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Two long-lost episodes of ‘Doctor Who’ have been found. Fans will soon be able to watch them

stevekemp: Dupe from ten hours agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47360978

ljf: Direct link to the BBC article: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g7kwq1k11oGreat news that they will be on iPlayer soon, along with every other (available) episode of Dr Who :)

pessimizer: I was afraid this would never happen again. Two very good episodes, too.I just pray that we'll get to see a few more Troughton episodes. He's the doctor that set the standard that all future doctors followed, yet the least known because the moronic BBC wiped basically his entire run, and now we only have about half of it.Tom Baker was "my Doctor" because he's the one who made me love the show when I was a kid, but Troughton (and Zoë and Jamie) are my favorite era.

MrGinkgo: Film cans? I thought the whole reason the series was missing was because it was shot on video, and then the tapes were wiped after shooting?

mrlonglong: We have all the voice recordings, feed that into AI along with the extant episodes and it should be able to regenerate (geddit?) the missing episodes.

benj111: From a utilitarian pov yes. But that's completely missing the artistic point. Why shoot a film when you could just feed the script into an AI?

mrlonglong: It could recreate missing episodes using the extant episodes. That's something worthwhile doing until someone finds them. It's not creating a complete new series.