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It's insane that BBC just threw out material. Talk about some short-sighted bullshit.
But of course there are immense amounts of material just rotting away out there, I'm sure.
Not just thrown out, I think some old Dr. Who episodes are missing because they literally taped over them to user for other shows.
I think a fire claimed SOME of them (not nearly all though)
Storage takes space and costs money!
Agree, applying the standards and beliefs of today to 60-70 years ago is quite tricky though. They needed the space, media was expensive and so reused. They just did not foresee repeated content as being valuable... today.... we like repeats!
This was common with most major national broadcasters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_television_broadcast