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[Demdike@Cult Labs]

A negative copy of The Daleks Episode 7 - The Rescue has been discovered at the BFI by Richard Bignell.

The BBC only held a positive copy until today so very cool this higher quality copy has surfaced after 58 years

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

From Paul Vanezis of the Doctor Who Restoration Team.

Hi all,

Back in the early 2000's, the negatives held at the BBC of the first three Doctor Who serials were transferred for The Beginning boxset. During the various transfer sessions, the can containing the negative for episode 7 of 'The Daleks', the episode entitled 'The Rescue' turned out to contain not a picture negative, but just a sound negative.

Because the picture negative was missing, we had to use the one surviving print, which turned out to be scratched combined with a one-inch transfer of the same print which was made prior to it being damaged. Consequently, that episode is not the best it could be.

Fast forward to 2021 and Richard Bignell contacted me to ask if the negatives of the early William Hartnell episodes held at the BFI might prove to be useful in a future restoration. This material was mostly donated to the BFI in 1986 by the BBC archive. The first episode I checked was episode 7 of The Daleks for which we only had a sound neg. When I checked the BFI's online catalogue, it turned out that they only had a sound neg as well. Except that we thought we had a picture neg 20 years ago, but it was a sound neg in the wrong can. Could the BFI sound neg actually be the picture neg and has never been checked?

So I asked them to check it. And yes, what they thought was a sound negative turned out to be the missing picture negative. I suspect that the two negatives were put back in the wrong cans the last time the two cans were at a laboratory to have a print made and that must have been some time before 1986. In fact, it may have occurred in the 1970's.

Now I know what you're thinking. Could a missing episode be hidden in plain sight at the BFI? Not Doctor Who, no. However, the other negatives do look as if they may assist us. Most appear to be the original FR negs made on first transmission and subsequently superceded by the new stored field recordings made in 1967. The irony here is that with 'The Daleks', episodes 5 & 7 are suppressed field recordings. There are no stored field recordings that we know of and we think this is due to the original tapes either being wiped or damaged by 1967. The other five episodes had two negatives, the original but poorer quality suppressed field recordings, plus the 1967 stored field recordings. The BBC donated the poorer quality suppressed field recordings to the BFI plus the spare sound negatives. All the BBC's original film recording negatives also have an optical soundtrack.

Some episodes were found to be damaged when they were film recorded in 1967. The BBC then made Frankenstein versions of the damaged episodes, duping sections of the surviving suppressed field film recordings and editing those into the higher quality, but incomplete stored field recordings. Fortunately, the negatives for the two episodes affected by this editing are at the BFI, The Aztecs episode 1 and The Edge of Destruction episode 2. We should be able to make some improvements to all of these episodes in a future restoration.

Regards,

Paul

[Susan Foreman]

Who: Before And After #605

Name: Colin McCormack [1941 - 2004]
Year(s): 1977
Stories: The Sun Makers part 3 – The Sun Makers part 4
Character(s): Commander

Before Who:
Films: All's Well That Ends Well (1968), Death Line* (1972)

Television: The Guardians: The Logical Approach (1971) / Trial: Debris (1971) / Villains: Belinda (1972) / Van der Valk: One Herring's Not Enough (1972) / The Man Who Was Hunting Himself (1972) / Public Eye: Girl in Blue (1972) / General Hospital [6 episodes as Colin Eastwood (1972)] / Thriller: The Eyes Have It* (1973) / Warship: Subsmash (1973) / New Scotland Yard: Pier (1973) / Softly Softly - Task Force: Night-Watch (1973) / Spy Trap: A Dirty Sort of War (1973) / Perils of Pendragon: A Touch of the Tangled Webs (1974) / Dixon of Dock Green: Sounds (1974) / Emmerdale Farm (1974) / Man About the House [3 episodes, different characters (1973-1974)] / Centre Play: Post Mortem (1975) / Quiller: Objective Caribbean (1975) / Rooms [3 episodes as PC Bates (1977)] / The Good Life; Our Speaker Today (1977)

