0:00- Intro The First Doctor (1963-1966): 0:58- Marco Polo (All 7 episodes missing) 4:32- Let's Talk: Telesnaps 5:29- The Reign of Terror (Episodes 4 and 5 out of 6 missing)* 7:56- The Crusade (Episodes 2 and 4 out of 4 missing) 10:24- Galaxy 4 (Episodes 1,2, and 4 out of 4 missing) 13:28- Let's Talk: Audio Recordings 15:09- Mission to the Unknown (Entire episode missing) 18:15- The Myth Makers (All 4 episodes missing) 20:23- The Daleks Master Plan (Episodes 1,3,4,6,7,8,9,11,and 12 out of 12 missing) 24:11- Let's Talk: Fan Recordings 25:42- The Massacre (All 4 episodes missing) 27:48- The Celestial Toymaker (Episodes 1,2,and 3 out of 4 missing) 30:05- The Savages (All 4 episodes missing) 32:01- The Smugglers (All 4 episodes missing) 34:07- Let's Talk: Censor Clips 35:18- The Tenth Planet (Episode 4 out of 4 missing)* *-Has received official animated reconstruction.
The Second Doctor (1966-1969): 38:08- The Power of the Daleks (All 6 episodes missing)* 41:03- Let's Talk: Telerecordings 42:28- The Highlanders (All 4 episodes missing) 44:17- The Underwater Menace (Episodes 1 and 4 out of 4 missing)** 47:31- The Moonbase (Episodes 2 and 4 out of 4 missing)* 49:47- Let's Talk: Recons Part 1 50:55- The Macra Terror (All 4 episodes missing)* 53:08- The Faceless Ones (Episodes 2,4,5,and 6 out of 6)* 55:22- The Evil of the Daleks (Episodes 1,3,4,5,6,and 7 out of 7 missing)* 57:35- Let's Talk: Recons Part 2 58:51- The Abominable Snowmen (Episodes 1,3,4,5,and 6 out of 6 missing)* 1:01:22- The Ice Warriors (Episodes 2 and 3 out of 6 missing)* 1:03:14- The Web of Fear (Episode 3 out of 6 missing)* 1:05:47- Let's Talk: Recovery 1:06:44- Fury from the Deep (All 6 episodes missing)* 1:08:46- The Wheel in Space (Episodes 1,2,4,and 5 out of 6 missing)** 1:11:00- The Invasion (Episodes 1 and 4 out of 8 missing)* 1:13:08- Let's Talk: Animations 1:14:57- The Space Pirates (Episodes 1,3,4,5,and 6 out of 6 missing) 1:17:19- The Jon Pertwee Era 1:18:59- Ending *- Has received official animated reconstruction **- Has received official telesnap reconstruction
@@CosmicCleric Hong Kong, as well.Only Singapore and Hong Kong still offer any hope for recovering any missing episodes. The rest have all been vetted. Surely, isn't someone in those places able to do a search?
The saddest part of the Massacre being missing is we lost Hartnell's monologue about how no one understands the responsibility of being "The Doctor" from the end of the story.
I struggle with that story. While it's low on my wish list bar episode 4. It would benefit from being found much like Celestial Toymaker and Space Pirates to the same way as Enemy of World
It's disheartening to know that most of the missing content is from Patrick Troughton as he has recently become my favorite Doctor. And the dynamic between he and Jamie is absolutely gold.
The fact that all seven episodes of Marco Polo could have survived and then been destroyed in the mid 1990's is disgraceful, it's a mixture of incompetence and cultural vandalism.
It's especially odd that NINE copies of Marco Polo were never found and yet a single copy of The Daleks' Master Plan Episodes Two, Five and Ten do exist.
Its bad enough that the BBC screwed up so monumentally, as to be almost unbelievable.........but the real tragedy is that many of the Dr WHO stories lost, mainly from the Troughton era were really good, and scary. They must of been very good as i still remember a lot about them, decades after they were screened. I'am just so glad i saw them on the original run, and in pristine condition.......but like today's generation of WHO fans i would like to see them again!
Having seen Evil of the Daleks' animation, as well as some clips, I think it really deserved to be preserved. Heck, all the stories should've been preserved. Too bad I don't have a TARDIS, to travel back and create recordings of the missing episodes
@@TheMastermind729 I feel that... I'm 25 and my first exposure to Dr Who was Eccleston's era in 2005. I've gone back and watched the entire history since, but it kinda sucks to know I can never watch all the possible episodes, almost like I'll never get to watch "Who" in it's entirety. Nevertheless I'm so glad there are super fans from day , who were able to capture the TV picture or audio, most likely sat there with their families being really quiet and not compromising the quality of the recording... It's absolutely mad, but I love the dedication
Reality is, most of the missing episodes are forgettable. Who would get excited at them finding episode 3 of The Space Pirates? Missing 70s episodes would be far worse
Or when Zambia states that "They do not hold any BBC Material." XD. Just a random question but who thinks that their making that up and they've actually got a whole bunch of stuff down there?
Insane after all that hard work, making episodes, to destroy them after ONE screening. That's like building a house, living in it for a week, and then demolishing it. Madness.
@@ivorbiggun710 And did the cost of the tape which the BBC were so keen to reuse, was it worth more than what they spent on paying actor salaries, script writers, set designers and makers, not to mention camera operators, etc...
Actually, yes, it cost hundreds of pounds for a new tape then plus storage of many film copies is expensive and takes up a lot of space. The arrangement with the unions, like equity, were very strict and it actually cost the BBC more to rebroadcast a previous episode than to make a new one. Since, the BBC had to be seen as spending the license fee money wisely, I imagine that they felt that they would look more frugal making brand new shows for lesser money. In those days before home video was popular or widely used, the BBC also had restrictions on how long they could sell overseas so by a certain point, there was little economic incentive to keep old shows.. Sad, I know...
Yes. I suggest you acquire a book called "Wiped! Doctor Who's Missing episodes" by Richard Molesworth if you are interested. It mostly deals with episodes but there is information about the background of British television there too, including this topic.
The chief of the BBC tried to kill off DW for years. Even the casting decision for Colin Baker, who wasn't actually that bad, was to turn people off. I remember back in the day members of my family being turned off Colin Baker's era of DW, as it was too weird. And at times, just plainly Doctor Poo.
As a American fan, I have one thing to say; THANK YOU! Thanks to all who have helped to recover these missing episodes, and let us HOPE that more are found!
I appreciate that instead of you bashing BBC for trashing them, you're thanking them for saving the ones that they did. I agree. I mean, I wish we had more, but I'm grateful for what we have. Hopefully more episodes have the fortune of The Web Of Fear and The Enemy Of The World.
I have a dark theory that there have been a lot of times when the BBC have rejected old tapes. When Mrs. Cura wanted to return the photos the worker said, 'there's no need, we're moving forward not backwards. It's also a reason why Marco Polo was rejected. If a person found a few episodes between 1990-2010, 'moving forward not backwards' was the reply. This was because the BBC would have moved on from classic doctor who. Sometimes they'd think it was a hoax most of the time.
Quite jarring considering that when the series began, it would be nice for fans to be more aware of doctor who than the whole it was aired in 1963. In 2006, Blue Peter did a Doctor Who competition.
Canada probably still has them though because doctor who was and is somewhat popular there so my best gust is that someone bought the tapes and there in a attic somewhere
William hartnell 1908 -1975 Patrick troughton 1920 -1987 Two men that gave an incredible show the best start possible and successfully pulled off a change that made tbe original series lasting 26 years possible as well as a 14+ year old new show neither would ever get to see a new generation get raised with.
Interesting that, if you look at the dates, the two men were born twelve years apart and died twelve years apart, which means they both lived to be the same age. That's a nice coincidence.
What we must 'never' forget, if it had not been for Ian Levine's sheer stubbornness and passion for the programme, this video would of been a lot longer. There would be very few, if any, classic episodes remaining. Ian has received a lot of mostly unwarranted fan abuse, but his contribution to the programme, if only for rescuing its history, should be heralded by all fans as a true Doctor Who hero.
