Adam Adamant Lives!

The series suffered from the BBC's lack of a proper archiving policy until 1978. It was BBC policy before 1978 to wipe master tapes and reuse them for other programmes, hence saving money and storage space. Twelve episodes out of the twenty-nine made for this series are believed to no longer exist; those that do are 16mm film sales copies. Season 1 is almost complete with only one episode missing (Ticket to Terror (1966)), whilst Season 2 is almost completely missing with only two episodes surviving (Black Echo (1967) and A Sinister Sort of Service (1967)). In 2003, D for Destruction (1966), the Season 1 finale episode, was found by the BBC in a mislabeled film can. The complete audio soundtrack for The Basardi Affair (1967) was recovered in 2017.