Missing Episodes in Zimbabwe ?
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- Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2009 14:37:20 -0600
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
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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