2026 - November to December
November 2026
1 - From the very few social media posts on the subject, for instance this one, it appears no new revelations were forthcoming at the Riverside Studios screening of The Daleks' Master Plan.
On GB, member bomaya says that "six" is the number he is hearing (ie, found episodes) from "a friend of a friend". Downthread he states that it's "two from stories we already have some of and one complete 4 part story that is currently totally missing".
2 - Meanwhile on Caprona, member The Cypher speculates that the reason FIF have introduced £25 and £100 Patreon tiers may be because "they know something is coming down the track".
On GB, member bomaya adds that the six episodes he has heard of are all from one now sadly late collector. He also states the episodes are "Hartnell".
However he also adds a major word of caution - he is not as confident as he has been with previous information from his contact and it could be "nonsense" and "too good to be true".
3 - On GB, member AnUnknownConsciousness shares a story from the Riverside screening as to how John Franklin came to find "Devil's Planet" at the collector's home in the first place:
"The short version is he'd gone around to the collectors house to buy some film cans off him and offer to help with some sorting out, collector hadn't answered the door so a neighbour with a key helped him to get in. They found the collector had had a fall, so called him an ambulance. While waiting for the ambulance to arrive, he saw a box of films propping open the back door, picked one of the cans up out of curiosity, and it was Devils Planet, which he googled and discovered was a missing episode."
And member Scot Ferre points out that there is nothing in the rumour of "six found" so far to indicate the alleged find has any connection to FIF.
4 - On Planet Telos, member george agdgdgwngo adds to the Hartnell episode find rumour discussion, saying he was told "a while ago" that all four episodes of The Smugglers had been found.
The member further states that he believes the animation was greenlit a while ago but the episodes were found in a collection and so the BBC are "holding off". Also that this is not a new rumour; it was around the same time as the found episodes of The Daleks' Master Plan.
7 - On X, Matthew Purchase reports that TGJones apparently listed a season 5 boxset of Doctor Who: The Collection, which was quickly deleted.
8 - On Planet Telos, member Timeloopy refers to a rumour from around 2020/21, that episodes 4 & 5 of The Wheel in Space were known to be in a private collection in West Sussex.
