She revealed they had an "affair" in an interview with a British TV guy about a decade ago.

Some Titanic enthusiasts are already pointing out errors, such as the rate of list and the time scale of the flooding; I can't speak for this having not seen the video but my analysis of how the ship sank is here. Personally I have doubts as one person who worked on the project is a known plagiarist and one of the authors is a cherry picker of data (he insists that the ship had a massive list to port when she went under but only one of the three survivors who was on the Titanic till the last mentioned it, and his evidence is suspect, like claiming he was in freezing cold water for hours without any ill effect whatsoever). BTW, my own Titanic stuff is on this page.

I agree, badly worded. The rumours put the number of found episodes at anything from about 60 (which is what I heard from numerous sources), to 90.

The point is: Canada only bought up to and including Marco Polo in the mid 1960s. The US bought most of the first three Pertwee seasons in the early/mid 1970s. By the time they got round to buying other episodes, including black and white, the stories we've mentioned here didn't exist anymore. They weren't officially sold to Canada and yet my friend saw them.

You know, I had a friend in Canada who swore blind he saw 1960s episodes broadcast that are now missing but when this was mentioned to the upper echelons of Dr.Who fandom, we were told it wasn't true, his memory was faulty, or that he was wrong. The man is sure he was right, but to those of Fandom Royalty, it seemed to be much effort to check the basis of this story. It was much easier to label it as "rumour" or "wrong."

I think the original article has been amended as I am sure I saw it earlier on when I submitted the news. Other websites are starting to pick up on Morris's statements and some of them are also reporting "hints" and "teasing."

Unfortunately the episodes were destroyed or lost before 1978 so its unlikely they'd be on any recent website.

As the submitter of this article, I thought readers might like to see a list of missing and recovered episodes, all from the first 6 years on my website

Apart from the mention of Dark Matter, which seems to be a perennial favourite these days, this theory is not new. It was first proposed c.1986 at least.

Perhaps I can ask about improving YOUR chances of getting these discounted items? :)
You could go to my website (see the URL below) and click on and one of the Amazon links; you don't have to buy the item on display as you can remove it from your shopping basket. We get a tiny commission (about 10 cents or less) for each item sold while you are logged on.
Have a very Merry Christmas (and who knows, maybe next Christmas WE can afford to buy some of these wonderfully discounted items :)

It could be argued that complacency within the Space Shuttle design team engendered a feeling of "failure is never an option." Why else be so confident in a design that allowed them to remove crew escape contingencies and quote a 100,000 in 1 failure rate?

Oh yeah, I usually get drunk these days on Hallowe'en, as its also my birthday...

In the past, I used to go on Ghost Hunts. Yes, you read that right. But now its all heavily commercialized and genuine researchers are being forced out. Damn you "Most Haunted" and your cheque-book negotiation tactics; now placed don't allow access unless you wave a big cheque under the owner's nose!

Yes, thanks, I knew most of this.
Just a few points: It was actually BBC Enterprises in the 1960s and 1970s. TV shows were marketed under conditions but with one important addition; if the prints had exceeded their agreed sales target and weren't to be sent to another TV station, they were to be either sent back to the BBC or destroyed, and a certificate of destruction issued as proof. I suspect that many episodes were routinely destroyed as part of the sales agreement; it is cheaper to burn or thrown out than go to the hassle of shipping them back.
You're right about the Film Archive though. Only a random assortment of 16 and 35mm black and white episodes wound up there. I forget how many, possibly about 30 or so. Then when it was found that BBC Enterprises had made telerecordings/kinescopes of practically all the episodes, efforts were made to find out what they had. Unfortunately, they had been destroying episodes for about 5 years at that point so there were big gaps. The BBC Film Archives stopped the junking almost straight away and requisitioned the exisitng film prints from Ents. Later on, VT was also requisitioned, and it became the BBC Film and Videotape Library. By the time this had happened, a lot of colour video tape had already been wiped by the BBC Engineering Dept. for reuse.

One thing we must bear in mind is that this didn't just affect Dr.Who. Nearly all of the BBC output was affected. Some dramas have many hundreds of episodes missing. And it isn't just a BBC problem. Many Independant TV station in the UK have lost material. Its just that Dr.Who is soooooo high profile ;-)