The complete episodes, featuring the first two Time Lords William Hartnell and Patrick Troughton, were among more than a hundred from the 1960s that were thought to have been destroyed.
Film collector Terry Burnett purchased them from a village fair near Southampton, England in the 1980s and was unaware they were actually missing material.
Doctor Who writer/actor Mark Gatiss says, “Christmas has come early for Doctor Who fans everywhere. It’s always wonderful when a missing episode turns up but it’s been years since the last one so to have two is just brilliant… What more could we all ask for?”
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