Thank God for John Cura and his "telesnaps". Thanks to him, we got to see the unseeable . Albeit only tantalising moments. It's just a pity there are a few gaps in his outstanding work at preserving missing episodes. Like, "Mission to the Unknown" and "Daleks' Master Plan". If we only had these. And we would finally get to see Edward De Souza as Marc Cory. It's so strange that no photos of him in the role were ever taken. After all, he was the star of "Dr Who". If for one week only.

I think it's cool that you did this entirely in black and white but for extra authenticity you need to make your next video a slideshow of like 20 images and record the audio from a built in phone mic

This is proof of why physical media is so important, especially since things like classic doctor who aren’t on britbox anymore

Josh can time travel, he was on the BBC in the 60s :0

I have the three volume set of John's telesnaps with a brief plot point to accompany each photo and they are a marvellous way to remember these lost episodes. I'm old enough to have seen the Troughton era and still hope that I'll be able to see them again before I shuffle off this mortal coil. Filming this in beautiful Black & White made it even more enjoyable so Bravo Josh!

As someone who recalls the show from it’s earliest stories, this provoked lots of conflicting emotions in me; happiness, anger, despair, but mostly gratitude to John Cura for the Telesnaps that do exist. I enjoy watching the Telesnap story recons that form part of the animation releases as much as the animations themselves. Josh, your informative and excellently produced video was a fitting tribute. Thank you for the variety and consistent quality of your contributions to the Whoniverse!™️©️❤

Thank you for all you do for the missing episodes. It's been fascinating

Josh, your hard work has been so influential in educating people about the misjudgements the BBC made and how dedicated fans helped make the Doctor Who archive what it is today. So a massive thank you to you (and to those people).

I’m so glad you’re doing a video on John Cura. There are so many videos on the missing episodes, but tele-snaps are so important to Doctor Who and nobody really talks about Cura at length. A great tribute to someone who is an unsung hero in the world of Doctor Who.

seriously mate, i am a DW fan since 1967, and your videos are among the very best ever made, please never stop

Beautiful work, Josh. I'm a fantasist, and whenever my brain goes post apocalyptic, I always picture myself there in the ruins of our once great (?) society, with my hard drive full of every episode of Doctor Who - and no technology available to play it. :)

I love all the work you're doing on the early years of Doctor Who, it's fascinating to see all these preserved fragments of it's history!

I still don't understand why Josh isn't commissioned for The Collection boxed sets. These videos are gold.

The return of the youngest 60s Dalek director. What a great video

Thank you for helping me appreciate Tele-Snaps even more than I did!

What a shame that John's hard work was destroyed. His legacy, butchered. At least we still have any of it at all. I hope we find more Doctor Who.

Great doc there Josh! A touching tribute to Cura, someone who certainly has helped to restore some of the missing episodes.

Thank you josh. I really love this videos and everything you do for these wonderful episodes that have tragically been lost to time :)

This is a really lovely tribute to a person I probably never would have heard of if it wasn't for this.. Also you really cleared up the meaning of the phrase tele-snap for me. GREAT WORK JOSH!

He'd be so honoured to know you'd made this.

I do hope more episodes will be found & restored 1 day. All 97 even though its kinda doubtful. 1 of the reasons i wish time-travel was possible.💙🙏

One of your finest videos yet. Your passion for this subject shines, and I echo everything you said about the value of art not being monetary. Thank you and, of course thanks John Cura.

Apparently they just recovered the telesnaps from 1965’s The Might of the Daleks. It’s awesome we have that because the only existing photos were some behind the scenes shots of the time destructor and the only footage was 3 seconds of censored material found in Australia when the guy shoots himself in the head.

I love the back-lighting you did in this episode.

Thank you Josh (and John Cura). Brilliant as usual. Your passion for the topic is admirable. So much stuff lost and not being looked after, it's sad.

