Nine long-lost episodes of Doctor Who
which have not been seen since the 1960s have been recovered after they were
tracked down to a store room in Nigeria, gathering dust.
The discovery will cause much
excitement for devotees of the long-running series, for which there are dozens
of missing episodes dating back to its early years
The previously lost nine shows were among 11 traced to a
television relay station and the find brings back to life an entire six-episode
story, while another is almost complete.
The newly found programmes - which introduce the character of Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart, better known to audiences as The Brigadier - will be available on iTunes from today and will later come out on DVD.
Phillip Morris, the director of
Television International Enterprises Archive, unearthed the programmes by
looking up the records of overseas shipments of tapes made by the BBC.
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