Whovians unite! BBC Worldwide has your backs. They’ve recently commissioned an animated remake of The Power of the Daleks, a 1966 Doctor Who storyline. In the words of Variety, the storyline was originally “exterminated by callous technocrats”.
Nothing strikes fear into the hearts of sci-fi fans like the words ‘archive purge’, but that’s apparently what the original episodes for this storyline fell unfortunate victim to. The last surviving copies were allegedly destroyed sometime in 1974. It occurs to me that The Doctor could simply have travelled back to 1973 and stopped this from happening, but I digress.
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The new series will be animated. The second Doctor (played by Patrick Troughton) and the Daleks will battle on the planet Vulcan. Charles Norton will produce and direct the series, with the help of reputable comic-book artists Martin Geraghty and Adrian Salmon.
Few things excite a Doctor Who fan like a good old fashioned regeneration. In this series, we will be lucky enough to witness the first one ever. The first Doctor becomes the second. Given the fact that Troughton (the second Doctor) has long been lauded as the best ever time lord among fans, this series seems to be a fitting way to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the original episode’s first and only airing in 1966.
BBC Store, on the the BBC website, will release the first episode on November 5th at precisely the time the original aired 50 years ago. The first will then be followed by one episode a day for five more days to complete the six part series.
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