For enthusiasts of the original Doctor Who series, exciting developments are underway! Plans are being made to boost the creation of animated versions of lost episodes, thereby bringing those stories back to life.
154 out of 253 initial episodes from the show’s first six seasons have disappeared, leaving 98 tales unfinished. This is due to the BBC destroying or reusing tapes in the 60s and 70s as a means of saving space and money, before proper archiving was established.
Yet, thanks to the survival of audio recordings for each episode, many of these supposedly “lost” adventures have been published anew, accompanied by fresh animation.
In the upcoming unveiling, you’ll find “The Savages,” a captivating production featuring the remarkable William Hartnell portraying the First Doctor. This masterpiece originally graced our screens back in 1966.
During an event at the BFI Southbank, executive producer Paul Hembury shared his optimism about potentially collaborating with BBC Studios in a way that would enable the team to work on several unfinished stories concurrently, rather than focusing on one story at a time as they usually do.
As a passionate enthusiast, I’m not content with creating them one by one; instead, my aim is to speed up the process and produce them more rapidly.
Our intention is to kick off the following project fairly quickly, but instead of finishing the current one first, we’ll simultaneously begin working on the one that comes after it. This is our aim.
Everything seems to be falling into place quite nicely. Although we haven’t sealed the deal with a formal agreement yet, our optimism is high that we can progress further.
Hembury clarified that currently, they aren’t developing any new tales just at this moment. He mentioned, though, that they are almost ready, and estimated that another story might be finalized within approximately a year from now.
Until now, missing stories have been issued as individual releases on DVD and Blu-ray.
During the discussion at the BFI panel, they asked if future animations might be released as part of a boxset series, enhancing the possibility of more Blu-ray releases for early William Hartnell and Patrick Troughton seasons. In response, Hembury stated: “That’s precisely the strategy we are adopting.
In 2006, The Invasion (1968) was the first classic Doctor Who story to be revived in this way. Missing episodes were recreated with black-and-white animation, filling in gaps for a DVD release. This approach proved effective, leading to more animated reconstructions being done in subsequent years.
More recently, the 1967 serial “The Underwater Menace” was fully animated and debuted in November 2023, while “The Celestial Toymaker,” originally broadcast in 1966, also received an animation makeover and was available on DVD and Blu-ray in 2024.
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2025-03-02 17:04