What is so wrong with The Faceless Ones episode 3 that the print required extensive restoration work for the BBC Video release?
This episode, although rumoured to exist as early as 1985, was finally returned to the BBC in April 1987 (the same person returned The Evil of the Daleks episode 2 a month later). The print had suffered badly in the hands of the film collector who returned it, and had been played often on an old and badly-maintained projector. As a result the film had physically snapped several times and had been crudely sellotaped back together. These breakages resulted in the loss of perhaps four frames each time the film broke, and the sellotaped portions were now even more likely to stick in the projector and break again. This continued abuse has left the print with many small jumps where a few frames are missing, but also with some rather large jumps where upwards of half a second of material is missing (it is possible these result from even more severe projector damage such as a rip or even punching the sprocket teeth through the film – see the screen shots on the left which are taken from consec
