October 28th, 2016
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Doctor Who Power of the Daleks Animation DVD
Available to order from www.amazon.co.uk
Also available to order from www.hmv.com
Doctor Who: The Power of the Daleks, the brand new animated version of the much celebrated lost story, is set to be a must buy for every Doctor Who fan with a wealth of extra material available with both the BBC Store and DVD releases.
This highly anticipated adventure will be released on BBC Store on Saturday 5th November, exactly 50 years to the minute after it was first transmitted on BBC One at 5.50pm on Saturday 5th November, 1966, with DVD following on Monday 21st November.
Extra treats fans can look forward to include commentaries and surviving footage, together with a documentary feature which stars the original cast and crew. Other bonus features include a gallery of artwork from the animation, and original shooting script. There’s even a rare chance to hear the original Dalek recordings from the show.
It’s one of the Doctor’s most celebrated adventures and yet no complete film recordings of The Power of the Daleks are known to have survived. The master negatives were destroyed in an archive purge in 1974.
The six half-hour episodes feature the regeneration, or as it was then called ‘renewal’, of First Doctor William Hartnell into Second Doctor Patrick Troughton, as the Time Lord and his companions Polly (Anneke Wills) and Ben (Michael Craze) do battle with the Daleks on the planet Vulcan.
Animator Charles Norton says: ‘It’s been wonderful to have been able to track down so much rare and previously unreleased material and I hope that fans enjoy the excellent package we’ve been able to assemble.’
You can also register your interest in the BBC Store download at www.bbcstore.com
DVD artwork from Classic Who artist Colin Howard which comes with a reversible cover…
Extras…
Alternate soundtracks [DVD only]
The option to listen to the story with a series of completely new digital re-masters of the original soundtrack – a stereo mix; a 5.1 surround sound mix and version of the original 1966 mono sound mix.
Animation Test Footage
A compilation of animation tests, created during the production of the new animated series.
Audio Commentaries on all 6 episodes [DVD only]
Members of the original cast and crew are joined by members of the new animation unit to discuss the production of the story and its new animated reconstruction. Moderated by Toby Hadoke. Please note: this commentary also includes archive audio.
Booklet with Production Notes [DVD only]
An extensively researched set of production notes, written by the noted television historian Andrew Pixley, covering the behind the scenes story of how the original production was made.
Original Camera Scripts [DVD only]
Selected items of original production paperwork and a complete set of original camera scripts
Original Title Sequence – new restoration
An unedited presentation of the full original ‘Doctor Who’ title sequence, prepared using an all new HD re-master of the original film elements.
The Power of the Daleks Animation and Photo Gallery
An extended gallery of images, featuring production photographs from the original 1966 series and artwork from the latest animated production, accompanied by incidental music from the story, which has been digitally re-mastered from the original music production tapes.
The Power of the Daleks Surviving Footage & Original Trailer [BBC Store only]
A compilation of short film fragments and clips from the original 1966 BBC television production – the only surviving footage to remain of the show’s original BBC1 run.
Original Dalek Voice Session Recording (1966) [DVD only]
Rare and previously unreleased sections from the studio recordings that were made at Maida Vale Studios in 1966 for the Dalek voices.
Servants and Masters – The Making of The Power of the Daleks
A specially prepared documentary directed by John Kelly and featuring interviews with members of the original 1966 cast and crew.
Telesnap reconstruction
Around 400 individual still frames of film exist from the original 1966 television production of ‘The Power of the Daleks’. These images were kept in the programme’s production files by the BBC Written Archive Centre. These images are here combined with the programme’s soundtrack to present a photographic reconstruction of the original programme.
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Anonymous
October 12th, 2016 - 5:28pmThink we should give some thanks to the fans who recorded early stories on their reel to reel tapes, cause lost stories like these would not be available in audio or cartoon format, if it wasn’t for them. Apparently the BBC wiped video tapes and didn’t even hold any audio copies of the programs. So many of these lost stories were supplied on audio format to the BBC by the fans.
Tim M
October 11th, 2016 - 1:12pmCome on guys…When are we getting the official DVD cover. It’s being released a little over a month!
