Okay, now it's official. The BBC have issued a statement confirming that, yes, they have recovered some missing Doctor Who episodes.
Say the Beeb, via their website:
"A number of early episodes of Doctor Who, which were believed to have been permanently lost, have been returned to the BBC.
It follows weeks of speculation that some lost episodes had been located."
No word on how many, or more crucially which episodes have been found yet, but we now know that this is real.
The most speculated about serials since this rumour first began earlier in the year have been Marco Polo, The Enemy Of The World and The Web Of Fear (a story that marked the debut of a certain Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart).
The latter makes a lot of sense since Moffat brought back that serial's antagonoist The Great Intelligence in the most recent season, making it the longest gap in the show's history between appearances from a villain. And Marco Polo is a stone-cold classic (often referred to as the "holy grail" of lost episodes). As for The Enemy Of The World... it's an odd story, more 007 than Who in many ways, but it does have an ace double role for Troughton.
Whether they are among the lost episodes, or whether there are enough missing episodes to release a complete serial is still just a matter of speculation (and it's been over twenty years since a complete serial was uncovered, so don't get too excited), but still, feel free to start celebrating now.
This is happening, people.
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