Whovians, rejoice. The BBC is about to unlock a piece of Doctor Who history that even the TARDIS might have forgotten. Two lost episodes of Doctor Who, the iconic sci-fi series, will broadcast in April, the showrunner for the current season confirmed.
The two 1965 episodes, The Nightmare Begins and Devil’s Planet, were donated to the charitable trust Film Is Fabulous by the estate of an anonymous collector.
“The collector did recognize what he had, but how he acquired them has been lost to time,” Professor Justin Smith Leicester of De Montfort University, who led the recovery effort, told the broadcaster.
The researchers said that while most of the donor’s private collection was destroyed by water damage, the Doctor Who episodes were intact.
Doctor Who showrunner, Russell T Davies, celebrated the news on Instagram and said the episodes would air in the UK in April, though no US air date has been announced yet.
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