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Dr. Who : The War Games will get a 90 - bit colorized re - edit that also includes the Second Doctor regenerating into the Third Doctor .
ShowrunnerRussell T. Davieshad said , " From the day I arrived back on Doctor Who , this was the plan . To colorize one-time report and bestow them back to life history . And on Doctor Who twenty-four hours itself , it ’s smashing to declare this , celebrating the show ’s wonderful heritage with an all - time classic . It looks so vivid and unexampled – and for fans of black - and - ashen , the tale in its original form will stay on BBC iPlayer , so everyone wins ! "
" We always want to do a Patrick Troughton story after The Daleks , " Collinson tell the latest issue ofDoctor Who Magazine . " And of course , the fact that this is a double-dyed story avail with the decision , but also , with these later black - and - blanched episode , you really point out the lineament of the original footage . It ’s a lot crisper than the earlier ace , so that follows with the colourized moving picture too . When you watch this , it will stand up really well against any of the color episodes from the seventies . "
Unearthing Doctor Who New Footage
" We believe we were picture lock back in January , " says Benjamin Cook , who worked in re - edit . " But then , at the end of September , the Radio Free Skaro podcast did an audience with Chris Hayden , the original film editor program on The War Games back in the sixties . And he mentioned that he had some film footage in his garage that he had edited for his showreel back when he was applying for work in America . Chris very kindly sent the footage over from Canada . It ’s been restore so tight , and it ’s beautiful timber – there are a few second of footage that have never been date before . It ’s a missing footage find of sort . It was perfect timing because if we had try about it a couple of calendar week afterwards , it would have been too later to do anything in time for the transmission date . "
Rich Tipplenoted , " This was an unlikely go - up . It just impart to this experience and people are run to see The War Games on TV in a way they ’ve never seen it before . "
The new edit will also feature a new regeneration scene where the Second Doctor change state into the Third Doctor ( Jon Pertwee ) . This is surprising , considering Pertwee ’s first season was n’t filmed or broadcast for a yr , so is it a new scene created via CGI ? We ’ll just have to wait and see .
Doctor Who : The War Games , the coloured re - edit , will be broadcast on BBC4 and theiPlayerin the UK on December 23rd , and a Blu - Ray release will be annunciate later .
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