Doctor Who ReAnimated

The BBC has recreated two lost episodes of Doctor Who for DVD release. The inner nerd is pickled tink about this.

We're delighted to announce that in November, 1968's Cyber-epic The Invasion will be released on DVD - including fully-animated recreations of two missing episodes, by world-renowned studio Cosgrove Hall.

This Invasion stars Patrick Troughton as the Second Doctor in a battle with the Cybermen. Episodes One and Four from this eight-part story have long been missing from the BBC's archives, but the soundtracks survived.

For those who don't know, Doctor Who was one of the longest running television shows in history. Due to the age of the series and inadequate early archiving of footage, there are over 100 'lost' episodes. However, most of the sound for these episodes is archived and available to the BBC.

Doctor Who fans have always applauded the excellent scripts of the show, scripts solid enough to overshadow a guy covered in green bubble wrap doing the worm as a supposed alien larva (Arc in Space). ReAnimating the lost episodes is probably an improvement. It will be interesting to see how one episode flows to the next when jumping between animations and live action.