Can someone enlighten me? Ian Levine made some comments about disliking the direction a fictional character is headed - and disagreed with the casting choice of the main character - and now all the sudden he's sexist and a bigot? ...I just don't understand?
unlike most recordings, which were done with microphones, Strong actually hooked up his unit directly to the TV, so most of them were as crystal clear as you can get
@@Yetaxa yes I think his invention was a smart one i read his story on his website where he told us how he modify his TV unit to record the sound directly to tape
It's awful to think that not only did the BBC refuse to take the collection of telesnaps after the demise of the photographer, but that his widow decided to burn them all.
The Restoration of Dr Who well if you’re dead husband has a bunch of “snapshots” of tv episodes what would you do. I would’ve burned it. The real frustrating thing is that the bbc turned it down.
@@therestorationofdrwho1865 There were at least a quarter of a million shots taken over the years which was a lot to handle, particularly for someone with no obvious use for them. Many of these were well over a decade old and of little or no interest to anyone so it is not terribly surprising that the widow should discard them after the BBC declined her offer.
BBC! Put this on a DVD Extra for a future animated release, this is a work of art and I recommend this video to anyone who wants to know more about missing episodes as a lot of Whovians don't even know about the Missing Episodes ❤️
When I first started in the classic, I had no idea that any were missing. One of the ones I started with was The Web Of Fear, and I reached episode three. I had no idea what was going on and why it was just pictures. I couldn't find an explanation because I didn't know what to look for, and I abandon trying to watch the first three Doctors. (I was frustrated to find that the Third Doctor had some episodes in black and white, and once again, I had no idea what was going on.) I started with the Fourth Doctor, which was a good place to start for me. I wish I had known more though. Later, I went back and watched The Web Of Fear and I enjoyed it very much. I wish I had known sooner so I could have enjoyed it sooner.
worst of all is the BBC said either send them back or destroy them yourself if they were not planned to be sent elsewhere. I heard loads were actually returned to the BBC and they actually had 2-3 chances to save certain serials :(
It's tragic that so much stuff got wiped. Apart from Doctor Who, six episodes of Dad's Army and half of the original Likely Lads are lost and those are only the famous ones. It makes you wonder how many old series were made and then destroyed and completely forgotten about.
We also lost quite a few of the early episodes of Steptoe & Son - criminal as I regard this as one of Britain’s greatest sitcoms, especially in its early days where the missing episodes come from.
@@BenCol : aas a child, back then, i just remember one where guys were being drowned in the rain in fields, also where some tiger like critter was climbing house walls.
I agree, it is a tragedy. Unfortunately, it is common with most entertainment media when it is new to destroy anything recorded after it is shown or aired. It certainly happened with the movies. Many of the early ones of the silent era only have a few stills surviving or possibly a poster. And one can only imagine with old radio shows. No one thinks back then of cultural significance. We can only hope we've learned our lesson now. When I was a child I went to one of the World's Fairs in the late 60's or early 70's, there were these two ladies who had a vendor stall and they were weaving sun hats for sale out of discarded film tape. I now wonder what films or TV shows were on those and are now lost to time. Who knows, if I had bought one, I could have been walking around with one of the lost episodes of Doctor Who on my head.
Fun Fact for you Josh. The BBC originally junked all episodes for 'Tomb of the Cybermen' (1967). This was the case until the BBC discovered all episodes in a Hong Kong BBC Station in 1992.
This video makes me wish time travel actually existed. We could go back in time and get those lost episodes before their erasure and bring them to the present to watch them.
Hungry Dragon Vs Frightend Hobbit No. They were wiped and had their copies sold abroad and junked. We break into the BBC archive before the episodes were erased. We bring the tapes to the present day, copy them digitally and then return them to the BBC in the sixties. Edit: It’ll just be like the time heist in _Avengers: Endgame._
Of course time travel exists. Are you suggesting the Doctor somehow fakes it? Perhaps he uses CGI trickery or some such, just to make himself look clever? Or maybe you think the Doctor isn't real? This is very dangerous talk and I'm having a panic attack.
Given time, we'll fathom it out. We've already got somewhat of an understanding of Tipler Cylinders, so maybe in a few centuries, we'll shove out a T01 Tardis of some kind and get all those amazing moments back. All we need to do is keep the memories alive until then.
In Singapore we store all our films master tape in the National Archive of Singapore for fans you might have a chance to search since i am a Singaporean i would also join in my own search to find missing episodes of Doctor Who
Thank you for the hard work. Incredible job making these lost episodes more accessible again. All the actors, writers and other staff that worked so hard on these shows back then, deserve to have their work better represented. The work is appreciated thank you
@@JoshSnaresI just wish they would use the BBC radio tracs like they used for the slide show remakes of the lost eps with the trading card images and remake them again with CGI characters like the movie "Resident Evil - Spirits Within", it looked so real, you could even see hair on the skin. Back in the 70's they aired Dr Who here in Maryland, USA on PBS after midnight, They should put out a request to see if anyone locally here has any VHS recordings of the lost shows.
It's hard to believe that the actors playing the companions, who should be supporting a new actor coming into the role after another everyone knew and loved, would do something that childish and hurtful.
Damn the research and quality of production of this video is unreal. Do people understand how much work this is? And what a fantastic job has been done? Kudos is an understatement.
The most informative and definitive report of the missing episodes I have ever seen. We have had panels about this very topic at various conventions and you touched on many points that were covered but this is nice to see visually. I hope you get to update this story as new information comes forward (especially the animation which is becoming more regular) and a new animation is supposed to be announced at a London con this month as well.
So glad you've combined all your videos into one documentary. Your work is an impressive achievement. Your videos have been very helpful to folks like me who are new to classic Who
Dear Josh, thank you so much for pulling all of these into one major documentary. This is an amazing piece of work and certainly on a par or better than some of the documentaries that the BBC puts out on their releases. Along with Fury From the Deep, I would most like to see Marco Polo again as it would essentially create a complete visual story arc for two of my favourite companions, Ian and Barbara. In a sense, they are us, two ordinary people thrown into an amazing situation and having to survive in some cases through their wits and ingenuity or in Ian's case, being able to beat up Aztec warriors. They provide the Doctor with a moral compass and often are the ones that convince him to stay and fight. I also feel (though I may be wrong) that they also provide the first hint of naughtiness in the TARDIS in the Romans! It's a such a shame that their final story, The Chase is such a vile story. It's a farce, directed by someone who clearly didn't care and only when Ian and Barbara ask to leave and the Doctor erupts in anger, does the serial really become gripping. Hartnell's famous blown line about "cinders in Spain/Space" is heartfelt and the photo montage of Ian and Barbara back in London is funny and touching in equal measure. William Russell is Doctor Who's first action hero and at her best Jackie Hill was a great foil for the Hartnell. As much as it would have be lovely to have had Russell back for Mawdryn Undead instead of Nick Courtney, I just can't imagine Ian without Barbara by his side. I was worried about showing the Black and White episodes to my daughter, who grew up with David Tennant but she really likes them. She laughs at the special effects she is supposed to laugh at and spent most of the Web Planet in hysterics. The Aztecs, on the other hand, did what was intended by the BBC and John Lucarotti. She asked to go the Library to get a book on the Meso-American civilizations and we've now watched documentaries on the Aztecs, Incans and Mayans so well done BBC! Thanks again for a nostalgic 90 minutes. I hope that I'm still around when some of these are finally uncovered. Perhaps you should follow Wendy Padbury's suggestion and break into Frazer Hines' garage... All the best from Canada, looking forward to your next bit of magic.
Having actually worked for the BBC and at TV Centre. I heard a story that the last episode of the tenth planet William Hartnell's regeneration scene was being used By the Blue Peter production team. The tape a 2 inch quad was in their production office in East tower, it was left there over night waiting to be returned to the BBC archive then at Windmill Road. The next morning tape had gone. This most likely in the 1980's. Josh you do a fantastic Job, such high quality both in production and contents. Australia and the Dr Who community should be proud of you.
