Planet of the Daleks DVD

[Richard Hunter]

Hello to all you Doctor Who fans.

I was wondering if anybody knows if there are any plans to release Planet of the Daleks on DVD.

Thanks in anticipation.

[Ash Stewart]

There are plans to, eventually, release all of Dr Who on DVD. It is just a case of when.

[Daniel O'Brien]

I wonder if the BBC will hold off on this one while they investigate the possibilities of colourising - for want of a better word - episode 3. That said, I'm not aware of any existing colour recording, not even an off-air NTSC VHS source. To be honest, I thought black and white did the episode a favour, adding mood and atmosphere missing from the colour episodes. Then again, it's not one of my favourite 'Who' stories.

[Ash Stewart]

There is no off-air colour source for POTD 3, IOTD 1 or all of MOE (bar a couple of minutes).

[Daniel O'Brien]

Some years back, there was a vogue in the US for colourising black and white films. While the end results looked awful, it proved quite popular with viewers. Even the British film 'Scrooge' underwent this process. I wonder if the BBC has considered using a similar process for the b/w Pertwee episodes. I'd say leave them as they are. 'Mind of Evil' looked great to me. Haven't seen 'Invasion of the Dinosaurs' since its original UK broadcast. We had a b/w TV back then, so I never saw part 1 in colour.

[William Martin]

I think this is quite expensive in terms of employing people to do it, but the software is relativly cheap now.
It would be easier not to and just have a note saying "due to condition of archive material.." et.c and the cost woud not be justified by the low sales of the DVD, but having said that I still think they should colourise it even if they have to guess at some of the colours.

[wrightblan]

dobrien said:

Some years back, there was a vogue in the US for colourising black and white films. While the end results looked awful, it proved quite popular with viewers. Even the British film 'Scrooge' underwent this process. I wonder if the BBC has considered using a similar process for the b/w Pertwee episodes. I'd say leave them as they are. 'Mind of Evil' looked great to me. Haven't seen 'Invasion of the Dinosaurs' since its original UK broadcast. We had a b/w TV back then, so I never saw part 1 in colour.

I would be for this, since unlike colorizing b&w films, you would actually trying to restore the currently b&w Pertwees to something close to their original form.

Funny note: remember the April Fool's joke in DWM where they claimed to have found "The Tenth Plannet" part 4 and were colorizing it for the CBC? I actually believed that one for years. Boy was I steamed when I found out!

[Daniel O'Brien]

wrightblan said:

dobrien said:

Some years back, there was a vogue in the US for colourising black and white films. While the end results looked awful, it proved quite popular with viewers. Even the British film 'Scrooge' underwent this process. I wonder if the BBC has considered using a similar process for the b/w Pertwee episodes. I'd say leave them as they are. 'Mind of Evil' looked great to me. Haven't seen 'Invasion of the Dinosaurs' since its original UK broadcast. We had a b/w TV back then, so I never saw part 1 in colour.

I would be for this, since unlike colorizing b&w films, you would actually trying to restore the currently b&w Pertwees to something close to their original form.

Funny note: remember the April Fool's joke in DWM where they claimed to have found "The Tenth Plannet" part 4 and were colorizing it for the CBC? I actually believed that one for years. Boy was I steamed when I found out!

I remember the DWM 'spoof' well. Wasn't too impressed when I found out the truth. In fairness, they did confess the next issue (I think).

[cyberdalek]

A lot of the old Laurel and Hardy episodes from the 30s have been courised since 1983 and some of them look quite good

[William Martin]

and at the time stans daughter said he would have been in favor of it, since he always wanted to do them in colour