Episode 2 of the 12 part 1960s story The Daleks’ Master Plan has just been returned to the BBC by an ex-employee after it was purged from the archives thirty-odd years ago. Until today only episodes 5 and 10 existed in the archives.
Of the Doctor Who episodes produced during the 1960s, many were discarded by the BBC for various reasons. Despite a good number of episodes being refound or returned from outside the UK, 108 episodes are still missing from the archives. Until today there were 109.
Ah yes- the Daleks Masterplan; Day of Armageddon… with Nicholas Courtenay (later Brig. Lethbridge-Stewart) as Bret Vyon, and the excellent Jean Marsh as Sara Kingdom, a kind of Emma Peel clone; I vaguely remember it, one of the best Doctor Who stories ever…
set in the year 4000 in a colonised solar system, it was a sophisticated piece of fiction that I would certainly like to see again.
