The BBC have announced an upcoming DVD/Blu-ray re-release for the first in their new range of ‘animated’ versions of 1960s Doctor Who stories currently missing from the Archive.
Patrick Troughton’s 1966 six-part debut serial Power of the Daleks fully-animated and already released digitally and on DVD/Blu-ray in 2016, will be re-released in July in a brand new edition which will include a number of enticing new special supporting features.
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 Willson 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
Power of the Daleks: Special Edition will be released on DVD/BluRay on July 6th.
