'The Celestial Toymaker', it's episode 4 that's intact and the other 3 are missing, not the other way around. 'The Evil of the Daleks' is 7 episodes, not 6. 'The Abominable Snowmen' is 6 episodes, not 4. 'The Faceless Ones: Episode 1' isn't missing.

its interesting to know that such a big and iconic show like Dr Who could have so many missing pieces. it must drive hard core completionist crazy that there is no possible was to watch every dr who episode unless you never missed an episode from the time it started airing.

I've only recently started watching Doctor who,decided to start with the 2005 revival cos David Tennant. I do plan to watch the classic series of course. So sad that 97 episodes are lost, I've heard there are audios and short clips existing,it'll give me a real headache to try and watch/listen to all of the stories but I'll do it. I'm currently on season 11 with Jodie Whittaker. I wasn't even born back when the lost episodes were aired so I don't even have a bad brief memory of watching them,sadly. I also will watch the spin-offs, I did watch some of the Adventures of Sarah Jane as a kid, I barely remember it except for K9, I loved the dog so much that my parents had to buy me a toy robot dog of my own :) I lost it now though,or maybe they got rid of it.

Really enjoying this.

Ian Leh-veen, not Lee-vine.

Circa 1963, BBC broadcasting 12 hours of programmes a day over twi channels. Presuming 70% of the content was prerecorded that equals 16 hours 8 minutes. Requiring 32 two inch tapes of about 30 minutes length. 16x 365 tapes caes at a maximum of 3.5 inches width is 1704 inches (rounded up) which is 141 feet. Hardly "a building the size of the Albert Hall" Heck 2 lots of 6 shelves down the opposite sides of my living room would suffice...

I always chose to believe that the Morbius Doctors were regenerations from a prior set of regenerations, before he took the name Doctor. In that way, they could be 'the Doctor' without being the Doctor. Sadly the show has uh .. chosen a different direction.

Whose dumb, stupid, Dalek-brained idea was it to wipe TV shows anyway? The very idea is horrifying. I absolutely abhor that idea.

The 3rd Doctor/Jon Pertwee may have returned for THE YELLOW FEVER. JNT wanted to utilise Robert Holmes's abandoned original script for The Five Doctors (also known as The Six Doctors) so instead of Gallifrey/Snowdonia it would have been Singapore, instead of the Cybermen it would have been the Autons, instead of the 2nd, 3rd & 4th Drs it would have been The Master, The Rani & The Brigadier & UNIT & finally instead of a fake robot First Doctor created by the Cybermen it would have been a fake robot 3rd Doctor created by The Autons. Upon hearing that Patrick Troughton had returned to the series in The Two Doctors, Jon Pertwee had contacted JNT & told him he too would love to return. Upon receiving the synopsis of Yellow Fever from Robert Holmes however, Pertwee hit the roof because the story would have him playing a robot version of his Doctor rather than his actual Doctor. Its likely that Robert Holmes would have quit long before production because JNT kept overloading the requirements for the script on a weekly basis & before writing a single word Holmes was being asked to use The 6th Dr, Peri, a robot Third Doctor, The Rani, The Master, UNIT, The Brigadeer, Mike Yates, Benton, Bessie, The Whomobile, The Autons & the Singapore location & likely the introduction of Mel to be played by Bonnie Langford & Holmes hated working on dot to dot stories like that & had proved himself excellent & creating totally unique stories of his own from the ground up. The Yellow Fever sounds like it would have been a complete mess - having said that, Graeme Harper was signed to Direct & if anyone could have made an OTT project like that work it was him

What sucks is that the missing episodes of Doctor who haven’t actually been fully missing for that long,there are papers stating that up until January 1972,the BBC’s archives retained a 16mm film copy of EVERY SINGLE EPISODE OF THE SHOW,accept for the Feast of Steven which had been officially junked in 1968,meaning that episode fully no longer exists,and cannot be viewed,but they had a copy of every other episode there,and not only that but a color copy as well if the episode had been made in color,if they had preserved the archive in 1970,and not 1978,every single Doctor who story might still exist EDIT:sadly even though the official junking of all programs stopped in 1978,there is at least 1 story of employees junking tapes in 1979,and getting caught after it had already happened,we don’t know if any DW episodes were among those,but it’s possible

imagine watching one of these episodes back in the day only to find out years later that they've been destroyed or lost forever

Back to the ground

Did, a general call out made to every countries TV stations to search their film archives back then or NOW?

This is cool. Thank you, the new Who is horrible and stupid. I refuse to ever show children new Dr. Who.

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Come on you private collectors hand them over before they disintegrate.

I don't think it's impossible to find the remaining missing Doctor Who episodes because we've recovered other missing episodes. I hope they are found because I have been a Doctor Who fan for 40 years. I love the classic Doctor Who but I hate the new Doctor Who.

