The Second Doctor's First Scene | The Power of the Daleks | Doctor Who

[@gideong8627]

It's so sad this scene and the whole story is lost. This is such an iconic moment in the show’s history that I wish we could see in it's full form

[@CricketEngland]

Is was all down to costs the tapes used back in the day to record these programs were so expensive they were needed to be used again and again for other TV shows. Good job Terry Jones made sure he kept copies of all Monty Python’s Flying Circus recordings otherwise we may have lost another classic series

[@sonnykingcomposer]

@@CricketEngland they're all out there somewhere, in European warehouses and in the hands of private collectors

[@ljllob4740]

DoctorSauce not all a lot have been junked

[@sonnykingcomposer]

@@ljllob4740 we really have no clue

[@bennolan374]

@@sonnykingcomposer Utter fantasy. Why would they be in European warehouses when they were never even sold to European countries? The countries where they were sold to (mostly the Commonwealth) have all been checked. They're not there.

[@Deadpool_64]

There’s always hope that there’s copies of the 2nd Doctor’s missing adventures sitting in someone’s attic and it’ll be discovered one day…

[@randomword1005]

It is interesting to see how they explored the idea of the Doctor becoming a new man. I can imagine a lot of people at the time would have the same reaction that Ben had

[@idontremembermylogin]

My dad did. He was about 11 when this aired and he completely gave up on the show and stopped watching. It wasn't until he watched the new series in 2005 when I got hooked on it that he started watching it again.

[@generalnapoleonbonaparte3186]

@@idontremembermylogin He Sounds Like An Entitled Horrible Person!

[@idontremembermylogin]

@@generalnapoleonbonaparte3186 Sounds fair to me lmao. Imagine if a current hit kids show suddenly fired the main actor and replaced him with someone completely different and just wrote in some lame excuse to keep the show going a few extra years. To my dad the show completely changed and Doctor Who was no longer Doctor Who because the Doctor wasn't on the programme anymore.

[@them1ghtyalex]

@@generalnapoleonbonaparte3186 Bit of a leap, and rude, don't you think? Wonder what you have to say about anyone who has anything to say about Chibbers, Whittless and the Beeb these days (who highjacked, abused and destroyed the show - if you consider it the same show that is - if you need reminding)... In other words: "Blimey what do you do to the ones who mess up?"

[@myriadmediamusings]

It’s a damn, damn shame how there were so many wrong circumstances for this story’s loss: no foresight on keeping/archiving episodes, and Terry Nation’s Dalek blockage. Glad that Power of the Daleks was given this animation treatment to make it available to all, especially for one of the most important stories ever for this show and ensuring its longevity after Hartnell. I feel that Hartnell started the Doctor, but Troughton refined the Doctor. I can only hope that Evil of the Daleks will get the animation treatment eventually too.

[@orchNEStra]

I think eventually all the missing episodes will simply be animated with the existing audio. And really, I'm fine with that. Though I'd like to see higher quality animation in general than what's been done.

[@AndrewChapman]

@@orchNEStra Yes, I hope so too as there's no way of predicting if anymore missing episodes are gonna turn up. I hope I'll be proved wrong someday, but I honestly can't see anymore being recovered. Or at least not all of them.

[@Ethan-dn1wc]

From what I've read it sounds like all of the episodes that were lost have more do with the fact that the BBC was cheap as hell and wasn't shy about cutting corners.

[@Tlaloc1]

Evil is getting animated!

[@deuce5546]

Your wish has been granted, rejoice!

[@Silverwind87]

Ah, the only time that the Doctor's clothes changed during regeneration. Well, at least until 56 years later!

[@jadenbryant9283]

Late but yeah would have been fun if the aniamtion had 2nd in Hartnells clothes even if it isn't accurate.

[@DanTheMan2150AD]

A gigantic improvement over the original animation, it may be less accurate to the original production unlike the 2016 one, but this is a far nicer animation.

[@stephenmurphy2212]

The Doctors clothes regenerate along with his body. 😂

[@EverythingCarsandMoreECAM]

Stephen Murphy yeah. I think they messed up there

[@bondfool]

Hmm. The audio CD describes his clothes as "hanging off his small frame, much too big."

