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BBC Studios has announced that an updated version of the Doctor Who animation The Power of the Daleks will be released on 6 July.

The Special Edition is an updated animation of Patrick Troughton’s first story as the Second Doctor.

While no complete film recordings of The Power of the Daleks are known to have survived the purge of the BBC’s archive in 1975, fresh animation in high definition breathes new life into this much-loved story.

The six animated episodes replace the 2016 physical and digital release, with new and improved animation and authentic black and white visuals. The latest release also showcases a vast array of exciting new special features, in addition to all of the VAM on the 2016 release.

New additional material includes:

·        Two new documentaries about Power of the Daleks

·        1993 BBC audio version of The Power of the Daleks narrated by Tom Baker

·         Raw incidental music

·         Photogrammetry Featurette

·         Whicker’s World – I Don’t Like My Monsters to Have Oedipus Complexes

·         Daleks – The Early Years: A 1992 documentary presented by Peter Davison

Robin Hood – 1953 Episode: Patrick Troughton’s earliest surviving TV appearance

BBC archive footage from BBC regional news, BBC Breakfast, Blue Peter and Newsnight

Previously unreleased animation trailers and animatics

Easter Eggs

And old favourites including:

·         Audio commentaries by Anneke Wills on each episode

·        Animation test footage

·         Photo Gallery, including previously unreleased and rediscovered full colour on-set photos from 1966.

·         Servants & Masters – The Making of The Power of the Daleks

·         Doctor Who – The Highlanders

According to producer Charles Norton on Roobarb, “The animation hasn’t just been tweaked. It’s been very extensively revised. Big ground up re-build. Huge job. Every shot has been re-composited. Many sections have been re-animated from scratch. In fact, the entire first third of episode 1 has essentially been redone completely anew. That part’s unrecognisable now. It’ll be a good quarter of an hour in before you’ll see any shots that are even close to how they used to look.”

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