date.
Ballpark Film Distributors has taken all rights in the UK and Eire to Who Needs Enemies, the debut feature from writer/director Peter Stylianou of Red Guerrilla Films.
The British crime thriller tells the story of strip club owner Tom Sheridan (Ian Pirie) who takes revenge on an old friend Ian Levine (Michael McKell) when he discovers he’s using his club is to entertain wealthy paedophiles.
Writer/director Peter Stylianou said: “‘Who Needs Enemies’ is an intelligent gangster drama that focuses on storytelling rather than thrills. We are excited to be working with Ballpark Film Distributors in releasing this film and many more to come.”
Ballpark will release Who Needs Enemies on Nov 15.
Sheffield-based Ballpark are currently distributing Jonathan Holiff’s Johnny Cash documentary My Father and The Man In Black and will release four more films this autumn including No Fixed...
Ballpark Film Distributors has taken all rights in the UK and Eire to Who Needs Enemies, the debut feature from writer/director Peter Stylianou of Red Guerrilla Films.
The British crime thriller tells the story of strip club owner Tom Sheridan (Ian Pirie) who takes revenge on an old friend Ian Levine (Michael McKell) when he discovers he’s using his club is to entertain wealthy paedophiles.
Writer/director Peter Stylianou said: “‘Who Needs Enemies’ is an intelligent gangster drama that focuses on storytelling rather than thrills. We are excited to be working with Ballpark Film Distributors in releasing this film and many more to come.”
Ballpark will release Who Needs Enemies on Nov 15.
Sheffield-based Ballpark are currently distributing Jonathan Holiff’s Johnny Cash documentary My Father and The Man In Black and will release four more films this autumn including No Fixed...
- 8/30/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Do you remember those old sticker albums that you used to have when you were a kid? There you are, stuck plonk in the middle of a 1983 school playground, clutching a tattered copy of the Return Of The Jedi sticker album, wondering how to fill in those missing gaps. They're frustrating things, those sticker albums – what would happen would be that you would spend your hard-earned pocket money on packs of stickers, only to find that tucked away inside are stickers that you already had. So your next option is to trudge wearily around the school playground asking if you can swap your duplicate sticker for one that you don't have. Of course, it never worked out that way, since the missing stickers were as rare as a sighting of the sun in Britain in June 2012.
Annoying? Well not as annoying as the gaps in Doctor Who's archive. This...
Annoying? Well not as annoying as the gaps in Doctor Who's archive. This...
- 7/17/2012
- Shadowlocked
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