[@garphan9535]

Actually that’s what happens when a time lord wears their old body out (well, at least some times anyway) Romana changed her clothes as well when she regenerated into her second incarnation (not sure about her third or fourth as they happened in different Audio Dramas)

[@concernedcommenter8258]

Its holagramed

[@DoctorWhoAdventures]

Amazing!! The first post-regeneration story!!! :o Absolutely love these animations! Everyone involved has done a fantastic job! :D

[@them1ghtyalex]

"the first post-regeneration story" talking as if the original animated version of this hasn't been out for four years (with the geniune Doctor Who logo slapped on top). Wouldn't expect you to know anything about Doctor Who with a cartoon of Witchaker as your picture though...

[@DoctorWhoAdventures]

@@them1ghtyalex The Power of the Daleks *is* the first post regeneration story. It was penned before Spearhead in Space (the third doctor's first full story). The first Doctor's regeneration in The Tenth Planet was the first time the dictor regenerated so therefore the following story is the first post regeneration story of it's kind. Just because it was released 4 years ago, the story remains the same as it was in 1966.

[@them1ghtyalex]

@@DoctorWhoAdventures what kind of a strawman reply is that? Where did I say anything about it not being the first post-regeneration story or not being from 1966? A clue: I didn't. Here's an idea (just a suggestion you don't have to follow it), when you reply to something online (or anywhere), read (/absorb/pay attention to/listen to) what you're replying to first!

[@DoctorWhoAdventures]

@@them1ghtyalex Great advice! :D However, I didn't accuse you personally of not knowing but that was insinuated in your comment so apologies if I misread the signals. It seemed as though you were accusing this account of not knowing so I felt that needed clearing up. At the end of the day, we're all Doctor Who fans and all fans are welcome :)

[@them1ghtyalex]

@@DoctorWhoAdventures I thought I made it clear that I was accusing you of talking about it like you didn't know the first animation had already been out for four years! I wasn't typing in riddles! "We're not the same I'm not" a fan of Doctor Who being highjacked, abused and turned into something it's not. We're not all fans of the same thing. Some of us are fans of Doctor Who, and some of us are fans of whatever calls itself Doctor Who... And some are fans of seeing their own political opinions reflected by the stars of, and in the storytelling and production of the show at the expense of its quality and staying true to itself. In short I was also making a point to express my vehement distaste/disgust for the endorsement of Witchaker you are displaying in your picture. Whether or not you care

[@fuccasound3897]

we now know that when he walked through the TARDIS doors he had just had a fantastic adventure with the 12th Doctor, i couldn't have guessed that when i watched these episodes in the 1960's....

[@them1ghtyalex]

In which he suddenly became a lot less assertive and irritable, more relaxed and yet started rattling off sexist comments (as if he had an earpiece in and he was on Prank Patrol) every 5 seconds... I think it's a better off as a dream sequence - the real Doctor is still lying on the smoking ground of floor 507, Bill's coming to wake him up!

[@fuccasound3897]

@@them1ghtyalex what the hell is 'Prank Patrol'? as for the Doctors behaviour; regeneration does that sort of thing to a chap! Have you ever watched any first Doctor episodes? happily, he exhibits plenty of none ' woke' (what a stupid word) behaviour during his tenure...

[@them1ghtyalex]

