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three-disc boxset
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released in 2004. It is a collection of restored '' Doctor Who'' episodes and clips from stories that are incomplete or missing from the Corporation's archives. There were, at the time of release, 108 missing episodes, all from the black-and-white 1960s era. Although the search goes on (and eleven complete episodes, plus some clips, have been recovered since the release) many or all of these episodes may be lost forever—hence this collection's title. The Region 2 and Region 4 releases are a single three-disc set. In Region 1, it is available as two separate releases (a single-disc
William Hartnell William Henry Hartnell (8 January 1908 – 23 April 1975) was an English actor. He is best remembered for his portrayal of the first incarnation of the Doctor in '' Doctor Who'' from 1963 to 1966. In film, Hartnell notably appeared in '' Bri ...
DVD and a two-disc
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set) or as a single three-disc set.


Content

Footage found in the set varies from complete episodes to extremely short surviving clips that were cut either for time or for censorship reasons. Several episodes in the set include commentary tracks moderated by
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and featuring actors and crew from the original productions. For budget reasons, ''Lost in Time'' does not feature text commentary or a photo gallery (unlike most other ''Doctor Who'' DVD releases).


Hartnell Era

* '' The Reign of Terror'': Brief 8mm clips from episodes 4 and 5 (only seconds in run time), made by a fan pointing a mute
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at a TV screen during transmission. These have been synced up with the appropriate sections from the extant soundtrack. * '' The Crusade'': Episodes 1 and 3, plus soundtracks for 2 and 4. Also includes introduction and linking material provided by actor William Russell in character as
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(originally recorded for the 1999 VHS release of the story and accessible when the story is viewed via the "Play All" option). Episode 3 has a commentary option featuring actor
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, with its production slate hidden as an "
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Galaxy 4 ''Galaxy 4'' is the first serial of the third season of the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. Written by William Emms and directed by Derek Martinus, the serial was broadcast on BBC1 in four weekly parts from 11 Septem ...
'': A lengthy sequence from episode 1, plus an off-air film recording clip from the beginning of the episode. The lengthy sequence is not included on this disc, instead kept within ''The Missing Years''—see below. * ''
The Myth Makers ''The Myth Makers'' is the third serial of the third season of the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. Written by Donald Cotton and directed by Michael Leeston-Smith, the serial was broadcast on BBC1 in four weekly parts ...
'': Off-air film recording clips from episodes 1, 2 & 4 (later found out to actually be from all 4 episodes). * ''
The Daleks' Master Plan ''The Daleks' Master Plan'' is the mostly missing third serial of the third season in the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'', which originally aired in twelve weekly parts from 13 November 1965 to 29 January 1966. Thi ...
'': Episodes 2, 5 and 10, plus mute film sequences from episodes 1 & 2, plus clips from episodes 3 & 4. Episode 2 has a commentary option featuring actors
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and
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, and designer
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The Celestial Toymaker ''The Celestial Toymaker'' is the mostly missing sixth serial of the third season in the British science fiction television programme '' Doctor Who'', which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from 2 to 23 April 1966. In this serial, t ...
'': Episode 4. * '' The Savages'': Off-air 8mm film recording clips of episode 4 (later found out to actually be from episodes 3 & 4). * '' The Smugglers'': Brief censor clips from episodes 1, 3 & 4 and amateur footage showing the filming on-location (not episode clips). * ''
The Tenth Planet ''The Tenth Planet'' is the partly missing second serial of the fourth season in the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'', which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from 8 to 29 October 1966. It was William Hartnell ...
'': Various footage from Episode 4, including off-air film recordings (poor quality). A short film reel of ‘the renewal’ (regeneration) scene of William Hartnell also exists.


