A plea to give Doctor Who archivists/thieves amnesty
ALSO: Australia has another new streaming service. AND: CBS announces TV show return dates
Archiving TV shows was rarely a priority in the earliest years of the medium. A business hadn’t emerged for library TV titles (some would argue that TV libraries still aren’t being exploited to their full potential), so often tapes and rolls of film would be discarded or repurposed.
So much lost TV has been recovered thanks to diligent archivists, but th…
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