@@fuccasound3897 Well clearly I have you numpty otherwise how would I have anything to compare David Bradley's version to (which you just had to use the fact he was about to go through regeneration as an excuse for, implicitly agreeing there was such a difference in behaviour). Regeneration does not make you into a different person until you actually you know... *regenerate!* It certainly doesn't make you start making comments that are clearly there to make a political point (moreso than any humour that comes out of it) with no care that it smears the history of the Doctor and his first incarnation, and despite those bait claims in the previous story and continuously in the next two spoof series of "Doctor Who" s11 and s12 and its spin-off media (comics for example, one in which Witchaker is actually written to say "sex is fluid on Gallifrey and gender is just a social construct", that's the Blink 10th Doctor Crossover one by the way) that gEnDeR's NoT a ThInG oN GaLlIfReY... David Bradley was a close match and a good fit, but he was not written for the benefit of the 1st Doctor, and was kind of wasted for most of the story (but not in aaisat which I'm not sure I've ever heard a bad word about and I agree it was lovely) except for just being used to enable the 12th Doctor to virtue signal, make the male to female regeneration even more pointed (and polarizing), enable the multi-doctor story and to drum up controversy and attention! I didn't say "woke" I don't really ever use that word, it's a buzzword (typical of people who might be described as woke I'd say) and an oversimplification, and anyway not an apt description for the Doctor until very recently (talking about the 12th Doctor in series 10 - as he started to suffer from the infection that had been starting to subtly infect the show for a few years); a succinct description of the half-a-character Jodie Witchaker is playing in that rip-off they're calling "Doctor Who" though! Prank Patrol is or was a show on CBBC, I'm sure you can work out what it's all about from the title, and the scenario I'm implying by saying "earpiece" - that he was being fed unnatural lines to say for a laugh (or in this case for that and making some kind of point)!

[@EditedAF987]

@@them1ghtyalex I mean the 1st Doctor was much less assertive and irritable during the tenth planet so that aspect of the character lines up. And while the excuse is a reach, the novelisation revealed that the 1st Doctor was really just making those comments to make 12 feel uncomfortable which kinda reminded me of the interrogation scene in the Space museum.

[@filthycasual8187]

@@EditedAF987 The novelization doesn't count. And how would the First know what buttons to push on the Twelfth when they'd only just met and the First didn't even believe Twelve was *him* in the first place? No, it's a PR excuse, and a poor one at that. Fact is, the First Doctor was mis-characterized for the sake of virtue signalling. David Bradley plays an excellent First Doctor -- you can listen to him do so in his Big Finish audios -- but the writing for this episode was awful.

[@matt0044]

Guess the Master wasn't the only one listening to the sound of drums.

[@rjmcallister1888]

This would appear to be the only way now to see those many lost episodes. Shame the BBC was a bit too frugal in those days.

[@myriadmediamusings]

Aside from frugality I believe the other reason for the loss was because of a lack of understanding on what exactly they had. Sure archiving and preserving for posterity is common today but back then for Beeb during the time when TV was still considered a novelty, I can imagine that it was taken for granted.

[@CricketEngland]

Is was all down to costs sorry not due to lack of understanding, the tapes used back in the day to record these programs were so expensive they were needed to be used again and again for other TV shows. Good job Terry Jones made sure he kept copies of all Monty Python’s Flying Circus recordings otherwise we may have lost another classic series

[@rjmcallister1888]

NBC in the US also reused tapes, and many shows were also lost, including much of the early Johnny Carson "Tonight" shows. And some 95% of pre-1950 movies are lost because studios didn't realize people would want to see them again and let them rot in storage rooms.

[@samuellawrencesbookclub8250]

@@rjmcallister1888 But this was the 60s, about the same time as the original series of Star Trek. To my knowledge, there aren't any lost Star Trek episodes

[@FahadAyaz]

@@samuellawrencesbookclub8250 The BBC has always had a much more limited budget than the US industries.

[@dj_curriculum]

“So he gets himself a new one!?!”🤣

[@oscillation9814]

“Well yes!”

[@stephenmurphy2212]

So how come Rose was never able to deduce this when Nine regenerated, (2005 Comic Relief special) unlike some of the other companions?

[@dj_curriculum]

@@oscillation9814 "Do me a favor!"

[@julieeverett7442]

@@stephenmurphy2212 dippy blonde, not smart enough to work it out

[@Imrathan]

@@stephenmurphy2212 Polly was a little more open minded.

[@brianartillery]

Wonderful. The whole concept of the Doctor's 'renewal' (it wouldn't be called 'regeneration' for several years) must have blown people's minds at the time. There are two times that I would have liked to have been 'a fly on the wall': first, to get a reaction to viewers' first hearing Ron Grainer and Delia Derbyshire's 'Doctor Who' theme, and secondly, to witness the reaction to this scene. It must have taken many, many people well out of their comfort zone to accept this. That they did, is still astonishing to me.

