Sunday 27 October 2013

Missing Episodes: What was sold where and hasn't come back

97 Doctor Who episodes as missing from the archives. This table lays out which stories have missing episodes, where applicable, the countries which bought prints and hasn't returned them/passed them on/confirmed them as destroyed.

FIRST DOCTOR
STORY MISSING EPISODE COUNT EPISODES COUNTRY
Marco Polo 7/7 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 Ethiopia
Jamaica
Malta
Thailand
Mauritus
The Reign of Terror 2/6 4, 5 Gibraltar
Ethiopia
Jamaica
Malta
Thailand
Aden
Trinidad & Tobago
Rhodesia
The Crusade 2/4 2, 4 Gibraltar
Ethiopia
Jamaica
Galaxy 4 3/3 1, 3, 4 Sierra Leone
Mission to the Unknown 1/1 1 NOT SOLD ABROAD
Myth Makers 4/4 1, 2, 3, 4 Sierra Leone
Dalek Masterplan 9/12 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8 ,9, 11, 12 NOT SOLD ABROAD
The Masacre 4/4 1, 2, 3, 4 Sierra Leone
Celestial Toymaker 3/3 1, 2, 3 Sierra Leone
The Savages 4/4 1, 2, 3, 4 Sierra Leone
The Smugglers 4/4 1, 2, 3, 4 Sierra Leone
The Tenth Planet 1/4 4 ALL PRINTS ACCOUNTED FOR
SECOND DOCTOR
STORY EPISODE COUNT EPISODES COUNTRY
The Power of the Daleks 6/6 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 ALL PRINTS ACCOUNTED FOR
The Highlanders 4/4 1, 2, 3, 4 ALL PRINTS ACCOUNTED FOR
The Underwater Menace 2/4 1, 4 ALL PRINTS ACCOUNTED FOR
The Moonbase 2/4 1, 3 ALL PRINTS ACCOUNTED FOR
The Macra Terror 4/4 1, 2, 3, 4 ALL PRINTS ACCOUNTED FOR
The Faceless Ones 4/6 2, 4, 5, 6 ALL PRINTS ACCOUNTED FOR
The Evil of the Daleks 6/7 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 ALL PRINTS ACCOUNTED FOR
The Abominable Snowmen 5/6 1, 3, 4, 5, 6 Gibraltar
Nigeria
The Ice Warriors 2/6 2, 3 Gibraltar
The Web of Fear 1/6 3 Gibraltar
Nigeria*
Fury from the Deep 6/6 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Gibraltar
The Wheel in Space 4/6 1, 2, 4, 5 Gibraltar
Nigeria
The Invasion 2/8 1, 4 Gibraltar
The Space Pirates 5/6 1, 3, 4, 5, 6 Gibraltar

* Prints for Web of Fear 1, 2 & 4-6 found. We don't know what happened to Nigeria's part 3 yet.

Date Source: Wiped! Doctor Who's Missing Episodes 2nd edition

For me the probability of recovery looks something like this starting with the least likely and working up in probability:

Feast of Stevennever telerecorded
Mission to Unknown
remaining DMP episodes
never sold abroad
Tenth Planet
Power of the Daleks
Ther Highlanders
The Underwater Menace
The Moonbase
The Macra Terror
Evil of The Daleks
sold but all prints accounted for
Galaxy Four
Myth Makers
Massacre
Celestial Toymaker
The Savages
The Smugglers
all sold to Sierra Leone
Ice Warriors
Web of Fear
Fury from the Deep
Invasion
Space Pirates
all sold to Gibraltar and unaccounted for
Abominable Snowmen
Wheel in Space
sold to Nigeria (with EotW and WoF)
and to Gibraltar and unaccounted for.
Macro Polo
Reign of Terror
The Crusade
sold to multiple countries which are unaccounted for.

4 comments:

  1. The Highlanders-The Faceless Ones are all accounted for? What about the Zambia prints?

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    1. Wiped: "ZNBC confirm they no longer have the episodes" which equates to they returned them/they destroyed them.

      Further Wiped (2nd edition page 385)

      "all the Zambian film archives have now been thoroughly checked, and no Doctor Who material was found in them."

      Whereas the prints that were recently found in Nigeria, and the others I mention above, genuinely have no entry as to what happened to them listed in Wiped.

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    2. Thanks Philip. I don't have the 2nd edition yet so was unaware of those revisions.

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  2. There is a set of Ugandan prints for these not with any mark against them in Wiped V1 but by V2 "UTV confirm they no longer have the episodes" and http://www.wonderfulbook.co.uk/data/africasales.jpg suspects these are the prints sent to Zambia that they now no longer have

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