Friday, January 16, 2004

Lost Doctor Who Episode Recovered

News from the BBC that a lost (meaning deliberately destroyed) episode of Doctor Who has been recovered. The episode is the second episode of "The Daleks Masterplan" - the longest single storyline ever attempted by the program. The new discovery brings the total found to three of the twelve episodes. Apparently the last copy was nicked by a former BBC engineer, who has now decided to come clean. While this is great news for all fans of the series, it always seems a bit odd to me for the BBC to be so self-congratulatory over recovering material they willingly junked in the first place.

The timing of this is also mildly amusing - just after the BBC released a video of what was then the last episodes in their archives not to be released. Probably safe to say that this episode won't get a VHS release now, but will hopefully turn up on DVD soon. Only another 108 to find.

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