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I meant the link isn't working for me it says page not found.
Fair do's, I'd reckon the site is getting a fierce hammering.
Here's what it said:
It’s a story almost as far-fetched as the one about the
1,000-year-old Gallifreyan with two hearts who travels through time and
space in an old police box.But, unlike the other-worldly
fictional character at the centre of that seminal BBC sci-fi favourite,
the long-fabled whispers about the unearthing of a massive cache of
vintage, presumed-erased Doctor Who episodes might be slightly more
grounded in reality.Because, in a move that should thrill fans of
the Time Lord’s epic adventures, series super fan Ian Levine has
tweeted that reams of old film – about the existence of which he’d
previously been sceptical – have finally been discovered in Nigeria,
fuelling speculation that nearly 100 ‘lost’ episodes dating back to the
William Hartnell era of the ’60s could be broadcast later this year to
tie in with the show’s 50th anniversary celebrations.“I am so
speechless and have no idea how I am going to sleep tonight,” wrote
Levine, one of a number of dedicated followers who’ve arduously scoured
foreign television stations, overseas archives and numerous private film
collections in an attempt to recover the classic rarities, hours upon
hours of which were wiped decades ago prior to the Beeb setting up a
comprehensive library system.Posting that he’d heard from “an
impeccable source” that 8,000 BBC film cans containing the rare Doctor
Who footage had been tracked down, he added, “I have just been given
proof – three tons of evidence that backs up the entire story about 90
missing episodes being found. Saying no more. Apart from I am now a
believer again.”Apparently, so the tale goes, an engineer working
for a broadcaster in Africa had copied and stored scores of episodes
not seen since they were first aired and details of their shipment from
the Port of Odudu to celebrated UK ‘Who hunter’ Philip Morris in 2011
had recently fallen into Levine’s hands.If true, the find would
take the tally of missing episodes down from 108 to just 16, with 1968
Cybermen saga The Wheel In Space and ’65’s The Daleks’ Master Plan still
figuring among the elusive few outstanding.And, as one of the
biggest reclaimed treasure troves in TV history, it would also represent
as huge coup for the BBC in what is a landmark year for the show,
helping to introduce a whole new generation of Who fans to some of its
seminal formative storylines.However, while US TV and movie
website Ain’t It Cool seemed to believe the revelations – only quibbling
the exact number of transmissions found – DrWho-Online proved a little
more cagey, admitting it had received testimonies from several
high-profile sources both confirming and debunking the news.On
the other hand, Doctor Who Magazine refused to be drawn into the debate
altogether, stating that no missing episodes had been recovered and
returned to the BBC.But David Llewellyn, the Pontypool author
behind BBC Books’ Who spin-off novels such as Night of The Humans says
that he hoped the rumblings were true.“First of all, I love that
fact that they were found in Africa because I have this mental image of
the people who came across them dressing in pith helmets and having to
hack their way through the jungle with machetes,” he said. “As
for the likelihood of them existing? I don’t know and, until there’s an
official statement either way from the Beeb, then I can’t help but
remain doubtful.“Speaking as a fan though, it would be great to
see some of those old shows again because, other than a rough outline of
the plot, there’s not an awful lot known about them.”And there’s one scene in particular that he’d love to see first hand.“Legend
has it that somewhere out there is the original footage of William
Hartnell transforming into his successor Patrick Troughton – the
Doctor’s very first regeneration. Wouldn’t that be great to see?”Nevertheless,
Llewellyn adds that he understood how the Doctor’s early outings has
been allowed to slip into a broadcasting black hole.“There were
just a handful of channels in those days and, because nothing was really
repeated, the programmes must have been churned out with a great degree
of disposability,” he said.“Home video was a long way off too,
so the idea of people wanting copies of shows they could watch over and
over probably seemed the stuff of science fiction in itself.“That
said, no one could have possibly foreseen the kind of cultural
phenomenon Doctor Who would go on to become – otherwise they might have
been a little less hasty deleting those master tapes.”