{"id":22442,"date":"2013-10-06T10:01:22","date_gmt":"2013-10-06T15:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=22442"},"modified":"2013-10-06T10:02:53","modified_gmt":"2013-10-06T15:02:53","slug":"nostalgic-doctor-who-fans-rejoice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/10\/06\/nostalgic-doctor-who-fans-rejoice\/","title":{"rendered":"Nostalgic <em>Doctor Who<\/em> fans rejoice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a report in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/tv\/tv-news\/106-doctor-who-episodes-uncovered-2343474\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Mirror<\/em><\/a>, over 100 lost <em>Doctor Who<\/em> episodes have turned up in the most unlikely spot:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A group of dedicated <em>Doctor Who<\/em> fans tracked down at least 100 long-lost episodes of the show gathering dust more than 3,000 miles away in Ethiopia.<\/p>\n<p>It was feared the BBC \u00adprogrammes from the 1960s &mdash; featuring the first two doctors William Hartnell and Patrick Troughton &mdash; had vanished for all time after the Beeb flogged off a load of old footage.<\/p>\n<p>But after months of \u00addetective work the tapes have been unearthed at the Ethiopian Radio and Television Agency.<\/p>\n<p>A television insider said: \u201cIt is a triumph and fans \u00adeverywhere will be thrilled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a really big deal for the BBC and is set to make them millions from the sale of the DVDs.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>H\/T to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TabathaSouthey\/status\/386852776589811712\" target=\"_blank\">Tabatha Southey<\/a> for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a report in the Mirror, over 100 lost Doctor Who episodes have turned up in the most unlikely spot: A group of dedicated Doctor Who fans tracked down at least 100 long-lost episodes of the show gathering dust more than 3,000 miles away in Ethiopia. It was feared the BBC \u00adprogrammes from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[362,4,28],"tags":[311,894,934,45,101],"class_list":["post-22442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-britain","category-media","tag-1960s","tag-doctorwho","tag-ethiopia","tag-nostalgia","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-5PY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22442"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22445,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22442\/revisions\/22445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}