Paperwork is not 100%

[James Anderson]

I was reading wiped and it says that the paperwork is not 100 % right. The Smugglers was junked pre -1970 there is no paperwork to prove this same with power of the dalek's

Did The department who gave out these junk/wipe orders change the paperwork or even destroy the paperwork itself so no evidence is left behind? is this why we still have 106 episodes missing?

[simonashby]

I don't understand what you are trying to get at?

[Simon Collis]

I don't think there were any Enron-style shreddings of paperwork going on here. It's more the fact that it's so many years ago, and paperwork gets lost, gets recycled... so many offices I've worked in where paperwork that isn't needed for tax purposes just gets junked - gone. In the case of Dr Who, why would they need to keep the destruction order for something that was felt to have no commercial value anyway?

[Jon Preddle]

It's probably less a case of it not being 100% right but more of it being not 100% complete.

[Simon Collis]

Sept 18, 2013 18:39:50 GMT Jon Preddle said:

It's probably less a case of it not being 100% right but more of it being not 100% complete.

Exactly what I was trying to say. Only in English.

[Alan Jeffries]

This is completely true. I was present some years ago when the costume dept at TVC were moving. (I didn't work at the BBC my friend did). They threw out masses of old paperwork pertaining to the department. I obtained (legally) some of the index cards that was used in costing costumes. Some went back to the 60's. So I have several hundred of those in storage. From the Cilla Black Show to Miss Marple and Doomwatch to Doctor Who.
I know that doesn't help find an episode, or if it's actually worth anything historically, just as an example of potentailly lost information.

Alan