The efforts he helped to start would eventually result in the recovery of several episodes. These come from several sources: 1. clips used in contemporaneous television programmes which exist — for example, editions of Blue Peter 2. clips used as flashbacks in other episodes of Doctor Who 3. the censor clips: material physically cut from episodes by the censors in Australia and New Zealand, as they deemed it unsuitable for family viewing 4. the 6-minute-long clip from "Four Hundred Dawns", episode 1 of Galaxy 4, given to Jan Vincent-Rudzki as a th… As of January 2011, there have been a few instances — Planet of the Daleks, part three, and all but episodes 1 and 5 of The Ambassadors of Death — where the team have recolourised an episode, despite having only a monochromatic copy from which to work. However, its unusually serialised nature was particularly affected by the haphazard manner in which the filmed duplicates were purged. … It made more sense, at least in the short term, to wipe and reuse videotape than it did to pay to have the apparently useless episodes indefinitely stored. 1,813: 49,292: There are at least 6 missing episodes … All episodes of the Jon Pertwee era exist in the BBC Archive. For Hartnell and Troughton, I have chosen to only list the 26 stories directly affected by the junkings of the 1970s. For Pertwee I have only listed the countries which received PAL colour master tapes and have colour episodes missing. In June 2013, Bleeding Cool ran a story reporting gossip that a bunch of Doctor Who 's missing episodes had been discovered by an engineer touring the broadcasters of Africa. At the same time, sales records held by Enterprises allowed investigators to trace filmed duplicates to various overseas broadcasters. This simple check resulted in some of the earliest recoveries. For many of the missing episodes, short clips exist. These come from several sources: The vast majority of these clips were released on the Lost in Time DVD box set. Though filmed in colour, most of the world's broadcasters did not then transmit in colour, requiring BBC Enterprises to provide monochromatic prints for overseas sales. If you think you have any Doctor Who material that may be of interest (whether it is a clip, an episode, a full story or some off-air footage) the Treasure Hunt team would like to hear from you. However, they ended up being the most complicated to outline, as there have been many versions of some of them, since the colour restoration process began in the early 1990s. The second was the junking of the filmed duplicates of the master. All episodes were wiped, so that the videotape could be reused. As new contracts were struck with performers' unions, and home video began to be seen as a viable commercial enterprise, the BBC established an Archive Department charged with recovering lost material. As of the DVD release of The Mind of Evil in June 2013, all of the Pertwee-era stories are now available in colour. There were thus fewer possible locations for duplicates of Second Doctor episodes. Two episodes are not included on this list; a few frames are missing from the opening titles and end credits of The Evil of the Daleks 2, and the ‘Next Episode’ caption at the end of The Celestial Toymaker 4 was missing. Episodes were junked at different times, for different reasons. There are also instances, perhaps most notably with The Smugglers, where home video recordings of the actors in rehearsal on location at least give a flavour of what the characters might have looked like in costume. Morris, … Episode 3 previously existed only as B&W, but now has been recoloured by the Restoration Team, and released to DVD. Most episodes of television programmes were therefore not re-broadcast. All the episodes of the Doctor Who Animated Shorts have been taped over to make room for the first five seasons of the Doctor Who Animated Series. Phillip Morris on recovering missing Doctor Who - Doctor Who, Philip Morris talks about the 2013 return of The Enemy of the World and The Web of Fear. Clips — sometimes bits excised to comply with a network's editorial policies, sometimes bits included as teasers on other programmes — exist from many of the missing episodes. Outside of the "official" paper trail, episodes have sometimes turned up in the hands of private collectors. (previous … As the videotape was relatively costly at the time, the medium was actually more valuable than the content recorded on that medium. In July 2011, film collector Terry Burnett returned "Air Lock", episode 3 of Galaxy 4 and episode 2 of The Underwater Menace to the BBC after discovering that these two episodes were missing from the BBC Archive through a chance meeting with Ralph Montagu, the head of heritage at Radio Times. Note, too, that some of these recolourised episodes have actually been broadcast, giving some of the restored episodes original transmission dates of their own. Perhaps they have massive physical damage across a few frames, or maybe they were recovered from copies that had frames removed by overseas censors. The Film Library was not obligated to store productions not recorded on film, prompting them to destroy their copies. Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. It is distinct from an episode which was never made, such as those which would have comprised the original season 23, as well as from an episode which was partly produced but ultimately unfinished, i.e. Moderators: Mark Brown, Stuart Douglas, Paul Vanezis, Rob Moss, David Buck. Last year, the Doctor Who fan world was treated to a great surprise when 11 missing episodes were recovered. The VHS release of The Dominators contained additional cuts due to material which was missing from the archives at the time, but has since been recovered. [2] However, the recovery was not announced to the public until later in December. There are still 97 episodes of 60s Doctor Who missing. Technically, all 1960s episodes of Doctor Who are missing, in that the original videotape masters were definitively lost. Except for Episode 4, colour only exists in a poor NTSC copy. This page has been archived and is no longer updated. Episodes 2–6 have been restored to colour using the chroma dot technique, but the result is still poor quality and needs further work. The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe – aided by UNIT – investigate sinister goings on at International Electromatics, only to discover a Cyberman invasion force. They occasionally turn up, most recently in October 2013. This second purge was much more haphazard. Almost 100 episodes of Doctor Who are currently missing — not through time or space, but from the BBC's own archives. The other 4 episodes were from The Web of Fear, which up until then had only episode 1 existing in the BBC Archive. Though these missing episodes no longer exist in their entirety, several remnants exist for fans to sample. On November 23, 2013, Doctor Who celebrates 50 years since the very first episode, “An Unearthly Child,” aired on BBC television. [3]). Because the owners have a legal right to own the physical prints, the BBC has offered to let the collectors retain their copies, after making a duplicate for the Archive. Why certain filmed prints were junked, while others remained, has no single answer. A few clips discovered later were released on the Genesis of the Daleks DVD. These were the first full episodes to be recovered since "Day of Armageddon", episode 2 of The Daleks' Master Plan in 2004. Contracts with various parties, in particular the musicians' and actors' unions, gave broadcasters a limited time frame in which their recorded material could be used. Below that are the episodes which are edited, and episodes … Missing Episodes (Doctor Who) - 11 Viewing. During production, the BBC Film Library and BBC Enterprises were conflicted over which of them had the responsibility of archiving Doctor Whomaster reels. … Below is a list of episodes that have footage missing, and why. As a result of the cull, 97 of 253 episodes of Doctor Who’s first six years are currently missing, primarily from seasons 3 to 5, leaving 26 serials incomplete.. Sometimes, it has been re-integrated in to a home video release. Improvements in colourisation technology resulted in all of Jon Pertwee's episodes being for all practical purposes "recovered", unlike the 1960s missing episodes. As a result, some serials of Doctor Who were affected more greatly than others. The BBC was particularly pressured to begin the recovery of Doctor Who episodes by Ian Levine, a "fan adviser" officially employed by the Doctor Who production office. Doctor Who missing episodes‎ (29 P) Pages in category "Lost BBC episodes" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 243 total. All Doctor Who Related Posts go in here. Their own archives were in fact separate from those of the BBC, and no one had bothered to cross-check their holdings against those of the BBC proper. Telesnaps, photographs taken of the performance as it was being videotaped or filmed, also exist of almost every missing episode. In October 2013, it was announced that 9 complete episodes of Doctor Who had been found at a TV relay station in Nigeria. Doctor Who: The Missing Episodes Podcast - Episode 4 - The Time Meddler Join Paul and Tim for some mischievous monkery as they review the last story of season two, “The Time Meddler”. Between Hartnell and Troughton’s Doctors, 10 serials are missing in their entirety, including famous stories like “Power of the Daleks,” Troughton’s first story as the second Doctor. Since home video had not yet become a viable commercial product, there was thus no financial incentive to keep previously-broadcast material in the BBC Archives. However, some of the episodes only existed as monochromatic film prints, mostly recovered from overseas broadcasters. 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