A wide variety of items from Doctor Who and Torchwood are to be auctioned in London next week. Bonhams' entertainment memorabilia sale will be held at its Knightsbridge auction venue on Wednesday 18th December, starting at midday, with viewings taking place every day from Sunday 15th December up to the sale.

Out of the 417 lots in the sale, 55 relate to the two series, with items ranging from scripts and artwork to costumes, props, and a signed postcard from Patrick Troughton while he was the Doctor.

Full list of related auction items

Torchwood:
Lot	Description	Estimate (£)
127	Collection of part costumes worn by John Barrowman as Captain Jack Harkness in Series 3	350-550
128	Model flayed corpse	250-350
129	Pair of prosthetic Weevil masks	300-500
130	Collection of prosthetic corpse body parts and torsos	300-500
131	Costume for Eve Myles as Gwen Cooper in Sleeper	250-300
132	Collection of part costumes worn by John Barrowman in Series 2	350-550
133	Collection of part costumes worn by Kai Owen as Rhys Williams in Series 2	300-500
134	Collection of part costumes worn by Gareth David-Lloyd as Ianto Jones in Series 2	400-500
135	Costume worn by Eve Myles in A Day In The Death	250-300
136	Three-piece part costume worn by Freema Agyeman as Martha Jones in Dead Man Walking	250-350
137	Two part costumes worn by Demetri Goritsas as Franklin and Ethan Brooke as Gray in Adam	300-500
138	Costume worn by Eve Myles in Meat	300-500
139	Assorted props including severed head	300-500
140	Various costume parts worn by Naoki Mori as Toshiko	400-600
141	Collection of costume parts for Eve Myles in Out of Time	250-350
142	Part costume worn by John Barrowman in They Keep Killing Suzie	400-600
143	Collection of costumes worn by Eve Myles	300-500
144	Costume worn by Eve Myles in Countrycide	300-500
145	Two part costumes worn by Eve Myles in Ghost Machine	250-350
146	Collection of part costumes worn by Burn Gorman as Owen Harper	300-500
147	Collection of part costumes worn by John Barrowman, including RAF blue great coat	700-900
148	Costume worn by Eve Myles in End of Days	250-300
149	Collection of part costumes worn by John Barrowman, including 'Belstaff' beige bomber jacket	400-600
150	Collection of part costumes worn by John Barrowman, including RAF blue great coat	600-800
Doctor Who:
Lot	Description	Estimate (£)
151	Helmet-less Cyberman from Silver Nemesis	1000-1500
152	Destroyed Dalek, believed to be from Remembrance of the Daleks	4500-5000
153	Studio floor plan from The Trial of a Time Lord, plus assorted photos	100-150
154	Sharaz Jek head cowl from The Caves of Androzani	700-900
155	Rehearsal scripts for "Planet of Fear" (aka Planet of Fire)	200-300
156	Scripts and related material from Snakedance	350-450
157	Neman and Katura costume designs from The Keeper of Traken	800-1200
158	Seron and Tremas costume designs from The Keeper of Traken	800-1200
159	Varsh's dagger from Full Circle	300-500
160	Scripts and other material from Castrovalva	300-400
161	Original artwork for Doctor Who Annual 1980 (Reluctant Warriors)	600-800
162	Original artwork for Doctor Who Annual 1980 (Reluctant Warriors)	600-800
163	Original artwork for Doctor Who Annual 1979 (The Power)	1000-1200
164	Original artwork for Dalek Annual 1978 (The Castaway)	500-600
165	Original artwork for Dalek Annual 1978 (Davros - Genius or Madman?)	500-700
166	Original artwork for Dalek Annual 1978 (The Castaway)	500-600
167	Original artwork for Doctor Who Annual 1977 (The Body Snatcher)	1000-1200
168	The Taran Wood Beast costume from The Androids of Tara	1500-2000
169	Dove Pan magic trick prop from The Talons of Weng-Chiang	700-900
170	Set of four camera scripts for The Time Warrior	1000-1500
171	Camera script/shooting schedule for episode 3 of The Curse of Peladon	250-300
172	Rehearsal scripts for episode 1, 2 and 5 of Doctor Who and The Dominators	1200-1800
173	Postcard to Henry Soskin (Lincoln) from Patrick Troughton	500-800
174	Camera scripts for episodes 1, 2, 4, 5 and 6 of The Web of Fear	2500-3500
175	Carbon copy letter from Henry Lincoln to Mervyn Haisman about The Abominable Snowmen, plus script pages	250-350
176	Rehearsal scripts for episodes 1-5 of The Web of Fear	2500-3000
177	Draft scripts for episodes 1-6 of The Abominable Snowmen, hand annotated by Henry Lincoln	4000-6000
178	Rehearsal scripts for episodes 1-6 of The Abominable Snowmen	3000-5000
179	Original Yeti homing device prop from The Web of Fear	2000-3000
180	Original TARDIS prop model (1960s)	2000-3000
181	Original hollow Yeti homing device prop from The Web of Fear	2000-3000