[@them1ghtyalex]

Accepting the regeneration would have been very rewarding though, Patrick Troughton's Doctor brings so much to the show (not that Hartnell wasn't a personality of his own, but with the amount of episodes each year and into the 4th series, I think the audience was more ready for something so fresh in the show than we realize, and Troughton delivered and personally for me usually did quite a bit more). He is one of my favourite Doctors though so perhaps that's what's bleeding through here but I'm not sure, I just think the timing was right and Hartnell's Doctor had delivered at least a great deal of what he was going to deliver already and the audience of the time probably felt that at least subconsciously... But I wasn't there! I actually don't think that Troughton's Doctor makes a very big impression in Power of the Daleks though, and takes a bit of time to really show off his Doctor (and I think his somewhat understated arrival in Power of the Daleks - which would of course have taken six weeks - was why, I've heard, that there was a mixed reaction to Power of the Daleks at the time)

[@them1ghtyalex]

My point at the beginning there was that I'm not sure how far out of the comfort zone it really would have been for the audience. A shock and a surprise for sure, but a welcome one, I think. One that was so natural and was gotten used to so quickly that when Troughton's era ended just two and half years later they didn't even need to have cast the third Doctor yet, they could end the war games and series 6 with the audience knowing implicitly that when the show came back half a year later in January of 1970 it would be with a new face as the Doctor, and indeed Spearhead from Space's first glimpse of the Doctor falling out of the TARDIS doors is immediately of Pertwee, with no sign of Troughton (meaning that his last appearance and Pertwee's first appearance were half a year apart, unlike with Hartnell and Troughton or any other classic Doctors except technically with Colin and McCoy (but we're still supposed to have seen the 6th Doctor regenerate into the 7th), but the show treats the audience like they know exactly what's up anyway and that that's the Doctor on the screen, and consequently I assume they did know!

[@brianartillery]

The viewers that must have been confused most, must have been those that watched the show - but not 'religiously', every week, quite happy to watch it whilst eating their tea, every couple of weeks or so, perhaps, and wondering who this scruffy dark haired fellow was. And why on earth were people calling him 'Doctor', when he so obviously wasn't? For some people, it must have been somewhat confusing and annoying.

[@JohnSmith0137]

If I had a tardis I would go back in time and see everyone’s reaction to this

[@Thinkmotion_]

Not go back in time to make copies of the episodes 😜

[@hgwsavage]

Yh it's such a chilling scene if you put yourself in the mindset people would have been in watching this, even though it's just an animation.

[@fadikhoory5350]

But what they didn't know was that he had many predecessors : (

[@SKINNYGINGERTOP]

@@fadikhoory5350 Lets just pretend that isn't true.

[@mrjekyllandhyde9941]

@@SKINNYGINGERTOP yes please

[@FrankNFurter1000]

VAST improvement.

[@LEGOANDWEED]

1:00 The drums!

[@louiswright8282]

Well done doing this. This is so much better than the original animation

[@Ryanspeer3025]

Wow that ringing is loud

[@Ben2Men]

Patrick Troughton is my favourite Doctor. Hopefully Evil Of The Daleks is the next in line for an animation after Fury From The Deep

[@hgwsavage]

I may be completely wrong, but I think I heard somewhere they are doing 'The Wheel in Space' next.

[@wackywaa1458]

As much as I love Troughton. Hartnell needs some love in the animation department too

[@Yetaxa]

@@hgwsavage it's possible, but nothing is known for sure after fury from the deep The wheel in space is rumoured all the time for various reasons (there's even a rumour going around that two of its episodes have been found) Kinda baffling that one of the weakest missing stories has all this intrigue around it

[@hgwsavage]

@@Yetaxa I'm not sure if they really measure quality of episodes when deciding what to animate, otherwise they would have done evil and fury/deep before faceless/ones. Wheel has the intrigue of being set on a space station with cybermen and cybermats, though you could argue that evil has daleks and the dalek emperor.

[@julieeverett7442]

evils a hard one, but if they could that would be wonderful, I'm in raptures over fury, cant wait

[@sanjonn]

I can't stop dancing to that beat. I feel like Tyres from Spaced.

