Amnesty? You’d think they’d be rewarding people who came forward with lost materials.
The basic premise here is that people with these lost episodes ‘stole’ them from bins after they were thrown out by the BBC, so don’t want to admit this to the BBC, as they are worried that the rather large corporation that the BBC is, will take them to court and win.
Pretty sure The Guardian does not have any sort of paywall.
Couldn’t find a list of the “recovered” Dr. Who episodes anywhere. Anyone have the titles?
Curious if I have them in my archives.
It’s insane that BBC just threw out material. Talk about some short-sighted bullshit.
But of course there are immense amounts of material just rotting away out there, I’m sure.
Storage takes space and costs money!
Agree, applying the standards and beliefs of today to 60-70 years ago is quite tricky though. They needed the space, media was expensive and so reused. They just did not foresee repeated content as being valuable… today… we like repeats!
This was common with most major national broadcasters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_television_broadcast