Lost Dr Who Episodes Discovered, But My Tapes Still Missing

A scene from my 12th birthday party. Bod is at the rear.

With the astounding news that two long lost episodes of Dr Who from the 1960s have been discovered, I must sadly report that home videos from the early 1980s of my family's birthday parties are still lost. In tragic circumstances in the late 1980s, a shortage of video tapes in the lounge room led to certain peoples (who shall remain anonymous) being forced to tape over our priceless footage.

Despite remaining ever vigilant, it is becoming increasingly unlikely that we will ever see those scenes again, especially since the number of working video recorders in the extended family has declined to one, and more importantly, we have not discovered yet how to unerase video tape, despite numerous emails to the FBI.