Two Lost Doctor Who Episodes Found 150
First time accepted submitter crow writes "Two episodes of Doctor Who from the 1960s, thought to have been destroyed in the 1970s, have been found. Both were in the hands of a private collector who didn't know what he had. Like most episodes of the time, these were half-hour shows, part of a four-part story, and portions of both stories are still missing."
Other missing material (Score:5, Informative)
Theres a list of missing episodes on this website [paullee.com] but it hasn't yet been updated to include the new discoveries. With the finding of "The Underwater Menace" part 2, we now have a new "earliest surviving episode to feature Patrick Troughton." Hopefully the BBC can do their usual magic to restore these episode...there are apparently bits missing.
Re:Don't forget the ones being recovered from Spac (Score:5, Informative)
Burning mod points here, but I apologize... that was a hoax [combom.co.uk]. I suspected when I saw the original note and it was dated April 1st.
Re:Ironically, (Score:4, Informative)
Of course, the signal's probably degraded too far for it to be recognizable.
Yeah, 'cause that's the only problem with the [FTL travel] plan ... ;)
You don't need FTL at all. You simply locate a planet around a distant star system- or some other extrasolar object- at a distance of 24 or slightly more light years, then detect the (admittedly quite small) proportion of the original TV transmission that travelled out there, bounced off that object, and is now heading back in our direction, due to reach us 45 to 50 years after it first went out.
;-)
You may need one of those mains-powered antenna/aerial amplifiers for this to work properly