The regeneration clip comes from a film recording, so this is not true. The quad went in October 1969, long before the Blue Peter usage. What was probably seen (if indeed the tape was related in any way) was a copy of an old BP edition where they were copying a previous use of the clip from.
You are incredible Josh! You detailed information about these treasures is fascinating! Thank you so much for giving us fans this remarkable story, a journey really. Long Live Doctor Who! Also, I really enjoy listening to your voice.
What a remarkable piece of work this is. Thank you and congratulations to Josh for the vast research that obviously went into it. His closing tribute to all the contributors was deeply moving, perfectly describing the dedication of so many people, from the highest professionals in production, to the humblest fan making microphone recordings in a family living room. And we in turn should pay tribute to Josh Snares, whose labour of love apparently comes at a personal cost, but he treats unkind comments with good grace truly worthy of the Doctor himself.
A fascinating video! What is so frustrating are the number of tapes which "survived" until 1974/74 and then got destroyed or sent back and destroyed. If only videos came out just few years earlier!
This is a fantastic documentary. This could have become very repetitive and boring, but the interjection of trivia, history, and the general information between some of the missing episode sequences, along with the extremely high production values and research, make this a must-watch for any Doctor Who fan! Thanks.
Josh, the lack of Nyssa in this video is unforgivable P.S. This is an amazing documentary and by far the best on UA-cam for detailing the missing episodes. I now basically preach the teachings of Graham Strong's audio recordings and the art of telesnapping by St John Cura the Great to all I meet. What an absolute legend
I found on reel to reel 3 x “ lost” episodes of Desert Island Discs broadcast in the early 70’s nothing too exciting but still missing from the archives Gordon Jackson , about 95% complete : Robert Robinson , about 75% complete : Max Wall , about 30% complete.. I dutifully contacted the BBC DDD and they asked me to send the reel , no offer to pay for the postage though , still never mind I was doing my bit for British culture wasn’t I? 8 months I had to ask them to return the original tape and nearly 3 years later there is still no sign of them uploading the found episodes onto the DDD database. Would I do it again? , sadly no , they don’t seem that interested despite all the lip service , so why should I bother ?
Thank you much for this video. Mr Snares your detective work is outstanding, and this film is a must for all avid classic Who fans. Brilliant beyond belief!
@@marlowe78 chewing gum in Singapore is not illegal but selling is and btw the Singapore Archives highly do not have the films anymore but it maybe a good Try
The BBC has a lot to answer for, saying no to all these things. Given how much money Doctor Who makes, you'd think they'd jump at the chance. If only Australia had just to kept all their copies, we'd have so many episodes and complete stories!
In the late 80s, the ABC in Australia were doing repeats of old Patrick Troughton Dr Who stories. When I learned of the missing episodes in the 90s, it occurred to me that one of them listed was what was broadcast in that repeat period. It was puzzling to think of why it would be thought of as 'lost' when the ABC had a copy as of only a few years before.
If this answer was given in the 80s, it would have been understandable, but by the 90s, most TV broadcasters (in Canada at least), tried to save what they could of earlier programs. I recall, in the early 1990s discussing how it would not happen nowadays with a friend. I'm flabbergasted they turned down several offers.
Hi Josh, the caption for The Wheel in Space is incorrect, it says, The Ice Warriors. By far, the best documentary i've ever seen on the missing episodes, fantastic stuff!
Honestly I can just watch this over and over again. On a week-end when is stayed in bed all day I put on part 1 of this and auto play went in order and then during the last part auto play went back to episode one and I looped this for a whole day and didn’t get bored.
As I am in my 60s and an Australia I am lucky enough to have seen all the missing episodes. Dr who was often repeated during school holidays and I think I saw each episode of the 1st Doctor twice and the 2nd Doctor three times. My mother thought that Dr Who was too scary for us and would not us watch it first time around. My favourite story of all was The Celestial Toymaker. After watching The Reign of Terror I remember going to our encyclopaedias to read about the actual events. Other episodes I really loved were the Highlanders, Fury from the Deep, and The Wheel in Space. I remember that I thought Fury from the Deep was very scary.
I am not sure what is more impressive. The well researched documentary that I have just watched or the mispronunciation of names and words that crop up every now and then. ;)
Thank you for such an informative video. Like most fans, I desperately hope that more episodes are found at some point. However, I feel like we are extremely lucky to have full audio recordings. They allow us to enjoy those episodes, if only partially.
This is an incredibly well done and informative video! I remember when I watched through all the Hartnell/Troughton episodes and Loose Canon was my god. The missing episodes are so frustrating and sad, but compared to other shows I feel what we do have and the restoration effort makes us lucky. Hopefully we'll be able to see at least a few more of these episodes, someday! Also, I saw what you did there with the "Singapore 1972!" meme :P
On the bright side it could be worse, at least we have the audio and some images for all the lost episodes, some shows from back then don't even have that much.
You should see the list of what they had back in the nineties. Interestingly, they were missing almost all of not the First or Second Doctor's episodes, but the Third Doctor's. If I remember correctly, they only had two serials of Pertwee's era. It's amazing they've found what they have. They were also missing quite a few of Four's episodes, at least in colour. Sometimes I feel like we don't realize how lucky we are to have what we have.
I apologise for my fellow Hong Kongers unable to return the recordings as an apology I can tell you possible places of the tapes it maybe in tvb city but it will be dangerous
This is an amazing piece of work - totally engrossing, and brilliantly researched. Just in case you do anything with it in future or re-up etc, there's a titling error at 1.08:48, where The Wheel in Space is captioned as The Ice Warriors - hope that's helpful and not too annoying - I know I'd want to know if I'd put as much work into something like this as you clearly have! All the best
Imagine how pissed the original cast and crew involved would be if they heard the BBC had just let all their hard work get put in junk yards and fires XD
Great series, such good quality, I still don't understand how someone can make something so much better than most existing documentaries. I'm just so glad someone so good at it is making these great videos on such interesting niece topics, thanks :)
Just came across this. Excellent sum-up, Josh! I also remember when we got the Pertwee episodes here in the States in mid-'80s, a number of them were in black & white (I remember "Ambassadors of Death," "The Silurians" and "Terror of the Autons" among them).
Top work putting this together. Incredible documentary, it's of a professional standard and had clearly been a labour of love. Thank you so much for putting together and sharing so much information.
I was hoping you'd combine all of the missing episode videos in to one. This is probably the definite article when it comes to guides on the missing episodes.
Loved watching this series week after week Josh! I honestly feel as though in future you could be making the documentaries for whatever format classic DW is released on home-media following the Blu-Ray sets. I cannot imagine the amount of time, effort and patient that went into creating these week after week and like many I wish you well on future projects.
I'm loved "Doctor Who" since the 1960s. My earliest televisual memory is of the final episode of "Evil Of The Daleks" from three weeks after my second birthday. It is one of my greatest dreams to one day see all seven episodes properly, not to mention all the other missing episodes. However, simply to dismiss the BBC as "morons" or to blame the organisation for its alleged "cultural marxist" policies, comments which are not simply ridiculous but utterly bizarre, is totally unhelpful and shows no understanding of how broadcast media worked at the time. One cannot possibly appreciate, much less judge, the BBC's actions half a century ago, from a point in time when even the most insignificant events can be recorded instantly with the press of a button. Things were incredibly different in the 60s and 70s: videotape was extremely expensive and television was seen as a very immediate, often live medium. Evidently very few people in the industry foresaw the future cultural importance of most programming and it is hard to imagine that a saturday teatime children's Science Fiction programme would have been high on anyone's list of television events that might be culturally significant to future generations. It may seem entirely shortsighted to us now, but the reusable tape was probably seen as of considerable greater value than the material it contained. A great deal of early television episodes of other shows - including entire series - were lost in the same way, not simply "Doctor Who," and, sadly, they were not the first massive losses in the history of the moving image. Up to 90% of all cinema films made before 1930 are believed to be lost, including most of the films of the Silent era. There are a countless movies of tremendous significance which will probably never be seen again. Although many were destroyed in studio fires caused by the volatility of silver nitrate film, others probably decayed completely, and some were probably simply thrown away and even used for landfill. There were archives, of course, but the preservation of film was an incredibly difficult process and often, by the time anyone began to consider Film as a serious art form, it was far too late for most. If one looks back over the history of civilisation, the amount of Art which remains extant is a tiny fraction of that which once existed. Fortunately, we do now have the technology to protect, restore and preserve the Art of the past, including film and television. Personally, however frustrated I am that so many early "Doctor Who" episodes are missing, I think you sometimes have to look at the big picture - no pun intended - and be glad that we still have so much that could so easily have been junked, and applaud the fact that missing episodes still do turn up and hopefully will continue to do so. In the meantime, we take Singapore!