TheClassicsAreAce
October 12th, 2016 - 8:06pmMy thoughts exactly
Phil
October 6th, 2016 - 12:59amI hope enough people tune in to watch it when it Aires causing a significant enough boost in ratings to make the BBC want to Animate the rest. Since there are only 18 missing stories. That’s equivalent to “One” partial season of most animated series in the U.S. there is absolutely No reason that BBC can’t afford to drop that Dime. If nothing else the BBC should establish the Style of art in which the cartoon should be produced and outsource the Labor to Fans who have artistic ability enough to draw each story collectively. That is to say, one guy draws 10 minutes worth of drawings = 14400 drawings ( 24 drawings a sec ) sounds crazy but is easier than you think. 4 Artists complete a story, or 8 Artists drawing 7200 drawings, etc…etc… I volunteer for free.
brendon
October 11th, 2016 - 7:38pmyou say only 18 storys but if you say 4 eps a story thats 72 episodes which is 3 and half full amaerican seasons as most shows have 22 episodes.
Tim M
October 3rd, 2016 - 1:56pmWhat should the DVD cover of ‘The Power of the Daleks’ look like? Should it look like the cartoon featured? Or should it be photographic? showing and utilizing images from the actual original production?
booboo
October 3rd, 2016 - 4:36pmgood question, I would say cartoon
Trenzalore
October 3rd, 2016 - 4:48pmI would do photographic and maybe a sticker saying its a cartoon, but then of course you’d get people saying they were misled and expecting recovered episodes so maybe cartoon. Whatever happens someone will find fault haha
Tim M
October 3rd, 2016 - 4:59pmAt the very least I hope there is a reverse cover. One that has the grey roundels with the story title and Doctor Who logo in the top right. Also with Troughton’s face in the bottom left corner, and says ‘The Patrick Troughton Years 1966 – 69’. It’s only right and fair for us collectors to have a cover that will seemingly match in with the rest of the classic series DVDs.
prototype dalek
October 3rd, 2016 - 5:57pmI agree with booboo, cartoon cover for the animation. If miraculously the whole power of the Daleks episode was found then I would say cover they have done for the Web of Fear and The Enemy of the World.
Tim M
October 3rd, 2016 - 7:55pmI suppose a cartoon cover would be ideal. But in the style of ‘Scream of the Shalka’, which was still in the classic series style cover. I want a photographic picture of Troughton on the spine though. A cartoon one just wouldn’t look right.
mark Belsom
October 12th, 2016 - 4:59pmI would do a reversible cover,with a normal artwork picture on one side the other the same but an animated version.
Peter
October 12th, 2016 - 7:22pmDoesn’t matter to me. I’ll be throwing out the case anyway and putting the disc in a custom series four case.
DVD Dan
September 15th, 2016 - 6:47pmSo, after ‘The Power of the Daleks’ is released on DVD. There will only be 18 classic series stories NOT available on DVD, with their own individual release.
Stories without a DVD available are ‘Marco Polo’ , ‘The Crusade’ , ‘Galaxy 4’ , ‘Mission to the Unknown’ , ‘The Myth Makers’ , ‘The Dalek Master Plan’ , ‘The Massacre’ , ‘The Celestial Toymaker’ , ‘The Savages’ , ‘The Smugglers’ , ‘ The Highlanders’ , ‘The Macra Terror’ , ‘The Faceless Ones’ , ‘The Evil of the Daleks’ , ‘The Abominable Snowmen’ , ‘Fury from the Deep’ , ‘The Wheel in Space’ and ‘The Space Pirates’.
I know ‘Galaxy 4’ had a photographic reconstruction alongside Part 3, as an extra on ‘The Aztecs’-‘Special Edition’ DVD. But it hasn’t been released on it’s own, within it’s own DVD case and cover.
But it’s impressive what has been released from Sixties Doctor Who, considering so many episodes still missing.
Doctor who Fan 123456
September 22nd, 2016 - 9:22pmWhat’s puzzling is why when the BBC says it’s “unethical” to animate more than 2 episodes of a lost story, they still haven’t made Mission to the Unknown or The Crusade, one of which has the same number of episodes missing as The Moonbase or The Ice Warriors and the other has less.
Gordon
September 23rd, 2016 - 1:21amFor mission to the Unknown you can’t release it on its own plus it’s too tied to masterplan
Tim M
September 15th, 2016 - 6:13pmI can’t help feeling that this animation for ‘The Power of the Daleks’ is a ‘one off’. Mainly because of the fact that it is completely missing, it’s Troughton’s first story, it features the Daleks (as no 2nd Dr v Daleks story is currently available), and the fact the story highly regarded by fans of all ages, which is quite a feat for a story completely missing it’s visuals.
Tim M
September 15th, 2016 - 6:22pmI consider Troughton stories on DVD already with animation (The Moonbase, The Ice Warriors and The Invasion) adequate ways of completing those stories. And although I would of course welcome any returns of the actual missing episodes themselves. Those episodes are near the bottom of my wish list of ones to be recovered. But however good the animation for ‘The Power of the Daleks’ is (and I’m sure it will be excellent), those 6 missing episodes would still be very high on my wish list.
