Re: Missing Episodes in Zimbabwe ?
- From: "Agamemnon" <agamemnon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2009 20:37:43 -0000
"US 71" <us71@xxxxxxx> wrote in message news:awZnl.20097$cI2.11450@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.hararetribune.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=215:bbc-mugabe-refusing-to-relinguish-hoaded-dr-who-episodes&catid=32:news&Itemid=70
LONG-lost Doctor Who episodes thought to be hidden away in Zimbabwe may never be recovered because despot Robert Mugabe hates the UK.
BBC investigators believe the troubled nation holds some of the early episodes of the cult series which are still missing.
But tyrant President Mugabe has banned the Beeb from setting foot in his
And do you really think that calling him a tyrant and a despot is going to make him more likely to change his mind?
country. And diplomatic relations are also extremely tense - meaning researchers are unable to get into the nation's TV vaults.
The BBC destroyed early episodes of the sci-fi series in the late Sixties and Seventies to make room in its film library for new programmes.
But Zimbabwe is understood to have bought the first season of the show when it was still a British colony known as Rhodesia. It starred William Hartnell and ran from 1963 to 1964. The Beeb suspects the historic series, together with later episodes not held anywhere else in the world, may still be locked away.
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