These Patrick Troughton Doctor Who Episodes Were Missing For Decades

The early days of “Doctor Who” were the Wild West.

The low-budget sci-fi show, which debuted in 1963 with William Hartnell as the title character, was a fast-and-dirty content mill with lightning-quick turnaround times and a production schedule like a diner during Sunday brunch.

Individual BBC staff writers, working variously on multiple projects, would be assigned separate “Doctor Who” stories, and scripts had to be turned over as hastily as possible.

Over the first several years of the show’s broadcast, it was a factory.

The show’s interiors were shot on video in the BBC studios, and the exteriors shot on 16mm film.

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