[@thattimelord]

Brilliant recreation! Sad the real episode was lost

[@wackywaa1458]

The start of my favourite Doctor!

[@xandertoner]

Wah

[@jamesatkinson4386]

Just got this, have the first one too. Both are superb. Well done all. It is a great story and you can tell the love and care given to it. The 5.1 sound is a real bonus. It is the ultimate edition.

[@them1ghtyalex]

It's the Ultimate edition if you swap the discs and put them in the original's box/steelbook, with a better cover and a geniune Doctor Who logo!

[@squidwardtortellini2827]

Its a shame that most of the second docotrs stories are lost.

[@bigtastybread66]

Never understood why this Doctor regenerated into different clothes.

[@Yetaxa]

It's stated in this story that the regeneration is 'part of the TARDIS' so the implication is that the TARDIS changed his clothes for him

[@ryancoulter4797]

Did they have sound recordings for other shows that were wiped to make room? I’d love to see the lost episodes of Callan done this way.

[@martinrobo123]

Ben sees the Doctor change in front of him and still doesn't believe what he sees

[@EditedAF987]

That’s humans for you

[@Cubicnoir]

Well someone had this scene so they should restored it soon

[@Seppppy38]

The animation looks so much better in this version

[@skin2925]

This is a personal favourite story of mine one of the very best post regeneration stories

[@samuelbarber6177]

Well three seconds in and it already looks much better than the 2016 one.

[@lemnomm]

Watching “the impossible planet” rn actually ok Netflix 😂

[@lemnomm]

Alex2004 England?

[@THEPISSPALADIN]

Wow you’re only there I’m on "Hell Bent"

[@lemnomm]

Julian Iwanski oh no, I’ve watched them all countless times, this is like my 3/4th time watching them? I’m a big fan XD

[@RandomID10T-tm]

Wait, it's on netflix? It's not in the US.

[@lemnomm]

David Cone benefits of the UK I guess 😂

[@Tulf42]

Although this iconic scene and the whole story is lost in time, be thankful it has been recreated to the best detail in visual and audio for us fans to appreciate and even make our own fan made recreation with the action figures and cosplay live action remakes etc.

[@matthewlo55]

I like the animation style.

[@BJWanlund]

Holy moly. What an improvement. I’m looking forward to seeing the whole thing animated properly, even though I had to import it from the UK because the BBC *still* has not announced an American/Canadian release. They treat us Americans / Canadians like we’re second or third class citizens and yet we still love the show just the same.

[@them1ghtyalex]

Well there aren't as many of you and... It is a British show/phenomenon! Would be a bit iffy for us not to get it first (there were actually a few classic episodes that for one reason or another got played overseas first, not least notably the TV Movie, although that of course was made over the Atlantic), as long as someone has to get it first of course...

[@them1ghtyalex]

At least you actually get/got (Doctor Who hasn't been on since 2017) the show at the same time, American shows do not get delivered here so quickly!

[@ospreyphil8995]

He looks way to happy for someone in pain 😂😂

[@them1ghtyalex]

Press play! He looks that way because it's a freeze frame so he's not... Animated... 😬

[@them1ghtyalex]

Not sure that worked

[@Hessey96]

This is sooooooooooo much better! Please please please release this special edition in region 1 in the future! I really want to see it!

[@plantainsame2049]

I like how the the doctor looks downright devious in the other version though as I'm pretty sure that's the idea they were going for like is he really the doctor or is he something evil

[@michaelclentworth1283]

Let's hope that Evil Of The Daleks gets the same reconstruction treatment.

[@them1ghtyalex]

Yeah they do a second version of this before doing the evil of the Daleks? To be fair though seems like they're getting there in order with power, the macra terror and the faceless ones now... They didn't do the highlanders though...

[@them1ghtyalex]

Whoops my bad forgot that the next one is Fury from the Deep, guess evil of the Daleks isn't coming next... Maybe they don't have enough to go on for the Highlanders and Evil of the Daleks? Or maybe they're just trying to milk the Evil of the Daleks vinyl dry...

[@Yetaxa]

@@them1ghtyalex The people who made the Faceless ONes are working on another animation (presumably for release next year) i'd say it's highly likely that it's Evil

[@Error_-nd3qi]

My favourite Doctor!

