Doctor Who drops teaser for revamped animated adventure
Doctor Who has dropped a teaser for a missing episode of the animated adventure series The Underwater Menace.
Due to the BBC's policy of archiving programmes between 1967 and 1978, 97 out of 253 episodes remain lost in their original form. Fortunately for fans, though, a complete audio recording for all episodes still exists.
Now, the 1967 animated series – starring Patrick Troughton as the second doctor – has been given a new lease of life by way of animation.
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In total, four episodes from The Underwater Menace will be animated in colour for a new DVD and Blu-ray release, along with the option to watch the episodes in black and white.
The series sees the Doctor and companions Jamie (Frazer Hines), Ben (Michael Craze) and Polly (Anneke Wills) arrive in the underwater city of Atlantis to stop Professor Zaroff (Joseph Fürst), who plots to destroy the earth by draining the oceans.
The new release will be a two-disc set, with the first disc featuring the animated episodes and the second featuring the original surviving episodes.
Its revamp comes after other Doctor Who classic series were given a similar treatment, including The Abominable Snowmen (1967), The Evil of the Daleks (1967), and Galaxy 4 (1965),
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Chris Perry, the head of TV archive Kaleidoscope, recently suggested that several missing episodes of Doctor Who's animated series are known to still exist.
In a recent interview with Radio Times, Perry explained that it is "very likely" that the lost episodes will be recovered in the future.
"We know where there is missing Doctor Who out there, but the owners won't return it at the moment," he revealed.
Doctor Who: The Underwater Menace is available to pre-order on DVD, Blu-ray or Blu-ray Steelbook from Amazon and will be released in November 2023.
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