Lost Episodes recovered!

There's been a persistent rumour for a while now that a whole bunch of lost episodes (some said up to 100) had been recovered in Nigeria. Today, the BBC announced that this was sort of true.

Film recordings of eleven episodes of Doctor Who – nine of which were considered ‘lost’ - have been discovered in Nigeria. 

All six episodes of The Enemy of the World and five of The Web of Fear were found by Phillip Morris, director of Television International Enterprises Archive, in a television relay station in Jos, central Nigeria.

Now whilst this is nowhere near the number originally rumoured, the recovery of nine lost episodes is monumental, and makes me very happy indeed. Of particular interest is the recovery of (most of) The Web of Fear, which saw the first appearance of Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart, one of my favourite all time companions.

This discovery gives me hope that somewhere in the dusty vaults of a near forgotten TV station storeroom lay other lost treasures just waiting to be reclaimed.