Two vintage, long-lost episodes from the 1960s were announced as recovered this week, and distributed for all to see digitally. Plus HornOrSilk's look at a Big Finish audio with a fun cover.
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As rumored and conjectured and asserted for a very long time (for a majority of the time I've been watching and loving DOCTOR WHO and covering it for this site, in fact), the BBC this week at long last coped to having recovered a number of long missing DOCTOR WHO installments. Thesewere installments feared lost forever due to BBC 'housecleaning' practices back in the day, which saw the recordings of a number of vintage series 'blanked' or destroyed to make room for upcoming material.
As shows of that era were often physically duplicated for presentation in non-UK markets (there were no digital files and whatnot), hope remained that somewhere, somehow, copies of the eps so thoughtlessly banished by BBC might somehow be recovered - leading to a lengthy and arduous global search.
Said endeavor has yielded a few rewards over the years, but a recent haul announced by BBC yesterday remains both impressive and significant. The Enemy of the World (Troughton, Story #40) and The Web of Fear (Troughton, Story #41) are back in play after an absence of over forty years. NOTE the restoration comparisons on the Web fo Fear reel.
Here's a formal press release on the matter...
LOST DOCTOR WHO EPISODES
NEWLY RECOVEREDFROM THE 1960s,
Now Available Exclusively on iTunes
New York – October 10, 2013 – BBC Worldwide North America announces that a stash of BBC master tapes from the 1960s featuring missing episodes of Doctor Who has been recovered in Nigeria, Africa. The BBC has re-mastered the tapes, and
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