Overview
- BBC iPlayer will stream the rediscovered episodes at 6am on Friday, April 3, in the first public release of this find.
- The instalments are The Nightmare Begins and Devil’s Planet from The Daleks’ Master Plan, a William Hartnell-era story from the 1960s.
- Leicester-based trust Film Is Fabulous! located 16mm telerecordings in a private collection and took them to BBC Archives.
- BBC Archives restored the films to broadcast quality, and a preview clip from The Nightmare Begins shows the Doctor confronted at gunpoint in a jungle setting.
- The discovery marks the first recovery of missing Doctor Who material in more than a decade and spotlights how past BBC wiping left many early episodes unaccounted for.