Posted on 10/10/2013 10:23:23 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Nine long-lost episodes of Doctor Who which have not been seen since the 1960s have been recovered after they were tracked down to a store room in Nigeria, gathering dust.
The discovery will cause much excitement for devotees of the long-running series, for which there are dozens of missing episodes dating back to its early years
The previously lost nine shows were among 11 traced to a television relay station and the find brings back to life an entire six-episode story, while another is almost complete.
The newly found programs—which introduce the character of Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart, better known to audiences as The Brigadier—will be available on iTunes from today and will later come out on DVD. …
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Erasing shows to “save money” was something that BBC was apparently infamous for, speaking of that.
That is good news.
Yes, and America had a whole network’s archives dumped in the Hudson once too. Anyone remember the DuMont network??
Freaking awesome!
Those were recovered. In a closet in Austrailia or something.
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