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== Story notes == | == Story notes == | ||
* This story was originally entitled ''The Saracen Hordes''. The working titles for "The Knight of Jaffa", "The Wheel of Fortune" and "The Warlords" were "Damsel in Distress", "Changing Fortunes" and "The Knight of Jaffa" respectively. | * This story was originally entitled ''The Saracen Hordes''. The working titles for "The Knight of Jaffa", "The Wheel of Fortune" and "The Warlords" were "Damsel in Distress", "Changing Fortunes" and "The Knight of Jaffa" respectively. | ||
* Only the first and third episodes of this four-part story, "The Lion" and "The Wheel of Fortune", exist in the [[BBC Archives]] as [[16mm telerecordings]]. However, complete audio recordings of all four episodes exist. | * Only the first and third episodes of this four-part story, "The Lion" and "The Wheel of Fortune", exist in the [[BBC Archives]] as [[16mm telerecordings]]. However, complete audio recordings of all four episodes exist. Notably, episode two of this story ("The Knight of Jaffa") breaks a 44-episode long streak of "moving" (i.e. available in a watchable form other than telesnaps) episodes dating back to "[[The Sea of Death]]". | ||
* "The Lion" was found in [[New Zealand]] by film collector [[Bruce Grenville]] sometime well before 1998 and languished amidst Grenville's vast [[16mm telerecordings|16mm]] film collection for several years. In 1998, ''Doctor Who'' fan [[Neil Lambess]] asked Grenville if he had any ''Doctor Who'' film in his collection, and when Grenville said that he had something called "The Lion", Lambess realised he might have a [[missing episode]]. He brought his friend [[Paul Scoones]] to Grenville's home to videotape the screening, just in case Grenville had the real episode. After it was determined that Grenville's print was genuine, he readily agreed to have it sent to the BBC for copying. Scoones shipped it to the [[BBC Film and Videotape Library]], and in 1999 the BBC made a Digi-Beta print of "The Lion", and returned the original print to Grenville. The story of the recovery of "The Lion" generated a great deal of press interest in the [[United Kingdom]]. As a result, Bruce Grenville appeared on one of [[BBC1]]'s most-watched programmes, [[The National Lottery Amazing Luck Stories|one of the variations of ''The National Lottery Draws'']], to tell his tale. To date, ''The Crusade'' remains the only second season story to have missing episodes. | * "The Lion" was found in [[New Zealand]] by film collector [[Bruce Grenville]] sometime well before 1998 and languished amidst Grenville's vast [[16mm telerecordings|16mm]] film collection for several years. In 1998, ''Doctor Who'' fan [[Neil Lambess]] asked Grenville if he had any ''Doctor Who'' film in his collection, and when Grenville said that he had something called "The Lion", Lambess realised he might have a [[missing episode]]. He brought his friend [[Paul Scoones]] to Grenville's home to videotape the screening, just in case Grenville had the real episode. After it was determined that Grenville's print was genuine, he readily agreed to have it sent to the BBC for copying. Scoones shipped it to the [[BBC Film and Videotape Library]], and in 1999 the BBC made a Digi-Beta print of "The Lion", and returned the original print to Grenville. The story of the recovery of "The Lion" generated a great deal of press interest in the [[United Kingdom]]. As a result, Bruce Grenville appeared on one of [[BBC1]]'s most-watched programmes, [[The National Lottery Amazing Luck Stories|one of the variations of ''The National Lottery Draws'']], to tell his tale. To date, ''The Crusade'' remains the only second season story to have missing episodes. | ||
* [[Telesnap]]s by [[John Cura]] for this story exist in the hands of private collectors, and several enlarged telesnaps also exist. | * [[Telesnap]]s by [[John Cura]] for this story exist in the hands of private collectors, and several enlarged telesnaps also exist. | ||
