12 March 2013  Day Seventy-One: The Knight of Jaffa (The
Crusade, Episode Two)    Dear diary,  When people talk about the
early years of Doctor Who, the conversation usually turns to the
fate of the missing episodes. The chunk of stories missing from
the 1960s somewhat overshadows the era as a whole.  Indeed, in
the past when I've thought of trying marathons, I've either
opted to skip the 1960s altogether, and start from Spearhead
From Space, safe in the knowledge that everything from there
onwards exists, or I've opted to just skip the missing episodes
and to think of the series as being just those stories which
survive in full.  What you tend to miss when looking at the big
picture in regards to the fate of 1960s Doctor Who is just how
much of it does survive. Here I am, 71 days into my marathon,
and this is only my tenth missing episode. If you consider the
fact that I was able to watch the missing parts of The Reign of
Terror in animated form, then you could consider this my eighth
really 'missing' episod