It would be interesting to see a full ranking of serials by likelyhood to return somewhere else, like this blog, to see if my analysis of the data matches up with that of others."Weird Lost Pokémon Media " () While the Underwater Menace, The Moonbase and The Faceless Ones would be in the same boat, they were at least in the previously mentioned Australian batch, at least giving them a slightly better chance, if not by much.
Now I would not call that a death sentence except for the return of Tomb of the Cybermen, it was returned after a fire in the Hong Kong archive, the fact that only that serial returned afterwards seems telling of the others fate.
Meanwhile the other two because the only reasonably unaccounted for prints would be in Hong Kong. Meanwhile on the other end I put three serials as nearly impossible to recover (in full)įor the Daleks Master Plan the reason is obvious, the high chance no copy was made for the Feast of Steven The ones I picked as having a reasonable chance being:Įach of these have either been confirmed sighted recently or have at least two unaccounted for prints that could be in national archives, or even in the Australian batch of episodes that most stray episodes seem to turn up from. I recently did something similar but regarding as to which full stories would be returned/fully completed. ‘The Daleks’ Master Plan’ is another favourite, but there is also a lot of love for ‘ The Massacre,’ which is an obscure First Doctor tale starring the Time Lord’s mysterious doppelgänger, the Abbot of Amboise. Arguably, one of the most popular choices is ‘The Power of the Daleks,’ as this is Patrick Troughton’s first full Doctor Who story. Which missing Doctor Who episodes would you most like to see again? Every fan has their favourites. And the best place to start looking would be Singapore, as the copies that were sent to Australia and Zambia were junked by the BBC.īut of course, there’s always a possibility that somebody could have intercepted them on the way to the incinerator… 7.
But sadly, ‘The Space Pirates’ is a mostly-missing Doctor Who story, with the exception of episode two, which was retained by the BBC because of its historical significance – namely, being a rare example of a TV episode that was shot entirely on film.Īnd whilst ‘The Space Pirates’ may not be at the top of many people’s missing Doctor Who episodes wish lists, few people would turn down the opportunity to see this unusual space opera in the flesh. Like ‘The Invasion,’ ‘The Space Pirates’ comes from Doctor Who‘s sixth season.