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                                             October 13, 2013

                                                 Originally posted
                                                 to slashdot.
This is beautiful, the conspiracy
theory of the week: the REAL reason
that the BBC destroyed so many of the          More knowledgeable-sounding
original Doctor Who episodes...                folks suggest it happened
                                               earlier, as a matter of course,
I would believe that some short-sighted        to quite a lot of material.
people thought it wasn't worth wasting      
shelf-space on old Who episodes, I could            http://entertainment.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=13/10/11/0038229
even believe a snobbish disdain by some     
faction led to deleting that popular        
stuff before it could distract anyone       
from the 10,000th performance of            
Rachmaninoff... but you know:               
                                            

       http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4324557&threshold=0&commentsort=3&mode=nested&cid=45103467

       "Doctor who, together with the VAST majority of 1960s
       BBC TV in the archives, was DELIBERATELY destroyed
       (destroyed, not wiped- with no-one allowed to simply
       take the material home to keep) at several times in the
       70s and 80s. The main reason was political. Britain was
       subject to massive acts of social engineering in the
       70s and 80s, and the powers-that-be did NOT want the
       sheeple having access to material from the 60s that
       showed a completely different societal outlook promoted
       from the top. There is a VERY good reason a Brit wrote
       1984. It is BRITAIN that mastered the art of
       're-writing' the past, and you cannot do this if the
       real facts of the past still exist."

       "Drama from the BBC is always laced with propaganda, so
       drama fell victim to this 1984-style
       operation. However, the unions were also to blame, for
       the unions were very powerful, and very against the
       idea of the BBC repeating shows rather than producing
       new ones. The unions were VERY anti-BBC-archive, which
       they saw as an engine of constant re-runs (Doctor Who
       actually got almost no re-runs in the UK)."

                                         The cabal knew better than to
                                         let people see "The Ice
                                         Warriors", or else all hell
                                         would break loose!




But using the word "sheeple" seems a
little heavy-handed at this point.
The upper-case for emphasis is enough
of a tip-off, don't you think?









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