How was episode 1 of The Crusade rediscovered?
This episode was returned to the BBC early in 1999 and was released in mid-1999 on a special BBC Video release (BBCV 6805, released July 1999) together with all four episodes of The Space Museum. The episode was actually discovered in the care of a New Zealand film collector by a prominent New Zealand fan, Neil Lambess. Later, Neil contacted Paul Scoones who arranged for it to be returned safely to the BBC for them to make a copy. The full story of how the episode was discovered is told in issues 17, 18 and 19 of The Disused Yeti newsletter and Steve Roberts describes the work undertaken to clean up the recovered print in his Restoration Team pages.
