jdb@mordor.UUCP (John Bruner) (08/09/85)
KTEH showed this serial over the past week. Unfortunately, they only broadcast five of the six parts. My question is: which part is "known" to be missing? I was under the impression that part 3 (which was broadcast in B&W) was the "missing" part in Lionheart movies of PotD and that all six episodes of PotD were available. Alas, we only saw parts 1-5, missing the conclusion. Am I confused, or did someone at Lionheart/KTEH foul this up? -- John Bruner (S-1 Project, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) MILNET: jdb@mordor [jdb@s1-c.ARPA] (415) 422-0758 UUCP: ...!ucbvax!dual!mordor!jdb ...!seismo!mordor!jdb
brown@nicmad.UUCP (08/10/85)
In article <3006@mordor.UUCP> jdb@mordor.UUCP (John Bruner) writes: >KTEH showed this serial over the past week. Unfortunately, they >only broadcast five of the six parts. My question is: which part >is "known" to be missing? I was under the impression that part 3 >(which was broadcast in B&W) was the "missing" part in Lionheart >movies of PotD and that all six episodes of PotD were available. >Alas, we only saw parts 1-5, missing the conclusion. > >Am I confused, or did someone at Lionheart/KTEH foul this up? I guess everyone hasn't read my previous posting about 'Planet Of The Daleks' and 'Invasion Of The Dinosaurs', so I will repeat it again, for all of the new readers of this news group. Yes, all 6 parts of both of the mentioned stories do exist. There are two types of distribution done by Lionheart, movie and episode form. Herein is where the problem lies. Lionheart received from the BBC the tapes that were to be used for distribution. The movie forms were edited without the B&W episodes, as it was figured that stations would not want to air stories that had a B&W piece stuck in it. Apparently, according to Lionheart, that is true. So, those episodes were left out. Now comes the part that doesn't make any sense. The episode form of PotD is missing part six. Lionheart had no explanation why the BBC did not send that over, as they had it for the movie form. I haven't gotten word back from my source, but it is my understanding that the episode form of IotD is complete. But, the movie form is missing part one, as it is only available in B&W. I am in the process of editing (using 3/4" equipment), when I get the two tapes that I need, complete movie forms of both of these stories. I will make these available to anyone who wants them. Lionheart will not, and have told me so, re-edited the tapes themselves. They will only distribute what the BBC sends them. They also don't want the problem of shipping two different edits of the movie form. This is all very sad indeed. The only way we are going to get re-edited copies to our TV stations is to write the BBC and have them send new copies to Lionheart. I hope that this clears up some of the problems. -- |------------| | |-------| o| HRD725U & PV9600 Mr. Video | |AV-2010| o| |--------------| | | | | | |----| o o o | | |-------| O| |--------------| |------------| VHS Hi-Fi (the only way to go) {seismo!uwvax!|!decvax|!ihnp4}!nicmad!brown