[litiholofan]

Notification of this fact by youtube would've been nice to be honest - and perhaps a way to pay to keep them in high quality.

[samtheprogram]

Highly unlikely, we’re talking about Google here.

[b112]

One day, the future may regard YouTube, as BBC, who recycled and overwrote Dr Who tapes to save a few bucks.

And lost handsomely as a result.

[wolfi1]

in fact, unfortunately, almost every TV station did that in that time, some of them preserved their material on film, but unfortunately not all of their material

[b112]

TV station?

Dr Who wasn't a daily, TV station talk show, and Studios tend to archive.

The BBC gets the footnote in history, here.

[WeylandYutani]

No it happened in my country too. Technology was pretty shit in the 60s, TV was a new medium for European public broadcasters and they had to budget.