Re: Blackstar rox my world

[Dave Cross]

On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 06:03:31PM +0000, Andrew Bowman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 
wrote:
 
> One shudders to think that, IIRC, about 12 years ago there was
> apparently discussion at the BBC about ditching master tapes of old
> series (Secret Army and so on) on the basis that there wasn't space to
> store them and there'd never be capacity to broadcast them. Thankfully
> sanity apparently prevailed.

[beating dha to it]

This happened with Dr Who. There are still a large nubmer of episodes missing 
following a purge in the 1970s.

Every so often a missing episode turns up at some far-flung broadcasting company that 
bought it years ago.

Dave...

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