Re: Missing Episodes in Zimbabwe ?


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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.





Ag! Robert Mugabe is the ultimate feudalist!

No, he's the ultimate anti-feudalist. He's taking from the rich white farmers who stole their land from the indigenous people and giving to the poor blacks who they used as slaves.

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  • Re: Missing Episodes in Zimbabwe ?
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    (rec.arts.drwho)
  • Re: Missing Episodes in Zimbabwe ?
    ... 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 ... But tyrant President Mugabe has banned the Beeb from setting foot in his ...
    (rec.arts.drwho)
  • Re: Missing Episodes in Zimbabwe ?
    ... 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 ...
    (rec.arts.drwho)
  • Missing Episodes in Zimbabwe ?
    ... 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 ...
    (rec.arts.drwho)