Misplaced episodes of Physician Who could also be owned by personal collectors.
It’s thought that 97 episodes of the hit BBC One Sci-Fi drama collection that includes the primary Time Lords, William Hartnell – who had the position on-and-off from 1963 to 1966, earlier than returning between 1972 and1973 – and Patrick Troughton, who performed the Physician from 1966 till 1969, earlier than he reprised the position 3 times between 1972 and 1985, are lacking from the company’s archives.
Sue Malden, the BBC’s first archive collector, thinks die-hard Physician Who followers personal the misplaced episodes, and she or he desires them to be returned to the broadcaster – identical to how some copies have been handed again for the reason that early Nineteen Eighties.
She stated on the Recovered competition in Leicester, hosted by the movie collectors group Movie is Fabulous!: “So far as Physician Who goes, we should not have an announcement or something to make for the time being.
“We do know pretty actually that there are episodes lacking in personal collections.
“Some members of the Movie is Fabulous! staff are in a significantly vital place to assist on that.
“So, when the time is correct, we actually do hope that will probably be Movie is Fabulous! that manages to return not less than one or two, I do not know, of the lacking episodes of Physician Who to the BBC.”
A supply added to the Every day Mirror newspaper: “There’s loads of grounds for optimism that some episodes might be returned earlier than too lengthy.
“The movies shall be donated to De Montfort College in Leicester, and thoroughly restored.”
The publication claims that The Tenth Planet, episode 4 (aired on October 29, 1966), The Daleks’ Grasp Plan, episode 4 (broadcast on December 4, 1965), Marco Polo (aired from February 22 to March 4, 1964), The Internet of Worry, episode three (broadcast on February 17, 1968), and The Macra Terror (aired from March 11 to April 1, 1967) are more likely to return.
Lacking episodes have beforehand been given again by collectors Francis Watson, Terry Burnett and Bruce Grenville.
In 2013, 9 episodes of Physician Who, which starred Troughton, had been recovered after they had been found in Nigeria, West Africa.