Pre-discovery Doctor Who reviews

[Muzer]

I don't recall the timeline, but I would assume that there were reviews made of some Doctor Who episodes before they were discovered (The Enemy of the World, The Web of Fear, maybe some more?). Do these exist anywhere? I'm just curious as to how opinions might have changed by their discovery — in particular, as an example, if Chuck shared the common fan opinion that The Enemy of the World was nothing special until its discovery.

[SFDebris]

Re: The Enemy of the World, I originally said:

Enemy’s problem was that it was five years ahead of its time. The only real problem with the story is it doesn’t reach full realization, and as such the façade crashes down, which is a pity because once you can get past the limitations it’s actually a quite enjoyable story. The characters are fully defined and human, Troughton makes a wonderful villain, and the twist with Kent plays with viewers expectations, where usually in the show there’s good vs. evil rather than evil vs. evil. Overall, it deserves more respect than it seems to get.

[CareerKnight]

He did a look at all of the missing episodes as part of his Lost in Time series awhile back and most of them can still be found on the site though now just under the episode title in the proper series. I say most because the ones that were since found now contain the updated reviews. I still have his original reviews including Enemy of the World. He lamented that the budget wasn't enough for the concept but felt the story and characters were still great if you could look past that and that it probably deserved more respect than most people gave it.

One of his looks at it and some of the other formally missing episodes still in his top 50 missing episodes videos... which came out just as they were found. Proof that Chuck has somehow managed to piss off both Poseidon and Chronos. Enemy of the World and his thoughts on it at that time appear near then end of the first video.

Edit: I see he beat me to it.

[Muzer]

Cheers, that's satisfied my curiosity for now!