Doctor Who

Series One - 1963/64

'Marco Polo' - all 7 episodes missing
'The Roof of the World' (broadcast 22-Feb-64)
'The Singing Sands' (29-Feb-64)
'Five Hundred Eyes' (7-Mar-64)
'The Wall of Lies' (14-Mar-64)
'Rider from Shang-Tu' (21-Mar-64)
'Mighty Kublai Khan' (28-Mar-64)
'Assassin at Peking' (4-Apr-64)
'The Reign of Terror' - episodes 4 and 5 missing
'A Tyrant of France' (29-Aug-64)
'A Bargain of Necessity' (5-Sep-64)

Series Two - 1964/65

'The Crusade' - episodes 2 and 4 missing
'The Knight of Jaffa' (3-Apr-65)
'The War Lords' (17-Apr-65)

Series Three - 1965/66

'Galaxy Four' - all four episodes missing
'Four Hundred Dawns' (11-Sep-65)
'Trap of Steel' (18-Sep-65)
'Airlock' (25-Sep-65)
'The Exploding Planet' (2-Oct-65)
'Mission to the Unknown' - single episode, missing (9-Oct-65)
'The Myth Makers' - all four episodes missing
'Temple of Secrets' (16-Oct-65)
'Small Prophet, Quick Return' (23-Oct-65)
'Death of a Spy' (30-Oct-65)
'Horse of Destruction' (6-Nov-65)
'The Dalek Masterplan' - episodes 1, 3, 4, 6-9, 11, 12 are missing
'The Nightmare Begins' (13-Nov-65)
'Devil's Planet' (27-Nov-65)
'The Traitors' (4-Dec-65)
'Coronas of the Sun' (18-Dec-65)
'The Feast of Steven' (25-Dec-65)
'Volcano' (1-Jan-66)
'Golden Death' (8-Jan-66)
'The Abandoned Planet' (22-Jan-66)
'The Destruction of Time' (29-Jan-66)
'The Massacre (of St. Bartholomew's Eve)' - all four episodes missing
'War of God' (5-Feb-66)
'The Sea Beggar' (12-Feb-66)
'Priest of Death' (19-Feb-66)
'Bell of Doom' (26-Feb-66)
'The Celestial Toymaker' - episodes 1-3 missing
'The Celestial Toyroom' (2-Apr-66)
'The Hall of Dolls' (9-Apr-66)
'The Dancing Floor' (16-Apr-66)
'The Savages' - all four episodes missing (28-May-66 to 18-Jun-66)

Series Four - 1966/67

'The Smugglers' - all four episodes missing (10-Sep-66 to 1-Oct-66)
'The Tenth Planet' - episode 4 missing (20-Oct-66)
'Power of the Daleks' - all six episodes missing (5-Nov-66 to 10-Dec-66)
'The Highlanders' - all four episodes missing (17-Dec-66 to 7-Jan-67)
'The Underwater Menace' - episodes 1, 2 and 4 missing (14-Jan-67, 21-Jan-67, 4-Feb-67)
'The Moonbase' - episodes 1 and 3 missing (11-Feb-67, 25-Feb-67)
'The Macra Terror' - all four episodes are missing (11-Mar-67 to 1-Apr-67)
'The Faceless Ones' - episodes 2, 4-6 missing (Episode 3 exists, but the print is badly damaged) (15-Apr-67, 29-Apr-67, 6-May-67, 13-May-67)
'Evil of the Daleks' - episodes 1, 3-7 are missing (20-May-67, 3-Jun-67, 10-Jun-67, 17-Jun-67, 24-Jun-67, 1-Jul-67)

Series Five - 1967/68

'The Abominable Snowmen' - episodes 1, 3-6 missing (30-Sep-67, 14-Oct-67, 21-Oct-67, 28-Oct-67, 4-Nov-67)
'The Ice Warriors' - episodes 2 and 3 missing (18-Nov-67, 25-Nov-67)
'Enemy of the World' - episodes 1, 2, 4-6 missing (23-Dec-67, 30-Dec-67, 13-Jan-68, 20-Jan-68, 27-Jan-68)
'The Web of Fear' - episodes 2-6 missing (10-Feb-68 to 9-Mar-68)
'Fury from the Deep' - all six episodes missing (16-Mar-68 to 20-Apr-68)
'The Wheel in Space' - episodes 1, 2, 4 and 5 missing (27-Apr-68, 4-May-68, 18-May-68, 25-May-68)

Series Six - 1968/69

'The Invasion' - episodes 1 and 4 missing (2-Nov-68, 23-Nov-68)
'The Space Pirates' - episodes 1, 3-6 missing (8-Mar-69, 22-Mar-69, 29-Mar-69, 5-Apr-69, 12-Apr-69)

Series Seven - 1970

'The Ambassadors of Death' - better colour copies required of episodes 2-7 (28-Mar-70 to 2-May-70)

Series Eight - 1971

'The Mind of Evil' - colour copies required (30-Jan-71 to 6-Mar-71)

Series Ten - 1973

'The Planet of the Daleks' - colour copy of episode three required (20-Apr-73)

Series Eleven - 1973/74

'The Invasion of the Dinosaurs' - colour copy of episode one required, simply entitled 'Invasion' (12-Jan-74)

By all accounts, it was a Doctor Who fan that first brought the junkings to light and lead to their end. Audio copies exist for all missing episodes, taped by fans from their televisions in the sixties. In some cases these recordings are superior to the soundtracks on the film prints, a copy of 'The Tenth Planet' episode two exists with the film print married to one of these fan recordings. These audio tracks are also used to 'reconstruct' missing episodes using photographs, 'telesnaps', and other various items to give a feel for the episode whilst the soundtrack plays. Clips exist from various episodes, one from 'Four Hundred Dawns' runs for about six minutes, which is about a third of the episode. It is probable that 'The Feast of Steven', a Christmas themed episode, was never telerecorded.

In January 2004 a former BBC Engineer returned a copy of the second episode of 'The Dalek Masterplan' storyline - 'Day of Armageddon' bringing the number of missing episodes down to 108. He also returned a copy of the fifth episode of the first Dalek storyline but this episode had never gone missing from the BBC archives. Years ago the Engineer (Francis Watson) was asked to clean a room, found copies of the episodes, and kept them rather than throw them away.

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