The Complete And Utter History Of Britain, stars Terry Jones and Michael Palin. In news sure to warm the hearts of archive television enthusiasts everywhere, it’s been announced that The Complete And Utter History Of Britain has been rediscovered. Airing in January and February 1969 on London Weekend Television, the comedy series starred Terry Jones, … >
Welcome to the Podcast Roundup for April 2023 – our favourites in the worlds of CultBox. Our picks this month, in no particular order, are… The Doctor Who Show – Alternate Galaxies: Ultraviolet The Doctor Who Show chaps present some interesting perspectives on the 1996 vampire cop show. One comes to it as a fan, … >
According to sources cited by Nicola Methven of The Mirror, the BBC will bring back two lost Doctor Who episodes in animated form to mark 60th anniversary of the programme. Two Season 4 stories from the 1960s, The Smugglers and The Underwater Menace, are to be animated and released on Blu-ray and DVD. The 1966 … >
According to the Square Eyes column in the Mirror written by Nicola Methven and Mark Jefferies, the BBC has abandoned plans to animate more missing episodes of Doctor Who. According to the article, BBC America has pulled funding for further animations created from preserved audio recordings of missing episodes. Several Doctor Who adventures from the … >
Galaxy 4, the mostly-missing serial starring William Hartnell as the First Doctor, will be released as a fully-animated recreation in November. Only the third episode of the four-part adventure released in 1965, Air Lock, and clips from the first episode, Four Hundred Dawns, are known to exist. An animated recreation by Big Finish Creative is … >
Virtually filling another gap in missing Doctor Who episodes, the Season 4 story The Evil of the Daleks will be released in animated form on DVD, Blu-ray and as an exclusive Steelbook in September of 2021. In The Evil of the Daleks, starring Patrick Troughton, Frazer Hines and Deborah Watling, the Daleks lay a trap … >
According to the Mirror, the BBC has plans to animate two more missing Doctor Who stories from the 1960s featuring Patrick Troughton as the second Doctor, The Evil of the Daleks and The Abominable Snowmen. The BBC has previously employed animation to recreate several other lost classic Doctor Who stories which were deleted from the … >
First broadcast in six weekly parts from March to April 1968, Fury from the Deep, the sixth serial from Season 5 of Doctor Who starring Patrick Troughton as the second Doctor will be released in animated form on DVD, Blu-ray and limited edition Steelbook in September. No full episodes of this story exist within the BBC … >
Between 1967 and 1978, the BBC routinely deleted archive programmes. As a result of the cull, 97 of 253 episodes of Doctor Who’s first six years are currently missing, primarily from seasons 3 to 5, leaving 26 serials incomplete. In an interview with Jason Clifford of Time and Space Visualiser, Phillip Morris, who has previously … >
On Sunday, October 27, the Animations Panel at London MCM Comic Con announced an animated version of the Doctor Who missing episode Fury from the Deep will be released on DVD, Blu-ray and as an exclusive Steelbook in 2020. The BBC has released a teaser for the animation: Some reference pictures from the Animations Panel … >