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                                             October 13, 2013           
                                                                        
Some of the fabled lost Doctor Who                                      
episodes are coming to light, at                                        
last.  As of this writing, there                                        
are a few coming out that were          http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/106-doctor-who-episodes-uncovered-2343474
discovered in Nigeria, and there's                                      
been a recent report of a large                                         
cache found in Ethiopia:  clearly,     Not an unserious joke: we're rapidly
the preservation of civilization       moving toward a large scale, centralized
requires getting as far away from      global culture, which might very well
the BBC as possible.                   end up looking like an "all eggs in
                                       one basket" mistake.             
It is not clear that the 106                                            
Ethiopian episodes that they're                                         
talking about is entirely composed                                      
of the "lost" episodes, So I would                                      
guess that it is not (despite the                                       
way this story is billed in some                                        
circles):                                                               
                                                                            
    http://boingboing.net/2013/10/06/106-long-lost-doctor-who-episo.html    
                                                                            
It does seem entirely likely that there                                     
are a few more of the ones on the list                                      
of the 97 officially "still lost" list.                                     
                                           
                                           
                                           
A fellow at slashdot posted a fine paranoid
rant, claiming that the great destruction of           ANTIWHO
the Doctor was really all social engineering,
they were out to suppress the subversive
political material in old Doctor Who episodes.

  Myself, I would guess
  it was snobbery.

  I could believe they just                                      KZSU
  wanted the shelf space.
                                  
    I imagine annoyance that no                        Once upon a time,
    one gives a shit about the                         KZSU, was under the
    umpteen-thousandth performance                     control of a regime
    of a Rachmaninov piece                             that decided to do
    combined with an attitude like                     away with all the
    why are we wasting space on                        disco in the record
    this bulky old crap that no                        library.  Not
    one but a knuckle-dragging fan                     precisely an act of
    boy would care about.                              "snobbery", I would
                                                       guess it was more a
  More simply though: I gather                         matter of a kind of
  the magnetic tape was expensive                      cultural chauvanism,
  in those days, and it would get                      sticking up for you
  reused as an economy measure.                        tribe.  Rock will
                                                       never die.

                                                           DISCO_SUCKS

                                                       By the time I was there
                                                       in the 90s, this action
                           It was regretted by         was deeply regretted,
                           nearly everyone,            and rather than discard
                           save me, that is.           records they would be
                                                       moved into "deep
                        I could do without the         storage" (boxed up and
                        kids who thought it was        placed in a secret
                        *really funny* to play         tunnel, locked up
                        an old disco hit.              behind the engineering
                                                       department).
                        TURNING_THE_SNOB





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