The BBC has announced that in November, the 1968 Doctor Who story “The Invasion” will be released on DVD – including fully-animated recreations of two missing episodes.
For those of you who are unaware, 108 of the 253 episodes produced during the first 6 years of the show have been lost, erased and discarded by the BBC in the 1960s and 1970s for space-saving reasons. (This was in the days before commercial video releases….and at the time, the BBC didn’t do re-runs, either, so they saw no reason to keep the episodes around.) Luckily, audio for all of the missing episodes exist — often taped off-air by fans.
Using that audio, the missing two episodes of the classic 8-part Cyberman story will be animated by Cosgrove Hall, the production company that did Dangermouse and the one-shot Richard E. Grant “Ninth Doctor” animated webisodes, Scream of the Shalka.
A 20-second preview of the animated “Invasion” (in Real Video format — sorry!) is available here.
Thass awesome!
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Since Troughton was one of my favorite Doctors, I’m very pleased to hear this.
omfg YES.
That’s really fantastic.
Thanks for catching and posting this…
Looks like Outpost Gallifrey just posted a blurb about it today as well (without the cool screengrab).
Weeee-haaaaah!!!
What a fantabulous notion- I’m so glad they’re doing something about it! Those will DEFINITELY be something to acquire. Now I hope they’ll start putting more of the VHS only stuff on DVD too….