I died a little inside when you showed him wiping the tape.

I once was tasked with clearing a storeroom full of meeting minutes. I filled binbag after binbag full of typewritten minutes for meetings that had happened years previously on topics that had no relevance at all. However, knowing what had happened to Doctor Who and such, I checked everything just in case.

No offense to Terry Nation, however-I prefer David Whitaker's take on the Daleks. He had some good ideas.

This stroke of genius was the move that has kept this show on TV still going albeit not as popular as it once was but that is a whole other story. Troughton was an absolute spot on choice for this part and a real gem. His take on the Doctor was so different compared to Hartnell yet somehow the same man underneath showing the pure range this actor gave to his parts. It is still incomprehensible the sheer idiocy and shortsightedness in wiping these classic tales regardless of the thought processes of the time. By the 1970's they should have known better!

A nice factual account of the background to this release. It is particularly welcome that the BBC's decision to wipe virtually all recordings (of all shows) from the 1960s and early 70s is acknowledged as not being intentionally malicious or nonsensical; at the time it made sense to clear out material for which there was no market and which was costly to archive. Even today, the BBC does not archive all of its output. One small point, most (if not all) of the home audio recordings were made on open reel tape machines rather than on the new, and much poorer quality, compact cassettes.

Troughton always reminded me of old-time movie comedians he kind of looks like Moe from the Three Stooges!

Oh sweet! Nice to see you review this. A friend of mine who works for the BBC actually was on the animation team for this :D

it hurt me a lot that i couldn't go see the theatrical showing in my city because of work

Glad to have you back

Chuck, excellent as always! Thanks for the great content.

My girlfriend was involved in restoring the episodes last year. It's a student project but they had a lot of help from the BBC and fans.

Holy shit!! I hadn't even *heard* about this until now!! All I've ever seen is the recreation from production stills. Crap! Thanks a BUNCH Chuck!!

This was my first Doctor Who episode when I saw it back in 1966 I had caught the end of the previous episode when Hartnell turns into the next Doctor. I was hooked as a child

I hope you are doing better. Still praying for your health.

Glad for the update.

miss these!

Chuck I just found out I got my first job in my field, and you managed to make my week by telling me that Power of the Daleks was reanimated by the BBC

SPOILERS if you plan on watching it I’m watching classic in order and I finished The First Doctor’s run. The one scene that got me to like this Doctor is at the end where one of the colonist gets mad at the Doctor for using the power supply to destroy the Daleks (ungrateful people) and The Doctor says “lets leave, before they foot us the bill” and I was like “Sold I’ll follow him anywhere”

Very informative. Thank you.

damn it man..I forgot about you again. .now I got like 8 monts of videos to watch

What a lovely birthday present.

Don't diss Dodo. The fault was with the writers not the actress.

The entire UK needs to make a public statement on the world stage to apologize to the world for destroying Doctor Who. They will then be mocked for a period of time before we could consider forgiving them

Dark Shadows and Dr. Who :) sci fi for the youngsters, back 55+ years ago, easy. Back when the daleks were rolling around in tunnels :)

Fascinating!

I really enjoyed this video

Can you please review the superman versus the elite movie? It definitely sounds like something you would talk in depth about and that is when you are at your best in my opinion, well, that and doing your psycho Janeway impression. :-)

Good intro and it is interesting to see a variation on what you did in the lost but not forgotten section. On a side note I assume the given we haven't seen anything since early 2014 the iTunes podcast feed is deader then preverbal dodo but it would nice to know what killed it.

Does anyone know what is the song used in the intro of the review of Alien?

Home videotape recorders WERE AVAILABLE and could have bern used to record many of the (now lost) 1960's episodes! So, why weren't the episodes recorded at home? ........ Cost! The machines were very expensive!

whats the remix of the doctor who theme you use in the intro to your videos?

For some reason I can't find your review of Twin Peaks on your homepage. Has it been taken down?

It is just for me or catchvideo have stopped? I love your videos but being able to download them on my pc is important to me... Hope someone have found a new way to download your videos to hdd... I like to download videos, in this day and age nothing stays on sites for too long... :(

"I want to make a bunch of money off of the Daleks. That's why I won't allow episodes featuring them to remain overseas." Also, yes, BBC really were just being stupid and pinching pennies. The Americans saw the value of holding onto tapes of popular shows, which is how we still have stuff like I Love Lucy and Month Python (yes, Terry Gilliam is American).

EXCUSE ME DODO WAS THE FRICKEN BOMB!

+sfdebris i enjoy your videos immensly. but i usually watch it on my phone. What I notice is that the part 2 video wont even start on your website and i really want to see it. Are there any solutions for this problem? the videosystem DOES load the commercial but not your video...

Reel to reel audio tapes, not cassettes.

Not cassette tapes I think-reel to reel tape recorders in those days.

excellent video...interesting and with a nice (un-annoying) voiceover....a rarity these days.

My boss is s dalek

It is good, however, he means stories and not episodes.

IT was soooo important the bbc lost it

To deny that the destruction of all these episodes in the most popular longest running British television show of all time was an act of shortsighted malice is a bit like claiming cutting off the end of a football game to show a rerun of Heidi had nothing to do with shortsighted malice by somebody who wasn't a sports fan. When the preservation of one thing requires the destruction of another a forced choice obviously exists where subjective bias in judging the relative aesthetic value of both is inevitable. The bias at BBC was obviously against science fiction shows as evidenced by the fact that the BBC executive who came up with the idea for Doctor Who nearly firing the female producer of it for including robots and space aliens contrary to his original idea of the show being simply a mundane series of politically correct historical fictions using time travel as a framing device. When it became the most popular show on British television he realized his bias was shortsighted as whomever ordered the erasing of all those early episodes which would today be worth far more than whatever they were erased for if they are still alive must rationally conclude. Racial, ethnic, political, gender, or religious prejudices that favor one group must inevitably hold other groups in less favor. That may not imply any desire for the extermination of the less favored group but when a species goes extinct that could have been preserved the question naturally arises why more effort wasn't made to preserve it.

Good god, this comment section is just awful... thank fuck we turned ours off lol

are you done with KZfaq?

You have to have a very high iq to understand rick and morty. The jokes are extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of theoretical physics will go over the typical viewer’s head. There’s also Rick’s nihilistic outlook inspired by Nardolya Voyla literature, which is deftly woven into his characterization. The fans understand this stuff, and they notice that they aren’t just funny, they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence; those who do not like Rick & Morty truly ARE idiots. They would not apreciate the humor in Rick’s extestential catchprase “wubba-lubba dub dub”, which is itself a cryptic refgerence to Tuganstoff’s russian epic Fathers And Sons. Right now I am laughing at their bewilderment as Dan Hartman’s genius wit show’s it self on their television screens. What fools, how I pity them. 😂