Image description: a screenshot from the Wikipedia page for the Doctor Who TV series, with a user-added caption that reads "Preserve the media you can before it's gone forever." The Wikipedia article reads, "No 1960s episodes exist on their original videotapes (all surviving prints being film transfers), though some were transferred to film for editing before transmission and exist in their broadcast form. [88] Some episodes have been returned to the BBC from the archives of other countries that bought prints for broadcast or by private individuals who acquired them by various means. Early colour videotape recordings made off-air by fans have also been retrieved, as well as excerpts filmed from the television screen onto 8 mm cine film and clips that were shown on other programmes. Audio versions of all lost episodes exist from home viewers who made tape recordings of the show. Short clips from every story with the exception of Marco Polo (1964), "Mission to the Unknown" (1965) and The Massacre (1966) also exist."
Just the thought of it makes me ill. I don't get it. Even before my two daughters were born it was pretty gross and I got why they were shanked all the time in prison but once I had them... it went to disgust and the possibility of jail time if someone did anything like that to them.
Here is the suck... there HAS to be an archive of it to be used to help save kids, identify locations, get other clues, etc... Without an archive, it would be near impossible to do anything.
For a small glimpse of that fucked shit and why an archive is needed, check out a yt vid called Mr Swirl: The Internet's Most Disturbed User. It's not even a vid on why archiving is good, it's just a vid on how they got this shitheel but proves my point.