Comments | bizarreoptimism: "You should know by now, young lady, that you can't get rid of the old Doctor as easily as that!"

bizarreoptimism

"You should know by now, young lady, that you can't get rid of the old Doctor as easily as that!"

Mar 18, 2010 14:37

So I have watched my first reconstructed "Who" episodes, the fourth and fifth eps in the First Doctor serial "The Reign of Terror."

( Of Reconstructions and Revolutions )

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magratpudifoot March 20 2010, 03:47:50 UTC

> PURposefully! Oh, it kills both my Inner Who Fan and my Inner Librarian

I have only recently gotten over the intense, seething anger I began feeling when I realized that I was never going to be able to actually see a majority of the episodes with my "back-up" Doctor and my favourite Companion. It's an absolute shame that so many of the reportedly quite extravagant* historicals and vast space epics of the Hartnell Era have been lost, of course - and obviously the fact that the first regeneration episode was taped over is just _criminal_** - but it just BURNS me that, of Troughton's 127 episodes (counting the three multi-Doctor stories he was in), 63 were destroyed. The first episode we actually get to _see_ with Two? The penultimate episode of his _third_ serial ( ... )

magratpudifoot March 20 2010, 03:48:16 UTC

> it wasn't until the FIFTH OR SIXTH SERIAL** that I realized that Ian and Co. were on the side of the aristocracy, not the rebellious revolution ( ... )