Well said🙂. Although I agree with what you said and understand how different tv went about things back then I still can't help feeling angry over so much that was wiped.
This was a fantastic series, thank you so much. I wish I could afford to send some money your way, because you definitely deserve to be paid for this project. The BBC ought to release this as a bonus feature on their Dr. Who DVDs and Blu-Rays. Back in the 1980s when I was a lonely teenage Dr. Who fan (literally nobody else in my home town even heard of the show, much less liked it), my only outlet for missing episodes were the Target paperback books and the official hardcover books like The Key to Time. I never imagined that so many successful reconstructions would happen all these years later. It gives me a chance to fully appreciate an era of Who that I could only read about.
This is so well done thank you so much for putting so much time and effort into this project. I love it very informative for a Doctor Who fan. I subbed
1:14:54 it’s interesting how ever since this documentary released along with the macra terror animation, we started seeing more doctor who serials with missing episodes being released as animations every year: Faceless Ones (March 2020) Fury from the Deep (September 2020) Web of Fear (August 2021) Evil of the Daleks (September 2021) Galaxy 4 (November 2021) Abominable Snowmen (September 2022) Underwater Menace (November 2023) and The Celestial Toymaker animation is getting a release soon and we’ve received news of The Smugglers getting animated. So far, the only second doctor serials with missing episodes not animated are The Highlanders, The Wheel in Space and The Space Pirates.
Okay i'll watch the whole original series Okay i'll watch the whole modern series Okay i'll read every comicbook and novel ever made Okay i'll listen to every audio drama Okay i'll get my own tardis
I thank you for doing Dr Who. And keep FINDING all the still missing shows from all of the Dr Who. As I know HERE in Canada we DO have OLD shows from the 1960’s. You can contact the CBC stations in Toronto, Ontario, Canada to find them.
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0:00- Intro
The First Doctor (1963-1966):
0:58- Marco Polo (All 7 episodes missing)
4:32- Let's Talk: Telesnaps
5:29- The Reign of Terror (Episodes 4 and 5 out of 6 missing)*
7:56- The Crusade (Episodes 2 and 4 out of 4 missing)
10:24- Galaxy 4 (Episodes 1,2, and 4 out of 4 missing)
13:28- Let's Talk: Audio Recordings
15:09- Mission to the Unknown (Entire episode missing)
18:15- The Myth Makers (All 4 episodes missing)
20:23- The Daleks Master Plan (Episodes 1,3,4,6,7,8,9,11,and 12 out of 12 missing)
24:11- Let's Talk: Fan Recordings
25:42- The Massacre (All 4 episodes missing)
27:48- The Celestial Toymaker (Episodes 1,2,and 3 out of 4 missing)
30:05- The Savages (All 4 episodes missing)
32:01- The Smugglers (All 4 episodes missing)
34:07- Let's Talk: Censor Clips
35:18- The Tenth Planet (Episode 4 out of 4 missing)*
*-Has received official animated reconstruction.
The Second Doctor (1966-1969):
38:08- The Power of the Daleks (All 6 episodes missing)*
41:03- Let's Talk: Telerecordings
42:28- The Highlanders (All 4 episodes missing)
44:17- The Underwater Menace (Episodes 1 and 4 out of 4 missing)**
47:31- The Moonbase (Episodes 2 and 4 out of 4 missing)*
49:47- Let's Talk: Recons Part 1
50:55- The Macra Terror (All 4 episodes missing)*
53:08- The Faceless Ones (Episodes 2,4,5,and 6 out of 6)*
55:22- The Evil of the Daleks (Episodes 1,3,4,5,6,and 7 out of 7 missing)*
57:35- Let's Talk: Recons Part 2
58:51- The Abominable Snowmen (Episodes 1,3,4,5,and 6 out of 6 missing)*
1:01:22- The Ice Warriors (Episodes 2 and 3 out of 6 missing)*
1:03:14- The Web of Fear (Episode 3 out of 6 missing)*
1:05:47- Let's Talk: Recovery
1:06:44- Fury from the Deep (All 6 episodes missing)*
1:08:46- The Wheel in Space (Episodes 1,2,4,and 5 out of 6 missing)**
1:11:00- The Invasion (Episodes 1 and 4 out of 8 missing)*
1:13:08- Let's Talk: Animations
1:14:57- The Space Pirates (Episodes 1,3,4,5,and 6 out of 6 missing)
1:17:19- The Jon Pertwee Era
1:18:59- Ending
*- Has received official animated reconstruction
**- Has received official telesnap reconstruction
This is brilliant
The Evil of the Daleks and The Abominable Snowmen will be animated
1:08:48 Caption shows Ice Warriors for Wheel in Space.
@@domtaylor1887 your a real one thinks bro
Lesson learned:
Graham Strong's recordings are considered the highest quality.
Landen and Holman also recorded the story.
And Singapore never returned their reels.
@@CosmicCleric Hong Kong, as well.Only Singapore and Hong Kong still offer any hope for recovering any missing episodes. The rest have all been vetted. Surely, isn't someone in those places able to do a search?
@@sgdeluxedoc They have been searched. Do a google search for Philip Morris missing episodes
And Sierra Leone returned their prints.
Cosmic Cleric yes, Singapore - send us all those missing episodes!
The saddest part of the Massacre being missing is we lost Hartnell's monologue about how no one understands the responsibility of being "The Doctor" from the end of the story.
Still have the audio
“Perhaps I should go home…back to my home planet…But I can’t! I can’t!”
I love that scene!
I struggle with that story. While it's low on my wish list bar episode 4. It would benefit from being found much like Celestial Toymaker and Space Pirates to the same way as Enemy of World
It's disheartening to know that most of the missing content is from Patrick Troughton as he has recently become my favorite Doctor. And the dynamic between he and Jamie is absolutely gold.
On the bright side, Troughton has also had the most returned. And the animated Moonbase, Macra Terror, and Evil of the Daleks are pretty good.
@@elizawulf8180
My one complaint about the animated _Macra Terror_ is that for whatever reason they couldn't do the appearance machine sequence.
I practically exploded with rage when you mentioned that the bbc staffer said they didn't want the marco polo episodes back
The fact that all seven episodes of Marco Polo could have survived and then been destroyed in the mid 1990's is disgraceful, it's a mixture of incompetence and cultural vandalism.
It's especially odd that NINE copies of Marco Polo were never found and yet a single copy of The Daleks' Master Plan Episodes Two, Five and Ten do exist.
Same, whoever that employee is, I want to slap them!
Surely this is when the BBC were looking for them. I don't get it. Lack of communication between staffers?
Robert McGhin Two of which were found in a Mormon church basement no less
Its bad enough that the BBC screwed up so monumentally, as to be almost unbelievable.........but the real tragedy is that many of the Dr WHO stories lost, mainly from the Troughton era were really good, and scary. They must of been very good as i still remember a lot about them, decades after they were screened. I'am just so glad i saw them on the original run, and in pristine condition.......but like today's generation of WHO fans i would like to see them again!
Lucky you, I’m 22 ☹️
Having seen Evil of the Daleks' animation, as well as some clips, I think it really deserved to be preserved.
