Isn’t it back on iplayer yet?!
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Still not back 
. Hopefully it re-appears in time for the TV club. Would be more bothered but don’t think it’s a particularly good episode.
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It’s getting worse, really, because at this point besides Fear Her and An Unearthly Child, Terror of the Zygons and The Seeds of Doom are missing.
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Weird, the BBC have apparently issued a statement, but it doesn’t say much -
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It’s the ‘all the stories we have the rights to’ which is, I suppose, their way of ‘explaining’ it. It’s known that the estate of Robert Banks Stewart can play a bit of hard ball as when BF had to temporarily remove their Zygon-featuring audios from sale.
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What this suggests to me is that they’re currently negotiating the rights for the Season 13 Blu-Ray Collection set.
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Sure it’s nice for creators of original characters and monsters to retain the rights for future work, so they can do spinoffs without the BBC involvement, but I think it was a mistake to give those creators the right to prevent the BBC doing what they want with existing stories.
Sounds like they are holding it to ransom because they are being greedy. Not good for anyone involved!
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I’m not overly concerned about this. Based on the what happened recently with Big Finish, I’m confident that Terror of the Zygons and Seeds of Doom will be back on the iPlayer sooner rather than later. Other than the infamous Stef Coburn, I think most writers and their estates realise that it’s more beneficial to them for their episodes to be available to the public.
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Wait what? I just checked, and you’re right! They’re gone!
Well, at least it gives me an excuse to pick up the DVDs.
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At least I can remember my emotional reaction to Fear Her.
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Fear Her was, no word of a lie, what put me off Doctor Who for years.
iTunes gave it away as a free download during the 2012 Olympics, and I’d been bombarded with DW on the Tumbles, and obviously was a Billie fan, so I downloaded it and literally couldn’t get through it. Something about how it was shot just made me uncomfortable.
Nowadays I think it’s a perfectly middling episode that’s kind of overhated.
As you were.
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He also shows up playing didgeridoo (iirc) on a track on The Dreaming. Kate didn’t remove that during the remasters, I assume because the individual stems have been lost so it couldn’t be excised without re-recording all the instruments, as opposed to just taking his vocal track off Aerial and adding Bertie’s. (Which itself didn’t even have to be recorded as they just lifted it off the Before the Dawn live recordings.)
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