Number 6
September 13th, 2016 - 6:41pmWhen I watched the trailer for the DVD release, I started wondering what aspect ratio it will be appear in. Because the original episodes were broadcasted in aspect ratio 4:3. The trailer seems to be screened in aspect ratio 16:9.
Are the restored animated episodes likely to be screened in aspect ratio 16:9?
Gordon
September 14th, 2016 - 12:33am16:9
Number 6
September 14th, 2016 - 8:12amWhy’s that? Can’t they stick to the original aspect?
Gordon
September 14th, 2016 - 12:39pmFor broadcast reasons on bbc america
whorules
September 12th, 2016 - 3:26pmi have to say i don’t want a download bbc store only release for any episode, personally it has to be a physical release on dvd or nothing for me. there’s no point in restoring /animating episodes for a very small audience, dvd encourages sales, downloads encourages piracy – just ask big finish! i dread to think of the amount of money they have lost to people copying and downloading their episodes.
Also dvd means extras i know this won’t be popular but i’d rather pay for a dvd release than have a downloaded copy on a disc. I’m old-fashioned but there you are…
Last of the Summer Wine
September 20th, 2016 - 8:40amI agree, DVD’s still make more than TV/Film downloads and Netflix every year.
To have an to hold. That’s how it should be. ☺️
Gordon
September 20th, 2016 - 9:41amIt’s where the future lies. Netflix downloads etc are still a growing market. DVDs are declining year on year. It will take a few years to die but it will eventually. Might not be in this generation though. Look at how quick vhs died within a couple of years of DVD becoming a big thing. Everything is pirated these days. Regardless of it just being DVD or download. Hours within it being released it will be online. Being just on DVD won’t prevent it going on illegal streaming and download sites
Gordon
September 20th, 2016 - 9:47amBtw Big finish seem to be pushing downloads at the moment. With the added postage charges it’s far cheaper to buy downloads than to buy their CDs. Especially if you are out of the uk
Jay Glover
September 11th, 2016 - 7:02pmSo everyone’s forgot already about the Cursade
Should be the first thing they do after this
Anonymous
September 11th, 2016 - 7:09pmThey’ve already said they won’t be doing ‘The Crusade’ – animating white actors in non-white roles is asking for controversy, and they’d sooner not take the risk at this moment. So, for the time being at least, animating ‘The Crusade’ is out of the question.
Koquillion
September 11th, 2016 - 7:28pmThats ridiculous, PC culture should not infect the preservation of history, for then you are not better than Hitler getting rid of Jewish history. Plus the Crusade is my favourite story, people didn’t complain when they restored (for the blu-ray) Lawrence of Arabia when Alec Guinness played an Arab, would it really be that controversial?, just animate them as though they were Arabian. Problem solved.
Gordon
September 11th, 2016 - 7:39pmI really don’t get why people are scrambling for that next. If its successful there is the possibility of evil masterplan fury etc. With the bbc store bbc worldwide can produce the stories that have 1 or 2 missing and it would be less of a risk than having just a DVD release would be in 2013-14. No extras to produce and no DVD manufacturing costs. All that would need to get paid is the animation and audio restoration. For example just say web 3 cost 15,000 to make. Sell it on bbc store for 2.99. Only needs about 5000 people to buy it from the store to break even. Because the DVD would have additional costs of restoration and extras. You would need to sell at least double that to break even if it was just dvd. Then once it’s broken even you can sell it on DVD. Easy peasy
Dr RevWho
September 11th, 2016 - 7:53pmI think it’s for completion’s sake – if we get a DVD release of ‘The Crusade’, we have the complete second season of the classic series on DVD. But, I personally think the next logical step would be one of the bigger stories like ‘Evil’ of ‘Fury’ as you say (again all depending on the success of ‘Power’). Another factor in the BBC’s decision not to do ‘The Crusade’ is simply that the historicals aren’t popular enough – at least, not as popular as the sci-fi stories or those with more missing episodes. It really all comes down to what will make the biggest profit, and, in terms of profit, ‘The Crusade’ really isn’t going to be as appealing as stories like ‘Power’ or ‘Evil’ or ‘Master Plan’.