Heck, all the stories should've been preserved. Too bad I don't have a TARDIS, to travel back and create recordings of the missing episodes
@@TheMastermind729 I feel that... I'm 25 and my first exposure to Dr Who was Eccleston's era in 2005. I've gone back and watched the entire history since, but it kinda sucks to know I can never watch all the possible episodes, almost like I'll never get to watch "Who" in it's entirety. Nevertheless I'm so glad there are super fans from day , who were able to capture the TV picture or audio, most likely sat there with their families being really quiet and not compromising the quality of the recording... It's absolutely mad, but I love the dedication
What does 'must of' mean?
Reality is, most of the missing episodes are forgettable. Who would get excited at them finding episode 3 of The Space Pirates? Missing 70s episodes would be far worse
Take a shot every time Josh says
"Graham Strong's recordings are considered the highest quality.
Landen and Holman also recorded the story."
(Dies)
The STRONGEST quality, you might say
Singapore's faith is unknown
Or when Zambia states that "They do not hold any BBC Material." XD. Just a random question but who thinks that their making that up and they've actually got a whole bunch of stuff down there?
Also take a shot, whenever key episodes (normally the first and last) are the ones "missing".
Does Graham also have the highest quality alchohol
Insane after all that hard work, making episodes, to destroy them after ONE screening. That's like building a house, living in it for a week, and then demolishing it. Madness.
@@ivorbiggun710 And did the cost of the tape which the BBC were so keen to reuse, was it worth more than what they spent on paying actor salaries, script writers, set designers and makers, not to mention camera operators, etc...
Actually, yes, it cost hundreds of pounds for a new tape then plus storage of many film copies is expensive and takes up a lot of space. The arrangement with the unions, like equity, were very strict and it actually cost the BBC more to rebroadcast a previous episode than to make a new one. Since, the BBC had to be seen as spending the license fee money wisely, I imagine that they felt that they would look more frugal making brand new shows for lesser money. In those days before home video was popular or widely used, the BBC also had restrictions on how long they could sell overseas so by a certain point, there was little economic incentive to keep old shows.. Sad, I know...
@@danielcole6761 But it must have cost thousands to pay all the people involved in the making of each episode.
Yes. I suggest you acquire a book called "Wiped! Doctor Who's Missing episodes" by Richard Molesworth if you are interested. It mostly deals with episodes but there is information about the background of British television there too, including this topic.
@@danielcole6761 Cheers
Omg the BBC turning down archival prints several times! Fans would like to tar and feather those staffers
The chief of the BBC tried to kill off DW for years. Even the casting decision for Colin Baker, who wasn't actually that bad, was to turn people off. I remember back in the day members of my family being turned off Colin Baker's era of DW, as it was too weird. And at times, just plainly Doctor Poo.
That's why I dont pay my tv licence! And still watch the tv! Sod the bbc! Crap lefty content they put on tv nowadays!
@@mrminecraft6172 oh give it a rest.
Those motherfuckers, exterminate them
@@sillygoose635 oh sod off you twat!
Who cares about Area 51?
Let’s march on Singapore and find the real fates of those tapes!
COME CRY WITH ME.
We shall march. We will find them.
Well, I do hope that someone in Singapore do figure out what happened to them.
I think some of the Singapores tapes exist but i think they are not in Singapore anymore.
The Doctor is in
That Mission to the Unknown episode has now been recreated and is available to watch on the official doctor who channel.
He know dood, he DID the naration lel
As a American fan, I have one thing to say; THANK YOU! Thanks to all who have helped to recover these missing episodes, and let us HOPE that more are found!
I appreciate that instead of you bashing BBC for trashing them, you're thanking them for saving the ones that they did. I agree. I mean, I wish we had more, but I'm grateful for what we have. Hopefully more episodes have the fortune of The Web Of Fear and The Enemy Of The World.
I have a dark theory that there have been a lot of times when the BBC have rejected old tapes. When Mrs. Cura wanted to return the photos the worker said, 'there's no need, we're moving forward not backwards. It's also a reason why Marco Polo was rejected. If a person found a few episodes between 1990-2010, 'moving forward not backwards' was the reply. This was because the BBC would have moved on from classic doctor who. Sometimes they'd think it was a hoax most of the time.
Quite jarring considering that when the series began, it would be nice for fans to be more aware of doctor who than the whole it was aired in 1963. In 2006, Blue Peter did a Doctor Who competition.
Canada probably still has them though because doctor who was and is somewhat popular there so my best gust is that someone bought the tapes and there in a attic somewhere
@@noinpolish3259 gust??? How about *guess*?
@@abbyandsadiesmom2040 ever heard of a typo lady?
William hartnell 1908 -1975
Patrick troughton 1920 -1987
Two men that gave an incredible show the best start possible and successfully pulled off a change that made tbe original series lasting 26 years possible as well as a 14+ year old new show neither would ever get to see a new generation get raised with.
Incorrect. The new show just finished it's 11th season.
Interesting that, if you look at the dates, the two men were born twelve years apart and died twelve years apart, which means they both lived to be the same age. That's a nice coincidence.
But don't forget Jon Pertwee
Jon Pertwee my favourite Doctor as well definitely carried it on perfectly
@Thomas Meehan It's only Doctor Who in name, though.
What we must 'never' forget, if it had not been for Ian Levine's sheer stubbornness and passion for the programme, this video would of been a lot longer. There would be very few, if any, classic episodes remaining. Ian has received a lot of mostly unwarranted fan abuse, but his contribution to the programme, if only for rescuing its history, should be heralded by all fans as a true Doctor Who hero.
Would have, not would of.
I don’t forgive his sexism and bigotry just because he found some missing episodes. I get what you’re saying though.
@@donatist59 I should have noticed that.
Can someone enlighten me? Ian Levine made some comments about disliking the direction a fictional character is headed - and disagreed with the casting choice of the main character - and now all the sudden he's sexist and a bigot?
...I just don't understand?
@@thenebulasystem8251 Could you link some of his sexist statements? I haven't been able to find a single one
"What's the best way to experience The Crusade today?"
*Oh god no*
Hell yeah, Green Day is my favorite!
2020: oh what a great idea, why didn’t I think of that
DEUS VULT
The only Crusade I want to experience today is the Panda Queen Crusade.
I learnt that Graham Strong have the highest quality audio recording
unlike most recordings, which were done with microphones, Strong actually hooked up his unit directly to the TV, so most of them were as crystal clear as you can get
@@Yetaxa yes I think his invention was a smart one i read his story on his website where he told us how he modify his TV unit to record the sound directly to tape
Landen and Holman also have recordings
Except for the Invasion!
It's awful to think that not only did the BBC refuse to take the collection of telesnaps after the demise of the photographer, but that his widow decided to burn them all.
How god damn frustrating. Why wouldn't she at least keep them???
The Restoration of Dr Who well if you’re dead husband has a bunch of “snapshots” of tv episodes what would you do. I would’ve burned it. The real frustrating thing is that the bbc turned it down.
@@therestorationofdrwho1865 There were at least a quarter of a million shots taken over the years which was a lot to handle, particularly for someone with no obvious use for them. Many of these were well over a decade old and of little or no interest to anyone so it is not terribly surprising that the widow should discard them after the BBC declined her offer.
@@tituspetersson571 Wouldn't you keep it as memory of that persons work?? I doubt he would have wanted them burned.
Burned them?? I gotta say this... Fuxking hell... Strong language but wow..... Fucking hell
BBC! Put this on a DVD Extra for a future animated release, this is a work of art and I recommend this video to anyone who wants to know more about missing episodes as a lot of Whovians don't even know about the Missing Episodes ❤️
when fans film is colour 8mm and BBC films in black and white.
I agree.
When I first started in the classic, I had no idea that any were missing. One of the ones I started with was The Web Of Fear, and I reached episode three. I had no idea what was going on and why it was just pictures. I couldn't find an explanation because I didn't know what to look for, and I abandon trying to watch the first three Doctors. (I was frustrated to find that the Third Doctor had some episodes in black and white, and once again, I had no idea what was going on.) I started with the Fourth Doctor, which was a good place to start for me. I wish I had known more though. Later, I went back and watched The Web Of Fear and I enjoyed it very much. I wish I had known sooner so I could have enjoyed it sooner.
