Doctor Who

2404 readers

2 users here now

A good old fashioned Doctor Who Community

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

TheSpermWhale

Lost Doctor Who episodes are ‘out there’ – but collectors refuse to share them (www.independent.co.uk)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/doctorwho

8 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Do people here actually think this is true? I'm not so sure myself. There may be the odd episode but I'm quite doubtful that there's masses of episodes just being sat on by collectors.

The person in the article doesn't really seem to have any evidence for his claim

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] TheDoctorDonna 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't think there are masses of episodes out there, but more than we would probably think there are.

I also don't think it is a refusal to share, I think it's morelike Uncle George had a couple cassettes stashed in his attic and it is just sitting in storage and no one even knows they're there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@TheDoctorDonna @HipPriest There are *definitely* old episodes of British television being hoarded. I've never encountered anyone with Who episodes, but other things? Absolutely.

There are significant gaps that could be filled with what I've been told of, but it isn't things most people would be desperately looking for.

Old soap operas and comedy shows aren't going to get the same attention, so nobody really talks about what is out there. Mostly in poor quality to boot...

[–] TheDoctorDonna 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sorry, I should have specified that I think they are more unknown than hoarded. I personally don't think that as many are being hoarded as we are lead to believe.