Category:Lost BBC episodes

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For a variety of reasons, many BBC television and radio episodes are presumed "lost". Early shows were performed live, and mostly were not recorded in any format because such facilities were still to be invented. With later recorded shows, either tapes were re-used (as they were expensive) or filmstock was disposed of as a fire risk. No residual value was perceived in these shows at the time.

In some cases stills photographs, film or audio recordings were made in the studio, or at home by viewers and listeners, or elsewhere. As time went on more homes had recording devices, so more records are likely to exist of later shows.

Since the 1970s (the height of the disposal of TV recordings, although radio recordings were still being lost as late as the mid-1980s) people have been trying to recover the lost material, with limited degrees of success. See Wiping for more information.

Missing Episodes with no Wikipedia Pages

• Note 1 "The Cliff Richard Show" has 2 missing episodes.(BBC, 1969-70)
• Note 2 "David Copperfield (1956-1966 TV serial)" has 22 missing episodes. (BBC, 1956 & 1966)
• Note 3 "Detective" has 21 missing episodes. (BBC, 1964-69)
• Note 4 "Hereward the Wake" has 16 missing episodes. (BBC, 1965)
• Note 5 "Hurricane" has 6 missing episodes. (BBC, 1961)
• Note 6 "Little Red Monkeys" has 6 missing episodes. (BBC, 1953)
• Note 7 "The Long Way Home" has 1 missing episodes. (BBC, 1960)
• Note 8 "Madame Bovary" has 3 missing episodes. (BBC, 1964)
• Note 9 "Menace" has 21 missing episodes. (BBC, 1970-73)
• Note 10 "The Monsters" has 4 missing episodes. (BBC, 1962)
• Note 11 "The Naked Lady" has 4 missing episodes. (BBC, 1959)
• Note 12 "Night Train to Surbiton" has 6 missing episodes. (BBC, 1965)
• Note 13 "Outbreak of Murder" has 7 missing episodes. (BBC, 1962)
• Note 14 "A Time of Day" has 6 missing episodes. (BBC, 1957)
• Note 15 "Thirteen Against Fate" has 11 missing episodes. (BBC, 1966)
• Note 16 "You Can't Win" has 6 missing episodes. (BBC, 1961)
• Note 17 "Where Do I Sit" has 3 missing episodes. (BBC, 1971)