Lost In Time

"There are some corners of the universe that have bred the most terrible things.
Things that act against everything we believe in.
They must be fought."

This page looks at the the new BBC DVD, Lost In Time, that contains archive material from the 1960s.

Richard the Lionheart (Julian Glover) - The Crusade. Original photo © Copyright BBC
Richard the Lionheart (Julian Glover) - The Crusade. Original photo © Copyright BBC

The Background

As explained on the Missing Episodes page, over 100 episodes of Dr Who are missing, believed lost for ever. This means that there are a lot of stories from the 1960s that are incomplete in the BBC Archives. This DVD is intended to release to fans the episodes from these incomplete stories.

Only stories where half or more of the episodes are missing have been released here, so stories such as The Tenth Planet, The Ice Warriors and The Invasion are not included.

The Doctor, Steven, Katarina and Bret Vyon - The Daleks Master Plan. Original photo © Copyright BBC
The Doctor, Steven, Katarina and Bret Vyon - The Daleks Master Plan. Original photo © Copyright BBC

The DVD

The release is a three-DVD set. Disc one contains the William Hartnell material and discs two and three the Patrick Troughton epsiodes.

In addition to complete episodes, all the surviving clips of episodes (including 8mm film material) are also included, plus the audio soundtracks of the missing episodes of The Crusade and The Moonbase.

Commentaries are included for five of the episodes and the documentary "The Missing Years" that was previously released on video, is included on disc three.

Professor Zaroff (Joseph Furst) - The Underwater Menace. Original photo © Copyright BBC
Professor Zaroff (Joseph Furst) - The Underwater Menace. Original photo © Copyright BBC

The Episodes on the DVDs

The release includes 18 complete episodes:

  1. The Crusade, episodes 1 & 3
  2. The Daleks Master Plan, episodes 2, 5 & 10
  3. The Celestial Toymaker, episode 4
  4. The Underwater Menace, episode 3
  5. The Moonbase, episodes 2 & 4
  6. The Faceless Ones, episodes 1 & 3
  7. The Evil of the Daleks, episode 2
  8. The Abominable Snowmen, episode 2
  9. The Enemy of the World, episode 3
  10. The Web of Fear, episode 1
  11. The Wheel in Space, episodes 3 & 6
  12. The Space Pirates, episode 2

Salamander (Patrick Troughton) - The Enemy of the World. Original photo © Copyright BBC
Salamander (Patrick Troughton) - The Enemy of the World. Original photo © Copyright BBC

Availability

Lost In Time was released on BBC DVD (BBCDVD 1353) in November 2004.