Saturday 30 October 2010

Root 1 Dalek 0

Death To The Daleks, Jon Pertwee's third and final television encounter with the dreaded Daleks, received no less than ten screenings on British satellite channel UK Gold, in both episodic (December 1993 & August 1995) and omnibus editions (January 1994, August 1995, March 1997, January 1999, January 2001, April 2002, April 2003, and finally in May 2003).



The clips above come from the morning of Sunday 3rd January 1999, and feature both opening and closing continuity announcements, as well as each advert break with the Jon Pertwee-specific holding slide used at the time (a publicity shot from The Three Doctors, pictured below). The story showing on the Friday, for the 'late night fans' as the announcer calls them, was The Keys of Marinus, part of what was - to date - the final run of Hartnell and Troughton repeats on British television.


WhoGold is always looking for more recordings of Doctor Who episodes aired on UK Gold between 1992 and 2007, so if you or anyone you know has old VHS tapes or DVD recordings (preferably unedited), then please get in touch! Many of these bits and pieces are only here due to the generosity of contributors, so whatever you do, don't throw them away!

6 comments:

  1. I see they kept the Part 1 caption even though it's meant to be a omnibus!

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  2. The way they dealt with opening titles changed from story to story - they would either (1) fade to black or cut straight to the first scene after the writer's credit (2) edit in a section of 'clean' vortex to cover the caption, or (3) leave well alone! :-)

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  3. Thanks for explaning!:)

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  4. Are you sure this is from January 1999? There's a clip of Dalek Invasion of Earth from Feb '99 which is still using the Golden Arrows Ident at the start...

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  5. I reckon you may have something there Ben - I'll have to dig out the tape sometime and check!

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  6. Date is correct so perhaps Dalek Invasion is wrong? Unless they were using the golden... Idents during primetime and the firework idents during the day?

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