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'''Pamela Nash''' was an employee of [[BBC Enterprises]] in at least the early [[1970s]]. She was responsible for maintaining Enterprise's library of [[16mm telerecordings]] of ''[[Doctor Who]]'' and other programes. These film prints were sold to overseas broadcasters.  

In the initial phase of her employment — at least inasmuch as it is relevant to the history of ''Doctor Who'' — she greatly expanded the number of film positives and negatives of the videotape masters of ''Doctor Who'' episodes. For a short period of time, this action ensured that every episode of ''Doctor Who'' existed within BBC Enterprises' vault, even though the separate [[BBC]] archives had already wiped all the videotape masters themselves.

However, in [[1972]] she began a purge of her own. She ordered the indiscriminate destruction of the library she had in fact created. It is from this second purging that ''Doctor Who'' [[missing episode|failed to recover]]. The purge was neither systematic nor complete. How she and her team chose which episodes to trash and which to keep remains a mystery to fans, because many of the ones which surved wer not of great signficance to the history of the programme, while others that were destroyed had obvious historical importance — such as the final episode of ''[[The Tenth Planet]]'' and the first episode of ''[[Power of the Daleks]]''.

Nevertheless, her team's record keeping was probably of signal importance in tracking down some episodes recovered from overseas broadcasters.