After Who:
Films: The Winter's Tale (1981), Let Him Have It (1991), Bad Company (1993), Open Fire ( (1994), First Knight* (1995), Supply & Demand (1997), Longitude (2000)

Television: Armchair Thriller: The Girl Who Walked Quickly (1978) / Out: Maybe He'll Bring Back a Geisha (1978) / The Sweeney: The Bigger They Are (1978) / The Professionals [2 episodes, different characters (1983)] / Spearhead [2 episodes as Staff Sergeant Bishop (1979)] / Terry and June [3 episodes, different characters (1979-1983)] / The Spoils of War: Missing Persons (1980) / The Gentle Touch: Break-In (1980) / When the Boat Comes In; Back to Dear Old Blighty (1981) / Yes Minister: The Death List (1981) / Rentaghost (1981) / The Other 'Arf: After the Ball (1981) / Storyboard: Woodentop (1983) / Chocky [6 episodes as Alan (1984)] / Casualty: A Little Lobbying* (1987) / The Chief [3 episodes as Asst. Chief Constable Peter Leech (1990)] / The Bill [2 episodes, different characters (1992)] / EastEnders [5 episodes as Kevin (1991)] / Forever Green (1992) / A Touch of Frost: Conclusions (1992) / Spender: Kid (1993) / Between the Lines: Big Boys' Rules (1993) / Martin Chuzzlewit [2 episodes as Bullamy (1994)] / The Knock [4 episodes as DSI Ray Parker (1997-1997)] / Pie in the Sky: Coddled Eggs (1996) / Kavanagh QC: A Stranger in the Family (1996) / Inspector Morse; Death Is Now My Neighbour (1997

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The Doctor (Patrick Troughton) is tied to the doors of Detsen Monastery to lure down whatever lurks in the mountains in The Abominable Snowmen (1967)

[Susan Foreman]

Guest actors appearing in UNDERWORLD who have previously appeared in the show:

• Louise Jameson (Leela)
• John Leeson (Voice Of K-9)
• James Marcus (Rask)
• Jimmy Gardner (Idmon)
• Jay Neill (Guard Klimt)
• Frank Jarvis (Ankh)
• Richard Shaw (Lakh)

Who: Before And After #605

Name: James Maxwell [1929 - 1995]
Year(s): 1978
Stories: Underworld part 1 – Underworld part 4
Character(s): Jackson

Before Who:
Films: Julius Caesar (1949), Othello (1955), The Dragon and the Dove (1957), The Survivors (1957), Subway in the Sky (1959), Antigone (1959), Hands Across the Sky (1960), Time Remembered (1961), Design for Loving (1962), The Traitors (1962), Girl on Approval (1962), The Damned (1962), The Third Secret (1964), The Evil of Frankenstein* (1964), Private Potter (1964), The New Inferno (1966), Far from the Madding Crowd (1967), Otley (1969), Tower of London: The Innocent (1969), Connecting Rooms (1970), One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1970), Ransom (1974)

