| black and white recording | |
| No material in existence | |
| Off-screen photos exist | |
| Clip(s) exist | |
| Clip(s) and off-screen photos exist | |
| Episode exists, but has footage missing | |
| Cosgrove-Hall animated version exists | |
| 16mm colour film exists | |
| 16mm black and white film merged with off-air US recordings | |
| 2 inch 625-line colour videotape exists | |
| 2 inch 525-line colour videotape exists | |
| Incomplete colour synchronisation between black and white film and US off-air recordings | |
| 16mm black and white episode, but colour clip(s) exist | |
| US colour videotape overlayed on black and white PAL videotape | |
| Episode restored using computer colourisation and Chroma Dot colour recovery process | |
Icons bordered in red indicate episodes that have been found since 1982 | |
| I've written a couple of pages regarding the search for the 108 missing episodes of the BBC TV series "Doctor Who", and for lost TV and radio in general. |
|
Richard Russell's page describing the colour recovery process including screengrabs of episodes such as "The Mind of Evil"
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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.
To view archival details of each episode, please ensure you have Javascript enabled. This page works best at a screen resolution of 1280 x 800.
Story Name Code Eps The First Doctor, William Hartnell
Season 1, 1963-64
An Unearthly Child
aka "100,000 BC"
aka "The Tribe of Gum"A 



The Daleks
aka "The Mutants"
aka "The Dead Planet"B 






The Edge of Destruction
aka "Inside the Spaceship"
aka "Beyond the Sun"C 

Marco Polo D 






The Keys of Marinus E 





The Aztecs F 



The Sensorites G 





The Reign of Terror H 





Season 2, 1964-65
Planet of Giants J 


The Dalek Invasion of Earth K 





The Rescue L 

The Romans M 



The Web Planet N 





The Crusade P 



The Space Museum Q 



The Chase R 





The Time Meddler S 



Season 3, 1965-66
Galaxy 4 T



Mission to the Unknown
aka "Dalek Cutaway"T/A 
The Myth Makers U 



The Daleks' Master Plan V 











The Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Eve W 



The Ark X 



The Celestial Toymaker Y 



The Gunfighters Z 



The Savages AA 



The War Machines BB 



Season 4, 1966-67
The Smugglers CC 



The Tenth Planet DD 



The Second Doctor, Patrick Troughton
The Power of the Daleks EE






The Highlanders FF




The Underwater Menace GG 



The Moonbase HH 



The Macra Terror JJ




The Faceless Ones KK 





The Evil of the Daleks LL 






Season 5, 1967-68
The Tomb of the Cybermen MM 



The Abominable Snowmen NN




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The Ice Warriors OO 





The Enemy of the World PP 





The Web of Fear QQ 





Fury From the Deep RR 





The Wheel in Space SS






Season 6, 1968-69
The Dominators TT 




The Mind Robber UU 




The Invasion VV 







The Krotons WW 



The Seeds of Death XX 





The Space Pirates YY 





The War Games ZZ 









The Third Doctor, Jon Pertwee
Season 7, 1970
Spearhead from Space AAA 



Doctor Who and the Silurians BBB 






The Ambasaddors of Death CCC 






Inferno DDD 






Season 8, 1971
Terror of the Autons EEE 



The Mind of Evil FFF 





The Claws of Axos GGG 



Colony in Space HHH 





The Daemons JJJ 




Season 9, 1972
Day of the Daleks KKK 



The Curse of Peladon MMM 



The Sea Devils LLL 





The Mutants NNN 





The Time Monster OOO 





Season 10, 1972-73
The Three Doctors RRR 



Carnival of Monsters PPP 



Frontier in Space QQQ 





Planet of the Daleks SSS 





The Green Death TTT 





Season 11, 1973-74
The Time Warrior UUU 



Invasion of the Dinosaurs WWW 





Death to the Daleks XXX 



The Monster of Peladon YYY 





Planet of the Spiders ZZZ 




