Once the BBC realised they had made a mistake by junking early episodes of the programme, they hatched a plan to try to find them. In the 1970s, they established the BBC Film and Videotape Library, and named Malden as its first "archive selector". She held the post until some time in the 1980s. As the head of the library, one of her first acts was to decide what programmes she would actively try to recover. Thanks in part to pressure from Ian Levine, the Doctor Who production office and the outcry of the nascent fan community, she made Doctor Who a priority.