Editing Adam Adamant Lives! (section)

===Lost episodes===
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There were originally 29 [[black-and-white]] episodes composing two series, plus one unbroadcast pilot titled ''Adam Adamant Lives'' (without exclamation mark, as here). The 1902 sequence is now all that is known to survive of this unseen debut episode of the series, and only exists because it was later reused in "A Vintage Year for Scoundrels". No script of ''Adam Adamant Lives'' is known to exist, and the only documentation that remains is the description given in the Drama Early Warning Synopsis issued on Thursday 10 March 1966; this is included in the booklet ''Adam Adamant Lives!: Viewing Notes'' accompanying the DVD boxed set ''Adam Adamant Lives!: The Complete Collection'' released by [[2entertain]] Ltd in July 2006.

The first series, with the exception of "Ticket to Terror", was made as a mixture of single camera [[16 mm film]] for the location sequences, and multi-camera studio recording using 625-line electronic cameras. However, instead of being edited on [[video tape]], as was the usual [[BBC]] procedure, the series was edited entirely on film, with the output of the studio cameras being [[telerecording|telerecorded]], for ease of editing. (At that time, videotape editing was difficult.)

"Ticket to Terror" from the first series, and all of the second series, were made with the usual BBC mix of tape and film, but were edited on tape. [[Wiping (magnetic tape)|Wiping]] by the BBC in the 1970s has resulted in no master videotapes having survived. Film recordings haven't all survived either as, in one case, one episode on [[35 mm movie film|35 mm film]] is known to have been destroyed.

The result of all this is that only 16 episodes remained in the archives when the BBC realised the value of such material, including the first and last episodes in broadcast order. These were mainly in the form of 35 mm film telerecordings, with a handful of episodes as 16mm film recordings or reduction prints. In the case of some episodes, the 35 mm location footage also exists, and has been used to remaster those surviving episodes. The last episode of Series One, "D For Destruction", thought to be among those lost forever, was recovered in 2003, from a mislabelled film can in the BBC Archives. It has been shown in public at the [[Missing Believed Wiped]] event, and is included in the ''Complete Collection'' DVD set.

Another lost episode, "The Basardi Affair", was recovered as a complete off-air audio recording in 2017, and remains to date the only missing ''Adam Adamant Lives!'' episode known to exist in this format.

A public appeal campaign, the [[BBC Archive Treasure Hunt]], continues to search for missing episodes.

====List of lost episodes====

{|class="wikitable"
|-
! Series
! Episode No.
! Lost Episodes
! Original Broadcast Date 
|-
| rowspan="1" | 0
|Pilot
|''Adam Adamant Lives''
| Not broadcast 
|-
| rowspan="1" | 1
|14
|''Ticket To Terror''
|29 September 1966
|-
| rowspan="11" | 2
|1
|''A Slight Case of Reincarnation''
|31 December 1966
|-
|3
|''Conspiracy of Death''
|14 January 1967
|-
|4
|''The Basardi Affair''*
|21 January 1967
|-
|5
|''The Survivors''
|28 January 1967
|-
|6
|''Face in a Mirror''
|4 February 1967
|-
|7
|''Another Little Drink ''
|11 February 1967
|-
|8
|''Death Begins at Seventy''
|18 February 1967
|-
|9
|''Tunnel of Death''
|25 February 1967
|-
|10
|''The Deadly Bullet''
|4 March 1967
|-
|11
|''The Resurrectionists''
|11 March 1967
|-
|12
|''Wish You Were Here''
|18 March 1967
|-
|}

<small>* This episode currently exists only in audio form.</small>