Jay Glover
September 12th, 2016 - 8:09amIf they just Telesnap it then it would be fine
Well if they do what a fan did for the underwater menace part 1
I would accept it
Tim M
September 12th, 2016 - 10:55amAbsolutely right Jay. They have the telesnaps for missing episodes 2 & 4, so they could release it on DVD with telesnaps and audio, just like ‘The Underwater Menace’. Who knows, Phillip Morris may find a 16mm filmed copy somewhere. ‘The Crusade’ was sold to several countries during the sixties.
prototype dalek
September 13th, 2016 - 10:22pmThey did that with the web of fear so I don’t see why not
Gordon
September 14th, 2016 - 12:35amWhat must be taken into account is how poor a state crusade is. Even with all the work it was probably the worst restored episodes in the range
Dr RevWho
September 14th, 2016 - 3:58pmIn the case of ‘The Web of Fear’ they’d just announced that they had found episodes before the release. Seeing as they had five of the six episodes (four of which had not been released yet) they wanted to release it as soon as possible, and the lack of Episode 3 meant they had to fill in the gap. The quickest, and cheapest, option was a recon, hence why we got a recon there.
We were lucky to get ‘The Underwater Menace’, and the only reason we got it at all was because of the money the BBC had spent on the extras – which they weren’t willing to allow to go to waste – and the fact that, at the time, Episode 2 was the only fully surviving classic episode that had not been released yet. They had planned to release it with animations but, when that fell through, they had to settle for recons – which does not excuse the poor quality of the recons at all.
So, basically, my gander at the reason that the BBC probably won’t be doing recons for further episodes is that they don’t see any need to if the existing episodes are all available (which they are (via the Lost in Time set or (for Galaxy 4) the ‘Aztecs’ SE release)), and the fact that they know to do so would not attract as big a profit as either animating the episodes or releasing a recently re-discovered episode for the very first time.
Last of the Summer Wine
September 20th, 2016 - 8:46amControversial yes but unfortunately that is how it was in them days, for example many of the comedies of that time were the same but they’ve all seen release. Even the worse of the worse for it has been release “Talons”.
We could even have the Ian Chesterton specially filmed intro (in character) for the VHS release on it.
Last of the Summer Wine
September 20th, 2016 - 8:53amhttps://youtu.be/MFN2hKI-yRE
Here is the VHS exclusive minisode on The Crusade.
Featuring Ian Chesterton in character.
Click the link for “Ian Chesterton Talks”
shatner
September 11th, 2016 - 6:24pmhighlanders next and then underwater menace and so on. Lets see the whole of the 4th season actually.It would put so much into perspective.
Jay Glover
September 11th, 2016 - 7:00pmHello, The Cursade
Gordon
September 11th, 2016 - 7:24pmIt will be what is the most marketable. So most likely evil of the daleks then if there is more.
Tim M
September 11th, 2016 - 9:24amMy top 5 Doctor Who stories with my favourite animation so far are…
1) ‘The Invasion’ The first, and still the best. Cosgrove Hall started it all, and left a benchmark for others to follow.
2) ‘The Moonbase’ Highly effective and atmospheric animation. Complements the other existing episodes brilliantly.
3) ‘The Tenth Planet’ Nicely animated final episode.
4) ‘The Reign of Terror’ Underrated animated episodes.
5) ‘The Ice Warriors’ Good animation, if a little resemblance to Captain Pugwash.
whorules
September 10th, 2016 - 4:09pmin response to my earlier posting, I don’t mind inaccuracies, as long as we get more dvd’s i’ll be happy. i’d love to get a fully restored galaxy 4, i wouldn’t even mind getting space pirates as long as they do another dvd!
Asher H
September 10th, 2016 - 1:44pmI’m really looking forward to this. I’d love to see Marco Polo, The Daleks’ Master Plan, The Macra Terror etc. done. I’ve seen all the telesnaps of the original story and it really is brilliant
Trenzalore
September 10th, 2016 - 1:10pmWill definitely be buying this and the download and anything else in order to support it and then hopefully get another story animated for its 50th anniversary.
I would like Evil of the Daleks (50th next year), The Wheel in Space (50th 2018) and I’m not sure I’d want The Space Pirates (the only missing story not animated celebrating 50 in 2019) so maybe something like The Macra Terror. Then come 2023 I’d love Marco Polo for its 60th (if its not found by then haha)
I imagine this would be possible, 3 stories animated in 3 years. Fingers crossed this story does well to maybe make this possible…
Dr RevWho
September 10th, 2016 - 1:48pmIt’d be 2024 for Marco Polo’s 60th – it was broadcast in 1964.
