December 2011

In Underworld, where "The quest is the quest" http://www.drwhoguide.com/who_4y.htm indicates Herrick's ID check reveals the sound of the Doctor's Tardis arriving or materializing (as heard by the ship's crew) to be of the timeships of the "gods" who came to help the Minyans 100,000 years ago." The fact of fiction is that Orfe ran the ID check, not Herrick. At about 6 minutes and 15 seconds into the first episode Orfe declares, "Signal identified as relative dimensional stabilizer in materialization phase as used in the timeships of the gods."

It is the season of giving and for Doctor Who fans such as ourselves, we have been given a wonderful gift, news of two previously missing episodes which have been recovered! Two classic episodes from the 1960s include one from the William Hartnell era, Episode 3 of Galaxy 4 and from the Patrick Troughton era, Episode 2 of The Underwater Menace were found.

Both were in the collection of one Terry Burnett who had purchased them in the early 1980s and was not aware he had them.

Until now, all four episodes of Galaxy 4 were considered lost. The recovered The Underwater Menace episode originates from Australia's ABC channel which had been censored for broadcast there. The missing bits will be restored to the episode via scans made of them from the National Archives of Australia.

Expect information about a forthcoming DVD release from 2 Entertain sometime in 2012.

There are still missing episodes... Are you a film collector? Please what are you waiting for, check your attic and crawl spaces! What exactly is in that film canister you bought decades ago stored away somewhere? We have to find these lost treasures.

Waris Hussein, the first director of Doctor Who in February 2011 when Doctor Who: Podshock  introduced him as a special surprise guest and interviewed him live on stage at Gallifrey One.

It's that time of the year again and we are just weeks away from a new Doctor Who Christmas special. Due to arrive on December 25th on the BBC and BBC America, the new special starring Matt Smith titled The Doctor, The Widow, and the Wardrobe was written by Steven Moffat. The following video is a "prequel" to the special.