Thread:Sol3Bug/@comment-32738051-20160227054441/@comment-32738051-20160227171240

You can find a lot of them on YouTube, Bunch. That's what I did. I had seen nearly all of the Tom Baker and Peter Davison episodes, even a few of the Jon Pertwee ones, on PBS in syndication in the 80s. But I never got to see any of the Hartnell or Troughton ones and only knew those through their novelisations or through various guides on the series. Until I discovered them years ago on YouTube. I saw all of season 1, much of season 2, and some of seasons 3-5 this way. The BBC has been doing a lot to get YouTube to remove fan-posted videos, for copyright reasons, but fans have been persistent and have found creative ways to keep their content from being discovered. My favorite channel subscriptions for classic Doctor Who are doctorwhoclassics (fan channel), BBCClassicDoctorWho (original official still active) and Doctor Who (current official BBC), in that order. A lot of the episodes are lost due to the BBC's master desruction policy in the 70s and you won't find them. But some fans have gotten creative with those and have posted audio versions with production stills (the BBC did that a lot back then), particularly the really cool Marco Polo reconstruction, or have posted their VHS tapes of the original broadcasts...some even videotaped their TV sets during the original broadcasts and posted those tapes. The latter can be fairly poor quality though and a bit annoying to sit through. Fair warning: YouTube at least had a policy whereby fan-posted videos have a length limit so for 1 30-minute episode, you might have to watch 3-4 YouTube videos. And you'll have to be creative in your search. My advice is to use episode guides like IMDB and Wikipedia so you have the serial titles, the episode titles and the episode numbering for your search reference. You might also use the term 'classic' or the Doctor actor's last name in your searches. YouTube's auto complete feature may also help guide your searches. Worst case scenario, if an episode, lost or not, can't be found on YouTube, you may be able to find it, for free, elsewhere on the web. Hope this helps.