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Doctor Who is unusual in that each of its 97 missing episodes survives in audio form, recorded off-air by fans at home. [4] Most episodes are also represented by production stills, tele-snaps, or short video clips. Furthermore, after careful restoration, all 1970s episodes are available in full colour.
The BBC describes Firestep as "the creative team behind previous Doctor Who animated adventures for the BBC." [1] The Firestep website attributes the name to former Cosgrove Hall animators Jon Doyle and Steve Maher. An earlier animated series based on Doctor Who, to be produced by Nelvana for CBS, was planned in the 1980s, but fell through. [4]
Dreamland is the third animated Doctor Who serial (based on the British science fiction television live action series) to air on television, and the second to air after the revival of the live-action series in 2005.
Doctor Who supplementary stories existed during the wilderness era of the show where regular broadcast episodes didn’t exist. These include mini-episodes, animated stories and charity specials. They were broadcast sporadically through the 14 year period, but often featured actors from the classic era reprising their roles.
In June 2006, the BBC announced that the animation studio Cosgrove Hall, who previously created the webcast Scream of the Shalka, had produced full-length animated versions of the two missing episodes. These episodes, along with newly remastered copies of the rest of the serial, were released on DVD on 6 November 2006.
The Doctor decides that he needs the time vector generator, which he earlier removed from the TARDIS. Jamie and Zoe are chosen for a space-walk to the rocket. Gemma shows them to the airlock but hides in the oxygen room. She overhears Vallance and a Cyberman plotting to poison the air supply and warns the Doctor before she is killed by a Cyberman.
An updated version of the animation was released on Blu-ray and DVD on 27 July 2020; [58] [59] it also adds newly discovered footage from the original episodes, the narrated cassette version of the serial, two new documentaries, and additional archive content, including an edition of Whicker's World ("I Don't Like My Monsters to Have Oedipus ...
For home video releases on formats other than DVD and Blu-ray, see List of other Doctor Who home video releases. This is a list of Doctor Who serials and episodes that have been released on DVD and Blu-ray. DVD Release Most Doctor Who DVDs have been released first in the United Kingdom with Region 2, and released later in Australia and New Zealand (Region 4) and in North America (Region 1 ...