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Wiped
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Lost television broadcast.
Lost programs
The BBC wiped many editions of Not Only... But Also, starring Peter Cook and Dudley Moore from its archives in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Cook and Moore reportedly offered to pay for the cost of preservation and buy new videotapes so that the old tapes would not need to be reused, but this offer was rejected. Some telerecordings of the black and white episodes survive, but the completed programs on color videotape of the 1970 series were wiped. As a result of this, the only surviving color sketches are the 16 mm film inserts.