Showing posts with label fiction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fiction. Show all posts

Wednesday, 9 October 2013

MORE MISSING EPISODES!

In further celebration of the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who, previously lost episodes of the William Hartnell and Patrick Troughton era have now been rediscovered.

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Whilst the official number is unspecified, these episodes have now been returned back to the BBC after weeks of speculation.

A press conference is also expected to be held later on this week that will report in full on the findings and inform fans on how they can gain access to the episodes.

Some of the Patrick Troughton episodes, of which haven’t been seen since the 1960s, were originally planned to be available for download from iTunes today, but reports confirm that the mentioned press conference later on this week will announce the postponed dates for the episodes’ availability instead.

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The total count for lost episodes of Doctor Who during the 1960s is officially 106 out of the 253 that were produced. Their ‘extermination’ came as a result of archive policies during the 1960s and 1970s, but due to further changes, have recently become available once again.

The Radio Times claims: “They are believed to originate from a haul discovered in Africa and have been digitally remastered for sale, although exact details remain sketchy.”


More updates available soon.

Friday, 17 May 2013

FREE SHORT STORY

Teaming up with our friends from Candy Jar Books, we've been given permission to post the following short story by Andy Frankham-Allen. Originally published by Big Finish in their 2004 anthology Short Trips: Repercussions and reprinted later in their best-of collection, Re: Collections, this is Andy's first piece of professionally published fiction, and is now out of copyright (which enables us to post it). Andy is, of course, the author of Candy Jar's forthcoming unofficial guide to Doctor Who companions called Companions: Fifty Years of Doctor Who Assistants, and he has written three short stories for Big Finish anthology series, as well being the series editor of Untreed Reads Publishing's Space: 1889 & Beyond, for which he wrote (among others) Conspiracy of Silence with New York Times best-seller Frank Chadwick.

Click below to read:

http://type40ukfeatures.blogspot.co.uk/