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Of the 253 episodes of "Doctor Who" that were produced in the 1960s, 97 no longer exist in the BBC Television Archives due to an archive purge between 1967 and 1978, during which BBC Enterprises destroyed the only known copies believing them to be of no future value. One reason that led to the purge was that the BBC Film Library and BBC Enterprises, both responsible for archiving, each assumed that the other would be keeping the tapes. The film library only felt responsible for productions shot on film, to which tapes didn't belong. Another reason was that, with the introduction of the colour tapes, the BBC didn't believe that the black-and-white tapes would necessary. Because of that, the entire serial "The Highlanders" was wiped only two months after Doctor Who: The Highlanders: Episode 4 (1967) aired. The BBC stopped destroying episodes in 1978 when this policy came to the attention of the series' fans. From this point the BBC realized the potential commercial and cultural value of the series and audited their archives that same year. A print of the 1965 episode "The Daleks' Master Plan: Day of Armageddon" was returned by a former BBC engineer in January 2004. In December 2011, a further 2 episodes were recovered, this time from a former ITV engineer: Doctor Who: Air Lock (1965) (Part 3 of the "Galaxy 4" serial) and Doctor Who: The Underwater Menace: Episode 2 (1967). In 2013, the entire "The Enemy of the World" and "The Web of Fear" serials were recovered from an abandoned storage room that belonged to a television relay station in Nigeria. While all six parts of the latter serial were recovered, negotiations went on for so long that the third part disappeared before it could be returned to the BBC.

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