Doctor Who Magazine 629 contains special in-depth coverage of the two returned episodes of The Daleks’ Master Plan including reactions from Doctor Who celebrities and creatives. The Daleks’ Master Plan coverage includes: • Peter Purves – alias First Doctor companion and space pilot Steven Taylor – shares his delight on seeing episodes he recorded over … >
Thanks to a recent discovery among canisters donated by the family of a film collector, there are now 95 missing episodes of Doctor Who instead of 97. Two episodes from the 1965 Doctor Who series, The Daleks’ Master Plan, were turned over to Film is Fabulous!, a charitable trust created to find and preserve film. … >
Two Doctor Who episodes from 1965, thought to be lost forever, were found by a charitable trust run by film collectors, cinema lovers and vintage television enthusiasts. The recovered episodes represent the first missing Doctor Who material to be announced since 2013. Film is Fabulous! approached BBC Archives after finding the episodes in a private … >
First Doctor adventure The Rescue will be available in a collectable vinyl audio adaptation for Record Store Day 2026. The narrated TV soundtrack of the 1965 serial is presented for the first time on 140g red translucent vinyl in an illustrated outer sleeve depicting the mysterious Koquillion, plus an illustrated inner sleeve which includes full … >
On 3 October 2025, the film preservation initiative known as Film is Fabulous! announced that they are registered as a charitable trust. Among FiF’s comments on the post was encouraging news that they are aware of several episodes of Doctor Who that are missing from the archive existing in private collections and that there might … >
In Doctor Who Magazine 623, Carole Ann Ford, the first person cast in Doctor Who, talks about William Hartnell, how she would have like to have played Susan and her return to the programme in 2025. “I felt quite emotional going on set; the feeling of standing on the TARDIS and going, ‘Wow’ – also … >
A animated version of a First Doctor adventure and the farewell outing for companion Steven Taylor, The Savages, gets a home release in March 2025. The First Doctor story, a four-part adventure originally broadcast between May and June 1966, will be available on DVD and Blu-ray and as a limited edition Blu-ray steelbook. The Doctor … >
The First Doctor’s final adventure gets an exclusive audio vinyl release on Record Store Day, April 2025. The Tenth Planet, the Doctor Who story which introduced the iconic Cybermen, will be available for the first time on double vinyl from Demon Records. This narrated BBC soundtrack adventure, first broadcast in 1966, includes the show’s first … >
A 1966 lost Doctor Who adventure The Savages will be released as an animation on DVD, Blu-ray and limited-edition steelbook in spring 2025. The four-part First Doctor story was originally broadcast between May and June 1966. As the original master recordings are lost, due to the BBC’s historic policy of wiping content after transmission, BBC … >
A special vinyl record of the complete narrated TV soundtrack of Doctor Who: The Crusade, with linking narration by William Russell, is due for release in October from Demon Records, a subsidiary of BBC Studios. First broadcast in March and April 1965, the story has become a noted classic among Doctor Who historical adventures, with … >