Missing Doctor Who episodes rediscovered!

Dec. 11th, 2011 at 5:59 PM

Apparently two long-lost episodes of Doctor Who have come to light - "Airlock", the third episode of Galaxy 4 from 1965, and the second episode of the 1967 story The Underwater Menace. The latter becomes the earliest known surviving episode of Patrick Troughton's Second Doctor. I don't have further details - am rather bizarrely following this on Twitter in a Portuguese bistro in Luxembourg, on my way to attend next week's plenary session of the European Parliament in Strasbourg - but I imagine it will be all over the news pretty soon for those of us who care. Looking forward to discovering if the earlier ep is as good as I hope, and the latter as bad as I fear...

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ravenskyewalker

Dec. 11th, 2011 05:13 pm (UTC)

Ohh, interesting. I hope it's true.

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strictlytrue

Dec. 11th, 2011 05:15 pm (UTC)

I am torn between being excited and - rather ungratefully - wishing it had been any other Troughton story than Underwater Menace. Great news, all the same.

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swisstone

Dec. 12th, 2011 10:11 am (UTC)

I can certainly think of one or two episodes I would rather have turned up than another episode of The Underwater Menace - well, 104 to be precise - but Episode 2 is rather better than Episode 3, and there is some great Troughton stuff in it.

Edited at 2011-12-12 10:12 am (UTC)

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