Doctor Who is a British science fiction television series broadcast by the BBC since 1963. Over the years many episodes were lost or destroyed, because back the was assumed that no one would want to watch them. 97 of the classic series episodes have been lost or destroyed as of 7/7/2024
Below is a list of the episodes that are still missing.
### First Doctor (William Hclassics)
1. **Marco Polo** (Season 1, 1964) – All 7 episodes missing.
– Episode 1: “The Roof of the World”
– Episode 2: “The Singing Sands”
– Episode 3: “Five Hundred Eyes”
– Episode 4: “The Wall of Lies”
– Episode 5: “Rider from Shang-Tu”
– Episode 6: “Mighty Kublai Khan”
– Episode 7: “Assassin at Peking”
2. **The Reign of Terror** (Season 1, 1964) – 2 episodes missing.
– Episode 4: “The Tyrant of France”
– Episode 5: “A Bargain of Necessity”
3. **The Crusade** (Season 2, 1965) – 2 episodes missing.
– Episode 2: “The Knight of Jaffa”
– Episode 4: “The Warlords”
4. **Galaxy 4** (Season 3, 1965) – 3 episodes missing.
– Episode 1: “Four Hundred Dawns”
– Episode 2: “Trap of Steel”
– Episode 4: “The Exploding Planet”
5. **Mission to the Unknown** (Season 3, 1965) – Only episode missing.
– Episode 1: “Mission to the Unknown” You can watch a great reconstruction at Mission to the Unknown Recreation | FULL EPISODE | Doctor Who (youtube.com)
6. **The Myth Makers** (Season 3, 1965) – All 4 episodes missing.
– Episode 1: “Temple of Secrets”
– Episode 2: “Small Prophet, Quick Return”
– Episode 3: “Death of a Spy”
– Episode 4: “Horse of Destruction”
7. **The Daleks’ Master Plan** (Season 3, 1965-1966) – 9 episodes missing.
– Episode 1: “The Nightmare Begins”
– Episode 3: “Devil’s Planet”
– Episode 4: “The Traitors”
– Episode 6: “Coronas of the Sun”
– Episode 7: “The Feast of Steven”
– Episode 8: “Volcano”
– Episode 9: “Golden Death”
– Episode 11: “The Abandoned Planet”
– Episode 12: “Destruction of Time”
8. **The Massacre of St Bartholomew’s Eve** (Season 3, 1966) – All 4 episodes missing.
– Episode 1: “War of God”
– Episode 2: “The Sea Beggar”
– Episode 3: “Priest of Death”
– Episode 4: “Bell of Doom”
9. **The Celestial Toymaker** (Season 3, 1966) – 3 episodes missing.
– Episode 1: “The Celestial Toyroom”
– Episode 2: “The Hall of Dolls”
– Episode 3: “The Dancing Floor”
10. **The Savages** (Season 3, 1966) – All 4 episodes missing.
– Episode 1
– Episode 2
– Episode 3
– Episode 4
11. **The Smugglers** (Season 4, 1966) – All 4 episodes missing.
– Episode 1
– Episode 2
– Episode 3
– Episode 4
12. **The Tenth Planet** (Season 4, 1966) – 1 episode missing.
– Episode 4
### Second Doctor (Patrick Troughton)
1. **The Power of the Daleks** (Season 4, 1966) – All 6 episodes missing.
– Episode 1
– Episode 2
– Episode 3
– Episode 4
– Episode 5
– Episode 6
2. **The Highlanders** (Season 4, 1966-1967) – All 4 episodes missing.
– Episode 1
– Episode 2
– Episode 3
– Episode 4
3. **The Underwater Menace** (Season 4, 1967) – 2 episodes missing.
– Episode 1
– Episode 4
4. **The Moonbase** (Season 4, 1967) – 2 episodes missing.
– Episode 1
– Episode 3
5. **The Macra Terror** (Season 4, 1967) – All 4 episodes missing.
– Episode 1
– Episode 2
– Episode 3
– Episode 4
6. **The Faceless Ones** (Season 4, 1967) – 4 episodes missing.
– Episode 2
– Episode 4
– Episode 5
– Episode 6
7. **The Evil of the Daleks** (Season 4, 1967) – 6 episodes missing.
– Episode 1
– Episode 3
– Episode 4
– Episode 5
– Episode 6
– Episode 7
8. **The Abominable Snowmen** (Season 5, 1967) – 5 episodes missing.
– Episode 1
– Episode 3
– Episode 4
– Episode 5
– Episode 6
9. **The Ice Warriors** (Season 5, 1967-1968) – 2 episodes missing.
– Episode 2
– Episode 3
10. **The Web of Fear** (Season 5, 1968) – 1 episode missing.
– Episode 3
11. **Fury from the Deep** (Season 5, 1968) – All 6 episodes missing.
– Episode 1
– Episode 2
– Episode 3
– Episode 4
– Episode 5
– Episode 6
12. **The Wheel in Space** (Season 5, 1968) – 4 episodes missing.
– Episode 1
– Episode 2
– Episode 4
– Episode 5
13. **The Invasion** (Season 6, 1968) – 2 episodes missing.
– Episode 1
– Episode 4
14. **The Space Pirates** (Season 6, 1969) – 5 episodes missing.
– Episode 1
– Episode 3
– Episode 4
– Episode 5
– Episode 6
These missing episodes represent a significant portion of “Doctor Who” history. Efforts to locate, recover, and reconstruct these episodes are ongoing, and the series’ dedicated fanbase continues to hope for future discoveries.
Check out the following for more information on what is lost, what has been found, and what has been restored in either animations or in other ways.
- “Doctor Who: The Missing Episodes” Documentary – Omnibus (youtube.com) I highly recommend watching this video.
- “How Doctor Whos Missing Episodes Came Back” Documentary – Omnibus (youtube.com)
- Doctor Who missing episodes – Wikipedia
- Doctor Who (partially lost BBC sci-fi series episodes; 1963-1978) – The Lost Media Wiki
- A Brief History of Doctor Who’s Missing Episodes (gizmodo.com)
Hopefully one day more will be found.