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'''Missing episodes''' are those televised episodes of ''[[Doctor Who]]'' which no longer exist in their entirety.  They are a phenomenon of the early days of television broadcast in the [[United Kingdom]], when the price of the recording medium itself made it prohibitively expensive to retain recorded episodes of shows that were very unilikely to see re-transmission.  Because contracts in the [[1960s]] and early [[1970s]] were written in such a way that future use was essentially inconceivable, many episodes of ''Doctor Who'' — and many other shows — were simply taped over.  Technically, all [[1960s]] episodes, and a number of [[Jon Pertwee|Pertwee]] episodes are missing in that their original masters were intentionally wiped or outright junked by the [[British Broadcasting Corporation|BBC]]. However, thanks to the practice of making [[16mm telerecordings]] of the masters for overseas sales, many [[1960s]] episodes were in fact retained as film prints. Although most [[William Hartnell]] episodes do exist, the majority of [[Patrick Troughton]] stories do not, due largely to the fact that [[Second Doctor]] stories did not sell as broadly worldwide as his predecessor's. ''''[[Missing episode|Read more...]]'''''<noinclude>[[category:aotm templates]]</noinclude>