Re-shooting the lost episodes...

[kirk55555]

Better to use the time machine to go back and conk the guy destroying the tapes over the head, then take the tapes back to the future.

People always talk about using a time machine to kill Hitler, but I think that saving the lost Doctor Who episodes should be the first thing a time traveler does. Its a nice, simple thing to do that will (probably) not break history. But, with my luck the destruction of the DW episodes is a fixed point in time

 

[Relayer1]

I'd be interested in them remaking them with the 'right' Doctors. Maybe they could persuade David Troughton - as it wouldn't be making 'new' episodes but completing his father's legacy. I'd suggest David Bradley again as the First Doctor.

To keep costs down and maintain authenticity backgrounds from the telesnaps could be green screened in wherever possible.

I can't really see there being enough of a market to make it viable though...

 

[Emperor-Tiberius]

A-N-I-M-A-T-E-D. Preferably in the same quality of The Invasion.

 

[The Wormhole]

I'd be interested in them remaking them with the 'right' Doctors. Maybe they could persuade David Troughton - as it wouldn't be making 'new' episodes but completing his father's legacy. I'd suggest David Bradley again as the First Doctor.

To keep costs down and maintain authenticity backgrounds from the telesnaps could be green screened in wherever possible.

I can't really see there being enough of a market to make it viable though...

Honestly, I don't see the appeal of this idea? How far do we go with this? We're already re-casting the specific Doctor featured in the episode, and presumably the companions and other characters featured in the story, but what else? Also film in black and white on cheap flimsy sets and primitive visual effects? Honestly, remaking the stories for current Doctor/Companion(s) is a much better idea.

But yeah, animating them is the best option, IMO. A shame we aren't likely to get more animated reconstructions, I dug all of them.

 

[Relayer1]

Honestly, I don't see the appeal of this idea? How far do we go with this? We're already re-casting the specific Doctor featured in the episode, and presumably the companions and other characters featured in the story, but what else? Also film in black and white on cheap flimsy sets and primitive visual effects?

Well, since you suggest it !

I don't like animations...

 

[the vet]

Lets have original stories please, though the odd homage scene like the Emperor Dalek surrounded by black domed subordinates or the Cybermen at London landmarks is fun

 

[TommyR01D]

Some CG animation has gotten frighteningly realistic nowadays just look at The Adventures of Tintin (2011), which is almost live-action in some parts, with the remaining distance feeling more like deliberate stylizing than technological limitation.

If we wait a few years for technology to advance sufficiently, it might trickle down to the point where a team of fans (or the BBC themselves) can make a faithful recreation for a reasonable price. It also helps that they only need to replicate a monochrome 405-line video from the 1960s, rather than reaching modern cinema standards.

 

[Christopher]

If we wait a few years for technology to advance sufficiently, it might trickle down to the point where a team of fans (or the BBC themselves) can make a faithful recreation for a reasonable price. It also helps that they only need to replicate a monochrome 405-line video from the 1960s, rather than reaching modern cinema standards.

I've seen a fan CG reconstruction of a Troughton "Web of Fear" preview that was pretty impressive.

 

[Samurai8472]

A-N-I-M-A-T-E-D. Preferably in the same quality of The Invasion.

Yeah animated with David Troughton and some new voice actors.

That's the way to go

 

[Turtletrekker]

Yeah animated with David Troughton and some new voice actors.

That's the way to go

Nah. This guy...

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Two: "It's like looking into a mirror. A rather scary mirror."
Twelve: "Oy! Watch it!"

 

[Nightowl1701]

Animated clips from 'Power of the Daleks' have appeared on YouTube. Their origin is... unknown.

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If it's a fanmade effort, it's a very well-done one.

 

[Christopher]

If it's a fanmade effort, it's a very well-done one.

Yeah, but it looks like it's mostly a recreation of the surviving clips we already have. They even did the bit where the same four Daleks circle back around through the archway so it looks like there are more of them.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Still, but the animation is very impressive, particularly the lighting effects.

 

[Christopher]

Still, but the animation is very impressive, particularly the lighting effects.

The Dalek animation is better than the character animation. The way they draw Troughton's mouth is a little weird.

Anyway, I think "The Power of the Daleks" was the template for how Dalek voices have been done ever since. In the Hartnell era, their voices tended to be a bit inconsistent -- sometimes they were a stil-ted ro-bo-tic mo-no-tone, sometimes more expressive in ways that don't sound very Daleky to modern ears (like the Peter Lorre-ish "Daleks are the masters of Earth" chant in "The Dalek Invasion of Earth," or the odd attempts to play the Daleks for humor in "The Chase). But in "Power," Peter Hawkins did some really interesting things with the Daleks' delivery while they were pretending to be benevolent and servile -- this sense of pent-up rage and disgust simmering just beneath the surface, saying "I... am... your... servant" like they were clenching the teeth they didn't have and just aching for the chance to drop the act and start killing. It was a brilliant performance, and I think it set the standard for the more expressive, rage-filled Dalek voices of later performers like Roy Skelton and Nicholas Briggs. Although I think Brigg's Dalek voices owe a thing or two to Michael Wisher's Davros as well.

 

[Nightowl1701]

Hmm... the plot thickens. The mystery clip has been blocked by BBC Worldwide 'on copyright grounds,' and reportedly not for the first time. That's not something they usually do to fan efforts at (animated) reconstruction. Full episodes maybe, but not tiny clips like this. You can still find Garrett Gilchrist's attempts from seven years ago on YT, as well as a more recent full-length animated version of the one-off prequel 'Mission to the Unknown' that's been there a month.

Is the BBC up to something...?

 

[Emperor-Tiberius]

I'd certainly love to think so. If Power of the Daleks is never to be recovered ever, ever again, animating it would make sense.

 

[Phillip Culley]

Marco Polo was only the fourth story and yet fans were already recording the audio. That's damn remarkable! That slightly makes up for the odds that out of 27 countries it was sent to, no video has been recovered (yet).

What's more fascinating is that people were recording as far back as the first episode of An Unearthly Child!

 

[Christopher]

What's more fascinating is that people were recording as far back as the first episode of An Unearthly Child!

Do we know that? After all, that serial wasn't lost.

 

[Mr Soak]

Maybe non-Brits who'd been given a heads-up by friends.

 

[diankra]

Do we know that? After all, that serial wasn't lost.

As far as I know, the earliest home soundtracks are from The Daleks. But there might have been overseas recordings (and they might be from repeats: the home movie off screen bits from season 3 definitely look as if they were shot during a repeat, so the cameraman knew which moments he wanted to get)