DWMSE 34

DWMSE 34 was an issue of Doctor Who Magazine Special Edition that gave brief overviews of missing episodes written by people associated with the production of modern Doctor Who, followed by a gallery of any extant telesnaps. This edition focused on the First Doctor missing episodes.

Features

 * A Mission to the Unknown
 * Jonathan Morris examines the tradgedy that led to the many Doctor Who stories to be missing from the BBC Archives and what we are missing by not being able to watch them.


 * Snapshot of History
 * The wealth of telesnaps that exist is down to the work of just one man - John Cura. Richard Bignell examines who he was and why he took the photos.


 * "It's far from being all over..." - DWM editor Tom Spilsbury explains that a second volume of Second Doctor stories may be published as a special but this is depending on sales of this issue and mindfull of the fact that there are more Second Doctor stories missing from the television archives AND that some telesnaps are still missing.

The Telesnap Archive

 * Marco Polo
 * "The Roof of the World"
 * "The Singing Sands"
 * "Five Hundred Eyes"
 * "The Wall of Lies" (text synopsis only as no telesnaps survive)
 * "Rider from Shang-Tu"
 * "Mighty Kublai Khan"
 * "Assassin at Peking"


 * The Crusade
 * "The Lion" (Text synopsis only as episode exists in the BBC Archives)
 * "The Knight of Jaffa"
 * "The Wheel of Fortune" (Text synopsis only as episode exists in the BBC Archives)
 * "The Warlords"


 * The Savages
 * Episode 1
 * Episode 2
 * Episode 3
 * Episode 4


 * The Smugglers
 * Episode 1
 * Episode 2
 * Episode 3
 * Episode 4


 * The Tenth Planet
 * Episodes 1-3 (Text synopses only as episodes exist in the BBC Archives)
 * Episode 4


 * Each missing episode is presented as a four-page spread of 63 telesnap stills with accompanying episode summaries.
 * Episodes are arranged in order by season (each with a checklist of missing episodes and their respective telesnaps). Where a televised record exists the story is told in a one-page summary with the telesnap reconstruction compiled by Marcus Hearn, Richard Bignell or Andrew Pixley with introduction and summaries presented by Jonathan Morris.

Credits

 * Written and researched by Andrew Pixley
 * Editor: Tom Spilsbury
 * Assistant Editor: Peter Ware
 * Editorial Assistant: John Ainsworth and Mark Wright
 * Art Editor: Richard Atkinson
 * Consultant: Steven Moffat
 * Production: Mark Irvine
 * Managing Editor: Alan O'Keefe
 * Managing Director: Mike Riddell

Additonal details

 * It is not just the original televised stories that are missing from the archives. There are also a number of telesnaps missing. Many of these were in the private hands of people involved in the making of the show as a record of their work. The final discovery to date of telesnaps was in October 2003 which led to the recovery of six of the seven episodes of Marco Polo from director Waris Hussein.
 * There is no publisher's summary on the back cover which is instead given over to a full colour advertisement to the Royal Mail 50th Anniversary Doctor Who Stamp and Collectibles.
 * This magazine and had a cover price of £5.99 (UK) / $11.99 (US)