User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-6032121-20200517150418/@comment-6032121-20200618231453

The Monk story was released, though, and "recorded" (saved) by fans. It's more like a missing episode than anything. Indeed, its original release was more permanent than the release methods of Hartnell-era TV episodes! Cook also never dismissed it, as has strenuously been proven before. She dismissed the TV story, or, at a stretch, the hypothetical novelisation, but never the actual prose release.