Now, I know what you’re thinking: if the episodes were deleted or thrown away, then how can copies possibly turn up still? Well, as I mentioned, video recording was in its early infancy. Broadcasters would air them once (twice if they felt like not enough people had seen the episode the first time) and home video recording was in its early infancy.īBC via Giphy How can lost Doctor Who tapes even found?
LOST IN TIME DOCTOR WHO SERIES
Archiving was in no way what it was today and neither was customer consumption.īefore the days of social media or binge watching Netflix, TV series were seen as a ‘one-time thing’. Before the days of social media or binge watching Netflix, TV series were seen as a ‘one-time thing’.īroadcasters would air them once (twice if they felt like) and home video recording was in its early infancy. This practice wasn’t even confined to the BBC and countless other TV series suffered the same fate it’s just that Doctor Who is just the best-known series this happened to.Īrchiving was in no way what it was today and neither was customer consumption. Why are there so many missing Doctor Who episodes?īack in the 1960s and 70s, it wasn’t uncommon for the BBC (British Broadcasting Network) to routinely delete tapes, throw them away or even overwrite them in a bid to cut storage costs down.
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LOST IN TIME DOCTOR WHO ARCHIVE
Morris, who is the founder of the Television International Enterprises Archive (TIEA), has already returned nine episodes of Doctor Who to fans. Philip Morris, lost episode hunter extraordinaire, has teased that he knows of six episodes of Doctor Who, currently missing from the archives, that are in the hands of private collectors.
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