Doctor Who: The Lost TV Episodes Collection Two

1st Doctor TV Soundtracks

By: Terry Nation, Dennis Spooner, John Lucarotti, Gerry Davis, Ian Stuart Black

Narrated by: Peter Purves, William Hartnell, Jackie Lane, full cast

Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins

Publisher's summary

Four more thrilling soundtrack adventures from the early days of Doctor Who, featuring serials lost from the TV archive. 

The pictures may be lost, but each of these stories survives as a soundtrack recording. Remastered, and with additional linking narration, they can be enjoyed once more. 

In The Daleks' Master Plan, the Daleks have stolen the Time Destructor, and are threatening to destroy the fabric of time itself. Pursued across time and space, the TARDIS crew are in grave danger. 

In The Massacre, the TARDIS materialises in Paris, 1572, a time of danger and religious strife. When Steven witnesses an execution, he believes the Doctor has been executed in front of his eyes. 

In The Celestial Toymaker, the travellers arrive in the domain of the Toymaker, where failure to win a series of games could result in them becoming playthings for eternity. 

In The Savages, the TARDIS arrives on a distant and seemingly idyllic world, but the Doctor, Steven and Dodo discovers that it hides a terrible secret. 

Special linking narration is provided by Peter Purves, who also recalls his time making the original episodes in a bonus interview. Also included is an edition of BBC Radio's Archive on 4 from 2009. 

In Doctor Who - The Lost Episodes Shaun Ley investigates what happened to the missing episodes of Doctor Who from the 1960s.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio on our Desktop Site.

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thank god

thank God for the people who sat in front of their televisions recording the audio for these episodes. just wonderful.

The only way to “watch” so many early episodes

For those of us who are long-term Doctor Who fans, these recordings are the only fix to the BBC’s perfectly logical for the time decision to record over or trash many old episodes of Doctor Who. It may be hard for younger audiences to even understand seeing episodes of a TV series as disposable, but in a time and environment when no one expected a second-chance to see something, no one expected there was a reason to keep these things around indefinitely.

Thankfully, ingenious fans did want to experience these shows again, and did the best they could to let them do so, by recording the show’s audio during the broadcast.

My thanks to them, and to the people involved in compiling those recordings into something we can all enjoy.

Imagine the past

Episodes to imagine what was on screen and what special effects were used in the past.

Doctor Who Lost Episodes Collection volume 2

I absolutely love this collection! A great way to experience a lost era of Doctor Who!

Boring 1st story, can't stand 1st Doctor

I know the Whovians are going to come and try to take away my nerd card for this, but I just can't stand the 1st Doctor with all his hmms and mmhmms and generally-excitable-old-man tones. Remember when Yoda was pretending to be a goofy old coot to test Luke? Imagine that, but all the time...all of it.
I put up with it for quite a while because the story started out okay, but then the good guys fool the bad guys and escape...and the story just keeps on going, except not in an "oh, you thought they were home free? Well, THINK AGAIN" sort of way, because they transition to a different friggin time period AND a different location where the biggest threat is annoying the police. I kinda wanted to see the baddies get theirs, but not enough to wait for the story to remember where it was going with all this.
Also, right after the first episode, there's an interview chapter where they spoil a whole bunch of stuff - what the hell, guys? Some of us are experiencing this for the first time and don't really appreciate the premature reveal.
What really killed it for me though was the Doctor - I don't mean to disrespect the memory of the actor, but I personally just couldn't warm to his "eccentric old man" schtick.