It should be noted that some lots are subject to shipping and handling restrictions.

Nine episodes from the fifth season of Doctor Who and starring Patrick Troughton as the Doctor have been recovered from Nigeria, having been feared gone forever, the BBC announced today.

The previously missing, presumed destroyed episodes hail from The Enemy of the World and The Web of Fear, with episodes 1, 2, 4, 5, and 6 of Enemy completing that particular story and the return of episodes 2, 4, 5, and 6 of Web meaning only episode 3 of the Yeti sequel is still missing. Episode 3 of Enemy and episode 1 of Web were also returned, but were already held in the archive.

The recovery now brings the total number of missing episodes down to 97 and is the biggest single find in decades.

They - and the relevant stories' already-surviving episodes - had originally gone to Hong Kong but had been "bicycled" on and were discovered at a TV relay station in the city of Jos by Philip Morris, executive director of Television International Enterprises Archives (TIEA), who tracked records of overseas shipments made by the BBC containing tapes for transmission.

All the episodes - including a reconstructed episode 3 of Web - have been remastered and are available to buy via download as of now from iTunes by people in the UK, the USA, Canada, Australia, France, and Germany. The third episode of Web has been reconstructed by the BBC Doctor Who Restoration Team, using a selection of the 37 images that were available from the episode, along with the original audio, which has been restored.

In addition, The Enemy of the World will be available to buy on DVD from Friday 22nd November at the Doctor Who Celebration. It will then go on sale to the general public on Monday 25th November, with The Web of Fear to follow in early 2014.

It is unknown exactly when the episodes were found, but in a BBC press release statement, Morris said: Doctor Who News was at the press conference held yesterday in central London to announce the finds, where Deborah Watling, Frazer Hines, and Mark Gatiss were the special guests and screenings of episode 1 of Enemy and episode 2 of Web took place to rapturous applause.

Speaking about the recoveries, Hines told Doctor Who News: At the press conference, Dan Phelan, head of communication for BBC Worldwide, commented on the recent rife speculation, calling it "some 'almost' well-informed, some very wide of the mark." He also told Doctor Who News: A statement from Morris was then read out by Roy Robinson, archive co-ordinator at TIEA, part of which was as follows: A filmed interview with Morris was also shown, in which he said they had been very lucky because the episodes had been kept in optimum condition. He also praised the restoration, recovery, and archive work done by the BBC.

The screening of the second episode of The Web of Fear was introduced by Gatiss, who said: Watling's father, Jack, played Professor Travers in both Yeti stories, and during the question-and-answer panel, she commented on seeing her father again on the screen by simply saying: "That's brilliant!" She also added how Troughton had been like another father and another uncle to her.

Hines praised "the set boys" on The Web of Fear, saying they deserved a BAFTA and commenting that it was so realistic he thought the train lines would be live. He also recalled how Watling teased Troughton as he attempted a South American accent for Salamander in The Enemy of the World, saying that it sounded Welsh, which caused Troughton to slink away somewhat deflated!

Watling said about the episode discoveries: But when it was finally confirmed: Hines added: Stories Hines said he would most like to see returned were The Evil of the Daleks and The Space Pirates (because of the model work), while Watling cited Fury From The Deep, and Gatiss named The Power of the Daleks and The Daleks' Master Plan as his choice candidates for recovery.

In the press statement, Fiona Eastwood, director of consumer products for BBC Worldwide, commented:

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In celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Doctor Who, StoryBundle is offering a specially curated set of six full length e-books featuring episode guides, producer autobiographies, coming-of-age stories and recipe books themed around Doctor Who.
StoryBundle is a platform for indie authors to get exposure for their works, both for the titles featured in the bundle and for the rest of their catalog.

