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This is a list of Doctor Who serials that no longer exist in any complete form in the BBC archives. They are incomplete due to the BBC's former policy of holding only a limited archive of episodes, and wiping tapes belonging to shows for which they did not see a potential future market.[1] Many other shows, such as Z-Cars and The Wednesday Play, have been similarly affected.[2] Since the 1980s there have been intensive efforts by various groups, such as the Doctor Who Restoration Team, to recover episodes wiped by the BBC, but which survive in recordings kept by non-UK broadcasters and private individuals. As a result, many episode at one time believed lost have been recovered, allowing for the recompilation of several previously incomplete Doctor Who serials, such as Tomb of the Cybermen and Invasion of the Dinosaurs. However, despite these best efforts, a number of episodes from the period 1964-1973 remain either lost, only available in fragments or - in the case of episodes produced/broadcast between 1970-74 - are complete but currently in a format different from the original broadcast.
All missing episodes from the missing William Hartnell and Patrick Troughton stories exist in audio form and many of the stories have "tele-snaps" taken during filming which exist and have been used in recreating some lost episodes. In addition, some brief excerpts from several episodes exist, from sources such as censor edits and extracts featured on other programmes such as Blue Peter. Examples of these fragments can be found as part of the 2004 BBC Video DVD box set, Lost in Time.
[edit] First Doctor
| Serial Number |
Serial Name |
Episodes |
Notes |
| Total |
Missing |
| 004 |
Marco Polo |
7 |
All |
A 30-minute reconstruction, using telesnaps and promotional photographs, was released on The Beginning boxset. |
| 008 |
The Reign of Terror |
6 |
4th and 5th |
Only audio survives of episodes 4 and 5. Some clips were released on the Lost in Time boxset.[3] |
| 014 |
The Crusade |
4 |
2nd and 4th |
Episodes 1 and 3, in addition to the audio of episodes 2 and 4, were released on the Lost in Time boxset.[3] All of this material was previously released in a VHS/CD edition with William Russell in character as Ian Chesterton providing linking material. A short clip from episode 4 exists as the reprise at the beginning of the following story "The Space Museum" (a serial which was also included on the VHS). |
| 018 |
Galaxy 4 |
4 |
All |
Two clips from the first episode were released on the Lost in Time boxset.[3] |
| 019 |
"Mission to the Unknown" |
1 |
All |
|
| 020 |
The Myth Makers |
4 |
All |
Footage from the first, second, and fourth episodes has been released on the Lost in Time boxset.[3] |
| 021 |
The Daleks' Master Plan |
12 |
1st, 3rd and 4th, 6th to 9th, 11th and 12th |
The surviving episodes, in addition to footage from others, were released on the Lost in Time boxset.[3] |
| 022 |
The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve |
4 |
All |
|
| 024 |
The Celestial Toymaker |
4 |
1st to 3rd |
The fourth episode were released on the Lost in Time boxset.[3] |
| 026 |
The Savages |
4 |
All |
Footage from episodes 3 and 4 was released on the Lost in Time boxset.[3] |
| 028 |
The Smugglers |
4 |
All |
Footage from the first, third, and fourth episodes was released on the Lost in Time boxset.[3] |
| 029 |
The Tenth Planet |
4 |
4th |
Some footage from the fourth episode exists, most notably the First Doctor's regeneration scene, and was released on the Lost in Time boxset.[3] |
[edit] Second Doctor
| Serial Number |
Serial Name |
Episodes |
Notes |
| Total |
Missing |
| 030 |
The Power of the Daleks |
6 |
All |
Footage from all episodes except the third was released on the Lost in Time boxset.[3] |
| 031 |
The Highlanders |
4 |
All |
Three clips from the first episode were released on the Lost in Time boxset.[3] |
| 032 |
The Underwater Menace |
4 |
1st, 2nd, and 4th |
The third episode and footage from the remaining episodes were released on the Lost in Time boxset.[3] |
| 033 |
The Moonbase |
4 |
1st and 3rd |
The video of the surviving episodes, ad the audio of the missing episodes were released on the Lost in Time boxset.[3] |
| 034 |
The Macra Terror |
4 |
All |
Footage from the second and third episodes was released on the Lost in Time boxset.[3] |
| 035 |
The Faceless Ones |
6 |
2nd, and 4th to 6th |
The first and third episodes, in addition to footage from the second episode, were released on the Lost in Time boxset.[3] |
| 036 |
The Evil of the Daleks |
7 |
1st, and 3rd to 7th |
The second episode was released on the Lost in Time boxset.[3] |
| 038 |
The Abominable Snowmen |
6 |
1st, 3rd-6th |
The second episode and footage from the fourth episode were released on the Lost in Time boxset.[3] |
| 039 |
The Ice Warriors |
6 |
2nd-3rd |
|
| 040 |
The Enemy of the World |
6 |
1st to 2nd, and 4th-6th |
The third episode was released on the Lost in Time boxset.[3] |
| 041 |
The Web of Fear |
6 |
2nd-6th |
The first episode and footage from other episodes were released on the Lost in Time boxset.[3] |
| 042 |
Fury from the Deep |
6 |
All |
Footage from all episodes except for the third was released on the Lost in Time boxset.[3] |
| 043 |
The Wheel in Space |
6 |
1st to 2nd, 4th to 5th |
The third and sixth episodes, in addition to footage from the third and fifth episodes were released on the Lost in Time boxset.[3] |
| 046 |
The Invasion |
8 |
1st and 4th |
All existing episodes were released in a VHS edition with Nicholas Courtney providing linking narration. Animated reconstructions of the two missing episodes were included on the DVD release of the serial. |
| 049 |
The Space Pirates |
6 |
1st, 3rd-6th |
The second episode and footage from the first were released on the Lost in Time boxset.[3] |
[edit] Third Doctor
Starting from Season 7 the programme was produced in colour, but due to the BBC's brief continuation of junking practices during this time some episodes of a few serials exist only in black and white. However, three of these colour incomplete serials (Doctor Who and the Silurians, The Dæmons, and Terror of the Autons) were processed to merge the black and white film with off-air colour recordings by the Doctor Who Restoration Team for subsequent video release. Colour recordings of The Ambassadors of Death made from a US transmission in the 1970s exist, but the recordings are severely affected by a rainbow-coloured pattern of interference that at times overtakes the entire picture.[4] However, transmission quality colour tapes survive for one episode each of Ambassadors and Dæmons. The list below is of serials which do not exist fully in colour. In March 2008, BBC Worldwide announced that it was investigating new technology that might be able to restore colour to some recordings of these episodes currently only viewable in monochrome.[5]
| Serial Number |
Serial Name |
Episodes |
Notes |
| Total |
Monochrome only |
| 053 |
The Ambassadors of Death |
7 |
2nd to 4th, 6th and 7th |
Sections of the second, third, sixth, and seventh episodes were colourised for the VHS release. All episodes except for the first exist in color on an NTSC Betamax tape with inteference. |
| 056 |
The Mind of Evil |
6 |
All |
Color footage from the sixth episode exists on an NTSC Betamax tape. |
| 068 |
Planet of the Daleks |
6 |
3rd |
|
| 071 |
Invasion of the Dinosaurs |
6 |
1st |
|
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