Or they could broadcast
“Hey we have your Dr. who things. Do you want your Dr Who things back?”
“Nah”
“...”
[some time later]
“Hey we’re missing episodes wtf lol”
worst of all is the BBC said either send them back or destroy them yourself if they were not planned to be sent elsewhere. I heard loads were actually returned to the BBC and they actually had 2-3 chances to save certain serials :(
The hatred for the Doctor runs deep at the BBC
They should have said return or we will never sent recordings to your country
It's tragic that so much stuff got wiped. Apart from Doctor Who, six episodes of Dad's Army and half of the original Likely Lads are lost and those are only the famous ones. It makes you wonder how many old series were made and then destroyed and completely forgotten about.
And pretty much the entirety of Series 1 of The Avengers, meaning there’s very little of Ian Hendry’s run of the show.
We also lost quite a few of the early episodes of Steptoe & Son - criminal as I regard this as one of Britain’s greatest sitcoms, especially in its early days where the missing episodes come from.
@@BenCol : aas a child, back then, i just remember one where guys were being drowned in the rain in fields, also where some tiger like critter was climbing house walls.
Patrick Troughton's role as Robin Hood also has very little film left.
I agree, it is a tragedy. Unfortunately, it is common with most entertainment media when it is new to destroy anything recorded after it is shown or aired. It certainly happened with the movies. Many of the early ones of the silent era only have a few stills surviving or possibly a poster. And one can only imagine with old radio shows. No one thinks back then of cultural significance. We can only hope we've learned our lesson now. When I was a child I went to one of the World's Fairs in the late 60's or early 70's, there were these two ladies who had a vendor stall and they were weaving sun hats for sale out of discarded film tape. I now wonder what films or TV shows were on those and are now lost to time. Who knows, if I had bought one, I could have been walking around with one of the lost episodes of Doctor Who on my head.
What really pisses me off is some private collectors have a handful of missing episodes they are keeping to themselves
@Wrong Profile Uhhhh we are talking about tv show episodes
Fun Fact for you Josh.
The BBC originally junked all episodes for 'Tomb of the Cybermen' (1967). This was the case until the BBC discovered all episodes in a Hong Kong BBC Station in 1992.
This video makes me wish time travel actually existed. We could go back in time and get those lost episodes before their erasure and bring them to the present to watch them.
Perhaps that's why they went missing in the first place. Bootstrap paradox anyone?
Hungry Dragon Vs Frightend Hobbit No. They were wiped and had their copies sold abroad and junked. We break into the BBC archive before the episodes were erased. We bring the tapes to the present day, copy them digitally and then return them to the BBC in the sixties.
Edit: It’ll just be like the time heist in _Avengers: Endgame._
Of course time travel exists. Are you suggesting the Doctor somehow fakes it? Perhaps he uses CGI trickery or some such, just to make himself look clever? Or maybe you think the Doctor isn't real? This is very dangerous talk and I'm having a panic attack.
Given time, we'll fathom it out. We've already got somewhat of an understanding of Tipler Cylinders, so maybe in a few centuries, we'll shove out a T01 Tardis of some kind and get all those amazing moments back. All we need to do is keep the memories alive until then.
Problem is, if we went back in time and rescued them, theyd have always existed and we wouldnt be mourning any missing episodes now
We gotta get a Whole Team of Archaeologists and Whovians Down to Singapore! ASAP!!!
I’m a time traveler I point and laugh at archeologists.
Don't you mean archivists ?
And also Hong Kong just to be sure.
In Singapore we store all our films master tape in the National Archive of Singapore for fans you might have a chance to search since i am a Singaporean i would also join in my own search to find missing episodes of Doctor Who
James Lee bro, start looking.
Thank you for the hard work. Incredible job making these lost episodes more accessible again. All the actors, writers and other staff that worked so hard on these shows back then, deserve to have their work better represented. The work is appreciated thank you
That’s what breaks my heart most, so much time and effort went into making these and they’re treated as if they’re nothing 😩
@@JoshSnaresI just wish they would use the BBC radio tracs like they used for the slide show remakes of the lost eps with the trading card images and remake them again with CGI characters like the movie "Resident Evil - Spirits Within", it looked so real, you could even see hair on the skin.
Back in the 70's they aired Dr Who here in Maryland, USA on PBS after midnight, They should put out a request to see if anyone locally here has any VHS recordings of the lost shows.
I swear some guy in Singapore is gonna stumble across every missing episode
I'm surprised this hasn't had more attention. It's astonishingly comprehensive and really interesting.
Doctor Who has always been screwed over by the BBC, then and now.
"So what does exist?" "MACRA DOES NOT EXIST!" I about died laughing
Single greatest video on UA-cam 😊
Thank you!!
Yes
I couldn't agree more. This is a 10/10 alone for me.
just watched cartoon macra terror. hope the big finish tom bakers get made into cartoons when he dies.
@@commentfreely5443 Tom Baker will never die. He'll just regenerate :)
The best way to watch old dr who episodes is hitch a ride in a tardis and watch them air for the first time. Didn't say it was easiest, just best.
Please take a DVR with you.
Must retrofit the old tv setup.
i'm not even a doctor who fan but is SO interesting!
Those T-Shirts they wore, with " Come back, Hartnell. All Is Forgiven." really hurt Pat. He mentioned it once.
It's too late to tell him, but he remains the best Doctor to this day
@@Sootaroot I must agree with you there.
Least Ben and Anneke made up for it as they and Pat got on after. Plus they did him a favor in sparring him the Harpo Marx wig idea
It's hard to believe that the actors playing the companions, who should be supporting a new actor coming into the role after another everyone knew and loved, would do something that childish and hurtful.
Fantastic, the BBC should hang their heads in shame, such a loss. Thanks for posting.
Damn the research and quality of production of this video is unreal. Do people understand how much work this is? And what a fantastic job has been done? Kudos is an understatement.
The Queen has all the episodes of Doctor Who and when she dies all the lost episodes will return
She more than likely has Marco Polo
Is this true?
@@hungrydragonvsfrightendhob7799 Yes, she also has the pilot to Barnyard, Sonic Ones prototype and 1000 Garfield plushies.
WHY does she, theyre not like stamps or coins..... Well, ok, NOW they are but why back then.... ¿?
The most informative and definitive report of the missing episodes I have ever seen. We have had panels about this very topic at various conventions and you touched on many points that were covered but this is nice to see visually. I hope you get to update this story as new information comes forward (especially the animation which is becoming more regular) and a new animation is supposed to be announced at a London con this month as well.
So glad you've combined all your videos into one documentary. Your work is an impressive achievement. Your videos have been very helpful to folks like me who are new to classic Who
Happy you've enjoyed it!
I'd hoped you would put all of the episodes together. This is essential viewing for any Doctor Who fan. Beautifully done.
Essential, but PAINFUL!
Dear Josh, thank you so much for pulling all of these into one major documentary. This is an amazing piece of work and certainly on a par or better than some of the documentaries that the BBC puts out on their releases. Along with Fury From the Deep, I would most like to see Marco Polo again as it would essentially create a complete visual story arc for two of my favourite companions, Ian and Barbara. In a sense, they are us, two ordinary people thrown into an amazing situation and having to survive in some cases through their wits and ingenuity or in Ian's case, being able to beat up Aztec warriors. They provide the Doctor with a moral compass and often are the ones that convince him to stay and fight. I also feel (though I may be wrong) that they also provide the first hint of naughtiness in the TARDIS in the Romans! It's a such a shame that their final story, The Chase is such a vile story. It's a farce, directed by someone who clearly didn't care and only when Ian and Barbara ask to leave and the Doctor erupts in anger, does the serial really become gripping. Hartnell's famous blown line about "cinders in Spain/Space" is heartfelt and the photo montage of Ian and Barbara back in London is funny and touching in equal measure. William Russell is Doctor Who's first action hero and at her best Jackie Hill was a great foil for the Hartnell. As much as it would have be lovely to have had Russell back for Mawdryn Undead instead of Nick Courtney, I just can't imagine Ian without Barbara by his side. I was worried about showing the Black and White episodes to my daughter, who grew up with David Tennant but she really likes them. She laughs at the special effects she is supposed to laugh at and spent most of the Web Planet in hysterics. The Aztecs, on the other hand, did what was intended by the BBC and John Lucarotti. She asked to go the Library to get a book on the Meso-American civilizations and we've now watched documentaries on the Aztecs, Incans and Mayans so well done BBC!
