quagmire_uk wrote:Yeah in the 1960s they didn't do repeats/reruns, and there was no such thing as a VCR, so at the time those old tapes/films were seemingly worthless. There was no value keeping hundreds and hundres of film reels of TV shows that had already been aired. There was no plan to ever show them again, and they didn't know anyone would be interested in them 10 or 20 or 30 years later. So the tapes were just wiped and reused, or films that couldn't be reused were just burned, to create more room in the warehouse.
I wonder... was the brigadier in "The Three Doctors?" That was a story from Jon Pertwee's era, the brigadier's main era, and the story featured Hartnell and Troughton.
Yes, according to Wikipedia, although their entry for the 5 doctors said also listed Hartnell. As memory serves, Hartnell's appearance was limited to a floating bubble that appeared in the tardis at the beginning.