Lefties not understanding they are mispronouncing it anyway
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It was during the trial of the doctor. I am about to watch that. I've been watching it from beginning to end again the last year or so.
Honest question: What do you do with the missing episodes?
Do you read the surviving scripts, listen to the surviving audio, etc.?
I know every episode from Pertwee on is intact.
There's a collection I got from the high seas about a decade ago that had the missing episodes filled in with available screenshots from the episode, general screenshots, and in one or two cases, animation/animatics.
The audio exists for pretty much all the episodes, it's just a matter of filling in the visuals.
Was that the lot they found on reel in BBC South Africa?
I'm not sure. Possibly? It's just a huge file I still have hanging around that includes everything from Doctors 1 through 7, though most of the first and second Doctors are as I described above - audio with collected stills from old screen shots they used to do on set by simply taking a photograph of a television screen as it aired.
The "Trial of a Time Lord" arc was the best thing they could have done with Colin Baker. Much as I like him, in his first season, he just wasn't good in the role. He was too used to stage productions, so every conversation was like a monologue to an audience and every gesture was meant to be seen by the people in the back rows. It was weird, and it didn't translate well to television. The scripts for his first season were rubbish too, which didn't help.
But the writers, for "Trial of a Time Lord", decided to embrace Colin Baker's odd acting. Colin Baker can't help but monologue? Give him an in-universe audience to monologue at. He wants to gesture wildly? Have him do it at an enemy fifty feet away. His character has over-the-top bluster? Make the bluster a conscious decision, and show him thinking about subtlety and politeness before deciding to project bravery and pomposity.
Doctor Who had a lot of problems during that era, and the arc wasn't enough to save the show, long term. But it was more than enough to save the character.
I agree. I am stuck in the Rain story right now and haven't got the time to watch it through yet. The Valeyard is a great badguy and I wish we saw more of him.