A total of 108 Doctor Who episodes are still missing from the BBC Archives. This page lists all of the episodes that are currently missing from the BBC archives. Details of the actual episodes that are missing are in brackets.

Please Note: The earliest stories have individual descriptive episode titles. These are listed below the commonly accepted story titles.

The First Doctor (William Hartnell). [1963-1966]

Season 1

Marco Polo.
7 episodes. (All 7 episodes are missing)

Ep.1. The Roof of the World
Ep.2. The Singing Sands
Ep.3. Five Hundred Eyes
Ep.4. The Wall of Lies
Ep.5. Rider from Shang-Tu
Ep.6. Mighty Kublai Khan
Ep.7. Assassin at Peking

The Reign of Terror
6 episodes. (episodes 4 and 5 are missing)

Ep.4. A Tyrant of France
Ep.5. A Bargain of Necessity

Season 2

The Crusade
4 episodes. (episodes 2 and 4 are missing)

Ep.2. The Knight of Jaffa
Ep.4. The War Lords

Galaxy Four
4 episodes. (all 4 episodes are missing)

Ep.1. Four Hundred Dawns
Ep.2. Trap of Steel
Ep.3. Airlock
Ep.4. The Exploding Planet

Mission to the Unknown
1 episode. (this episode is missing)

Season 3

The Myth Makers
4 episodes. (all 4 episodes are missing)

Ep.1. Temple of Secrets
Ep.2. Small Prophet, Quick Return
Ep.3. Death of a Spy
Ep.4. Horse of Destruction

The Daleks' Master Plan
12 episodes. (episodes 1, 3, 4, 6 to 9, 11 and 12 are missing)

Ep.1. The Nightmare Begins
Ep.3. Devil's Planet
Ep.4. The Traitors
Ep.6. Coronas of the Sun
Ep.7. The Feast of Steven
Ep.8. Volcano
Ep.9. Golden Death
Ep.11. The Abandoned Planet
Ep.12. The Destruction of Time

The Massacre
4 episodes. (all 4 episodes are missing)

Ep.1. War of God
Ep.2. The Sea Beggar
Ep.3. Priest of Death
Ep.4. Bell of Doom

The Celestial Toymaker
4 episodes. (episodes 1 to 3 are missing)

Ep.1. The Celestial Toyroom
Ep.2. The Hall of Dolls
Ep.3. The Dancing Floor

PLEASE NOTE: From this point the use of individual descriptive episode titles ceased.

The Savages
4 episodes. (all 4 episodes are missing)

Season 4

The Smugglers
4 episodes. (all 4 episodes are missing)

The Tenth Planet
4 episodes. (episode 4 is missing)

The Second Doctor (Patrick Troughton). [1966-1969]

The Power of the Daleks
6 episodes. (all 6 episodes are missing)

The Highlanders
4 episodes. (all 4 episodes are missing)

The Underwater Menace
4 episodes. (episodes 1, 2 and 4 are missing)

The Moonbase
4 episodes. (episodes 1 and 3 are missing)

The Macra Terror
4 episodes. (all 4 episodes are missing)

The Faceless Ones
6 episodes. (episodes 2 and 4 to 6 are missing)

The Evil of the Daleks
7 episodes. (episodes 1 and 3 to 7 are missing)

Season 5

The Abominable Snowmen
6 episodes. (episodes 1 and 3 to 6 are missing)

The Ice Warriors
6 episodes. (episodes 2 and 3 are missing)

The Enemy of the World
6 episodes. (episodes 1, 2 and 4 to 6 are missing)

The Web of Fear
6 episodes. (episodes 2 to 6 are missing)

Fury from the Deep
6 episodes. (all 6 episodes are missing)

The Wheel in Space
6 episodes. (episodes 1 and 2 and 4 and 5 are missing)

Season 6

The Invasion
6 episodes. (episodes 1 and 4 are missing)

The Space Pirates
6 episodes. (episodes 1 and 3 to 6 are missing)

The Third Doctor (Jon Pertwee). [1970-1974]

PLEASE NOTE: All of the following episodes exist. Some, however, only exist as black and white telerecordings or as inferior off air NTSC colour recordings.

Season 7

The Ambassadors of Death
7 episodes. (episode 1 exists as a PAL master videotape. Episodes 2 to 7 exist as b/w telerecordings and inferior quality domestic "off air" colour recordings.)

Season 8

The Mind of Evil
6 episodes. (all episodes exist only as b/w telerecordings. Some brief domestic NTSC "off air" colour clips exist from episode 6.)

Season 10

Planet of the Daleks
6 episodes. (Episode 3 exists only as a b/w telerecording. The rest of this story exists as original PAL master tapes.)

Season 11

Invasion of the Dinosaurs
6 episodes. (Episode 1, titled "Invasion", exists only as a b/w telerecording. The rest of this story exists as original PAL master tapes.)

 

Technical terms:

Telerecording: The term used to describe the transfer of videotape footage onto film. This was achieved by pointing a specially designed film camera (usually 16mm) at a flat television screen and recording the resulting playback image.

PAL: Colour broadcast standard used in the UK (and some other countries, e.g. Australia).

NTSC: Colour broadcast standard used in the USA and Canada.