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  • 6 – Mighty Kublai Khan

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    Not so mighty…

    Hello, the Historian here, bringing you bad news. It seems the person who dubbed our Loose Cannon reconstruction of “Marco Polo” (an official dubber, I hasten to add) accidently left episode six off! The first tape ends with five, the second begins with seven. There is a summary of the episode’s events on this page (scroll down), and the transcription (which I will certainly be reading!) is here. For completeness sake, I should add that the episode was aired on 28 March, 1964.

    Obviously, this is a serious disappointment to the TARDIS Project team. We did continue on with the next episode, which I’ll get to in a moment, but I just thought I should apologize to our readers…whoever you are.

    In a moment, “Assassin at Peking.” And I remain

    THE HISTORIAN


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  • 1 – The Roof of the World

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    So, here we are at the first of our Reconstructed episodes, an episode long lost. The Historian here, along with Ketina, Ronelyn, Schmallturm and Kroroboros, all gathered to watch an episode of Doctor Who that none of us had ever seen! Of course, an uncharitable soul might say we’ve still never quite seen it, but this reconstruction is the closest we will probably ever get! Onward!
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  • Wrapup – Inside the Spaceship

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    Well, it doesn’t seem all that long ago we were doing this for “The Daleks,” does it? At two episodes, “Inside the Spaceship” (aka “The Edge of Destruction,” “Beyond the Sun” (although that last is a product of a fan error in an early reference book), etc.) is the shortest story of the first season. In fact, the story behind the story is interesting, to me at any rate. Just before production started on “Doctor Who’s” first story, there was some question by higher ups as to how viable this “experiment” would be. The show was given thirteen episodes to find its feet; if people didn’t take to it and (just as importantly for the BBC) if the production just didn’t justify the cost, then that would be the end. Unfortunately, this requirement didn’t jibe with the scripts already commissioned. In fact, thirteen episodes would only take things through the second episode of “Marco Polo!” Somehow, two extra episodes needed to be filled, but no extra budget could be allocated. Thus, we get “Inside the Spaceship,” with only the four regulars and only the standing TARDIS sets. Even with the success of “The Daleks,” it wasn’t sure up to the filming of the first part of this story that the series would continue, which gives the Doctor’s line about how “this could be the end” in episode two a certain poignancy. For the whole story of the production (and much more competently told), take a look at its “Brief History of Time (Travel)” link.
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  • Wrapup – The Daleks

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    The Historian here, celebrating the TARDIS Project’s completion of Doctor Who’s second serial, “The Daleks!” It’s difficult to know where to begin in an assessment of this story, given its (I think it’s fair to say) overwhelming importance to the show as a whole. Without the Daleks, Doctor Who in its original “entertain and educate” remit might have lasted a year or two and be remembered by a few people who watched it as kids. But the Daleks, they changed everything, infuriating BBC Head of Drama (and Doctor Who creator) Sydney Newman, who initially saw them as the “Bug Eyed Monsters” he’d specifically demanded the show not feature. Thankfully for us, producer Verity Lambert stuck to her guns and defended the script and production…and the rest is history. Or, in our case, still to come!
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