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Although Equity could not prevent recording altogether, it added standard clauses to its members' contracts that stipulated that recordings could only be repeated a limited number of times within a specific timeframe, and deliberately set the fees for further use so high that broadcasters would consider it unjustifiable to spend so much money repeating an old programme rather than making a new one. Equity's concern was that if broadcasters kept recordings of the original performances, they would be able to re-broadcast them indefinitely, which would reduce the amount of new production and threaten the livelihoods of its members. Before workable television recording was developed, if a broadcaster wished to repeat a programme (usually a one-off play), they had to re-hire the actors to perform it again, live, for additional fees.

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The actors' union Equity had actively fought against the introduction of TV recording since the 1950s, when it first became a practical proposition. This happened for several reasons, primarily the belief that there was no practical value to its retention. 5.1.1 Unreleased and unofficial animationsīetween approximately 19, large quantities of videotape and film stored in the BBC's Engineering department and film libraries, respectively, were wiped or destroyed to make way for newer programmes.3.1.1.3.6 Galaxy 4 and The Underwater Menace.3.1.1.3.4 The Faceless Ones and The Evil of the Daleks.

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Furthermore, after careful restoration, all 1970s episodes are available in full colour, which is not always the case for other series.Įfforts to locate missing episodes continue, both by the BBC and by fans of the series.

Most episodes are also represented by production stills, tele-snaps, or short video clips. ĭoctor Who is unusual, however, in that each of its 97 missing episodes survives in audio form, recorded off-air by fans at home. ITV regional franchisees, such as Rediffusion Television and Associated Television, also deleted many programmes, including early videotaped episodes of The Avengers.

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Other affected BBC series include Dad's Army, Z-Cars, The Wednesday Play, Till Death Us Do Part, Steptoe and Son and Not Only. Until the BBC changed its archiving policy in 1978, thousands of hours of programming in all genres were deleted. Many more were considered lost until recovered from various sources, mostly overseas broadcasters.ĭoctor Who is not unique in its losses, as many broadcasters routinely cleared their archives in this manner. As a result, 97 of 253 episodes from the programme's first six years are currently missing, primarily from seasons 3 to 5, leaving 26 serials incomplete. Between 19 the BBC routinely deleted archive programmes for various practical reasons-lack of space, scarcity of materials, a lack of rebroadcast rights. Several portions of the long-running British science-fiction television programme Doctor Who are no longer held by the BBC. DVDs have also been released of surviving episodes from otherwise-missing serials, and tele-snaps exist of many missing episodes. Material from missing Doctor Who serials has been released in books and in audio form on CD, and several episodes have been animated for DVD release.