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Whats a TV series that went completely off the rails, became absurd and lost sight of its own original premise? (piefed.social)
submitted 10 months ago by [M] to c/television@piefed.social
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I hear Riverdale was like that.

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[–] 9 points 10 months ago (1 child)

NCUTI AND whittaker, although its more to blame on the showrunner. Whittaker especially had problems with how the show was being run. ncuti was a weaker show than even whittakers runs. Rani, missy, masters all had such better storylines.

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  • [–] 18 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    I was talking more about William Hartnell ;-)
    First story arc has been about travelling back to the stone age, if I remember correctly.

    Gist of the show changed rapidly from historic arcs with some thrown in fantasy entertainment to complete SF/Fantasy already during the 60's.

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  • [+] 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)
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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    It's so sad that many of the early episodes have been destroyed.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    The group that find old episodes have kind of announced that there’s going to be an announcement soon. People connected to the group but not actually in the group have essentially said that a private collector has died, that they have at least one lost episode and that it’ll be returned to the BBC soon, plus that they’re in negotiation with other collectors who have yet more episodes to acquire them before they die, too.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    That would be great news!

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    The group’s called Film Is Fabulous, and here’s the statement they made:

    As mentioned by Sue Malden at our RECOVERED event in May, we are aware of several missing episodes of Doctor Who (Sue stated one [or] two, but there are more than this) in private film collections in the UK. We are liaising with the individuals about cataloguing and preserving their entire collection, including the missing Doctor Who episodes, and ensuring that copies are returned to the BBC. We expect to make a detailed announcement shortly.

    The Daily Star doesn’t give a source for this information, and has a somewhat spotty reputation with this kind of thing, but their suggestions for what’s in private hands are: Episode 4 of The Tenth Planet, Episode 3 of The Web Of Fear, and all of Marco Polo.

    I’m suspicious because, apart from Power Of The Daleks, those are all the most-wanted finds. And if someone’s telling you everything you want to hear, then you should always pause to go “hmmm”.

    Marco Polo, though. It’s a great story, even just presented as a series of telesnaps with bad audio. Imagine if we actually get to see Ping Cho’s dance! And it’s Warris Hussain, so you know that it’s going to be a story which makes the absolute most of its limited resources. People moan about episodes 2-4 of An Unearthly Child, but I think they’re gorgeous. And look at how dynamic the filmed inserts are.

    Again, not getting my hopes up, but just imagine if we actually got to see Marco Polo in all its glory.

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