Lost Doctor Who episodes featuring William Hartnell found in Africa

A GROUP of diehard Doctor Who fans has discovered more than 100 long-lost episodes of the popular BBC program gathering dust in Africa.

The episodes from the 1960s, which feature the first two doctors William Hartnell and Patrick Troughton, were feared vanished after the British broadcaster sold a stack of its old tapes and lost or wiped the originals.

But after months of sleuthing the tapes have turned up at the Ethiopian Radio and Television Agency, which purchased them years ago…

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