[@DarrenMHembrowCoach]

Must've been amazing watching this for yhe first time... I remember how much awe I was in when I saw TB change to PD

[@KubatheChangeling]

I didn't know about this until now. This story did aired on Christmas Day back around somewhere in 2016 or 2017 on BBC America. Bonus Question: Does the animation kinda reminded everyone of Archer?

[@dakotaforeman]

I never watched archer but it does remind me of it

[@doctor_jurassic7122]

I like this animation better than what they used for Celestial Toy Maker

[@PoissonVisageStudios]

I wish they'd put him in Hartnell's clothes and tried to fix the continuity error of the original broadcast

[@them1ghtyalex]

Apparently the TARDIS is meant to have changed his clothes for him, as the that regeneration was "part of the TARDIS" and it/she helped him with it

[@SudrianTales]

Have to say, I wish the TARDIS was more involved with regenerations like it was here

[@thevfxmancolorizationvfxex4051]

This actually looks great and better than the original!

[@paulbeardsley4095]

@David Blyth I was three when it was broadcast. I don't remember much about it though.

[@JamifyYT]

I was -39

[@thatguyfromthatthing2476]

Someone should recreate this with that deep fake technology using Patrick Troughton’s facial features, I could totally see it

[@Scouse07]

Chris Thompson perhaps? Idk

[@ireallydidntwanttomakeanac575]

The animation is far, far better than the original reconstruction. Now about Ben's face...

[@Seppppy38]

This is so better then the original Animation

[@DalekPrimeProductions]

I love this scene!

[@jellybabiesarecool4657]

You should prioritise stories we don't yet have on DVD.

[@victorraulsantivanezrodriguez]

so, we have some clips from the episode recorded by a fan, do we used as a base?... NAHHHHHH

[@them1ghtyalex]

Oh really is it quite different? I've seen the telesnaps version it looked pretty similar but there wasn't a lot of stuff to see on that, has there been a clearer fan recordi found?

[@victorraulsantivanezrodriguez]

@@them1ghtyalex THEY DID IT IN THE TENTH PLANET...

[@victorraulsantivanezrodriguez]

@Douglas Howe where can i see it?

[@victorraulsantivanezrodriguez]

@Douglas Howe you mean the one from up?

[@blairm383]

I definitely see a improvement

[@desperatemohammedantheworl5833]

There's loads of slight to major tweaks regarding how the characters move and emote, especially in episodes 1 and 5. A definite improvement over the 2016 rendition, though if the BBC hadn't of being in such a rush to release the story and given the animators their originally requested up to 12 months to work on the episodes I'm sure the first edition would have been as good as this.

[@infinitygames9317]

@@desperatemohammedantheworl5833 Realistically a company like the BBC shouldn't be having so many issues with animating these adventures. I'd rather they took longer and had them perfect with the detail.

[@phillipgathright8001]

Not quite as unstable as some of his regenerations (looking at you Number Six) but still took a bit to settle in.

[@julieeverett7442]

remember this was the very first one

[@RetroGaming-gp2ef]

Looks like archer

[@infinitygames9317]

I will say the animation still looks a bit dodgy to me.

[@them1ghtyalex]

No worries the 3rd version comes out in 2024

[@kingofspades0188]

How did they reconstruct this scene and what were their sources?

[@WanderingNerd21]

Some pictures and the audio that was luckily recorded over the radio (I might be wrong on this, so take it with a grain of salt 😅)

[@ozmond]

Who decided on this animation style ?

[@samuelbarber6177]

Love how his clothes also regenerated

[@me-dc8pj]

In the original didn't 2 pull a knife on Ben and Polly? Ik I heard it somewhere but idk

[@aaroncrilly2005]

Reminds me of the Tenth Planet recon

[@comicconcarne]

I don't know what I love more, the entire Power of the Daleks story, or all the op-eds from the 60s saying "Doctor Who is dead now they ruined it >:("

[@catwhowalksbyhimself]

To be fair, people have continued to say that every time there's a new Doctor.

