# Missing Doctor Who episode found **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 15, 2004, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missing-doctor-who-episode-found/224647 "2004-01-15T20:58:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missing-doctor-who-episode-found/224647/1 "2004-01-15T20:58:54Z")
Good news for _Doctor Who_ fans like me: 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. [BBC Article](http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/news/drwho/2004/01/15/8897.shtml) 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. ---
**Author:** ![yosemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ab097/32.png) [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missing-doctor-who-episode-found/224647/2 "2004-01-15T21:53:22Z")
That’s pretty cool news! I’m not a big watcher of _Dr. Who_, but I imagine that this is a big day for Who fans. ---
**Author:** ![eburacum45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eburacum45/32/8690_2.png) [@eburacum45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eburacum45)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missing-doctor-who-episode-found/224647/3 "2004-01-15T23:21:11Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missing-doctor-who-episode-found/224647/4 "2004-01-15T23:55:59Z")
Unfortunately, the BBC’s television archival practices have been [not so good](http://www.bvws.org.uk/405alive/faq/prog_survived_restored.html) in the past. ☹