What did I miss? (Part One)

It won’t be a surprise to anyone who’s read any of the previous entries in this blog that I am a bit obsessed with the minutiae of Doctor Who missing episodes. This is a project that I’ve begun a few times over the years and have finally decided that enough was enough and this summer it would be finished! Sort of. In a work-in-progress kind of way.

There are 44 episodes of Hartnell Who missing. For 27 of these, there are no telesnaps. So – how many characters or monsters are there for whom we have no visual reference whatsoever? I wanted to find out. So first I made a list of every character who appeared *only* in a missing episode or episodes, and then I tried to find photos of them all – or work out who was who in the photos we have.

Some caveats. I’m only looking at credited cast (and I’ve used Doctor Who: The Television Companion by Howe/Stammers/Walker as my guide, although I have referred to the camera scripts for everything else). I’ve also taken as gospel Jonny Morris’s fantastic telesnap work in the recent DWM Missing Episode specials. And this is a work in progress. Where identities are in doubt my detective work has so far gone no further than trying to match up photos with scripts (in which there are contradictions in some cases) and looking at photos/performances of actors in other shows. Very often, this still resulted in guesswork. Hopefully people with better facial-recognition skills than me will point out errors or confirm guesses.

There are a lot of photos around on the Internet that are reconstructions/photoshopped/coloured etc. For that reason I’m only using photos that have appeared in DWM or other reference books/magazines/photo libraries. If you know of any (genuine) photos that fill in any gaps needless to say I would *love* to hear from you!

(NB All footage referred to below can be found on the DVD ‘Lost in Time’.)

So, without any further ado, here we go…

MARCO POLO 1-7 (NB No Telesnaps exist for Part 4. There is no footage whatsoever of this story.)

Marco Polo 

Tegana 

Ping-Cho 

Man at Lop 

Chenchu 

Malik 

Acomat 

Mongol bandit 

Ling-Tau 

Wang-lo 

Kuiji  

Vizier 

Kublai Khan 

Office foreman (assuming aka old man) 

Empress 

REIGN OF TERROR 4, 5 (No Telesnaps exist.)

Physician NONE KNOWN

Soldier NONE KNOWN

THE CRUSADE 2, 4

Sheyrah 

Luigi Ferrigo 

Maimuna 

Fatima 

Hafsa 

Ibrahim 

Man-at-Arms 

GALAXY 4: All characters can be seen in the surviving episode (Part 3) except Garvey.

GALAXY 4/MISSION TO THE UNKNOWN (NB No Telesnaps exist.)

Garvey NONE KNOWN

MISSION TO THE UNKNOWN (NB No Telesnaps exist and no footage whatsoever exists.)

Marc Cory NONE KNOWN

Lowery NONE KNOWN

Malpha 

Planetarians 

Varga Plant  NB Varga plants may be visible on screen in Day of Armageddon (see elsewhere on this blog).

THE MYTH MAKERS 1-4 (NB No Telesnaps exist.)

Achilles NONE KNOWN

Hector 

Odysseus 

Agamemnon 

Menelaus NONE KNOWN

Cyclops 

Priam NB Priam can be seen on the TARDIS scanner in 8mm footage.

Paris 

Cassandra 

Messenger NONE KNOWN

Troilus 

(Thanks to Jonny Morris for pointing out an Achilles/Steven/Paris mistake that slipped through – oops! The wonderful pic of Steven in DWM482 had been noted and then forgotten by stupid me.)

THE DALEKS’ MASTERPLAN 1, 3, 4, 6-9, 11, 12 (NB No Telesnaps exist.)

Kert Gantry NB Footage exists of Kert Gantry being exterminated by the Daleks.

Lizan NONE KNOWN

Roald NONE KNOWN

Interviewer NONE KNOWN

Kirksen NB Footage exists of Kirksen with Katarina in the Spar’s airlock.

Bors 

Garge 

Screamer (aka Vampire Bat of Desperus) 

Daxtar NONE KNOWN

Station Sergeant NONE KNOWN

First Policeman NONE KNOWN

Second Policeman NONE KNOWN

Detective Inspector 

Man in macintosh NONE KNOWN

Blossom Lefevre 

Darcy Trenton 

Steinberger P Green 

Ingmar Knopf – NONE KNOWN – but see The Feast of Steven Mysteries

Assistant Director ?? – but see The Feast of Steven Mysteries for why I’m pretty sure about this one.

Arab Sheikh 

Vamp 

Clown 

Professor Webster NONE KNOWN

Prop Man NONE KNOWN – but see The Feast of Steven Mysteries

Cameraman NONE KNOWN – but see The Feast of Steven Mysteries

Trevor NONE KNOWN

Scott NONE KNOWN 

Malpah (3) NONE KNOWN

Celation (3)

Celation – Volcano

Old Sara 

THE MASSACRE 1-4 (NB No Telesnaps exist and no footage whatsoever survives.)

Gaston 

Nicholas 

Simon NONE KNOWN

Landlord

Roger NONE KNOWN

Preslin 

Anne 

Captain of the Guard NONE KNOWN But see Mysteries and Hypotheses! for a possible pic.

Servant NONE KNOWN

Abbot NONE KNOWN

Tavannes 

De Coligny 

Old Lady/Woman NONE KNOWN

Catherine de Medici 

Charles IX 

Teligny NONE KNOWN

Priest NONE KNOWN

1st Man NONE KNOWN

2nd Man NONE KNOWN

Officer NONE KNOWN

1st Guard NONE KNOWN

2nd Guard NONE KNOWN

THE CELESTIAL TOYMAKER 1-3 (NB No Telesnaps exist.)

Celestial Toymaker 

Joey 

Clara 

King of Hearts 

Queen of Hearts 

Knave of Hearts 

Joker 

Dancers 

Sergeant Rugg 

Mrs Wiggs 

Kitchen Boy 

THE SAVAGES 1-4

Chal NB Chal can be glimpsed in 8mm footage recorded off screen.

Tor 

Captain Edal 

Exorse 

Jano NB Jano is seen in 8mm footage recorded off screen.

Avon 

Flower 

Nanina NB Nanina can be glimpsed in 8mm footage recorded off screen.

Senta 

Wylda 

First Assistant/Assistant  See Mysteries and Hypotheses! for my reasoning.

Second Assistant  See Mysteries and Hypotheses! for my reasoning.

Third Assistant  See Mysteries and Hypotheses! for my reasoning.

Savage 

Guard 

THE SMUGGLERS 1-4

Church Warden NB Australian censor clip exists showing the Church Warden (aka Joseph Longfoot) being killed.

Cherub NB Several Australian censor clips of Cherub exist. Cherub can also be seen in colour footage of location filming.

Jacob Kewper NB Footage exists of Kewper being shot (Australian censor clip). Kewper can also be seen in colour footage of location filming.

Tom NB Tom can be seen in colour footage of location filming.

Squire NB The Squire can be seen in colour footage of location filming.

Spaniard NB Spaniard can be seen in colour footage of location filming.

Captain Pike NB Several Australian censor clips featuring Pike exist.

Jamaica NB Footage exists of Jamaica being killed by Pike (Australian censor clips).

Blake NB Blake can be seen in colour footage of location filming.

Gaptooth 

THE TENTH PLANET 4

The only new characters in this episode are Cybermen, and as far as I know they’re identical to the Cybermen in the previous episodes – unless you know differently…?

NB Thank you to Icar Faemke on Twitter for a Marco Polo correction.
Thanks also to Frankymole and Tony M Clark of Roobarb’s Forum for alerting me to the photo of Preslin.