[doctor_radium]

"Since 2023, I and a couple of other key members of the Film is Fabulous! team have been aware of a large collection of films, thousands of films, that have become vulnerable. That collection contains some very important material including a missing episode of Doctor Who."

I assume this refers to Network (now defunct UK home video company) founder Tim Beddows, who passed away unexpectedly in 2023. I remember reading an article about the drama that unfolded thereafter (sorry, no links), which mentioned him having a large, private collection of vintage material, and the first thing I thought is that he probably has a missing episode or two of Who.

Obviously the missing episode of The Web of Fear is out there somewhere [0], and I recall speculation, probably from the Roobarbs web board [1] that "a couple lost episodes of The Dalek Masterplan are in private hands".

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Web_of_Fear [1] https://www.zetaminor.com/roobarb/forum.php

[b112]

Not sure it's obvious it's anywhere. Things can be lost.

Unless you mean we manage faster than light speed, and we get ahead of it.

[mikkupikku]

Apparently it and other missing episodes were found and shipped to the BBC archives in 2013, but that one episode never arrive. It was presumably stolen en route and sold to a private collector.

[b112]

Fair in one respect. Yet 'presumably' is just that, and it could have been lost forever.