Buyers pay what they like, subject to a minimum fee of $3.

The initial titles in The (Unofficial) Doctor Who Bundle are:

• Dalek I Loved You: 50th Anniversary Edition by Nick Griffiths
Nick Griffiths' memoir of life as a Doctor Who fan, which has been praised by the UK Guardian and a former Doctor Who himself, David Tennant, and comes in a special 50th Anniversary update.
• Who & Me by Barry Letts
The fascinating behind the scenes autobiography by the late Doctor Who producer Barry Letts - a key creative force on the show in the Jon Pertwee years, and who also worked with iconic Doctor Tom Baker.
• TARDIS Eruditorum Volume 2: Patrick Troughton by Philip Sandifer
The second volume of collected and expanded posts from the popular blog TARDIS Eruditorum offers a critical history of the Patrick Troughton era of Doctor Who.
• Dining With The Doctor: An Unauthorized Whovian Cookbook by Chris-Rachael Oseland
A cookbook to remember, celebrating the return of The Doctor with recipes themed around the first six seasons of the 2005 Doctor Who reboot - including dishes like Open Faced Dalek Ironsides, Sontaran Soldiers, Fish Custard Tacos, and a Cinnamon Pull Apart Crack in the Wall.

If you pay at least $10 you get two bonus books:

• VWORP! by Earl Green
A key primer to the Doctor Who canon from 1963 through to the 2011 Xmas special, for both novices and experts alike.
• The Best of TARDIS Eruditorum, by Philip Sandifer.
The Best of TARDIS Eruditorum collects twenty-one of the best and most popular essays from Philip Sandifer's acclaimed blog TARDIS Eruditorum.

Full details on the StoryBundle website.

A special edition of Doctor Who Magazine has been published today featuring telesnaps from missing Second Doctor episodes.

Although a total of 106 Doctor Who episodes no longer exist in the BBC archives, there are pictorial records of most of them in the form of photos taken of TV screens at the time of broadcast, and The Missing Episodes – The Second Doctor Volume 1 contains images from six Patrick Troughton stories across its 116 pages.

The adventures covered are The Power of the Daleks, The Highlanders, The Underwater Menace, The Moonbase, The Macra Terror, and The Faceless Ones.

The special publication also has a feature by researcher and author Richard Molesworth, which reveals how some missing episodes of Doctor Who have miraculously been found and returned to the archives over the years. Molesworth wrote the book Wiped! Doctor Who's Missing Episodes, which was updated this year for a second edition.

It is unknown as yet when Volume 2 will be published or which stories it will cover.

The film A Hitch In Time starring Patrick Troughton as a time-travelling professor is to be released on DVD for high-definition viewing.

Penned by the Oscar-winning scriptwriter T E B "Tibby" Clarke and directed by Jan Darnley-Smith, the 54-minute Children's Film Foundation feature from 1978 will form part of the three-film CFF collection Weird Adventures from the BFI.

It also stars Jeff Rawle as "Sniffy" Kemp, a teacher out to spoil the fun. The art direction is by Doctor Who's current production designer Michael Pickwoad.

The other two films in the collection are Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's last collaborative feature The Boy Who Turned Yellow (1972) and Alberto Cavalcanti's The Monster of Highgate Ponds (1961).

All the films have been newly transferred for high-definition viewing from the best available elements in the BFI National Archive, having been out of distribution for a number of years.

Weird Adventures - the third volume of CFF films brought out by the BFI - will be released on Monday 17th June and is available to pre-order.

The CFF was a non-profit-making pan-industry initiative set up in 1951 by the owner of the Odeon and Rank cinema chains to make home-grown entertainment for young cinema-goers to see at the "Saturday morning pictures". Key themes included adventure, mysteries, monsters, science-fiction, shipwrecks, races, and animals, with regional content from Scotland to south-west England.

It became the Children's Film and Television Foundation in 1982, with film production ending in 1987. The CFTF is now known as the Children's Media Foundation, with the film collection preserved in the BFI National Archive.

BBC America continues its celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of Doctor Who by revisiting the Second Doctor and showing the classic 1967 story The Tomb of the Cybermen.

The widely-regarded story will air on Sunday 24th February at 8pm ET and will be preceded by a documentary looking back at the era of the Second Doctor, featuring contributions from Steven Moffat, Caroline Skinner, David Tennant, John Barrowman, Frazer Hines and Wendy Padbury.

