Doctor Who

[Aractus]

I was thinking of watching the original series, all twenty-six seasons. Has anyone else seen the original?

Well there are rumours that 92 of the 108 missing episodes have been found in Nigeria , Although personally I take that with a grain of salt. There are a number of episodes which were never shown outside of the UK, thus they were never copied onto film ("Marco Polo", for instance), and thus they almost certainly don't exist anymore. Here's one such statement saying that no missing episodes were found in Nigeria

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A lot of the Classic episodes are missing. As far as I'm aware, I've seen all of the episodes that aren't lost at least once.

Well, there are "missing" episodes, but there aren't really any "lost" episodes. All the original video tapes from the Hartnell-Troughton years were blanked. Intentionally blanking the videotape doesn't make the episode "lost". Since the videotapes were destroyed, the only copies of those episodes are telerecordings - transfers onto 16mm black-and-white film which trows away 50% of the vertical resolution reducing the 405-line videotape to below 200 lines of actual resolution present on the telerecordings. With that said, at least the quality of the t/r's is pretty good considering the limited technology of the time.