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Since the establishment of an archival policy for television in 1978, BBC archivists and others over the years have used various contacts in the UK and abroad to try to track down missing programmes.

For example, all BBC Worldwide customers who had bought programmes from the Corporation in the past were contacted to see if they still had copies which could be dubbed for the archives ; Doctor Who is a prime example of how this method recovered episodes that the Corporation did not hold themselves.

The BBC has also established the BBC Archive Treasure Hunt, a public appeal campaign to recover lost productions.