Trenzalore
September 10th, 2016 - 3:03pmOf course silly me lol
whorules
September 10th, 2016 - 11:05amproblem with animating some of the stories, like master plan, is a lack of visual references. at least power has the telesnaps so sets, costumes and actors images are known. i wouldn’t mind if they made it up but a lot of fans would be “upset” because it won’t be accurate! also, no colour for me, these are made in black and white so that’s the way they should be. besides i imagine colour versions would be extremely expensive to make, not to mention how would the animators know what colours to use?
Dr RevWho
September 10th, 2016 - 11:44amIf you watch some of the interviews with the animators, they say that they use the camera scripts as reference to see how the episode would have been shot, allowing them to animate the episode with a general idea of how it would have looked, so it isn’t totally inaccurate. Besides, the only way you’d know for sure that it were inaccurate would be to check the actual episode – which is missing, hence the whole point of animating it. No one’s going to notice, unless they were there when the episode first went out, but since that was 50 years ago, or more, their memories of the episodes aren’t likely to be very precise.
But I agree with you on the point of colour episodes.
Anonymous
September 10th, 2016 - 12:55pmIf I remember correctly, they still have a lot of the set design plans from Master Plan.
It’s an issue that has already come up with The Reign of Terror where a set didn’t have any images left. There’s a whole episode of Marco Polo with no visual material left.
DoctorFan
September 10th, 2016 - 10:16amSomething to hope for at Christmas
Acelover6789
September 8th, 2016 - 8:47pmI hope it won’t look like that on the cover but it probably won’t show the massacre and the crusade because they are both to violent
Acelover6789
September 8th, 2016 - 8:44pmMarco Polo
Who
September 9th, 2016 - 5:57amWould LOVE Marco Polo to be done as a colour animation…it deserves it…
Tim M
September 9th, 2016 - 12:20pmIf any missing story is out there somewhere collecting dust, waiting to be found, then the odds are stacked very much in favour of it being ‘Marco Polo’. As a lot of prints were sent out to several countries during the Sixties. Many more than ‘Enemy of the World’ or ‘Web of Fear’, and it’s something of a miracle they turned up, as they should have been long gone. I do find it staggering that although the bulk of seasons 1 & 2 exist, that not even one episode of ‘Marco Polo’ has been recovered over the last 30 years.
Dr RevWho
September 10th, 2016 - 11:48amWhat I find even more staggering is that ‘Marco Polo’ is one of three stories (the others being ‘Mission to the Unknown’ and ‘The Massacre’) where no footage whatsoever (whether it be clips or full episodes) survives. Considering that it was the ‘Doctor Who’ serial from the 60s that was most sold abroad, you’d think something would have turned up by now.
Anonymous
September 10th, 2016 - 1:02pmHistoricals did poorly and were the first to be sent back and be destroyed.
Compare that to some of the Troughton monster stories, Philip Morris is investigating claims that a Yeti story (probably The Abominable Snowmen) had been secretly sold off to a Nigerian cinema chain because it was that in demand.
Acelover6789
September 8th, 2016 - 8:42pmI am over the moon hopefully this will fit in for the rest of the classic DVD line it would be nice to the celestial toymaker animated part 4 isn’t lost and only part 1-3 would be animated so it would work but would the Daleks master plan work because it a 12 parter it would be about 20£ or £15 because it would cost to much to animate because it’s 12 parts and probably be 3 or 4 disc to the DVD here’s hoping they will animate all the missing stories and hoping they will be able to fit in with rest of the classic line
Dr RevWho
September 8th, 2016 - 10:46pmWell, 3 of the 12 episodes from ‘Daleks’ Master Plan’ are still around, but 9 episodes is still quite a lot to animate – although, considering that this story will certainly never be found completely (as ‘Feast of Steven’ was wiped immediately after transmission), it may be in with a chance. Even so, I doubt it will take up 3 or 4 DVD discs, since they could always do episodes 1-6 on disc 1 and episodes 7-12 on disc 2.
The real master
September 8th, 2016 - 4:06pmEvil of the daleks next, at least part 2 of that exists, one less episode to animate
Tim M
September 8th, 2016 - 4:57pmPlus it would mean animating 6 episodes, just like ‘Power of the Daleks’.
Tim M
September 8th, 2016 - 5:00pmActually they should animate ‘Mission to the Unknown’ next. It’s only one episode, and it would complete the story.
Dr RevWho
September 8th, 2016 - 10:19pmTechnically there already is an animation of ‘Mission to the Unknown’. It doesn’t have a home media release, but it can be found for free on Youtube. If you get the chance, check it out, it’s really good.
