Unfortunately someone at the BBC decided some years ago that thing like Dr Who weren't worth keeping so some of the original episodes have been lost forever. (this was before the nostalgia for things like Dr Who and selling them on DVD really kicked off). They decided what did need keeping was thing like the Queens speech at Christams and news programmes.

Some of the lost episodes occasionally get found in places like New Zealand where the BBC sold copies to local networks years ago. So if you've got a lost episode in your cupboard its worth a lot of money.


eren't >What about Dr Who? I've just got the first episode with the Daleks as well as the very first episode ever, An Unearthly Child. For those who aren't familiar with Dr Who, the first episode is about a 15-year-old girl who lives in a Police phone box in a junkyard and is accidentally taken back to caveman times when the phone box is stormed by two of her teachers. That sort of thing used to happen all the time in Britain in the 1960s. ;-)
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>Despite the ham acting, overt sexism, BBC English spoken not only by cavemen from 10,000 years ago but also by alien creatures who have never visited Earth, and notoriously bad special effects, it's really enjoyable. I'm looking forward to the one where Dr Who goes exploring with Marco Polo and saves Kubli Khan, and the one where he gets trapped in Mexico in Aztec times and has to re-invent the wheel.