DIDDLY DUM PODCAST #189 – Wink Wink Bang Bang

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Tim Burrows of the Missing Episodes Podcast joins us to look at Third Doctor story “The Ambassadors of Death”.

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SHOW NOTES

(00:00:00) Our guest on this podcast is FOTS Tim Burrows from the “Missing Episodes” podcast.

(00:03:24) “Film is Fabulous!” is an initiative by film collectors, cinema lovers and vintage television enthusiasts. Its aim is to encourage collectors in the United Kingdom to create a list of their films and to add this with clear instructions to their Will.

(00:03:56) The episode of Tim’s podcast where he interviews Paul Vanezis is Doctor Who: The Missing Episodes Podcast – Special Edition – Film Collectors (dated 13/09/2023) and can be found here.

(00:15:10) Rather than write it ourselves, we thought it easier to lift this description from an online forum: “In 1992, a fan named Roger K. Barrett claimed to have a videotape of The Tenth Planet and offered to sell it to some Doctor Who fans and the BBC, including Ian Levine, a well-known fan and one time unofficial continuity adviser to the programme. However, Barrett turned out to be an alias and the existence of the episode a hoax. In a mini-documentary titled “Missing in Action” (aired during a 1993 BBC One repeat of Planet of the Daleks), Levine said that he experienced “the absolute utter depths of despair when we found out that it was just a blank tape and it was all a hoax”, expressing his desire to get hold of Barrett and “choke him until I found out why he misled everybody.” Unfortunately, hoaxes of this kind are not uncommon in Doctor Who fandom, with people like Barrett more than willing to exploit the hope that copies of the missing episodes may still exist somewhere waiting to be recovered.” The Missing in Action documentary can be seen here and the Roger K. Barrett stuff starts at about 00:04:25.

(00:34:07) The gorilla cage change scene from “Diamonds Are Forever” can be scene here.

(00:55:50) “Five Go Mad in Dorset” was the first of three Five Go Mad specials from the long-running series of The Comic Strip Presents… television comedy films. It first aired on the launch night of Channel 4 (0/11/1982).

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