The time before the Omni-rumour…
2001
July 2001 - website The Millennium Effect publishes an interview with Damian Shanahan, who tracked down ABC censor clips cut from from missing episodes of Doctor Who.
2004
January 2004
15 – A 16mm print of The Daleks’
Master Plan part 2, ‘Day of Armageddon’ – first broadcast in the UK in 1966
– is returned to the BBC by Francis Watson, former Head of Engineering at
Yorkshire Television, Leeds. He had held onto the print for over 30 years.
May
28 – A well-known Doctor Who researcher,
former contributor to Doctor Who Magazine (and writer of the script for
cancelled 30th anniversary special The Dark Dimension), author Adrian Rigelsford is found guilty of stealing “in excess of 10,000 unique and
priceless” photographs from a library in Kensington (see July 15, 2014). He had been visiting the library for almost ten
years. In June he is given a sentence of 18 months jail.
November
1 – The triple-DVD boxset Lost in Time is
released, containing full ‘orphan’ Doctor Who episodes and
clips from the 1960s relating to episodes from the missing or incomplete
serials of that era. The set also features the recently-discovered episode from
The Daleks’ Master Plan, ‘Day of
Armageddon’. The total of missing Doctor Who episodes (i.e.,
including those serials for which only short clips are extant) stands at 108.
Also featured is a documentary titled ‘The Missing Years’, which
tells the story of the way in which many of the early episodes came to be
missing in the first place.
2005
March 2005
25 – Doctor Who returns to
television with the episode Rose, to
enormous success. Viewing figures are very high (close to 11 million for the
premiere in the UK) and a whole new wave of fandom is created. The series
concludes 18 June with interest in Doctor
Who at a new all-time high.
July 2005
15 – On MEF, member Nick Parker enquires whether Gibraltar has been investigated for
film prints of Doctor Who. Richard
Bignell replies that it has been “thoroughly investigated”, and that they have
not had any Doctor Who for many
years.
The beginning of the global recovery
effort…
August 2005
2 – One Phil Morris posts a thread entitled ‘ian levine’ on
the Missing Episodes Forums (MEF) asking about the possibility of searching
overseas television stations for missing episodes of Doctor Who. He gets very short shrift on the thread from certain
members until he states that he has built up industry contacts in Africa. At
this point, Ian Levine jumps in to post that he should email Paul Vanezis.
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