Lost Doctor Who episodes found

hoyd

Perhaps the doctor meant for these to be lost and not found, or that the daleks was afraid of them?

beardyw

I remember wanting to love Dr Who even before it was broadcast. The TARDIS was great, but the first series was disappointing. Like so many others, it was the first sight (and sound) of a Dalek which vindicated my hopes.

mrlonglong

We have all the voice recordings, feed that into AI along with the extant episodes and it should be able to regenerate (geddit?) the missing episodes.

pessimizer

I was afraid this would never happen again. Two very good episodes, too. I just pray that we'll get to see a few more Troughton episodes. He's the doctor that set the standard that all future doctors followed, yet the least known because the moronic BBC wiped basically his entire run, and now we only have about half of it. Tom Baker was "my Doctor" because he's the one who made me love the show when I was a kid, but Troughton (and Zoë and Jamie) are my favorite era. edit: Zoë and Jamie are from way back when the companions were expected to be useful, before Sarah Jane. Zoë was better at math than the Doctor; imagine them doing anything like that now.

MrGinkgo

Film cans? I thought the whole reason the series was missing was because it was shot on video, and then the tapes were wiped after shooting?

throwawaymobule

It's strange for formerly lost media to get a whole news story about it. This should, but still strange. Hope more are found sooner than another 13 years from now.

haunter

There are a lot of known lost episodes out there that collectors saved from thrash. The BBC knows it, everyone knows it, but the collectors won't come forward because they are afraid they are going to be prosecuted. They basically stole property which was meant to be destroyed. https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/nov/11/lost-do...

mapontosevenths

"My flabber has never been so gasted." - Pete Purves

antonvs

I guess the BBC just has no editors now. There’s no valid way to interpret that headline as grammatical.

metalman

right here with me is an old 3/4" brodcast video tape machine I rescued from an arts collective that was shutting down, in it is a tape, labeled Doctor Who

dramm

Hopefully some day somebody will build a Tardis and travel back in time and eliminate the BBC morons who allowed all this destruction.