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The current archival status leaves fans in a justifiable sense of dismay, with 108 episodes missing. But there is
also a sense of confusion; many episodes exist in multiple formats: 16mm film, 35mm film, 625 line VT etc. The purpose
of this page is to list the episodes that exist, whether clips survive, etc. etc. To prevent repetition of data (some
Pertwee stories exist in multiple formats - "The Daemons" parts 1,2,3 and 5 for instance survive as black and white
telerecordings, U-Matic copies of off-air US colour recordings, and versions restored by combining these two sources),
this list only mentions sources as close as possible to the original transmission, or the best quality. A qualifier for
this last statement: "best" does not imply that the recording is "good"; look at the DVD release of "Inferno" as an example!
Thanks to Steve Phillips' clips listing, I have collated surviving material culled from the original episodes. I have
also made a note where a significant amount of off-screen photographs exist. These were normally taken by John Cura,
with the sole exception being "The Daleks Masterplan" episode 7. I haven't listed other photographs, such as the photo
of the Rill from Galaxy Four, or the other pictures of "The Evil of the Daleks" part 5, printed in Doctor Who Magazine
about 1992.
I have also indicated where episodes have been found, but in an edited state; some of the edits are fairly minor,
but some, like the ending of the third episode of "Galaxy Four" which is completely missing, are obviously
more severe but can hopefully be reconstructed. Some edits may be repairable by using the Australian censor clips,
a technique which was used to bring "The War Machines" to a state closer to its original broadcast version (its hoped
that this can be used to fill in the gaps in the newly found "Underwater Menace" part two).
Episodes that have been found since
1981 are surrounded by a red border. In this latter case, this only denotes episodes for which no complete material
previously existed, and thus does not include the Canadian NTSC videotapes, as these episodes existed already in black
and white.
One other point to note is that audio recordings, of highly variable quality, exist for each episode. All episodes
made after the Jon Pertwee era survive in their original formats, although one was edited ("The Deadly Assassin" part 3)
before a repeat showing, and another ("The Awakening" part 1) is retained by the BBC, but has been damaged.
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