 | Doctor Who -Reign of Terror -missing parts to be animated |
Via DoctorWhoNews:
Early character study from REIGN OF TERROR based on available promotional still (2|Entertain, via yfrog)2|Entertain have announced that the missing episodes four and five of the William Hartnell adventure The Reign of Terror are to be animated as part of the forthcoming DVD, which the company previously reported would provisionally be released late 2012.
The animators for the project have been named as Big Finish - long-term Doctor Who audio producers, and whose Real Time and Shada adventures were animated for the BBC Doctor Who website - and animation company Theta Sigma, whose Thetamation is described as "a totally new style of animation, a hybrid of the classic anime styles of the 80s and high-technology".
The story is one of the remaining to have its surviving episodes released on DVD, leaving only those of the incomplete The Tenth Planet and The Ice Warriors still to be scheduled. Prior to this, The Invasion received a similar treatment in 2006 when its missing episodes one and four were re-created by award-winning animatorsCosgrove Hall.
One of the more ambitious Doctor Who stories, The Reign of Terror by Dennis Spooner (writer and later script editor for the program) is a true classic. Plunging the TARDIS crew headlong into the post-revolution France results in a tense, bloody and thrilling adventure. There are few punches pulled and it is even insinuated on screen that Robespierre's jaw was shot clean away in his final moments when he was removed from office. There are moments of levity as well, such as the Doctor's skillful manipulation of others to release his friends from danger. A wonderful historical serial, I am overjoyed that Reign of Terror is not only being released on DVD but also getting the animation treatment, something that was defined as too expensive after the Invasion DVD release.
If this release sees high sales figures, I am hopeful that a similar treatment is possible for Tenth Planet and The Ice Warriors!
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