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The BBC has confirmed that Doctor Who’s first story, An Unearthly Child, won’t be included in the back catalogue of episodes hitting iPlayer this November.
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A spokesperson for the BBC said: “This massive iPlayer back catalogue will be home to over 800 hours of Doctor Who content, making it the biggest ever collection of Doctor Who programming in one place but will not include the first four episodes as we do not have all the rights to those.”
From 1st November, fans will be able to watch hundreds of episodes from 1963 to the present day, across the show’s classic and modern runs.
Not only that, but various spin-off series will also return to iPlayer – including The Sarah Jane Adventures, Torchwood, Class and behind-the-scenes series Doctor Who Confidential.
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making it the biggest ever collection of Doctor Who programming in one place
Maybe publicly. I’ve got all 847 episodes. 🏴☠️
I only have the newer episodes. I’ve never found a good link to the 80s Doctor Who nor ever seen them.
If I remember right: I found them mostly on The Internet Archive, but a ton come up on usenet too.
I’ll take a look tonight
The BBC has been blocked from releasing the first Doctor Who story by the son of writer Anthony Coburn following a vicious dispute over the broadcast rights.
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The omission comes due to the intervention of Coburn’s son, Stef Anthony Coburn, who claimed on Twitter that the broadcaster’s offer to re-license the four episodes did not meet his demands.
He stated the BBC offered “pittance” to the re-license, and despite a counter-offer, it seems they have not reached an agreement. Coburn further broke down the issues regarding the rights below, setting the blame on BBC.
Coburn’s current dispute with the BBC is the latest conflict over his father’s Doctor Who contributions. The writer’s son previously challenged the corporation over claims that his father named the TARDIS, leading to threats of a legal dispute over the trademark in 2013 that never came to fruition. Outside his claims, Coburn has also voiced his displeasure over reports surrounding Doctor Who season 14’s production, making several bigoted remarks over the casting of Ncuti Gatwa and Jinkx Monsoon on Twitter while promoting far-right conspiracies.
He sounds pleasant…
Coburn needs some serious mental intervention. Last i saw he was tweeting that if the bbc had him assassinated he’d leave the rights to the episode to Vladimir Putin
