The Doctor Who Clips List Intro

THE DOCTOR WHO CLIPS LIST
by Steve Phillips
Last revised: 5th November 2010

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This document lists all those extracts from Doctor Who that still exist where the complete episode has been lost. I have not noted home recordings of work being shot as these do not constitute actual transmitted material from the series. (For the record, there is 8mm or 16mm footage of location work in progress from the following pre-Pertwee stories: The Smugglers and The Abominable Snowmen; and studio work in progress on The Dalek Invasion Of Earth, Fury From The Deep and The Evil Of The Daleks).

The clips fall naturally into two categories. The first consists of the professionally-copied, full-screen, broadcast-quality material (generally held by TV stations). Many of these type of extracts exist because they were used in a different programme which survived the BBC's junkings of the seventies when the complete copies of the Doctor Who episodes were lost. Others hail from overseas, particularly Australia, where in October 1996, fans Damian Shanahan and Ellen Parry uncovered many extracts from seasons four and five which nervous censors had snipped from ABC-TV's original showings of the episodes. In a similar way, in April 2002, fan Graham Howard discovered some censored footage from New Zealand's original transmissions of The Web Of Fear and The Wheel In Space.

The other major batch of clips hail from a 15-minute silent reel of 8mm film which was recorded by a fan in the sixties by pointing a home film camera at his TV set during original transmissions of the episodes. Once again, New Zealand fan Graham Howard must be thanked for this material, which probably would not have produced a "master" quality version from the owner had it not been for his earlier "liberation" of fan copies of this material. Most of the clips on this reel are in the form of very short "reaction" shots and are thus difficult to tie down to exact places in their source episodes. Hence, descriptions for these clips are presented on an "educated guess" basis (arrived at by studying research materials such as scripts, audios and telesnaps) and should not be taken as gospel! These 8mm clips have been shot/transferred at varying speeds and the timings should be taken as approximate. Any of these clips which clock-in at under half a second have been ignored.

For each clip I give a brief description of the material and the running time in minutes and seconds [M:SS], rounded to the nearest second. Each entry is followed by an italicised letter/s which direct the reader to notes at the bottom of each page which give additional details such as the format of the material.

Many of the clips have missing or adulterated soundtracks. These days this is not a great problem, as good quality audio recordings exist for all missing episodes.

Please note that all transmission (tx) dates are in British/European D/M/Y format. TR = film telerecording. cVT = colour broadcast videotape (2" Quad, 1" C, D3, Digibeta etc - i.e. a format which doesn't degrade significantly the format being copied).

Note that a clip described as hailing from The Highlanders episode 1, consisting of a clapperboard followed by the TARDIS door opening, has been shown at conventions on infrequent occasions and is included on the Lost In Time DVD release. It is owned by Fiona Cumming and appears to be an off-cut from the original location film and presumably none of it was used in the actual episode. Thus, this material is not listed in the main clips list. Similarly, the 3:32 of film off-cuts from the Ealing work carried out for the weed creature's attack in episode 6 of Fury From The Deep (found by Andrew Martin in the BBC's archive in July 2003) are not transmitted footage and are not included. Also, there is reason to believe the "Dalek model" clip from The Evil of the Daleks (see qv) is likewise an off-cut from the filmed material, and would not have been seen in the finished episode.

Acknowledgements

Thanks to the following people for help, either directly or indirectly, in compiling this list: Dennis Greenaway, Graham Howard (twice!), Paul Lee, Robert Mammone, Steve Roberts, Rich Shipton and Mal Tanner.

If you have any feedback on these pages, I can be emailed . Please note that I cannot help with supplying copies of this material - almost all of the clips described herein are on the Lost In Time DVD box set. Also, for an excellent in-depth round-up of everything related to Doctor Who in the archives, please see Richard Molesworth's book Wiped! Doctor Who's Missing Episodes. This includes details of archive procedure within the BBC (including, where known, dates of wipings), all recoveries to date, audios, overseas sales, restoration, and so on...