You know you've achieved it when your filming yourself off a vintage 1960s TV

Josh, I feel that your excellent coverage in missing episodes will one day lead to a recovery. Keep up your awesome work 😊

The quality of these videos is just a chef’s kiss. Keep up the great work.

your documentaries helped inspire me to apply to a cinema studies MA program with a thesis centered around lost media and fan preservation efforts. as of a few weeks ago, i got in. thank you and keep up the good work ❤❤

FYI - the book uncovered the BBC written archive in the 90s was titled Telesnaps Book 2. And there appears no record of what happened to Book 1 or what it contained. But given it is verified many production stills went 'walkies' it is possible that was the fate of that book too. It's also ironic for the BBC to say they were moving forward, as they initially would not allow the scanning of the snaps and professional photographer had to be hired to take contact sheets of the pages, which were then enlarged for publication. (PS you also missed that snaps for ep 4 For Enemy of the World are missing.)

Another fascinating documentary! I love learning about these topics and you make them available in such an easily digestible manner!

Thank you on making this video!

Awesome video! It's amazing how many individual people are involved in keeping old episodes alive. John Cura creating telesnaps, fans recording the audio, Loose Cannon combining them into reconstructions, and they weren't even part of the BBC.

Great Video, Thanks Josh.

Oh that was wonderful! Thank you Josh for another great video! That was super interesting. What a shame so many telesnaps were lost from so many programmes that are long gone. We were lucky with Doctor Who

Amazing video as always josh! So interesting to hear about. And I love that television set with the doctor who titles playing on it too! It's all really enjoyable

JOSH!!!! YES . I been waiting for new video from you

Another great one Josh

Another absolute belter of a video! Great stuff thank you :)

Excellent research. Very interesting video you made.

Great video Josh!

Great job Josh!

Very touching, well presented and as always addictive.

Excellent work

Great analysis mate

The quality of the videos you produce are really something to be proud of. I can see this channel blowing up during the 60th Anniversary

Great video absolutely fascinating

Thank you for this closer look at John Cura!

Another goodie. Particularly appreciated the dire warnings at the end.

Enjoyed the flash frame.😀

Fascinating Josh! Tele-photographer to the Queen, eh? I had no idea of all this history. Thank you!

Another brilliant video 🙂

Hey I know a guy whose grandpa has all the missing Troughton episodes, and his archive is NOT dusty. Source: dude trust me.

It’s always a good day when josh uploads

Good work on those interlacing lines

Amazing video as per Josh like the little bit you did with the Queen as well 😉

Another great video about an unsung hero. Thank you!

John Cura was a hero, I am so glad to learn about him

4:54 oof

So many programs were lost, same way Doctor Who has been, but for some reason Doctor Who became the one that they would try to recover. I am not sure that any other program has had the resources put in to trying to recover every episode the way it has been with Doctor Who.

A fascinating insight into something I knew little about.

brilliant mate

'Forwards, not backwards.'? That came back to bite them. It's like that moment in the mid-90s when Marco Polo was in a batch of Nigerian episodes and the BBC worker refused. That ending speech was GOLD.

Your new TV looks good in this little doc

Excellent video. I despair at the loss of our history. Primarily through a continuing lack of imagination on the part of corporations on how media could be used in the future.

This is Wonderful content.

I like the way you say "Doctor Who"

well said i completley agree mate

I've been told by someone I know that Patrick Troughton was a really nice guy and he was fun to work with on Doctor Who back then.

Fantastic vídeo 💙🤗

Wake up babe, new Josh Snares documentary just dropped

'... are lost forever' ... or unless someone builds a time machine ... or at least a time scanner.

Additional comment, if I had a lot of money, I'd hire someone like you Josh to make very serious reconstructions of Doctor Who episodes! And maybe other projects if you were in the mood and if I kept paying you! I'd pay you a lot!

Jeepers Josh you content is brilliant. BBC don’t even come close on their content. Time to support the official Josh Snares Channel. 😊

would be interesting to see what an AI could do with the tele snaps and the audio recordings

Can’t wait to watch this later today. Thanks as always Josh. ❤. If it’s all about the mighty John Cura and the telesnaps, I can’t wait. He made the dream come true, for us to see via loose cannon rebuilds, the telesnaps and audio soundtracks, to enjoy the sixties stories, before any animations were done. And for me at least, they remain superior anyway, as they show what was really on the screen, rather than a cartoon approximation. Will write again later once I’ve viewed this video. 😊

Can the writers of Dr Who do an episode about this man!? Thanks!

