It reminds me about the same problem within the BBC in the UK. Plently of classic episodes of Doctor Who from the First Doctor & Second Doctor eras are still lost and/or missing.

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It's a shame but it was the times. You are talking about them getting rid of stuff in the 70's, no internet, DVD's and so once it aired that was it. There were VCR's in the 70's but really didn't boom until the 80's. What about all the soap operas (As the world turns, Guiding light and so on) doubt if ALL episodes survived.

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kpowers said:

It's a shame but it was the times. You are talking about them getting rid of stuff in the 70's, no internet, DVD's and so once it aired that was it. There were VCR's in the 70's but really didn't boom until the 80's. What about all the soap operas (As the world turns, Guiding light and so on) doubt if ALL episodes survived.

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The first episode of General Hospital in 1963 was never like what futures episodes from the 1980-2019 were going to be. Even today since the late 1980's, 95-98% of the storylines takes place outside of Port Charles General Hospital!

kpowers said:

TonyVanDam said:

kpowers said:

It's a shame but it was the times. You are talking about them getting rid of stuff in the 70's, no internet, DVD's and so once it aired that was it. There were VCR's in the 70's but really didn't boom until the 80's. What about all the soap operas (As the world turns, Guiding light and so on) doubt if ALL episodes survived.

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The first episode of General Hospital in 1963 was never like what futures episodes from the 1980-2019 were going to be. Even today since the late 1980's, 95-98% of the storylines takes place outside of Port Charles General Hospital!

OK, but do they exist???

LittleBLUECorvette said:

kpowers said:

It's a shame but it was the times. You are talking about them getting rid of stuff in the 70's, no internet, DVD's and so once it aired that was it. There were VCR's in the 70's but really didn't boom until the 80's. What about all the soap operas (As the world turns, Guiding light and so on) doubt if ALL episodes survived.

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But they kept some things around. Why not all o it.

Not sure. These are all on tapes that are 50 years plus old?????Maybe they got ruined??? I've heard some stuff have been destroyed like some episodes of Dark Shadows.

Out of 1225 episodes of Dark Shadows, this is the only episode where there is no surviving video.

1219

← 1219 →
Number	1199
Timeline	1841 PT
Narrator	Keith Prentice (original) Lara Parker (reconstruction)
Writer	Gordon Russell
Director	Lela Swift
Broadcast	February 25, 1971 (Thursday)
Recorded	February 18, 1971 (Thursday)
Video	Complete: Disc 124 Collection 25: Disc 4
We have 2 images of Dark Shadows 1219

Bramwell marries Daphne, whilst Catherine learns she is pregnant with his child.

Synopsis Edit

At the great house of Collinwood the Collins family, for many generations, has lived under a mysterious curse that has brought them nothing but tragedy. And now a romantic conflict has developed, one which threatens to split the family apart. Daphne Harridge has announced she will be married to Bramwell Collins. But on this night Daphne has suddenly begun to have some doubts. And so is trying, through a young woman who is clarvoyant, to determine what the future holds.

However it has been reconstructed using a fan-recorded audio track and still images. Lara Parker provides narration to preface and summarize each scene. Since the surviving audio from the episode was incomplete, the partial narration by Keith Prentice that originally opened the episode was dropped for the home video release, and was re-recorded by Lara Parke

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Graycap23 said:

No comment.

Are you posting that on every thread you're not commenting on?

Hudson said: