Colour recovery is a process that restores lost colour to television programmes that were originally recorded on colour videotape but for which only black-and-white copies exist. This is not the same
Dad's Army episode "Room at the Bottom" – to the left is the 16 mm black-and-white copy; to the right is the restored colour version.
Black-and-white picture with PAL chroma dots
Reconstructed colour picture (Russell's software)
Several portions of the long-running British science-fiction television programme Doctor Who are no longer held by the BBC. Between 1967 and 1978, the BBC routinely deleted archive programmes for vari
Material from missing Doctor Who serials has been released in books and in audio form on CD, and several episodes have been animated for DVD release. DVDs have also been released of surviving episodes from otherwise-missing serials, and tele-snaps exist of many missing episodes.
Film can containing a 16 mm film telerecording print of The Evil of the Daleks, Episode 2.
Bill Burridge as Mr. Quill, in a scene excised by the Australian Film Censorship Board from the missing serial Fury from the Deep
A short film sequence from The Power of the Daleks, Episode 5. It survived through a 1968 edition of Whicker's World which featured an interview with Dalek creator Terry Nation.