In a slight change to my schedule of blog posts I couldn't let this event go without comment. The BBC have just confirmed the discovery of more of the missing Doctor Who episodes! I cannot begin to explain how exciting this is. This is not something that happens very often and as such we have always thought there would be over 100 missing episodes. The last find was in 2011 when 2 more episodes were returned bringing the total missing to 106.
As yet we do not know just how many episodes have been returned or which episodes they are but I cannot wait until the announcement later this week. All the stories will be ones that I was forced to watch reconstructions of when watching them for my quest. Basically all audio from every episode exists because fans would record it from the tv but unfortunately this was in the days before video recorders and so fans were unable to record the video from the tv. As such the audio has been combined with existing photographs (where possible!) to create reconstructions of the missing stories. By Friday I may be able to see these episodes....episodes that people haven't watched for nearly 50 years and were thought lost forever!
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