HUGE Doctor Who news coming tonight! [Spoilers]

[Herschel]

It seems weird to me that we haven't heard more about them. FWIW Amazon has "The Tenth Planet", "The Ice Warriors"(39) and "Moonbase"(33) and others listed for pre-order, but no release date yet. Amazon UK has "Doctor Who: Regeneration" which is a box set of all the regeneration stories, including "The Tenth Planet", with a release date of June 24th listed. However, the box set also lists that animation was used to complete that particular story with surviving sequences where they remain.

 

[Umbran]

It seems weird to me that we haven't heard more about them.

It doesn't seem weird to me. Assume that the thing leaked before the BBC was really ready to announce. Someone (or, really, many someones) have to watch the episodes, probably remaster, edit, create commentaries, document, and otherwise beat into shape some tapes that have been sitting in someone's closet suffering bitrot for decades.

That's kind of a big job. If I were them, I'd like to have a really good picture of how much work there is to do, and what's actually going to be done, before opening my mouth.

That's if they even exist. The BBC has neither confirmed nor denied anything about them.

 

[sabrinathecat]

I was thinking that the planned releases were going to have animation replacing the lost video, as with Reign of Terror and The Invasion.

 

[sabrinathecat]

More info Here.

 

[Umbran]

I was thinking that the planned releases were going to have animation replacing the lost video, as with Reign of Terror and The Invasion.

I had heard that, for use in bits where they still had the audio, but the video had been degraded. But given how many of the actors have passed on, I don't know how viable it woudl be to replace large sections with new animated video and new voice acting.

 

[sabrinathecat]

A big source of audio for some lost stories has been fan-made recordings from their home TV sets. Sound was cleaned up, and then preserved.

 

[CAFRedblade]

Looks like BleedingCool has an update, and that it's looking like a complete hoax:
http://www.bleedingcool.com/2013/06/17/more-on-those-missing-doctor-who-episodes-or-less/
Who knows, perhaps someone out there has stored copies stashed and forgotten, but it's looking like the source of this rumour is leading down the wrong track.

 

[Umbran]

It was nice to dream for a while though, wasn't it?

 

[sabrinathecat]

I would love to spend some quality time with the person who perpetrated this rumor, expressing myself in a meaningful way, as a warning to the next 10 generations, that sometimes that 15 minutes of fame comes at too high a price.

 

[CAFRedblade]

And things pick back up... wow, what a roller coaster:
http://io9.com/maybe-those-doctor-who-missing-episodes-rumors-are-true-514194463

Seems like a former BBC archivist, or at least someone who saved many previous Dr. Who tapes, has seen evidence at or around the BBC that confirms all the rumours... doh, now my hopes have risen again..