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  • Doctor Who and the Missing Episodes. Lost and Found and Restored.

    From Ubiquitous@3:633/10 to All on Sat Jul 18 00:07:32 2026
    Stam Fine Reviews nothing, but instead looks at why there are same gaps in
    the BBC's archive holdings of Doctor Who. After nearly 50 years of searching, there are still many episodes from the 1960s completely missing. We look at why, how and when, why things turned around and the search to recover those missing bits of history.

    There nearly 100 missing episodes, all from the William Hartnell and Patrick Troughton eras from the 1960s, though many of colour Episodes of Jon Pertwee's era have also been affected. We'll also look at how these have now been restored.

    00:00 Introduction
    00:42 Missing Doctor Who
    04:05 Ephemeral Entertainment and Recording
    06:35 How an episode of Doctor Who made it to a Videotape Master
    11:20 How the episodes then went missing
    14:13 The Pivot
    19:40 The Recovery Begins
    25:15 Reconstructing, Animating, and a Blind Alley
    27:31 Finding Clips, Inserts, Bits and Bobs, Better Copies, Full Episodes
    31:49 Colour
    34:12 The Numbers, The Frame Rates, The Resolutions, The Bells, Esmeralda! 38:12 Bringing back the 70s in Full Colour!
    43:00 Summary

    #doctorwho #doctorwhobbc #missingepisodes
    #doctorwho #doctorwhobbc #missingepisodes #daleks

    https://youtu.be/BetlKuRHBS4?si=p8LomGTomQxY9aHJ

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  • From Lawrence D?Oliveiro@3:633/10 to All on Sat Jul 18 22:18:25 2026
    On Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:07:32 -0400, Ubiquitous wrote:

    Stam Fine Reviews nothing, but instead looks at why there are same
    gaps in the BBC's archive holdings of Doctor Who.

    No big secret about the reason. They were recorded on videotape, and
    videotape was very expensive at the time, so they had to reuse (and
    wipe old programs), rather than buy more.

    It wasn?t even good-quality video, since the Brits were still using
    their 405-line pre-war TV system at the time. Best described as
    ?murky?.

    Compare programs shot on film, like ?Danger Man? from even earlier,
    1959/1960. We have all the episodes preserved today, and even though
    they?re black-and-white, they still look very good.

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