Excellent work, as always! I love watching your videos as they are so informative and professionally done. Please keep up the great work!! I completely agree with your suggestion of keeping DVDs and Blu-rays. I lost an 8tb hard-drive and there was so much data lost that I went back to DVDs/Blu-rays and have amassed quite a collection. We must preserve the shows of the past! Thanks again!!

I loved the “parasite in chief” reference!

As always, an interesting and insightful piece - Bless John Cure :) Thanks for doing this Josh and I agree SO much with your end speech.... inspiring as always :) x

Facts!

The BBC should be paying you to have your work included in the blu ray collections

Wonderful work Josh, I have always known about John Cura and his contribution to lost Who, I didn't know so much detail about his method. I found it fascinating as I too used to take pictures off my TV screen in the early 1970's, mine were also with a Pentax camera a Pentax ME super to be exact. Mine were on colour slides and of Bruce Lee in The Green Hornet, his guest appearances in TV series like Batman and films like Marlowe with James Garner. Thanks again, you're a credit to Classic Doctor Who. Personal Regards Roger Egerton. P.S. I loved the recent Dalek story you made.

Wonderful piece Josh. Thank you.

I love your videos ... really well made, entertaining, informative ... just superb. I have no idea why you're not contributing to the official Blu-Ray ranges ... Please keep them coming!!

Man's already getting his money's worth from that vintage TV

Brilliant research and script. Thank you so very much. You answered so many of my longstanding questions. Your delivery, as always is clear and crisp and entertaining. Well done!

Thank you John Cura, very cool! (and thank you "Johusa", for teaching me so much about media preservation and for helping me appreciate what we have, also very cool!)

I have to confess to being more of a Pertwee and Baker fan. However, I have loved these fascinating documentaries on older Who ever since the missing episodes features.

Thank you for making this, had no idea one man was responsible despite watching tele snap lost episodes. The destruction of his archive after the BBC rejected it is like the destruction of the library of Alexandria 😢

If you do have any media that you feel may be lost to time, as well as making several hard drive backups, have it written to LTO tape. This is the industry standard for data archiving due to its relatively low cost and because an LTO tape is physically small relative to the amount of data it can hold. LTO readers are always backwards compatible, so it will always be able to be read. Obviously they can be corrupted, and being magnetic tape based they are not impervious to accidental wiping, but they are the best backup option

Excellent Documentary Josh! Without Cura we'd not have a glimpse into so much of Doctor Who (and other programmes) lost history! It's a shame that so much of his work got destroyed in the end due to those at the BBC not knowing the value of these snaps :/

Commision an actual animated show called The Missing Adventures. Reanimate lost episodes while also doing new ones with past Doctors Big Finish style. Get that Disney money.

Love how you're getting your monies' worth out of that old TV.

HI- I was born in 1952. I found myself getting a bit choked up seeing you on the old restored tv, the one you bought, yes? and showed us in another episode. It is so ironic to me that we baby boomers could hardly wait for TV's to be bigger and better as they are now, and I am glad such is the case. Bot something about seeing you, a young media reporter, broadcasting on the old kind of TV picture I watched as a child, brought a tear made me momentarily nostalgic for that experience of the old black and white picture. Emotions can be so complicated. Besides that, I am getting back into Doctor who after a few years away, and I was glad to remember your channel when it popped up in my youtube feed again. 60th anniversary of Doctor who has rekindled my interest, and you are my go-to for a major refresher. I am counting the days until BBC restores the first doctor series and adds color, how about you?

"Cura's exact method is lost to time" Now that's the definition of irony lmao, the guy who was essential to preserving the history of Doctor Who, and many other BBC productions.... did not have his methods preserved.... irony indeed....

I always thought tele-snaps were just people taking photos of their screens 😂 thanks for helping shed light onto the life of John Cura! Informative and fantastic as usual Josh!!

What a beautifully constructed video. I'd love to know more of Josh Snares’ opinions on general art and culture. 🎭🎭🎭

John Cura 🫡🫡🫡

Uh, why are you not more common on an 'official release'? I suspect I know, but I would like your view.