The Power Of The Daleks Animation Is Official! – Daleks Set To Conquer And Destroy The BBC Store This November

The BBC have confirmed rumours that they are to release an animated version of the missing Doctor Who serial The Power of the Daleks. The Power of the Daleks is Patrick Troughton’s first serial as the second incarnation of The Doctor and stars Michael Craze and Anneke Wills as the Doctor’s companions Ben Jackson and Polly Wright. All six missing episodes of the story have been produced by the team behind the recent animation for the lost Dad’s Army episode A Stripe For Fraser.

The animated Power of the Daleks has been produced and directed by Charles Norton (A Stripe For Fraser), with character designs by comic book artists Martin Geraghty (Doctor Who: The Flood) and Adrian Salmon (Judge Dredd).

Charles Norton spoke of the animation “The Power of the Daleks animation is the most ambitious Doctor Who archive restoration ever attempted and we’re all very honoured to be a part of such a an exciting project. Intelligent, suspenseful and magnificently staged, Power of the Daleks is one of the great lost classics of 1960s television and a superb example of the black and white era at its finest,”

The executive producer of BBC Worldwide Paul Hembury said “Charles and his team are remarkably talented and passionate about Doctor Who and we are thrilled that fans will soon be able to enjoy this rather sinister but wonderful, classic story,”

The first episode of The Power of the Daleks will be made available on the BBC Store from Saturday 5th November at 5:50pm, exactly fifty years since its broadcast on BBC1. The remaining episodes will be made available the following five days. Power of the Daleks will be exclusive to the BBC Store until Monday 14th November. The animation will be released on DVD on Monday 21st November. There will also be a BFI (British Film Institute) screening of the serial on the 5th November at the BFI Southbank Cinema in London. Further information will be made available on the BFI website.

You can currently register your interest on The Power of the Daleks animation on the BBC Store website.

A trailer for The Power of the Daleks can be found below:

Power To The Daleks! – Animated Power Of The Daleks Rumours Look To Be True

The BBC posted an animated gif on Facebook this afternoon that appears to be hinting at the rumoured Power of the Daleks animation:

The picture shows an animated TARDIS surrounded by fog – or perhaps the fumes from the mercury pools that can be found on the planet Vulcan (the setting of Power of the Daleks). The post was accompanied with the promise that ‘something is materialising’ at midnight UK time. This wouldn’t be the first time that missing episodes of Doctor Who have been turned into cartoons – the very first animated release was 2006’s The Invasion featuring the Cybermen – but an entirely missing Doctor Who serial hasn’t been animated before. The animation process is costly, therefore it is usually used on serials where only two episodes are missing as opposed to Power of the Daleks’ six.

More news to follow shortly.