Such media attention is not really surprising. As well as the Mirror’s front page, the story was also widely covered on that day’s news, and a section of that evening’s The One Show was dedicated to the recovery and Doctor Who’s missing episodes in general. The episodes were located in Nigeria at some point in the last two years (the exact time remains undisclosed by the BBC) by Phillip Morris, the executive director of Television International Enterprises Archives Ltd, a company specialising in archival management and the recovery of missing material. Bar episode three of The Web of Fear, which remains missing, the find sees the completion of two six-part stories from Doctor Who’s fifth season. All nine of the recently recovered episodes come from two consecutive serials from the Patrick Troughton era (1966-1969), The Enemy of the World and The Web of Fear, first broadcast between December 1967 and March 1968.
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Dr Richard Wallace explains how the episodes came to be lost in space and time.īetween 19, each series of Doctor Who was produced as a sequence of serials numbering anywhere between one and 14 parts. The find represents the largest discovery of missing episodes ever and made front-page news ‘ THE LOST DOCTOR’ screamed the front page of the Daily Mirror on 11 October 2013.
This number had stood at 106, until the news broke in 2013 that nine lost episodes had been returned to the BBC after being located in Nigeria. Of the 253 episodes of Doctor Who produced by the BBC between 19, 97 are missing.
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