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I don't think any TV episodes made it onto super 8, ( the British would probably know better), but "Doctor Who and the Dakeks" made it onto super 8, with the always ever watchable Peter Cushing!
Just a footnote to these comments, many years ago a Doctor Who fan with an 8mm camera filmed an extract straight from the television that featured a few seconds of a Beatles performance (yes, the Beatles on Doctor Who!) which is now the only existing footage of that performance.
Getting back on topic..... No doubt there will be other 8mm Who fans with extracts, but I very much doubt they have a full episode.
And as for the BBC releasing super 8, they were few and far between. I seem to recall a 200' nature film of the life of a cuckoo, and possible a couple of David Shepherd documentaries on animals and trains perhaps, but nothing else really.
If any did, they would have been by a BBC employee smuggling the film recorder negative out of the BBC vaults for a personal copy to be made. I do believe a couple of comedy shows were on 8mm by this route. I have not heard of any Dr Who episodes being done though.
If my memory is correct, the films Melvin mentioned were not BBC productions. They were available to hire on 16mm from some of the film libraries I used to use.
Many years ago when I was a teenager, my boss at the time purchase three large lock up garages that had belonged to the BBC, that were scattered around London.
The boss and his son and myself lifted the up and over door on one of these garages, and the three of us simultaneously went "Oh my god ".
Apart from old telecine machines, 16mm cameras, projectors and anything else you can imagine being flung out of the BBC, it was filled from floor to ceiling as far as the eye could see with 16mm film cans.
The complete series and seasons of Hancock's half hour, Are you being served, Steptoe and son, Last of the summer wine, Some mothers do ave em, you name it, it was there. And this also included Dr who.
These were all of the archival masters. Every episode was labeled up, as these were double head prints, with a separate full coat accompanying soundtrack reel.
I remember we ran a number of them at home, but is seamed strange watching something on film, that you have only seen before on television.
Let's face it, the BBC when it comes down to merchandise wouldn't know its arse from its elbow. With so many missed opportunity over the years, and they are still doing it to this very day. Do they not stop to think, that people would like to view their programs in HD. So why release 95% of their HD material on DVD! it beggars belief, for what use this has today they might as well release it on Video 2000 tapes.
I think all of these ended up with Bob Monkhouse. and were kept as a collection and not broken up.
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Be careful wording a post like that or you'll have all the missing episode rumours for some of those shows that are incomplete (Dr Who, Dad's Army, Hancock) starting again!
Not the episodes, so slightly off topic, but the two movies made by AARU productions were released on super 8 by Walton films around the late 70's.
Doctor Who & The Daleks (1965) as an abridged 4 x 400ft colour / sound feature (flat pan & scan of the Techniscope original).
Also as two separate 200ft colour / sound extracts.
Daleks Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. (1966) again as an abridged 4 x 400ft colour / sound flat version.
Also as two 200ft extracts, available as both flat and scope versions.
The prints are excellent; very sharp. I still have a print of Daleks and the colour is great. The feature editing is excellent also, removing scenes that don't affect the story telling; reducing the run time to about an hour, but in such a way that if you didn't know the film, you wouldn't be able to tell anything was missing.
As I recall, an Australian company acquired the negative to Daleks in the late 80's and made some new prints at the time.
Now there's a thought, Osi. Honestly, I don't know as I've never seen the Dr. Who & The Daleks 200 footers. Dang it, now I'll have to try and find some copies so I can check!
Steve. Most film companies still release films on dvd as well as Blu-ray because there are still many people who have not dumped their dvd players for Blu-ray ones. Also, unless you have a very large tv you would hardly be able to tell the difference. In any case there is now a diminishing market because most of the younger generation are not interested in old films and those that are can watch them on the many free view, satellite or streaming channels. The BBC is no different to any other film or tv companies. They all dump their obsolete equipment. Most film producing companies dumped their silent master negatives etc. when sound films arrived.
The interesting thing is that, with a blu-ray players ability to "upgrade" a DVD's playback, making it look really good, unless it is a cultic love of a film, I don't bother with getting a blu-ray version. Most of my DVDs, played on my blu-ray player, look very much like a 16mm, grainey image on my big HD tv. I like that.
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