I think 90s Who would have been a hell of a lot grittier, with sprinkles of the themes of the Virgin New Adventures in there. Would have been very cool to see.

Love the video, but if you're gonna talk about Who, the Doctor and Peri go on HOLIDAY. Not vacation please.

Come some years latter and The Ultimate Evil was latter adapted by Big Finish.

Should have done Yellow Fever on Audio for Big Finish,Rani,Autons,Master would have been fantastic but never even done,I know K O',Mara,and A Ainley are deceased but roles could have been recast and supposed 1940's Singapore Setting would have been great,surely someone could adapt this story and adapt. It well.

Just watching this back and he fails to mention every episode of The Dominators, The Krotons and The War Games were recovered from the BFI

I am a huge fan of classic Dr who I got into in Christmas 2019 and I have been watching it even seen them I started with the first doctor and the fourth and the second Doctor and the thrid doctor and fifth doctor and the seventh doctor and I have now got a Collection of classic Dr who dvds and new who dvds I amazing to watch classic Dr who because we learn alot about the time travel called the doctor and we also learn about the tardis and his companion and history and monster and unit also there is another documentary on mission episode here on KZbin

11 days till the 60th anniversary.

Please, for the love of WHO, I hope some episodes are revealed this month for the 60th anniversary!!

Re whether ‘The Feast Of Steven’ could *somehow* possibly have been telecine’d after all… here’s food for insanely impossible thought… we don’t have any paperwork that explains why there was a B&W film print of ‘Invasion Of The Dinosaurs’ part one, and the creation of Doctor Who telecine prints was a standard operating procedure in the mid 1960s. So strange stuff can happen. It *won’t* happen, but theoretically… 🤷🏻‍♂️

Great mini documentary Concise and well articulated

Jon pertwee did the show for 5 years

Is their creditless one

Lovely. But, could you not have used a better picture of me than *that one*?!! Other than that, you can call it whatever you like, mate! xx

Just think what AI could do for the missing episodes now. Also can’t believe the prices the bbc sell the classics for on dvd

You’re not a bad wolf 🤔

"Yellow fever and how to cure it" in a story located in Asia. Hmm.

No mention of Bernard Cribbins being in the Cushing films?

Interesting the rather low-tech way they went about transferring the programme from video to film for overseas sale. It simply involved pointing the film camera to the TV screen while the show was being screened (almost always on its actual transmission in the UK). Hence these films were called 'telerecordings' and would be slightly warped in the corners due to the shapes of the TV screens at the time. They started doing this when all TV was live and before videotape was even invented. Videotape was ridiculous expensive - one roll was the same price as a car, at the time. But they saved the TV company SO MUCH MONEY as what it meant was the broadcast schedule could be uncoupled from the studio schedule, and you could do things like record several episodes in one day and avoid having to assemble and reassemble the sets so often. Hence, video 'erasure' was an understandable standard practice, we are pretty lucky to have what we have - in fact it has been a definite win for the anally retentive :)

It would be nice if one of the new doctors could’ve taken over this series and made it more modern with the money Disney has given them, maybe the 14th doctor could? Now it’s 2023, we could do anything! And it would be nice to see more of the toy-maker after the 60th anniversary coming this year. It would be amazing to see that, every single story for after series 14 (which has been scripted already, I believe) wow, that would be amazing. Series 15, classic into new. Even if all the scripts weren’t made you could always make a scripts from stuff that they were originally gonna add.

Does no one remember that Jamie and Zoe only got every adventure after the first time they met the doctor were erased. They still remember the first time they met him

If you,re not happy with the term "Season 6B" I guess it could be called "Season 6.5" or how about "The Secret Season"?

Wait, the Rowan Atkinson Doctor isn't called the Bean Doctor?

So much has happened in Doctor Who since this video was made; I would have thought there would be many updates. But nope, hasn't been any videos in almost a year at this point. When he mentioned forced regeneration, I thought for sure that he was using the term because of the Thirteenth Doctor's final episode.

Marty might want to get a full-body x-ray and a brain scan after all that.

Ian luh-VEEN

There is something else on the wiki.

I love this theory my head canon is that it’s true.

I actually think this theory is true and the time lords got the doctor to do stuff for them before sending him to earth. Actually could fit the fugitive doctor (Ruth) in here and wipe it from the doctors mind. His appearance changing to hers so the other incarnations the second met would obviously recognise their old face. After the fugitive stuff gets to messy they could sent him to earth as Pertwee.

calling the TARDIS, HELP WE MUST TRAVEL THROUGH TIME TO GET THE 97 EPIS BACK

There has to be more episodes out there

big finish have rekeased beyond war games

the morbius doctors were included as past doctors in timeless child prior to doctor's mind wipe prior to hartnell