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Two lost Doctor Who episodes found in a dead collector’s home videos

Ellsworth Toohey
Mar 13, 2026
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Peter Purves, 87, was lured to the Phoenix Cinema in Leicester under false pretenses. When they played back footage of himself as companion Steven Taylor in a 1965 Doctor Who serial nobody had seen in six decades, his reaction was succinct: “My flabber has never been so gasted.”

The two episodes — parts one and three of The Dal…

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