10 Insane Doctor Who Rumours That Never Happened

10. Robert Mugabe Had Missing Doctor Who Episodes

Due to a shocking lack of commercial foresight and cultural appreciation, much of the early years of Doctor Who are no longer available. Thanks to the efforts of self-styled Indiana Jones impersonator-cum-internet troll Philip Morris and record producer/overly thorough genealogist Ian Levine, many of these lost works have now been rediscovered.

Missing Doctor Who episodes have been dug up in all manner of places from church basements to Hong Kong and Nigerian broadcasting stations. Since 2013, rumours have persisted that someone holds a copy of every missing episode of Doctor Who and has a list of insane demands they want fulfilled before they even consider returning them to the BBC.

That man? Deceased Zimbabwean Prime Minister Robert Mugabe. No, not really, but back in 2009 The Sun ran an article which claimed that Zimbabwe had bought the first series of Doctor Who back in the early 60s for broadcast in the country.

Due to the poor diplomatic relations between the UK and Zimbabwe following their dismissal from the Commonwealth, it was proving difficult for UK researchers to get in and root through the archive. Mugabe has been dead for almost three years now, and, as far as we're aware, hadn't listed all seven episodes of Marco Polo in his will.