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Lost "Doctor Who" Footage To Be Broadcast For First Time
A 1969 episode of Doctor Who is being colourized and will contain one of the highlights of every series since the show first debuted in 1963 - a long missing regeneration of the character from one actor to another.
It's the brilliant way the show has been able to replace a departing star and transition to someone else entirely different without hurting the program. In fact, it can be argued it's what's kept it fresh all those years. The Doctor, a Time Lord, never dies, he just regenerates into a, well, new Who.
Back in 1969, Patrick Troughton played the second Doctor and was replaced by my personal favourite, Jon Pertwee. But for some reason, the footage of one turning into the other never made it to air. Now the BBC has found the lost clip and will be airing the entire adventure in colour for the first time.
Not sure if Disney+ gets the rights to this in North America - they've bought the new series not necessarily the classic ones - but it will air on the BBC Dec 23rd, and be available on the BBC iPlayer thereafter. If you have a VPN, you'll be able to see it.
New Doctor Who colourization of classic story to reveal 'lost' regeneration
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Very cool, I agree that the regenerations allowed the show to stay fresh and kept the audience tuning in to see how the new incarnation will get along with any existing companions that were accustomed to the previous Doctor.
With the advances being made in AI video, I would expect someday that even footage that is gone forever can be regenerated (pun intended) to fill in the gaps and even turn the audio novels into live action episodes.
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I’m excited to see it.
Also lost and important from Troughton’s episodes is footage of the first sonic screwdriver. There’s a recreation using audio, production photos, and inserts, revealing that a life jacket whistle was used as the original prop.
The prop makers for the current Dr. Who series run a store selling copies of their props along with replicas of vintage props from the past. Little Shop Props:
For fun I bought their 3D printed replica of the Troughton whistle and then to make it “work” I combined it with a popular trick used by stage magicians.
You can see the results in this episode of my social media series, Wow Factor, here:
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This may interest you - and they're the real deal. (Maybe you could own your own Dalek?)
Doctor Who announces its biggest props and costume auction ever with over 150 lots
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Easy top five fave tv theme. I don't see the need to colourize the clip.
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RadioActive wrote:
This may interest you - and they're the real deal. (Maybe you could own your own Dalek?)
Doctor Who announces its biggest props and costume auction ever with over 150 lots
Oh, I’ll definitely be placing pretend bids when I watch the auction 
I wish I had the cash for real bids, especially in support of Children In Need.
Thankfully the auction catalog will be full of details on the items, allowing replica makers to craft exact duplicates to sell at a lower price, like Troughton’s whistle.
And as I mentioned, because the Dr. Who production doesn’t run year round, the prop makers make additional copies of their props to sell to fans.
Kasim Bhatti, who turned a British Driver’s Licence wallet into the Psychic Paper prop for Ncuti Gatwa to currently use as the Doctor, has a pile of British Driver’s License wallets he’s converting, one of which is being sent my way He’s even including inserts for some of the psychic messages displayed in the series. Can’t wait to check it out.
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Love science fiction. Loved The Twilight Zone, Outer Limits, and a huge Star Trek Fan. I even liked UFO, even though I think it had more to do with the female casts' wardrobe, but I never liked Dr. Who. I tried, but the whole thing just seemed so cheesy and dumb. Its rabid cult following always struck me as unwarranted, but to each their own.
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Love science fiction. Loved The Twilight Zone, Outer Limits, and a huge Star Trek Fan. I even liked UFO, even though I think it had more to do with the female casts' wardrobe, but I never liked Dr. Who. I tried, but the whole thing just seemed so cheesy and dumb. Its rabid cult following always struck me as unwarranted, but to each their own.
Definitely an acquired taste. The latest incarnation has a decent budget, but some of the cheapness of the monsters and the cheesiness of the original is what made it so charming. Especially when you were a kid. But I get why some people would have that reaction. Still, the stories were pretty good and the characters were fun. So that's why I enjoyed it.
My all time favourite moment came during the Jon Pertwee years, when he and travelling companion Jo Grant, played by Katy Manning, were trapped in a room. She asked him the question I always wondered. "If this is such a disaster, why don't you just go back in your Tardis (time machine) and fix it back then?"
I've never forgotten Pertwee's answer. "Oh, that's the Blinovitch Limitation effect."
"The what?" Jo asks.
"The Blinovitch Limitation effect. That means - Oh wait! Someone's coming!"
And we never did find out the answer.
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Love science fiction. Loved The Twilight Zone, Outer Limits, and a huge Star Trek Fan. I even liked UFO, even though I think it had more to do with the female casts' wardrobe, but I never liked Dr. Who. I tried, but the whole thing just seemed so cheesy and dumb. Its rabid cult following always struck me as unwarranted, but to each their own.
Well it depends a LOT on which era you first started watching Dr Who. For me, it is the Tom Baker 4th Doctor run. This is the gothic horror phase of the franchise, where starting from "Robot" all the way to "Pyramids of Mars" and a bit beyond that (although it DID get a bit overly cheesy after this point) there were enough scares and wonderfully crafted villains to keep any child enthralled. I just did a rewatch on TubiTV about a month ago, and the stories still hold up to my adult eyes.
Sutekh, from Pyramids of Mars, is probably my third-favorite villain of all time, only exceeded by Vader and the Emperor, which says a lot.
You can watch the Tom Baker run here:
and my personal favorite, Pyramids of Mars is here:
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