Troughton Era

* ''
The Power of the Daleks ''The Power of the Daleks'' is the completely missing third serial of the fourth season of British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'', and which was first broadcast in six weekly parts from 5 November to 10 December 1966. It is ...
'': Clips from episodes 1, 2, 4, 5 and 6 including footage re-used in surviving programs, off-air 8mm film recordings and trailers aired on the
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ahead of the original transmission. * '' The Highlanders'': Censored clips from episode 1 and some on-location footage (poor quality). * ''
The Underwater Menace ''The Underwater Menace'' is the half-missing fifth serial of the fourth season in the British science fiction television series '' Doctor Who'', which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from 14 January to 4 February 1967. In this seri ...
'': Episode 3 and censored clips from episodes 1, 2 and 4. This episode was, at the time, the earliest surviving episode to feature Patrick Troughton as the Doctor and Frazer Hines as Jamie McCrimmon. (Actor
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' introduction to this episode from an earlier VHS boxset is also included as an "Easter Egg".) * ''
The Moonbase ''The Moonbase'' is the half-missing sixth serial of the fourth season in the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'', which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from 11 February to 4 March 1967. In this serial, the Secon ...
'': Episodes 2 and 4, plus soundtracks for 1 and 3. * ''
The Macra Terror ''The Macra Terror'' is the completely missing seventh serial of the fourth season in the British science fiction television series '' Doctor Who'', which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from 11 March to 1 April 1967. In this serial, ...
'': Clips including censored footage from episodes 2 & 3 and off-air 8mm film recordings from episode 3. * ''
The Faceless Ones ''The Faceless Ones'' is the mostly missing eighth serial of the fourth season in the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'', which was first broadcast in six weekly parts from 8 April to 13 May 1967. In this serial, the Sec ...
'': Episodes 1 and 3, plus a clip from an off-air film recording of episode 2. * ''
The Evil of the Daleks ''The Evil of the Daleks'' is the mostly-missing ninth and final serial of the fourth season in the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'', which originally aired in seven weekly parts from 20 May to 1 July 1967. In this seri ...
'': Episode 2, with a commentary option featuring actor
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moderated by Gary Russell. Also ''The Last Dalek''—footage showing the filming of model and effects sequences at
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, and a recreated climactic sequence combining this footage with the original soundtrack (see ''The Missing Years'', below). * ''
The Abominable Snowmen ''The Abominable Snowmen'' is the mostly missing second serial of the fifth season of the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'', which originally aired in six weekly parts from 30 September to 4 November 1967. In this seri ...
'': Episode 2, clips from episode 4, and amateur footage showing the filming on-location. There is a commentary option on the episode featuring Deborah Watling. * ''
The Enemy of the World ''The Enemy of the World'' is the fourth serial of the fifth season of the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'', which originally aired in six weekly parts from 23 December 1967 to 27 January 1968. The serial is set in Aus ...
'': Episode 3. * ''
The Web of Fear ''The Web of Fear'' is the partly missing fifth serial of the fifth season of the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'', which was first broadcast in six weekly parts from 3 February to 9 March 1968. The serial is set on the ...
'': Episode 1 plus censored clips from episodes 2, 4 & 5, with a commentary option on the episode featuring Deborah Watling and story editor
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Fury from the Deep ''Fury from the Deep'' is the completely missing sixth serial of the fifth season in the British science fiction television series '' Doctor Who'', which originally aired in six weekly parts from 16 March to 20 April 1968. In this serial, the D ...
'': Censored clips from episodes 2, 4 & 5, footage from the filming of the final episode in studio, and a recreated climactic sequence combining such footage with the original soundtrack. * ''
The Wheel in Space ''The Wheel in Space'' is the mostly missing seventh and final serial of the fifth season in the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'', which originally aired in six weekly parts from 27 April to 1 June 1968. In this seria ...
'': Episodes 3 and 6 plus censored clips from episodes 4 and 5, the latter episode with a commentary option featuring story editor Derrick Sherwin and director Tristan de Vere Cole. * ''
The Space Pirates ''The Space Pirates'' is the mostly missing sixth serial of the sixth season of the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'', which originally aired in six weekly parts from 8 March to 12 April 1969. In this serial, the TARD ...
'': Episode 2, plus surviving film sequences from episode 1.


''The Missing Years''

The 1998 documentary ''The Missing Years'' is included on disc 3. It details the loss and recovery of 1960s episodes and is presented by Frazer Hines and Deborah Watling. It features the longest-extant clip from an otherwise-missing ''Doctor Who'' episode—over six minutes of episode 1 of ''Galaxy 4''; a version of "The Final End" recreating the climax of ''The Evil of the Daleks''; fan
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stating that he believes there will never be fewer than 110 missing episodes, then begging to be proven wrong (which he later was: there are 97 episodes missing); and a lengthy recreation of the first regeneration sequence put together from all that exists of the end of ''The Tenth Planet'' and the start of ''The Power of the Daleks''. The feature was previously released on VHS. In its original form, this documentary was presented in an earlier VHS boxset (''The Ice Warriors'' in the UK, and with ''
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and Dr. Who: The Pilot Episode'' in North America); both regions shared the tape with the one surviving episode of ''The Underwater Menace'' (with Hines' intro as mentioned above), which pre-dates the rediscovery of some of the ''Lost in Time'' content. The DVD presentation includes some new footage documenting the return of two previously missing episodes—"The Lion" (episode 1 of ''The Crusade'') was discovered in New Zealand in 1999, while "Day of Armageddon" (episode 2 of ''The Daleks' Master Plan'') was returned in 2004 by a former BBC employee. This addendum ends the documentary.


