The Doctor returns! Could this be the ultimate 50th Anniversary present from the BBC?BBC News have today confirmed that the BBC have found multiple classic episodes of Doctor Who previously presumed missing. During the 1960s, official recordings of television episodes by the BBC were eventually declared as unnecessary for storage in the broadcast's archives, resulting in the deletion of 106 episodes of the science-fiction drama featuring William Hartnell and Patrick Troughton as the Doctor.
Initially, more episodes than those 106 were 'lost', yet these were recovered earlier this century and compiled by the show's Restoration Team in the Lost In Time DVD box-set (available now for £10.47 on Amazon.co.uk). It is thought that 'new' classic episodes have been recovered from an unknown location in the African region, although at this present stage we have no definitive knowledge of whether singular adventures or whole stories have been recovered. The Enemy of the World and The Web of Fear are rumoured to be amongst the discovered tales- however, we'll have to wait until the BBC's press conference this Thursday October 10th to know for sure on the matter.
Doctor Who returns to BBC One with its 50th Anniversary Special, The Day of the Doctor, on November 23rd in a simultaneous broadcast across 75 countries and cinemas worldwide.
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