New colourised Doctor Who episode to show second Time Lord regeneration

Doctor Who fans volition beryllium capable to ticker the 2nd Time Lord’s “never-before-seen” regeneration into the 3rd Doctor successful a caller colourised mentation of an occurrence from 1969, the BBC has said.

Originally airing arsenic portion of the War Games communicative arc successful 1969, the occurrence marked the modulation betwixt Patrick Troughton and Jon Pertwee playing the Doctor successful the sci-fi tv favourite.

For the archetypal time, the pivotal scenes person been colourised and enhanced with ocular effects for a 90-minute feature-length programme which volition aerial connected December 23 connected BBC Four and BBC iPlayer.

“The occurrence volition besides diagnostic the 2nd Doctor’s never-before-seen regeneration into the 3rd Doctor”, the BBC revealed.

The caller mentation volition besides see updated sound, a caller people and recovered footage not seen since the archetypal broadcast.

The archetypal War Games episodes saw Troughton and his companions Zoe and Jamie, played by Wendy Padbury and Frazer Hines, onshore successful a battlefield that appeared to beryllium a subject portion successful the First World War.

However, they soon observe that soldiers from antithetic humanities periods person been abducted and are being manipulated successful a cruel game.

From the time I arrived backmost connected Doctor Who, this was the plan. To colourise aged stories and bring them backmost to beingness

Doctor Who showrunner Russell T Davies

As they enactment to uncover the enigma down the War Lord and his twisted experiments, the Doctor faces 1 of his astir hard challenges.

Doctor Who showrunner Russell T Davies said: “From the time I arrived backmost connected Doctor Who, this was the plan. To colourise aged stories and bring them backmost to life.

“And connected Doctor Who Day itself, it’s large to denote this, celebrating the show’s fantastic practice with an all-time-classic.

“It looks truthful vivid and caller – and for fans of achromatic and white, the communicative successful its archetypal signifier volition enactment connected BBC iPlayer, truthful everyone wins.”

The screenwriter recalled archetypal watching the occurrence successful 1969 astatine property six and shared his excitement that fans aged and caller tin “enjoy it each implicit again”.

Davies was liable for Doctor Who’s revival successful 2005 but near the bid successful 2009. He returned arsenic showrunner successful 2023 to coincide with the 60th anniversary.

It marks the 2nd clip a classical Doctor Who communicative has been colourised, pursuing The Daleks successful 2023 which was updated to commemorate the 60th day of the franchise.

The announcement comes connected Doctor Who Day, which marks the broadcast of the archetypal occurrence 61 years agone connected November 23 1963.

To celebrate, fans were treated to a big of Doctor Who contented including messages from Ncuti Gatwa, the latest histrion to play the Doctor, and Bridgerton and Derry Girls histrion Nicola Coughlan, who volition look successful this year’s Christmas special.

The War Games volition aerial connected December 23 connected BBC Four and BBC iPlayer and the archetypal episodes are disposable successful The Whoniverse connected BBC iPlayer.