In 2018, Morris visited an abandoned cinema in Freetown, Sierra Leone, and recovered a further two episodes from Series 1 (5 and 7), which now exist as colour restored film copies. They are rebroadcast every year on Christmas and Boxing Day. In May 2022, a new DVD release was announced entitled "Morecambe & Wise: The Lost Tapes". This featured fully coloured restorations of three of the four existing episodes of Series 1, plus as full a restoration as possible of the badly degraded episode 2, as well as the existing audio tracks of the remaining missing episodes. Additionally, a full colour restoration of the episode discovered by Gary Morecambe in 2020 is included, as well as an uncut studio recording from 1972, and various other features.