Gordon
September 9th, 2016 - 8:47amPersonally I don’t think you can do mission without doing masterplan. It’s so connected with each other. Plus mission on its own isn’t really sellable on DVD. 13 quid for a 25 min main feature episode is a bit much. Perfect on the bbc store as an exclusive but I imagine there would be a lot of disappointed people. As for next evil is 50 in May next year. Perfect follow up project really if the sales are there.
Dr RevWho
September 9th, 2016 - 4:05pmI do agree that you’d almost certainly need to release ‘Mission’ and ‘Daleks’ Master Plan’ together, but, if ‘Mission’ ever did get a standalone release, I sincerely doubt the BBC would charge £13 for it, unless it had quite a lot of extras, which will probably never happen.
And yes, ‘Evil’ would be the perfect follow-up project since it is turning 50 next year, allows them to re-use the Dalek animations, and has 6 episodes missing (Episode 2 survives) same as ‘Power’. But I guess it all really depends on how successful ‘Power’ is. We will just have to wait until November to see.
booboo
September 9th, 2016 - 5:57pmInteresting question, in the case of evil where only one episode exists would people want that episode animated as well so you had a complete animated adventure?
Dr RevWho
September 9th, 2016 - 9:01pmIt is an interesting question, and possibly plausible, I mean it would be kind of strange if the whole thing was animated bar one episode. Besides that, the surviving episode is available on DVD (although it would make things awkward if you wanted to see the non-animated version of ep. 2 and had to swap discs), so perhaps you could compromise; animate all 7 episodes, and include the live episode 2 as a bonus – that way everyone is satisfied. That being said, would the BBC really spend extra money to animate an episode they’ve already got? Personally, I doubt they would, but it is still an interesting idea.
DoctorFan
September 10th, 2016 - 10:10amMaximum I’d pay for mission is £4.99
DoctorFan
September 10th, 2016 - 10:12amOr £17-20 for an animated box set of 2 separate cased dvd´s of mission and masterplan
PVW
September 10th, 2016 - 1:05pmI think I’d like to see the whole story (any) animated – even if there are one or two episodes available – I think they should include any existing clips on the dvd release too
Anonymous
September 8th, 2016 - 2:07amis it too much to ask for them to animate episode 3 of the web of fear and release a special edition of it in a box set with the abominable snowmen which has also been animated in this style.
I don’t ask for much BBC just spend all you money on that to make me happy.
Anonymous
September 8th, 2016 - 2:37amI think their money would be better placed helping Mr Morris track down Web 3, not creating replicas that hopefully shouldn’t be needed long term.
Tim M
September 8th, 2016 - 8:09amThat’s a silly argument. It’s a sad fact that it is highly likely that there are no prints of ‘The Power of the Daleks’ that exist. Very few copies were made and distributed. That’s a good enough reason for this animation. There’s no point waiting in the hope that all six episodes turn up eventually, as that is very unlikely, unless Phil Morris can prove me wrong.
booboo
September 8th, 2016 - 8:39amI think they are referring to just episode 3 of the web of fear, not spending money on animating that, for now, as its possible its still “out there”
Tim M
September 8th, 2016 - 8:35amThe same criteria could be applied to ‘The Daleks Master Plan’. Another story unlikely to be recovered, as no one bought it. So I wouldn’t hold out hope for that being found in it’s entirety.
Tim M
September 8th, 2016 - 9:38amWe presume someone has ‘The Web of Fear’ episode 3. I don’t think anymore money would change the situation of recovery, unless you intend paying over the odds and paying whoever has it, huge sums of money. That wouldn’t be helpful, and that would set an unhealthy precedent.
Anonymous
September 8th, 2016 - 3:08pmIf Philip Morris says Web 3 is out there that’s good enough for me. I’m not expecting them to pay over the odds to whoever got a hold of it, just to help TIEA out in their investigations.
LastOfTheSonics
September 8th, 2016 - 4:27pmEpisode 3 WAS in Phil Morris’ possession at one time, but it was presumed stolen or a private collector offered a higher price. It definitely exists .
Gordon
September 9th, 2016 - 8:51amI think if it hasn’t turned up by webs 50th they will animate. Perfect timing for a rerelease I reckon.
Anonymous
September 7th, 2016 - 7:52pmAccording to the amazon and HMV page, this is apparently 2 discs.
I wonder what special features it will have.
Tim M
September 7th, 2016 - 8:21pmComing soon animated trailer for ‘Fury from the Deep’ on disc 2… I hope!
Gordon
September 7th, 2016 - 11:41pmEnemy was listed as a 2 disc release at first. I wouldn’t get too excited
Anonymous
September 7th, 2016 - 7:47pmThe restoration team and 2 e have nothing to do with this it bbcww. So they could do crusades though personally I would not care same for Marco.
