John Franklin, an established film collector and trustee of Film is Fabulous!, was speaking at the Recovered: The Daleks’ Master Plan comes HOME event at HOME Manchester on Saturday 23 May, following the recent recovery of two missing episodes from the classic William Hartnell serial.
Speaking at the event, Franklin said: "We are fully committed to this, and we are going to do everything we can to save film and preserve film collections and their legacies."
However, he was also clear about where things currently stand with Doctor Who specifically.
The BBC sci-fi series famously still has 95 episodes missing from its 1960s run, after many early instalments were wiped or junked as part of archive practices between 1967 and 1978, when broadcasters routinely cleared programmes because of storage issues, material costs and rights limitations.
Franklin suggested that further recoveries could yet be possible, but explained that the scale of some private collections makes the process extremely time-consuming.
"Taking a collection where there's 16,000 films would currently take us two years to catalogue. I mean, it's a lot of work.
He continued: "It's my hope, my expectation that we will be in a position soon to take some of those collections, to identify some of the missing items that those people have, to return them to the BBC."
The recent return of material from The Daleks’ Master Plan has already reignited hopes that more lost episodes could still be sitting in private collections, uncatalogued archives or film libraries around the world – and Franklin’s comments make clear that, even if there is no immediate breakthrough to announce, the search is far from over...
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