Thanks again for a nostalgic 90 minutes. I hope that I'm still around when some of these are finally uncovered. Perhaps you should follow Wendy Padbury's suggestion and break into Frazer Hines' garage...
All the best from Canada, looking forward to your next bit of magic.
Having actually worked for the BBC and at TV Centre. I heard a story that the last episode of the tenth planet William Hartnell's regeneration scene was being used By the Blue Peter production team. The tape a 2 inch quad was in their production office in East tower, it was left there over night waiting to be returned to the BBC archive then at Windmill Road. The next morning tape had gone. This most likely in the 1980's.
Josh you do a fantastic Job, such high quality both in production and contents. Australia and the Dr Who community should be proud of you.
really
That means either someone took the tape or it was throwaway. People there still may be hope!
The regeneration clip comes from a film recording, so this is not true. The quad went in October 1969, long before the Blue Peter usage. What was probably seen (if indeed the tape was related in any way) was a copy of an old BP edition where they were copying a previous use of the clip from.
Big fan of this series, so great to have it all together in one video!
You are incredible Josh! You detailed information about these treasures is fascinating! Thank you so much for giving us fans this remarkable story, a journey really. Long Live Doctor Who! Also, I really enjoy listening to your voice.
What a remarkable piece of work this is. Thank you and congratulations to Josh for the vast research that obviously went into it. His closing tribute to all the contributors was deeply moving, perfectly describing the dedication of so many people, from the highest professionals in production, to the humblest fan making microphone recordings in a family living room. And we in turn should pay tribute to Josh Snares, whose labour of love apparently comes at a personal cost, but he treats unkind comments with good grace truly worthy of the Doctor himself.
This is SO well done!!! Bravo to Josh! As a hardcore original series fan, this all just made me happy and hopeful!
A fascinating video! What is so frustrating are the number of tapes which "survived" until 1974/74 and then got destroyed or sent back and destroyed. If only videos came out just few years earlier!
Tbh they'd probably have been better off _not_ sent back as the BBC seemed a bit "burn baby burn".
This is a fantastic documentary. This could have become very repetitive and boring, but the interjection of trivia, history, and the general information between some of the missing episode sequences, along with the extremely high production values and research, make this a must-watch for any Doctor Who fan! Thanks.
trying to experience the troughton era now is practically impossible the way theyve trashed nearly his entire run. and hes one of the greatest doctors
Josh, the lack of Nyssa in this video is unforgivable
P.S. This is an amazing documentary and by far the best on UA-cam for detailing the missing episodes. I now basically preach the teachings of Graham Strong's audio recordings and the art of telesnapping by St John Cura the Great to all I meet. What an absolute legend
I found on reel to reel 3 x “ lost” episodes of Desert Island Discs broadcast in the early 70’s nothing too exciting but still missing from the archives
Gordon Jackson , about 95% complete : Robert Robinson , about 75% complete : Max Wall , about 30% complete..
I dutifully contacted the BBC DDD and they asked me to send the reel , no offer to pay for the postage though , still never mind I was doing my bit for British culture wasn’t I?
8 months I had to ask them to return the original tape and nearly 3 years later there is still no sign of them uploading the found episodes onto the DDD database.
Would I do it again? , sadly no , they don’t seem that interested despite all the lip service , so why should I bother ?
That's sad, sorry to hear that :(
The BBC, like many huge organisations, is full of people who have no understanding of the heritage of anything.
Thank you much for this video. Mr Snares your detective work is outstanding, and this film is a must for all avid classic Who fans. Brilliant beyond belief!
This is a VERY impressive documentary. The research alone is breathtaking! Very well done.
Somebody'd better raid the Singapore Archives...
@@marlowe78 same
Theta Sigma let’s raid Singapore before Area 51.
Please don't dare my country please
@@marlowe78 chewing gum in Singapore is not illegal but selling is and btw the Singapore Archives highly do not have the films anymore but it maybe a good Try
RAID SHADOW LEGENDS
This is amazing I’ve never seen anyone go into this much detail about the lost episodes. Thank you sooo much love this 💗💗💗
The BBC has a lot to answer for, saying no to all these things. Given how much money Doctor Who makes, you'd think they'd jump at the chance. If only Australia had just to kept all their copies, we'd have so many episodes and complete stories!
In the late 80s, the ABC in Australia were doing repeats of old Patrick Troughton Dr Who stories. When I learned of the missing episodes in the 90s, it occurred to me that one of them listed was what was broadcast in that repeat period. It was puzzling to think of why it would be thought of as 'lost' when the ABC had a copy as of only a few years before.
If this answer was given in the 80s, it would have been understandable, but by the 90s, most TV broadcasters (in Canada at least), tried to save what they could of earlier programs. I recall, in the early 1990s discussing how it would not happen nowadays with a friend. I'm flabbergasted they turned down several offers.
WELL DONE! This needs to be a feature on a blu-ray set
16:21 You got me on that one. I was howling. Good job, Josh.
I really enjoyed this series, it's great to see the entire thing in one nice package! Good job Josh!
I’ve not even watched the full video yet I can tell it will be great
Hi Josh, the caption for The Wheel in Space is incorrect, it says, The Ice Warriors.
By far, the best documentary i've ever seen on the missing episodes, fantastic stuff!
Superb and so in depth examination of the missing Hartnell and Troughton episodes! Your best video yet.
Thanks!
Phillip Morris needs to get himself in Singapore!
Why am I so obsessed with this channel? It might be because this is the best thing on the internet.
Honestly I can just watch this over and over again. On a week-end when is stayed in bed all day I put on part 1 of this and auto play went in order and then during the last part auto play went back to episode one and I looped this for a whole day and didn’t get bored.
As I am in my 60s and an Australia I am lucky enough to have seen all the missing episodes. Dr who was often repeated during school holidays and I think I saw each episode of the 1st Doctor twice and the 2nd Doctor three times. My mother thought that Dr Who was too scary for us and would not us watch it first time around.
My favourite story of all was The Celestial Toymaker. After watching The Reign of Terror I remember going to our encyclopaedias to read about the actual events. Other episodes I really loved were the Highlanders, Fury from the Deep, and The Wheel in Space. I remember that I thought Fury from the Deep was very scary.
did you record any off-air recordings
on super 8 flim or any thing
Wow! What an amazing documentary! Well done and worthy of the highest of praise.
I am not sure what is more impressive. The well researched documentary that I have just watched or the mispronunciation of names and words that crop up every now and then. ;)
Thank you for such an informative video. Like most fans, I desperately hope that more episodes are found at some point. However, I feel like we are extremely lucky to have full audio recordings. They allow us to enjoy those episodes, if only partially.
This is an incredibly well done and informative video! I remember when I watched through all the Hartnell/Troughton episodes and Loose Canon was my god. The missing episodes are so frustrating and sad, but compared to other shows I feel what we do have and the restoration effort makes us lucky. Hopefully we'll be able to see at least a few more of these episodes, someday!
Also, I saw what you did there with the "Singapore 1972!" meme :P
I’ve always found the sheer amount of lost episodes so very depressing.
On the bright side it could be worse, at least we have the audio and some images for all the lost episodes, some shows from back then don't even have that much.
COME CRY WITH ME.