With that said though I would purchase both if they did.
LastOfTheSonics
September 8th, 2016 - 4:28pmAgreed. The actual stories I couldn’t care less for, but animations are still nice.
TheYetiNextDoor
September 9th, 2016 - 4:19pmWHAT! you dont care about the Crusade! couldn’t care less! my Goodness.
Dr RevWho
September 9th, 2016 - 5:59pmEach to their own, I guess. Personally, I generally prefer the sci-fi stories of the 60s as opposed to the historical adventures (exceptions made for ‘The Aztecs’, ‘The Time Meddler’ and possibly ‘Marco Polo’ and/or ‘The Romans’). That’s not to say they’re bad (the only ones I outright dislike are ‘The Massacre’ and ‘The Smugglers’), but they’re not everyone’s cup of tea.
Tim M
September 7th, 2016 - 4:27pmDare I say it, but the trailer for the upcoming ‘Power of the Daleks’ looks like the best animation techniques ever used to represent classic Doctor Who. More of the same please. If this animation lives up to expectations, or even succeed them, then more stories must be an option for the same treatment. Another completely missing story would be ideal. ‘Fury from the Deep’ would be my choice, what would be yours?
Savethecoffeeboysavetheworld
September 7th, 2016 - 5:12pmFury as well
Anonymous
September 7th, 2016 - 5:24pmFury and snowman
Anonymous
September 7th, 2016 - 6:38pmThe Massacre
The Faceless Ones
Evil Of The Daleks
The Abominable Snowmen
Fury From The Deep
If this happens again next year, the story will probably be Evil Of The Daleks.
Jay Glover
September 7th, 2016 - 6:58pmThe Cursade
Heggi123
September 7th, 2016 - 9:36pmEviI of the Daleks, Wheel in Space, Abominable Snowmen and The Daleks’ Masterplan
LastOfTheSonics
September 8th, 2016 - 4:29pmFury from the Deep and The Macra Terror. I’d say Macra is likely because they could farm more money by doing another panel with Anneke Wills and Frazer Hines just like with Power.
Who
September 9th, 2016 - 6:02am– Marco Polo (in colour)
– The Celestial Toymaker
– The Smugglers
– The Highlanders
– The Abominable Snowmen
– Fury from the Deep
– Evil of the Daleks
Dr RevWho
September 9th, 2016 - 7:38amEven if they do eventually animate ‘Marco Polo’, it is extremely unlikely that they would ever release it in colour – it was filmed and broadcast in black and white, so, like all the other 60s releases, it would be released on home media in black and white.
Tim M
September 9th, 2016 - 7:55pmIt would be funny to think if all the missing episodes were animated. The Sixties era would be a mix of ‘live’ action and ‘cartoon’. But as the black and white Pertwee episodes have been re-colourised, the only way to restore the missing episodes would be to animate them.
DoctorFan
September 10th, 2016 - 10:16amWheel in space (mainly to complete the cybermen DVD collection which would have been nice for the cybermen 50th)
Anonymous
September 10th, 2016 - 8:03pmPersonally, if the BBC carry on animating stories, these are the stories I’d like to see them do do:
-‘Marco Polo’
-‘The Daleks’ Master Plan’ (Favourite 1st Doctor story, preferably including ‘Mission to the Unknown’)
-‘The Celestial Toymaker’ (I think being able to see this one would make it much better)
-‘The Savages’ (highly underrated story imo)
-‘The Evil of the Daleks’
-‘Fury from the Deep’
-‘The Wheel in Space’ (complete the Cybermen collection)
Anonymous
September 10th, 2016 - 8:05pmAlso a redo of ‘The Underwater Menace’ would be appreciated – the recons on the DVD were appalling for an official BBC release.
Jay Glover
September 11th, 2016 - 7:04pmThere were ACTALLY spelling mistakes on the cover for the Underwater Menace and the state of the audio description was messy
Josh
September 4th, 2017 - 7:44amEvil of the daleks next they’ve got the kits for the doctor and the daleks . Plus the same amount of episodes are missing from power as is evil
Number 6
September 7th, 2016 - 3:53pmI am looking forward to an newly release Doctor Who, the Power of the Daleks, completely animated. Let us at least be grateful that the BBC have kindly funded to produce six missing episodes to bring an old classic story.
I have been listening on audio, with a transcript from a website and I must say the story is brilliantly written.
But just keep an eye on it…..We will never know that they might delay as they did with the Underwater Menace. This might just a beginning to a Dr Who Animation Restoration for missing stories.
