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Lost Dr Who episodes ‘saved’ by You Tube
LOYAL Dr Who fans have been attempting to recreate lost Dr Who episodes and are airing their efforts on You Tube.
The Beeb destroyed tapes of the shows which were made in the 1960s because they took up too much space. While sometimes tapes have re-appeared but many of the tapes from the period where the Doctor was played by Patrick Troughton have disappeared.
However, according to Wired, the soundtracks of these lost episodes still exist, and fans are attempting to recreate the episodes with basic animation or photo software. These are being shown on You Tube where they have been getting a steady following.
Wired notes that since all the photographs and the soundtrack are still BBC copyright, Aunty might get around to throwing its toys out of the pram and demand that the missing Dr Who episodes stay that way. µ
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This is ancient news. We've been doing this for years.

But have you seen the amazing colourised versions of some of the black and white Dr.Who clips fans with Photoshop have been doing? 

Now that's is dedication....

Just a guess, but given that this is anything but news, would I be right in thinking the author has missed an episode of The Daleks on BBC4 this week, gone to the iPlayer to watch it there only to find it missing so they went to You Tube to find it there... except they couldn't but did find another Evil story instead and not really being a Doctor Who fan as such, they assumed what they found was some kind of new thing, interpreting the BBC copyright notice as the actions of a scared fan who thinks Aunty will come and take it off?

Mad author, blind author, charity author!
I hope that was a bit of sarcasm, the colour to black and white news is about 15 years old too. I remember seeing it on Tomorrows World.
Surely, if the BBC voluntarily destroyed these episodes they can hardly claim that they are copyright. Rather analogous to someone who retrieves an item that someone else has deliberately thrown away not being guilty of theft.