"Piracy is wrong, as you are denying someone their rights and income for their intellectual property."
What a bunch of complete hypocrites. The only reason the show still exists is because of piracy, because the idiots at the BBC managed to most of the old episodes. So without pirates supplying the BBC and the general public with their copies of the old episodes, the show literally couldn't exist today.
Only most of the first and second doctors' runs were lost. Alot of the missing episodes that were recovered came from overseas broadcasters. The BBC always had the complete runs of the other five doctors - over 22 years of television.
What a bunch of complete hypocrites. The only reason the show still exists is because of piracy, because the idiots at the BBC managed to most of the old episodes. So without pirates supplying the BBC and the general public with their copies of the old episodes, the show literally couldn't exist today.