[SuperSajuuk]

I'm not sure how an episode of such a major show from 1999 could have gone missing... there's likely another reason it's not been shown.

I'm sure it was part of the run of "classic" episodes that ITV ran in 2003 (which spliced episodes from the early series with new links from Chris and interviews with some of the contestants).

Yeah there’s a video on facebook from that run you mention, but its only up to the third contestant [when she reached £1k].

I assume missing as back in 2015, they mentioned not getting all episodes [for example the Series 1 Christmas Special S1E11 has never been aired because the episode wasn’t found by ITV at the time]. It could be there are other reasons, as you say, although there’s nothing online to suggest why the episode was excluded back then.