So I just started watching "The Invasion" to find that the first episode was animated while the second is live action. Did they do this regularly in the earlier days?
Nope. But a lot of the Second Doctor episodes are lost (as are some of the First Doctor ones) - the BBC just binned the film, but kept a copy of the soundtrack.
In the case of The Invasion, they animated the missing episodes a year or two back so that they could release the full story on DVD.
I'd quite like it if they completely animated a few of the better ones that appear to be lost for good (The Macra Terror seems to be one that was supposedly worth watching)- just so that they're out there in some form - but that seems like it's not going to happen in the near future.
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Date: 17/8/08 05:55 pm (UTC)In the case of The Invasion, they animated the missing episodes a year or two back so that they could release the full story on DVD.
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Date: 17/8/08 06:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 17/8/08 09:16 pm (UTC)