[@AndrewChapman]

Oh God, have they changed the animation on "The Power of the Daleks" from 2016? Does this mean I have to buy the new special edition Blu-ray even though I already have the first Blu-ray release from 2017?

[@them1ghtyalex]

2016

[@them1ghtyalex]

And yeah

[@them1ghtyalex]

Shame about the logo

[@them1ghtyalex]

And the cover

[@fadikhoory5350]

I feel like your cramping too much stuff, finish season 14, series 2, the curse of Fenric and survival compilations and then do this, could you do the faceless ones and fury from the deep later?

[@lewiskent550]

I have a idea for a 7th doctor big finish adventure

[@paulinolim5226]

Come On Why is It So Hard To Understand Sure It's Impossible For A Human But The Doctor's An alien Of Course He Can Do The Most Unbelievable Things

[@lewiskent550]

Oh it's definitely in provided

[@silvanolima6032]

Someone explains me why they make it?

[@julieeverett7442]

because the film version is lost

[@silvanolima6032]

@@julieeverett7442 thank you

[@The_Blue_Otaku]

Now can I trade my DVD copy back from 2016 for a more detailed remaster from 2020 ???

[@AndrewChapman]

Well according to Wikipedia, the new Blu-ray release contains newly-discovered footage from the original episodes.

[@The_Blue_Otaku]

@@AndrewChapman The fuck what! !!!!!!... my jaw just dropped to the floor from shock now knowing they found some original clips and it took five years since the animation was released on DVD/Blu-Ray Wow

[@AndrewChapman]

@@The_Blue_Otaku I'm keeping my jaw together until I've actually seen it myself to see if it's true.

[@oliverstreet430]

Love it

[@lillywho]

Bit stiff, the animation.

[@MarvelX42]

That FIRST regeneration is a doozy aint it?

[@Squicx]

This scene made what Doctor Who is today and it was YEARS AND YEARS AHEAD OF ITS TIME! The energy rushing towards his brain after a full body regeneration, the 4 beats (sort of) being the heartbeat of a time lord, REGENERATION AS A WHOLE, The official sign that this mysterious person known as the "Doctor"was in fact an alien. The second Doctor (That's right I don't believe in the Timeless child) although he's on his second life, made the Doctor this amazing wanderer that is the person we know today.

[@hgwsavage]

Originally it was that the TARDIS regenerated him, and his species was I think a future human. Only War Games on was he properly considered alien.

[@Squicx]

@@hgwsavage I know that don't worry. I meant the foundation of what he went through became cannon over the years. Dizzy head and all that. Once that regeneration was established, they added that in so it would make sense

[@Yetaxa]

@@hgwsavage he was never supposed to be human others *assumed* that maybe he was human, but it was deliberately vague. It was certainly the intention of the production that he was not human from the very beginning

[@hgwsavage]

@@Yetaxa @Yeti The original plans for the show outlined he was a human from the future, the original version of the unearthly child had Susan make it pretty obvious she was a future human by saying she was from the 49th century, and there are countless lines suggesting the doctor was human. There's a great Dalek 63-88 (youtuber) video on how it was hinted that the doctor was a human.

[@joshchannel3389]

Was this re-animated ? I have this on dvd the normal edition and it looks different

[@JamifyYT]

Josh Channel basically the same but slightly better animation and more extras

[@adrianames8590]

Thank you BBC for creating all these great classic Who releases!! Troughton is my favorite and look forward to seeing Fury from the Deep!!

[@them1ghtyalex]

They don't deserve your thanks

[@The_Sober_One_LCM]

When's the North American DVD Release?

[@Lumibear.]

Blu ray is region free.

[@andyh4518]

The Doctor has regenerated into some clownish buffoon! The idiots in charge have ruined the series! If there was an internet in the 60s I'm sure this would have popped up on social media.

[@Yetaxa]

"they've turned him into coco the clown" actual quote from upset fan at the time (i may have got the wording wrong) you didn't need the internet for people to complain about it

[@W0LV1E45]

i would loved to have a TARDIS and go back in 60s. Some say back then that 2nd was a younger Hartnell.

[@stephenmurphy2212]

Now we know this isn’t the Doctors first regeneration.