Material found since the release

In 2005, a year after the set was released, three clips from ''The Power of the Daleks'' were found on a 1966 edition of ''
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'' (aired as part of the clip-filled nostalgia series ''Sunday Past Times'') and returned to the BBC. The clips were released as parts of extras on the ''
Genesis of the Daleks ''Genesis of the Daleks'' is the fourth serial of the twelfth season of the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. It was written by Terry Nation and directed by David Maloney, and originally broadcast in six weekly parts fr ...
'' DVD ("The Dalek Tapes" documentary) and ''
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'' DVD ("Now Get Out of That" documentary, disc three). They were subsequently included on the DVD release of ''The Power of the Daleks'' in 2016 along with the rest of the surviving footage from that serial. In 2011, two complete previously missing episodes were returned to the BBC. The first was episode 3 of ''
Galaxy 4 ''Galaxy 4'' is the first serial of the third season of the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. Written by William Emms and directed by Derek Martinus, the serial was broadcast on BBC1 in four weekly parts from 11 Septem ...
'', which was released (as part of a reconstruction of the whole story) on the special edition DVD of '' The Aztecs''. The second was episode 2 of ''
The Underwater Menace ''The Underwater Menace'' is the half-missing fifth serial of the fourth season in the British science fiction television series '' Doctor Who'', which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from 14 January to 4 February 1967. In this seri ...
'', which was included in a DVD release of that story in October 2015. In 2013, nine more episodes were recovered: the remaining previously missing episodes of ''
The Enemy of the World ''The Enemy of the World'' is the fourth serial of the fifth season of the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'', which originally aired in six weekly parts from 23 December 1967 to 27 January 1968. The serial is set in Aus ...
''; and episodes 2, 4, 5 and 6 of ''
The Web of Fear ''The Web of Fear'' is the partly missing fifth serial of the fifth season of the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'', which was first broadcast in six weekly parts from 3 February to 9 March 1968. The serial is set on the ...
'' (leaving only episode 3 missing). Both stories were released on iTunes on the day their recovery was announced. ''The Enemy of the World'' was released on DVD in November 2013 and ''The Web of Fear'' in February 2014. In 2019, short film trims from episodes 4 and 5 of ''
The Power of the Daleks ''The Power of the Daleks'' is the completely missing third serial of the fourth season of British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'', and which was first broadcast in six weekly parts from 5 November to 10 December 1966. It is ...
'' were found in an auction. They were included in the Special Edition release of that story in 2020 along with the rest of the surviving footage from that serial.


Other sources

Audio recordings (made off-air, by fans, at the time of transmission) exist for all of the missing episodes. They have been released by the BBC, with linking narration, and the soundtracks to the missing episodes of '' The Crusade'' and ''
The Moonbase ''The Moonbase'' is the half-missing sixth serial of the fourth season in the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'', which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from 11 February to 4 March 1967. In this serial, the Secon ...
'' are included (without narration) on ''Lost in Time''. These recordings also form the basis of the animated reconstructions of missing episodes included in the DVD releases of '' The Reign of Terror'', ''
The Tenth Planet ''The Tenth Planet'' is the partly missing second serial of the fourth season in the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'', which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from 8 to 29 October 1966. It was William Hartnell ...
'', ''
The Power of the Daleks ''The Power of the Daleks'' is the completely missing third serial of the fourth season of British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'', and which was first broadcast in six weekly parts from 5 November to 10 December 1966. It is ...
'', ''The Moonbase'', ''
The Macra Terror ''The Macra Terror'' is the completely missing seventh serial of the fourth season in the British science fiction television series '' Doctor Who'', which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from 11 March to 1 April 1967. In this serial, ...
'', ''
The Faceless Ones ''The Faceless Ones'' is the mostly missing eighth serial of the fourth season in the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'', which was first broadcast in six weekly parts from 8 April to 13 May 1967. In this serial, the Sec ...
'', ''
The Ice Warriors ''The Ice Warriors'' is the partly missing third serial of the fifth season of the British science fiction television series '' Doctor Who'', which was first broadcast in six weekly parts from 11 November to 16 December 1967. In this serial, th ...
'', ''
The Web of Fear ''The Web of Fear'' is the partly missing fifth serial of the fifth season of the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'', which was first broadcast in six weekly parts from 3 February to 9 March 1968. The serial is set on the ...
'', ''
Fury from the Deep ''Fury from the Deep'' is the completely missing sixth serial of the fifth season in the British science fiction television series '' Doctor Who'', which originally aired in six weekly parts from 16 March to 20 April 1968. In this serial, the D ...
'' and '' The Invasion''. The existing episodes of ''The Reign of Terror'', ''The Tenth Planet'', ''The Ice Warriors'' and ''The Invasion'' were not included on ''Lost in Time'' (although they had been released on VHS at that point) and didn't get a DVD release until completed with animated versions of their missing episodes. The soundtracks have also been combined with still images (mainly
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of the broadcasts) to make reconstructions that have been used on commercial releases of '' Marco Polo'' (a condensed version, as an extra on ''The Beginning'' DVD box set), ''Galaxy 4'' (as an extra on the special edition DVD of ''The Aztecs'') ''The Tenth Planet'' (on the VHS release and as an extra on the DVD), ''The Power of the Daleks'' (as an MP3 CD & as an extra on the DVD), ''The Ice Warriors'' (a condensed version, on the VHS release and as an extra on the DVD) and ''The Web of Fear'' (the still missing episode three, on iTunes and the DVD)—as well as being produced unofficially by fans.


See also

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References

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