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Two Long-Lost Episodes of 'Doctor Who' Were Found. Soon, Fans Can Watch Them
Film is Fabulous! charity found two lost 1965 Doctor Who episodes; 95 remain missing due to BBC tape wiping in the 1960s-70s, BBC archivists restored them for Easter release.
- Film is Fabulous! , a charitable trust, announced Friday that it found two lost 1965 Doctor Who episodes among a deceased collector's possessions, with the BBC confirming the discovery.
- To save storage space during the 1960s and 1970s, broadcasters frequently erased or reused early tapes for re-use, leaving 95 episodes from the show's first six years still missing.
- The rediscovered episodes, 'The Nightmare Begins' and 'Devil's Planet', star William Hartnell and Peter Purves as part of the dark 12-episode arc 'The Daleks' Master Plan', written by Terry Nation.
- BBC archivists have restored the footage, which the broadcaster confirmed will stream on BBC iPlayer this Easter, making the episodes available to audiences for the first time in decades.
- The discovery marks the first recovery since 2013, when nine missing Doctor Who episodes were found in a television relay station storeroom in Nigeria, spanning over a decade between recoveries.
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Doctor Who icon Peter Purves reveals frustration and relief as lost episodes found: "My flabber has never been so gasted"
Doctor Who legend Peter Purves has reacted to the incredible recovery of two of his long-missing episodes after more than 60 years.The rediscovered episodes, which were found in a "ramshackle collection" of vintage films donated by a collector, both star William Hartnell, the first incarnation of the Doctor, and Purves, and are the first and third episodes from the third season of Doctor Who.The first episode, titled The Nightmare Begins, aired …
Two episodes of the classic Doctor Who series, thought lost for decades, have been discovered in a private film collection.
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