The Tomb of the Cybermen was the first story of the fifth season of Doctor Who, showing in four parts in September 1967. For many years it was lost from the BBC archives, presumed destroyed, before being rediscovered in Hong Kong in 1991.

Alongside Patrick Troughton as the Second Doctor, the story stars Frazer Hines as the young highlander Jamie McCrimmon and Deborah Watling as the Victorian refugee Victoria Waterfield. It sees the TARDIS crew land on Telos, where members of an archaeological expedition are searching for the legendary tomb of the Cybermen.

The revisited series began last month with a repeat of the First Doctor story The Aztecs, which gets a repeat showing at 5pm just before the transmission of The Tomb of the Cybermen.

As previously reported, Splendid Chaps is a year-long performance/podcast project to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who hosted by comedian Ben McKenzie (Dungeon Crawl, Melbourne Museum Comedy Tour) and writer John Richards (ABC1 sitcom Outland, Boxcutters podcast).

Described by its creators as part intellectual panel discussion, part nerdy Tonight Show, Splendid Chaps is a combination of analysis, enthusiasm and irreverence. The first episode went to number 1 on the iTunes TV & Film Podcast chart in Australia, and to number 4 in the UK.  The podcast is available  at www.splendidchaps.com or at  iTunes.

Tickets are now on sale for the second live recording, which features actor Toby Truslove (ABC's Laid, Outland, The Strange Calls) and cultural theorist Dr Djoymi Baker discussing the second Doctor, Patrick Troughton, and the notion of “evil” in Doctor Who. Is it absolute? Are there cosmic forces of right and wrong? And is the Doctor always on the right side? Plus performance guest, cabaret comedian Dean Acuri – performing a song written especially for the show.


Splendid Chaps: A Year Of Doctor Who: "Two/Evil"
Space: 303, 303 High Street, Northcote
Time: Sunday, February 17; bar open from 4 PM, show starts 5 PM (note that as event is recorded, latecomers will not be admitted until intermission)
Tickets: $15 full price, $12 concession (plus booking fee)
Bookings: via TryBooking; tickets also sold at the door (subject to availability)

"One/Authority" event shows (from left to right) Ben McKenzie, John Richards, Lee Zachariah, Nerida Haycock, Alexandra Tynan (nee Sandra Reid), Petra Elliot. Photographer Robert Young.

As mentioned earlier this month, the BFI plan to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Doctor Who with special screenings each month next year in the lead-up to the Anniversary itself; the organisation has now announced details about the first quarter of 2013.

As previously mentioned, the season kicks off at the very beginning with William Hartnell's An Unearthly Child on 12th January; this will be followed on 9th February with Patrick Troughton tackling the Tomb of the Cybermen; then in March Jon Pertwee is up against The Master as The Mind of Evil is unveiled in newly restored colour! All stories are accompanied by a Q&A panel, though guests have yet to be announced.


Justin Johnson, BFI Programmer, said:

Doctor Who's executive producer Caroline Skinner said:

In November, the climax of the BFI's celebration will include a special preview of An Adventure in Space and Time , the drama written by Mark Gatiss exploring the personalities that brought the longest running sci-fi series to life.


The stories representing the other eight Doctors will be confirmed next year.

The Radio Times has launched a new campaign to find any of the episodes of Doctor Who that are still missing from the BBC's Archives. At present there are 106 still to be recovered, and though some are unlikely to ever resurface there is continued hope that at least some of those lost William Hartnell and Patrick Troughton adventures might yet be enjoyed once more.

The magazine's historian Ralph Montagu was involved with the discovery of last year's recoveries, Galaxy 4: Air Lock and The Underwater Menace: Episode Two:

You can find the list of missing episodes via our Doctor Who Guide.

A second volume of the TARDIS Eruditorum blog by Philip Sandifer has been published, taking a critical look at the Patrick Troughton era of Doctor Who story by story.

Sandifer, who holds a PhD in English focusing on film and media studies, says the blog's aim is to provide a comprehensive critical overview of Doctor Who that moves beyond received fan wisdom to tell the evolving story of one of the most important and remarkable pieces of popular culture ever created.


It is available to buy through Amazon.

Volume one, which centres on the William Hartnell years, was published last November.