Last Classic Who Story you watched
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Keeper of Traken
Just finished "The mind of evil" today - in German. And yeah, I definitely recommend the dubbed Classic Who Episodes.
Possibly the best Pertwee. First saw it in B&W and wondered if it would as gritty in colour. Was.
So, it was filmed in B&W before? Didn't know that, I just noticed, that the picture was a bit... strange and it reminded me of the "Bezaubernde Jeannie"-DVDs, that I have back home: The first season, to be precise. IIRC, the first Season originally was in B&W and now it was recoloured.
No, all the Pertwees were made in full color on videotape and film, but many of the originals were erased, so the only surviving copies were black-and-white film prints made for overseas distribution. The color was restored through a brilliant process that extracted fragments of the original color data that were somehow encoded in the B&W film images, allowing the original colors to be extrapolated and recreated.
Ahhh, I should've known. It's what Diamanda Hagan and SFDebris talked about - the rather interesting archiving technique of the beebs back in the days... erasing the tapes. I mean - understandable, after all, these tapes were expensive. It's sad, nonetheless.
I watched Attack of the Cybermen a few days ago. Looks great and while the story is hit and miss, it retains a certain charm - felt like this should have been C Baker's first episode rather than the Twin Dilemma.
It was partly the expense, partly that TV was still somewhat perceived as live theater with cameras pointed at it, an ephemeral medium rather than a permanent one. The recordings were seen more as a convenience for archival purposes or for preparing overseas releases, rather than as something that there might be profit in preserving and re-releasing to an audience.
Main thing is that prior to the Annan report things weren't kept unless BBC Enterprises had copies for overseas sale. And their customers were still running in B&W.
The chromadot technique extracts color into from the B&W picture: Simplifying: what was a flat colour would seem speckled as the color info bled through.
In theory it shouldn't happen, as a filter would remove it. But the BBC didn't have enough filters, so lots of the B&W prints have this 'problem'.. Fortunately, in hindsight. Mind of Evil 1 is the sole Who exception.
Other episodes have been done with the 'fusion' technique, where a tx quality B&W has the color from an low grade NTSC home recording attached to it (not as easy as it sounds, as the B&W copies are slightly zoomed in, so they don't match without computer correction).. Ambassadors is a problem here as there was bad reception.
I thought the first episode was great! Second episode not so much. And there is some debate over who wrote the episodes. It is possible that Ian Levine wrote the 2nd episode and, honestly, it is bad enough that it is possible!
Eric Saward probably wrote the first episode.
A couple of times. In "The War Games," they were just boxes with slide-out doors: https://tardis.wiki/w/images/Tardis_Images/5/59/Row_of_TARDISes.jpg
In "The Name of the Doctor," they were blank cylinders with inset doors: https://tardis.wiki/wiki/File:DoctorSusanLeavingGallifrey.jpg
Possibly he did the rewrite. I have an early script, where in part two the Cryons are trying to lure the Controller to Halley's Comet for a duel. Part one is also a bit different (the Cyberleader kills Griffiths after the 'Getting a bit rough is it?' line).
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