But I wonder why they didn’t fund to animate the Crusade? Probably the BBC has their reasons, I wonder. Who knows?
Anonymous
September 7th, 2016 - 9:25pmThe reason given by one of the Restoration Team was that it features white actors playing non-white roles (including make up to make them resemble them).
While releasing historical content is considered reasonable, creating new content (such as an animation) featuring it could annoy certain groups so they have dodged the issue altogether by just leaving it as a telesnap reconstruction (which is better than most got).
Number 6
September 7th, 2016 - 10:41pmA telesnap reconstruction might be a better option, but fans would prefer animation because it is more better and also you can get to watch something that moves, rather looking at telesnaps. Remember the Underwater Menace? The telesnaps looked if was rushed and hardly got finished. No descriptions (telling what happening and who’s doing) and telesnaps are in wrong time.
They even didn’t add the surviving clips to make the episodes interesting. It was even worse than the Web of Fear Episode 3. I would like to see a well reconstruction episode like as the missing episode 4 of The Tenth Planet (which it was already made years ago.).
It would been better if they add the uncompleted animation of Episode 1 and 4 in special features on The Underwater Menace DVD, so that fans could get to see these and watch how far did the animators managed to complete. What do you think?
Gordon
September 8th, 2016 - 1:41amNext to zero work was done on menace. Very little worth showing
Who
September 9th, 2016 - 6:07amDue to the visual state of The Crusade (I mean they don’t look that great even after restoration), I’d actually be ok with them not choosing to animate the missing episodes for this story…telesnaps would be fine…or just leave it on the Lost In Time box as is…I don’t want to be a killjoy, but happy for The Underwater Menace to be left as-is too…mainly because the telesnap excuse of a reconstruction on the DVD release kind of killed it for me….especially since I heard that animation was well underway and scrapped for this story….
Tim M
September 11th, 2016 - 8:28amI do find it ironic, that the leaflet inside ‘The Underwater Menace’ DVD says on it’s first line, “This is as close as Doctor Who ever got to a cartoon”…and they subsequently didn’t animate it! For that statement alone proves it was ideal for animation. Missed opportunity I feel.
Peter
September 7th, 2016 - 1:39pmPotentially stupid question but is this only going to be for sale on DVD for a limited time?
booboo
September 7th, 2016 - 2:08pmdoesn’t seem like it
DannyTheNerd
September 8th, 2016 - 9:37amUnlikely
AngryDrashig
September 7th, 2016 - 12:11pmThey need to have a good think about the cover, fortunately I see that design isn’t final – it just doesn’t match the other dvds at all which is a bit off as it wont fit in with the others on a shelf.
DWCR
September 7th, 2016 - 12:33pmIt will obviously be a reverse cover if that is the design, just look at web of fear and enemy of the world
Simon W
September 7th, 2016 - 11:59amNow they have done this to a missing story I hope they will being to animate the other missing stories. It will be a nice addition to my collection.
Anonymous
September 7th, 2016 - 12:16pmevil of the daleks and wheel in space that way we get all cybermen stories on dvd
Anonymous
September 7th, 2016 - 12:17pmthat’s what im hoping for anyway
TheYetiNextDoor
September 7th, 2016 - 12:21pmthe Crusade! people, for heavens sake why do you forget? its got two full episodes, two need animating. An absolute classic!
Anonymous
September 7th, 2016 - 2:25pmBecause the Restoration Team have already said The Crusade won’t happen.
If a group like BBC America wanted to offer up the cash and take on any of the publicity backlash then that may change things, but BBC Worldwide will not do that.
Jay Glover
September 7th, 2016 - 6:59pmTelesnaps
Sean Bassett
September 7th, 2016 - 8:53amI wish this was being released on Blu-ray also but great it is getting a physical release unlike the Dad’s Army episode.
Gordon
September 7th, 2016 - 12:30pmTo be fair the dads army ep isn’t really sellable on DVD at this time. You can’t really sell it on its own as its only 30 mins and season 2 still has 2 missing episodes. There is a good chance those 2 may get animated in the future. If they get done I can see them going in that route of a season 2 dvd
DoctorFan
September 7th, 2016 - 8:04amHope they use the template for every other classic dvd
booboo
September 7th, 2016 - 8:05amI’m sure they will, probably a reversible cover
Number 6
September 7th, 2016 - 3:56pmI’m sure the BBC makes sure that every classic Dr Who has the same template. They might do similar ones to the recently DVDs, the Enemy and Web.
Don’t worry about the template, it should come as exactly as others.