Television: Television World Theatre: The Dark Is Light Enough (1958) / BBC Sunday-Night Theatre: The Lower Depths (1958) / World Theatre: Brand (1959) / International Detective: The Conway Case (1959) / Probation Officer (1960) / Julius Caesar [4 episodes as Antony (1960)] / ITV Television Playhouse: Private Potter (1961) / Tales of Mystery: Accessory Before the Fact (1961) / ITV Play of the Week: A Doll's House (1961) / Doctor Faustus [2 episodes as Mephistophilis (1961)] / Maigret: Seven Little Crosses (1962) / Empire: When the Gods Laugh (1962) / A Little Big Business: Pilot (1963) / Festival: Little Eyolf (1963) / Espionage: Final Decision (1964) / First Night: How Many Angels (1964) / Theatre 625: All the Conspirators #2 - The Just (1964) / The Hidden Truth [14 episodes as Dr Henry Fox (1964)] / The Avengers: The Outside-In Man (1964) / Danger Man: Fair Exchange (1964) / Danger Man: Secret Agent: A Date with Doris (1964) / Thursday Theatre: The Kidders (1965) / The Saint: The Inescapable Word (1965) / The Wednesday Play; The Man Without Papers (1965) / No Hiding Place: One Good Man and True? (1965) / Drama 61-67: Drama '65 - Traitor at the Gate (1965) / An Enemy of the State [5 episodes as Colonel Rykov (1965)] / Out of the Unknown: The Dead Past (1965) / The Power Game [4 episodes as Colin Townley (1965-1966)] / The Liars (1966) / The Hunchback of Notre Dame [7 episodes as Claude Frollo (1966)] / Blackmail: The Cream Off the Top (1966) / Out of the Unknown: The Fastest Draw (1966) / The Saint: The Art Collectors (1967) / Armchair Theatre: The Exploding Azalea (1967) / The Avengers: The Superlative Seven (1967) / Love Story: The First of the Nightingales (1967) / The Troubleshooters: Good Lord No, It's Illegal (1967) / The Portrait of a Lady [4 episodes as Gilbert Osmond (1968)] / The Champions: The Silent Enemy (1968) / Frontier [8 episodes as Capt. Horace Stoughton (1968)] / Mystery and Imagination: Dracula* [as Dr. Steward] (1968) / W. Somerset Maugham: A Casual Affair (1969) / Manhunt: The Death-Wish (1970) / Doomwatch: The Iron Doctor (1971) / The Expert [2 episodes as Michael Jackson (1971)] / The Shadow of the Tower [13 episodes as King Henry VII (1972)] / Man at the Top [2 episodes as Bernard MacLaine (1972)] The Visitors [4 episodes as Abe Schulman (1972)] / Late Night Theatre: The Old Days (1973) / Hadleigh: The Caper (1973) / Spy Trap: Salvage (1973) / Crown Court [6 episodes, different characters (1973-1978)] / Orson Welles' Great Mysteries; The Ingenious Reporter (1973) / The Protectors: The Bridge (1974) / Armchair Cinema: The Prison (1974) / Justice [2 episodes as Mr. Stanhope (1974)] / Father Brown: The Curse of the Golden Cross (1974) / The Hanged Man: The Bridge Maker (1975) / Thriller: Good Salary, Prospects, Free Coffin* (1975) / The Wide World of Mystery; Mirror of Deception (1975) / Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman (1975) / John Macnab [3 episodes as Sir Edward Leithen (1976)] / Bill Brand: Resolution (1976)

After Who:
Films: Four Friends (1981)
Television: Enemy at the Door: Treason (1978) / The Law Centre [7 episodes as Giles Eliott (1978)] / The Dick Francis Thriller - The Racing Game [2 episodes as Charles Roland (1979)] / The Greeks - A Journey in Space and Time; The Classical Age (1980) / Oppenheimer (1980) / Bognor [6 episodes as Anselm (1981)] / Play for Today: Under the Hammer (1984) / Bergerac: Treasure Hunt (1987) / Rumpole of the Bailey: Rumpole a la Carte (1991) / Doctor Finlay: Stolen Lives (1994)

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The Doctor (David Tennant) and Donna (Catherine Tate) share a quiet moment overlooking London in the 2006 Christmas special The Runaway Bride

[Susan Foreman]

Sylvester McCoy as Igor, the faithful butler to The Munsters, in Rob Zombies upcoming films

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

WOW!

Sylvester co-starring in a Rob Zombie film. The Munsters is already a five star movie.

Zombie is a god among men!

[Susan Foreman]

After 'Resolution' and 'Revolution Of The Daleks', it looks like there is another New Year episode featuring the Daleks!

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Susan Foreman

After 'Resolution' and 'Revolution Of The Daleks', it looks like there is another New Year episode featuring the Daleks!

You sound surprised? It was trailered at the end of the debacle tonight.