[@PoissonVisageStudios]

Yeaaaaaaaaah. It is though.

[@SKINNYGINGERTOP]

I don't care what the show does to The Doctor's lives, or the history of Time Lords. Bill Hartnell will always be THE First Doctor.

[@Yetaxa]

Funny thing people forget is that early versions of the script make it explicit that this wasn't the first time this happened

[@SKINNYGINGERTOP]

@@Yetaxa Yeah. A few previous versions of The Doctor was shown in The Brain Of Morbius, during Tom Baker's era.

[@stephenmurphy2212]

Neil Mackenzie he was our first Doctor just not the Doctor’s first incarnation.

[@Sandra_aschenbach_doyle]

Dr Newgrounds

[@Bem101-vc8km]

If the BBC is willing to animate the lost episodes they should at least give the team working on them a higher budget and more time because the movement and posing are so bad no hate towards the animators they are working with they are given

[@themastergamer5820]

Power hi

[@WHUFCboy3333]

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[@dalekemperor1984]

Wait has the animation been redone?

[@androzani84productions85]

Dalek Emperor19 yes.

[@dalekemperor1984]

Androzani84 Productions Wow. And here I was thinking it was just a standard Special Edition release with more bonus features

[@brainloading5543]

Star trek

[@Splain]

The BBC should really outsource their animations to Japan xD

[@myriadmediamusings]

BBC is sadly not an acronym for Big Budget Corporation.

[@Splain]

@@myriadmediamusings Japan in general has much better pool of talent of animators

[@hgwsavage]

@@Splain I like this style because it doesn't feel like it's a replacement of the original, just a place holder for what's lost.

[@Yetaxa]

@@Splain and a more expensive pool And it would also require them understanding how to actually tackle animations of lost 60s tv Its not done modern anime or anything

[@marz_454]

10

[@thedoctor5629]

6th!

[@lightdark00]

The technology is out there to do this so much more realistically, but the BBC doesn't want to put much money into it's cash cow. Anyways, the new "doctor" ruined the show for me, so I'm soured from it, unless it corrects.

[@thomasstevens2746]

Prefer hartnell so much More

[@gamera2351]

Do me a favor? What's the favor? Is that some kind of weird British expression?

[@gearmachine8454]

I am in no way an expert in British language (or a native speaker), but I would've guessed that it had something to do with Cockney, leaving out partial sentences and stuff like that [("Do me a favor and") shut up.] It's also more polite, so that he doesn't have to say the words "shut up". But hey, that's just a theory. Aaa language theory.

[@doctorwhoproductions834]

Its a saying, i think its like ‘do me a favour and stop talking nonsense’ pretty much

[@desperatemohammedantheworl5833]

"Do me a favour" essentially means "I don't believe you"

[@FahadAyaz]

It's like "oh come on!" or "come off it"

[@Yetaxa]

to put it simply yes it's a weird British expression

[@SenileOtaku]

This is the best a so-called "professional" organization like the BBC can do? I've seen smoother, more professional looking work done in MMD, or by amateur Touhou doujin circles. Sheesh, they could pick up OpenToonz for free (a free port of Ghibli Studio's animation software). (Oh, and who was that talentless hack at the end of the video?)

[@LaurenceDavidJones]

One thing to do something slick looking for a short form project, quite another to fully animate six 25 minute episodes, for a product with very niche commercial appeal and a small return on investment. It's a vast improvement over the version that just had scrolling text at the bottom of the screen alongside the stills.

[@SenileOtaku]

@@LaurenceDavidJones Considering the Touhou fandom have made entire multi-episode series as amateur projects, we're not talking about 2-3 minute mini-vids ( www.reddit.com/r/touhou/comments/7bnqkl/list_of_unofficial_fanmade_touhou_anime/ ). These are full productions with music and voice actors. So I *STILL* say the BBC releases are shoddy hack-jobs. They have no excuse for sub-standard work for something they're expecting to license/sell. But I've lost my expectation that the BBC are capable of decent product anymore (production-wise *OR* script-wise). At least the low-budget efforts in the 60's to 80's used creativity and inventiveness to overcome their limitations. Now they think flashy effects and a woke agenda will get them through.