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And I'd Have Gotten Away With It If It Wasn't For Those Pesky Doctor Who Missing Episodes

Okay, there's been a lot of fuss about upcoming announcements and releases regarding missing Doctor Who episodes. Bleeding Cool first ran stories about what's now dubbed the Omnirumour about rumours of a found horde of the episodes in question, to a mixture of elation and condemnation.

Then Web Of Fear and episodes of Enemy Of The World were rereleased and suddenly people thought there might be something in this.

Since then, there's been quite a cottage industry in the release and the regulation of such rumours. Last week press were running the stories that the announcement of Marco Polo would be made at the Doctor Who Afterparty on BBC3. We were wary of that, didn't run it and, indeed, it did not come to pass.

But the Marco Polo rumours have been hard to ignore.

This is what is currently being rumoured amongst international television types over what they are expecting. As ever, bear in mind that this is hearsay and tittle tattle and, again, doesn't come direvtly from anyone who has seen a frame in question.

But that was true last time as well.

But from what Bleeding Cool are told, Marco Polo and the Massacre Of St Bartholomew's Eve, both starring William Hartnell, are nearly ready to go.

The rest are in negotiations regarding restoration with the revived-TIEA director Philip Morris. There are expectations for Power Of The Daleks and the Macra Terror to follow… though some also believe there's an Evil Of The Daleks to come as well.

Expect everything to be denied of course. Maybe it's all nothing more than idle gossip. Just remember the denials last time…

A BRIEF STATEMENT .T.I.E.A DOES NOT HOLD ANY MISSING EPISODES OF THE LONG RUNNING DR WHO SERIES. THE ORIGINAL VIDEO TAPES WERE WIPED SUBSEQUENT FILM COPIES WERE EITHER RETURNED TO THE BBC AND SENT TO LANDFILL ODD FRAGMENTS HAVE SURFACED TWO EPISODES ON 16MM FILM BUT THATS IT. THE PROGRAMMES IN QUESTION LIKE MANY OTHERS WERE DESTROYED AS THEY HAD NO FURTHER COMMERCIAL VALUE .THEY ARE NOT MISSING BUT DESTROYED THE END.I am sorry if this upsets some people but these are the facts.I have also become aware of the tracking of some of our clients shipments these are local cultural materials sent to us for migration to a modern format as the playback equipment in the country of origin no longer exists and as such is the best road to preserve international cultural heritage .I will be making no more statements on this subject.Philip MORRIS Executive director T.i.e.a

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