Wipe Out: When the BBC Kept Erasing Its Own History
Why 60 to 70 percent of all BBC programming produced between the mid-1950s and mid-1970s was deleted. -- This is interesting. I always assumed that these stations had everything stored somewhere. I guess I was wrong.
The company kept a bulk-erasure machine on hand to systematically wipe out shows that were believed to have exhausted their usefulness. Reams of paperwork indicated a large chunk of their content was rubber-stamped into destruction using just three words: “no further interest.” As Malden tried to corral the wastefulness, she decided to use Doctor Who as a research guide to track the steps of how the BBC went from filming a series to ordering its demise. Out of 253 produced episodes of Doctor Who, the BBC had not a single original copy left.
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