You should see the list of what they had back in the nineties. Interestingly, they were missing almost all of not the First or Second Doctor's episodes, but the Third Doctor's. If I remember correctly, they only had two serials of Pertwee's era. It's amazing they've found what they have. They were also missing quite a few of Four's episodes, at least in colour. Sometimes I feel like we don't realize how lucky we are to have what we have.
One of best videos I seen on missing episodes. This should be put on blue ray box sets as an extra. Well done so good and a lot of info 😀
Anyone for a trip to Singapore and Hong Kong?
I am, well, when the pandemic is over!
I apologise for my fellow Hong Kongers unable to return the recordings as an apology I can tell you possible places of the tapes it maybe in tvb city but it will be dangerous
I would go, but I have, limitations. But I would kill for to fix these archives.
What about Canada and Marco Polo? They probably moved it to Toronto or Vancouver to be stored
If Singapore kept the episodes, that would be awesome. Same with Hong Kong because I really want The Macra Terror to be recovered
This is an amazing piece of work - totally engrossing, and brilliantly researched. Just in case you do anything with it in future or re-up etc, there's a titling error at 1.08:48, where The Wheel in Space is captioned as The Ice Warriors - hope that's helpful and not too annoying - I know I'd want to know if I'd put as much work into something like this as you clearly have! All the best
Screw going to the UK I'm going to Singapore
This needs to be put on dvd as extras amazing work as always
Imagine how pissed the original cast and crew involved would be if they heard the BBC had just let all their hard work get put in junk yards and fires XD
Great series, such good quality, I still don't understand how someone can make something so much better than most existing documentaries. I'm just so glad someone so good at it is making these great videos on such interesting niece topics, thanks :)
Sorry if its been pointed out but for Wheel in Space title graphic, you have The Ice Warriors graphic up. Great job so far
Lol! Silly Mistake! :)
Just came across this. Excellent sum-up, Josh! I also remember when we got the Pertwee episodes here in the States in mid-'80s, a number of them were in black & white (I remember "Ambassadors of Death," "The Silurians" and "Terror of the Autons" among them).
Josh, I really appreciate the effort and time you’ve put into all of these. Your work is absolutely top notch, keep it up! ❤️
Who was that staffer at BBC who said "No"? Oh, if only a Tardis really existed.
I can't watch this. It breaks my heart to think that episodes of an historic show literally do not exist anymore.
Top work putting this together. Incredible documentary, it's of a professional standard and had clearly been a labour of love. Thank you so much for putting together and sharing so much information.
I was hoping you'd combine all of the missing episode videos in to one. This is probably the definite article when it comes to guides on the missing episodes.
I had no idea a demand for this was even wanted, until today! That’s why I put it together 😂
@@JoshSnares Deserved THANK YOU!!
This is THE missing episodes video, the definite article, you might say.
@@emmysgamehub I like the way you think.
Watched this video so many times and always come back to it, so perfectly made
missing episodes are soooo interesting!
thanks for making this
Loved watching this series week after week Josh!
I honestly feel as though in future you could be making the documentaries for whatever format classic DW is released on home-media following the Blu-Ray sets.
I cannot imagine the amount of time, effort and patient that went into creating these week after week and like many I wish you well on future projects.
I'm loved "Doctor Who" since the 1960s. My earliest televisual memory is of the final episode of "Evil Of The Daleks" from three weeks after my second birthday. It is one of my greatest dreams to one day see all seven episodes properly, not to mention all the other missing episodes.
However, simply to dismiss the BBC as "morons" or to blame the organisation for its alleged "cultural marxist" policies, comments which are not simply ridiculous but utterly bizarre, is totally unhelpful and shows no understanding of how broadcast media worked at the time. One cannot possibly appreciate, much less judge, the BBC's actions half a century ago, from a point in time when even the most insignificant events can be recorded instantly with the press of a button. Things were incredibly different in the 60s and 70s: videotape was extremely expensive and television was seen as a very immediate, often live medium. Evidently very few people in the industry foresaw the future cultural importance of most programming and it is hard to imagine that a saturday teatime children's Science Fiction programme would have been high on anyone's list of television events that might be culturally significant to future generations. It may seem entirely shortsighted to us now, but the reusable tape was probably seen as of considerable greater value than the material it contained.
A great deal of early television episodes of other shows - including entire series - were lost in the same way, not simply "Doctor Who," and, sadly, they were not the first massive losses in the history of the moving image. Up to 90% of all cinema films made before 1930 are believed to be lost, including most of the films of the Silent era. There are a countless movies of tremendous significance which will probably never be seen again. Although many were destroyed in studio fires caused by the volatility of silver nitrate film, others probably decayed completely, and some were probably simply thrown away and even used for landfill. There were archives, of course, but the preservation of film was an incredibly difficult process and often, by the time anyone began to consider Film as a serious art form, it was far too late for most.
If one looks back over the history of civilisation, the amount of Art which remains extant is a tiny fraction of that which once existed. Fortunately, we do now have the technology to protect, restore and preserve the Art of the past, including film and television.
Personally, however frustrated I am that so many early "Doctor Who" episodes are missing, I think you sometimes have to look at the big picture - no pun intended - and be glad that we still have so much that could so easily have been junked, and applaud the fact that missing episodes still do turn up and hopefully will continue to do so.
In the meantime, we take Singapore!
Well said🙂. Although I agree with what you said and understand how different tv went about things back then I still can't help feeling angry over so much that was wiped.
Singapore apparently broadcast Jon Pertwee episodes in PAL not NSTC like North America or SECAM like France or Eastern Europe.
He isn't wrong about the BBC though, I enjoy plenty of shows produced by them, but as a company they are complete scum for many valid reasons.
Fantastic work! It’s sad to think that there are episodes that may never be recovered.
This was a fantastic series, thank you so much. I wish I could afford to send some money your way, because you definitely deserve to be paid for this project. The BBC ought to release this as a bonus feature on their Dr. Who DVDs and Blu-Rays.
Back in the 1980s when I was a lonely teenage Dr. Who fan (literally nobody else in my home town even heard of the show, much less liked it), my only outlet for missing episodes were the Target paperback books and the official hardcover books like The Key to Time. I never imagined that so many successful reconstructions would happen all these years later. It gives me a chance to fully appreciate an era of Who that I could only read about.
Just found this and think it is one of the best Doctor Who documentary's I have seen. Thank you
Thank you :)
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Well I guess it’s time Whovians have a mission to the unknown to find “Mission to the unknown”
Thank god for the audio recordings. At least these missing episodes are not completely gone. Those guys are true legends.
Your production Josh is amazing, wish I could edit/ produce like this(or at all). Roll on a Million Subs!! ;-)
Absolutely loved this documentary. It must have taken quite some time to put together, very impressive. Superb work Joshua.
This is so well done thank you so much for putting so much time and effort into this project. I love it very informative for a Doctor Who fan. I subbed
1:14:54 it’s interesting how ever since this documentary released along with the macra terror animation, we started seeing more doctor who serials with missing episodes being released as animations every year:
Faceless Ones (March 2020)
Fury from the Deep (September 2020)
Web of Fear (August 2021)
Evil of the Daleks (September 2021)
Galaxy 4 (November 2021)
Abominable Snowmen (September 2022)
Underwater Menace (November 2023)
and The Celestial Toymaker animation is getting a release soon and we’ve received news of The Smugglers getting animated.
So far, the only second doctor serials with missing episodes not animated are The Highlanders, The Wheel in Space and The Space Pirates.
I'll just watch the first bit about Marco Polo.
OK I'll just watch the first three serials.
OK I'll just watch all of Hartnell....
Literally me
What? It's two in the morning? I watched the whole thing?
...
Hmm. I wonder how that happened.
Okay i'll watch the whole original series
Okay i'll watch the whole modern series
Okay i'll read every comicbook and novel ever made
Okay i'll listen to every audio drama
Okay i'll get my own tardis
I thank you for doing Dr Who. And keep FINDING all the still missing shows from all of the Dr Who. As I know HERE in Canada we DO have OLD shows from the 1960’s. You can contact the CBC stations in Toronto, Ontario, Canada to find them.