Doctor Who Missing Episodes (1963-1974)



The appropriately dubbed Doctor Who Missing Episodes are a collection of 106 episodes of the British sci-fi television series that were wiped by the BBC between 1963 and 1974 and, thus, have not been seen since their original airing.

After the BBC came to their senses in 1974, they decided to start searching for the episodes that they had lost by attempting to gain the co-operation of private collectors and probing the television stations that they had loaned tapes to (tapes that had, as of then, not yet been returned). Through these methods the BBC has managed to recover 41 episodes over the years (most recently in December of 2011), including eight full missing serials.

A total of 27 serials still remain incomplete, 10 of which are completely missing from the BBC archives. Still publicity photographs, scenes cut for censorship reasons, on-set footage and audio recordings for some of the remaining lost episodes still survive and were released by the BBC in a 2004 DVD boxset.