Wiped!: Doctor Who's Missing Episodes
- ISBN-10
- 1845830806
- ISBN-13
- 9781845830809
- Category
- Doctor Who (Television program : 1963-1989)
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013
- Publisher
- TELOS
- Author
- Richard Molesworth
Description
In the 1960s, the BBC screened 253 episdoes of its cult science fiction show Doctor Who, starring William Hartnell and then Patrick Troughton as the time travelling doctor. Yet by 1975, the Corporation had wiped the master tapes of every single one to these episodes. Of the 124 Doctor Who episodes starring Jon Pertwee shown between 1970 and 1974, the BBC destroyed over half of the original transmission tapes within two years of their original broadcast. For the first time this book looks in detail at how the episodes came to be missing in the first place, and examines how material subsequently came to be returned to the BBC.
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