TAPE CONTENTS



TAPE 1 - TRACK 1



Doctor Who - The Daleks Master Plan Ep 1 - The Nightmare Begins [second half only]

Doctor Who - The Daleks Master Plan Ep 2 - Day of Armageddon

Doctor Who - The Daleks Master Plan Ep 3 - Devil's Planet

Doctor Who - The Daleks Master Plan Ep 4 - The Traitors

Doctor Who - The Daleks Master Plan Ep 5 - Counterplot

The Sky at Night - 111 - THE MOONS OF JUPITER, tx 14.1.66 (complete)



TAPE 1 - TRACK 2



Doctor Who - The Daleks Master Plan Ep 6 - Coronas of the Sun

Doctor Who - The Daleks Master Plan Ep 7 - The Feast of Steven [microphone recording]

Doctor Who - The Daleks Master Plan Ep 8 - Volcano

Doctor Who - The Daleks Master Plan Ep 9 - Golden Death

Doctor Who - The Daleks Master Plan Ep 10 - Escape Switch



TAPE 1 - TRACK 3



Doctor Who - The Daleks Master Plan Ep 11 - The Abandoned Planet

Doctor Who - The Daleks Master Plan Ep 12 - Destruction of Time [with closing continuity announcement]

Doctor Who - The Massacre Ep 1 - War of God

Doctor Who - The Massacre Ep 2 - The Sea Beggar

Doctor Who - The Massacre Ep 3 - Priest of Death



TAPE 1 - TRACK 4



Doctor Who - The Massacre Ep 4 - Bell of Doom [with “next week” continuity announcement at end]

Doctor Who - The Ark Ep 1 - The Steel Sky

Doctor Who - The Ark Ep 2 - The Plague

Doctor Who - The Ark Ep 3 - The Return [contains two large faulty-connection dropouts]

Doctor Who - The Ark Ep 4 - The Bomb



TAPE 2 - TRACK 1



Doctor Who - The Celestial Toymaker Ep 1 - The Celestial Toyroom

Doctor Who - The Celestial Toymaker Ep 2 - The Hall of Dolls

Doctor Who - The Celestial Toymaker Ep 3 - The Dancing Floor

Doctor Who - The Celestial Toymaker Ep 4 - The Final Test [with apologies to Frank Richards Estate at end]

Doctor Who - The Gunfighters Ep 1 - A Holiday for the Doctor



TAPE 2 - TRACK 2



Doctor Who - The Gunfighters Ep 2 - Don't Shoot the Pianist

Doctor Who - The Gunfighters Ep 3 - Johnny Ringo [no end titles]

Doctor Who - The Gunfighters Ep 4 - The OK Corral

Doctor Who - The Savages Ep 1

Doctor Who - The Savages Ep 2



TAPE 2 - TRACK 3



Doctor Who - The Savages Ep 3 (recorded at 3.75 ips)

Doctor Who - The Savages Ep 4

Doctor Who - The War Machines Ep 1 [end continuity announcement: later time next week]

Doctor Who - The War Machines Ep 2

The Sky at Night - 114 - MAN ON THE MOON, tx 11.3.66 [final 3m36s]



TAPE 2 - TRACK 4



Doctor Who - The War Machines Ep 3

Doctor Who - The War Machines Ep 4

Doctor Who - The Smugglers Ep 1

Doctor Who - The Smugglers Ep 2

Doctor Who - The Smugglers Ep 3

“Out of Time” (Chris Farlowe) (part) (recorded at 3.75 ips)

“Get Away” (Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames) (recorded at 3.75 ips)



TAPE 3 - TRACK 1



Doctor Who - The Smugglers Ep 4

Doctor Who - The Tenth Planet Ep 1

Doctor Who - The Tenth Planet Ep 2

Doctor Who - The Tenth Planet Ep 3

Doctor Who - The Tenth Planet Ep 4



TAPE 3 - TRACK 2



Doctor Who - The Power of the Daleks Ep 1 [voice-over credit for Terry Nation at end]

Doctor Who - The Power of the Daleks Ep 2 [voice-over credit for Terry Nation and Tristram Cary at end]

Doctor Who - The Power of the Daleks Ep 3 [voice-over credit for Tristram Cary at end]

Doctor Who - The Power of the Daleks Ep 4

Doctor Who - The Power of the Daleks Ep 5



TAPE 3 - TRACK 3



Doctor Who - The Power of the Daleks Ep 6

Doctor Who - The Highlanders Ep 1

Doctor Who - The Highlanders Ep 2

Doctor Who - The Highlanders Ep 3

Doctor Who - The Highlanders Ep 4

Unknown US comedy clip (recorded at 3.75 ips)



TAPE 3 - TRACK 4



Doctor Who - The Underwater Menace Ep 1

Doctor Who - The Underwater Menace Ep 2

Doctor Who - The Underwater Menace Ep 3

Doctor Who - The Underwater Menace Ep 4

Doctor Who - The Moonbase Ep 1



These tapes are the real deal. Original off-air recordings.The first half of the first episode recorded (The Nightmare Begins) was not captured, so it starts with the second half. That aside, uniquely these recordings include opening and closing music with all cliffhangers and reprises intact. No surrounding presentation was captured, but some episodes have back-announcements on the closing titles.I have two main machines I use for this kind of thing. One is a heavily modified Ferrograph that I use for troublesome tapes. But I got a very marginally better result from the Sony TC377, which tends to be better for good condition tapes originally recorded on decent machines (as these obviously were). The TC377 dates from 1971 and was a very common high quality, reliable domestic deck. It’s recently been thoroughly serviced … and it’s the same machine we used to transfer the Graham Strong tapes.A couple of Graham [Strong]’s Master Plan episodes are trumped by these, but we now have some cliffhangers and reprises that we’ve been missing due to all of them being intact on this new collection. For instance, Graham’s tape ran out a couple of minutes before the end of The Highlanders ep 1, and the best (not very good) patch we had was far inferior. We now have that. And Graham recorded over The Celestial Toymaker so we only had roomy microphone recordings - this trumps those. (These are probably mic recordings, but using a rather good, close mic).It’s all a jigsaw, and we now have some much better quality pieces. And as I say, where other collections can vary from very good to very poor within the batch, these are pretty consistent.It’s amazing these have never come to light before.Original off-air audio recordings of 1960s Doctor Who, being three 5 3/4-inch reels of 1/4” tape recorded 4-track mono at 1 7/8 ips (except “The Savages” episode 3 which was recorded at 3 3/4 ips).The boxes all have the name “Randolph” written on the front. They are also numbered (1) - (3) and finish with episode 1 of “The Moonbase”, suggesting there were originally more. There are also a couple of part-episodes of “The Sky at Night”.Unless otherwise stated, episodes include cliffhangers, reprises, and themes. Most appear to be line recordings (or, at least, very close-mic’d). First half of the first episode of The Daleks’ Master Plan is missing. There are two big faults during the recording of episode 3 of The Ark.The quality is generally very good (within the limitations of the recording medium - frequency response is limited to 6-8kHz at best). Quality is the most consistent of any collection of these episodes we have found; many of the episodes here are now probably our best source for future remastering. They are particularly useful given that all cliffhangers and reprises are intact. It is a shame that reels (4) onwards have not been retrieved.”Mark Ayres31st December 2018