Lost Doctor Who shows regenerate

EIGHT lost Doctor Who episodes from the 1960s are being animated for DVD release using the original soundtracks.

The BBC destroyed film prints of over 100 episodes in the decade, thinking no one would want to watch black and white shows after colour TV launched.

Now all four parts of 1967’s The Macra Terror and four missing episodes from The Wheel in Space, shown in 1968, will have animation married to the original TV soundtracks.

Both star the second Doctor, Patrick Troughton.

The move comes after BBC bosses last year completed an unfinished story called Shada, featuring fourth Doctor Tom Baker, with animation and new voice recordings.