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

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[–] dhork 2 points 1 year ago

I think it's very unlikely that someone with a complete, decent quality lost episode is just sitting on it. It's more likely that any existing tapes are poor quality, degraded, or partially recorded over. Or even that the hardware to play it back doesn't exist anymore.

IIRC, Betamax came out in the late 70s, and equipment before then wasn't really home-use friendly. Not many people had the equipment to record, much less the luxury of keeping the recording for the long term on expensive media.