Film preservation organization Film Is Fabulous! has found a pair of Doctor Who episodes thought to have been lost forever.<\/p>\n
The outfit announced<\/a> the find last Friday, saying the two episodes \u2013 \u201cThe Nightmare Begins\u201d and \u201cDevil\u2019s Planet\u201d \u2013 were part of \u201ca deceased enthusiast\u2019s private collection\u201d and are \u201c16mm telerecordings.\u201d The collector \u201ccherished the films for many years, and we owe him a huge debt of gratitude for preserving these episodes of Doctor Who.\u201d<\/p>\n The two episodes were filmed as part of Doctor Who\u2019s 1965 third season, which included 45 episodes organized into 10 distinct \u201cserials\u201d \u2013 a term that today we might call a \u201cstory arc.\u201d The longest serial, at 12 episodes, was called \u201cThe Daleks\u2019 Master Plan\u201d and saw the Doctor discover and defeat a Dalek plot to destroy humanity with a planet-killing time weapon.<\/p>\n Both episodes star William Hartnell, the first actor to play the Doctor, and were broadcast in November 1965.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s an excerpt from the episodes.<\/p>\n