Doctor Who fan reconstruction of lost episodes

[mr friendly guy]

Its well known that due to awesome BBC policies several episodes Doctor Who from the Hartnell and Troughton era had become lost, with some occasionally showing up again, eg Tomb of the Cybermen. Some of these episodes the audio is available even if the visual is not (ie some fan most probably taped the sound only). Apparently some fan has tried to reconstruct these episodes with stills + animation. Check it out.

The Moonbase episode one (a lost episode)

It looks a bit obvious that its animated, but full credit to the effort the user went through. Now if only BBC put in the same effort.

Here is episode two (not lost)

Unfortunately due to some glitch from youtube, the video pauses at around the 19 minute mark.

Here is episode three reconstructed


And finally the final episode which has not been lost


Enjoy. I am going to be viewing a few others as well. Next up the Faceless Ones.

[Patrick Degan]

That's the established practise of telesnap reconstruction. The BBC used this method to complete "The Tenth Planet" for commercial video release twenty years ago. I've seen a few of these versions of classic episodes and it is better than nothing; probably the best your going to get considering the sheer volume of material that was lost due to the junking policy up to 1985 to "recover" these episodes. The BBC were certainly shortsighted to allow so much of their broadcast heritage to be wiped out. Only five episodes (one a two-parter) of their 1968 Sherlock Holmes series starring Peter Cushing still exist and there aren't any stills or soundtracks to do any reconstructions from for that production. Others, such as all three Quatermass serials from the 1950s, are lost forever.

[inviz345]

and z cars and all the radio shows

[Stark]

If only nerds didn't hate animated replacement episodes we'd have more cool as hell Invasion stuff.

[DaveJB]

Most fans didn't have any problem with the animated Invasion episodes. The reactions on the Outpost Gallifrey forums were generally very positive from what I can remember, and in that year's Doctor Who Magazine poll The Invasion won the "Best DVD Release" by a huge margin. The sad truth is that it simply didn't sell well enough to justify animating any more missing stories that way, and that was with a story with only two missing episodes - most of the really well-regarded lost stories are ones that have six or more episodes missing.

Others, such as all three Quatermass serials from the 1950s, are lost forever.

I thought it was only The Quatermass Experiment which was completely lost? IIRC the other two serials are intact, albeit not the greatest quality.