The Web of Fear - Revision history

Jon Preddle at 19:33, 22 December 2020

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	*The serial aired on television for the very first time since the 1970s when the [[United States]] station [[IPTV]] screened the five surviving episodes (ie not episode 3) back to back on '''14 to 15 March 2015''' as part of a pledge drive.		*The serial aired on television for the very first time since the 1970s when the [[United States]] station [[IPTV]] screened the five surviving episodes (ie not episode 3) back to back on '''14 to 15 March 2015''' as part of a pledge drive.
	*It was subsequently made available on other [[:Category:Online Services\|streaming]] sites, such as [[BritBox]] (from '''December 2019''').		*It was subsequently made available on other [[:Category:Online Services\|streaming]] sites, such as [[BritBox]] (from '''December 2019''').
		+	*A special edition of the story - now with a fully-animated Part 3 - is due for a DVD / Blu-ray release in mid-'''2021'''.

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 *If the "1976" one was the earliest, it may have been a "test" copy, struck to quality-check the negative, which was then rejected due to the imperfection and a second negative and print was run off; for some reason the "test" print was retained.
 *If the "1976" print was made later, the first set would have gone to Australia between April and June 1968, with the 'new' telerecording struck a few years later, with those prints being sent to [[Hong Kong]], [[New Zealand]], [[Gibraltar]] and/or [[Zambia]]. Since the NZ print had censor edits to it and was junked in 1974, the uncut "1976" print of part 1 could only have come back from [[Gibraltar]] or [[Zambia]].
-*It has also been suggested that this copy was made in mid 1969 as part of the transfer process to provide the footage of the TARDIS materialising in space that appeared in [[The War Games]] part 10.
+*It has also been suggested that this copy was made in mid 1969 as part of the transfer process to provide the footage of the TARDIS materialising in space that appeared in [[The War Games]] part 10.  (See also [[The Evil of the Daleks]]...)

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 <!--*One possible answer is that the ABC had two sets of prints of certain stories – Copy A and Copy B – intended for regional screenings, as had been the case with the previous batch of episodes to go to air ([[The Savages]] to [[The Faceless Ones]]). But as it turned out, the run of stories [[The Tomb of the Cybermen]] to [[The Wheel in Space]] was not scheduled to air in different regions on the same day, so the "unused" Copy B of each episode was sent to [[Hong Kong]].
 *If that is correct, then the "1976" print (see above) would certainly have been made ''after'' the two Australian prints (Copy A and Copy B) had been struck (in April 1968), which further supports that the "1976" print of episode 1 had been returned from [[Gibraltar]] or [[Zambia]]. -->
 *But if "Copy B" was written on in [[Nigeria]], who knows what it might signify!
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 ==Reconstruction==
-*On '''11 October 2013''', the newly-discovered serial was made available to purchase as a download from [[iTunes]]. It was subsequently made available on other [[:Category:Online Services|streaming]] sites, such as [[BritBox]].
+*On '''11 October 2013''', the newly-discovered serial was made available to purchase as a download from [[iTunes]]; the still-missing Part 3 was reconstructed using tele-snaps.
-*The serial aired on television for the very first time since the 1970s when the [[United States]] station [[IPTV]] screened the five surviving episodes (ie not episode 3) back to back on 14 to 15 March 2015 as part of a pledge drive.
+*The serial aired on television for the very first time since the 1970s when the [[United States]] station [[IPTV]] screened the five surviving episodes (ie not episode 3) back to back on '''14 to 15 March 2015''' as part of a pledge drive.

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 * The BBC held a print of part one as early as late 1976. (This print may have been the one returned from [[Australia]] in 1975, or it was the print sent to [[Zambia]], or it may have been an unsold print that was "on the shelf", or possibly created in 1969 for [[The War Games]] -- see below.) It was in the process of being junked when it was saved from that fate in 1978 (but see COPY B below).
 * See also the [[Troughton Junkings]] page.
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 |nsMgNCwYcXw|Restoring The Web of Fear ep 5 (Copy B) on 31 May 2013
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-|[[Nigeria]]||74?||b/w
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