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| Story Code: 5M / Season 17 | UK Airdate: unfinished | Doctor: Tom Baker |
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This 6-part serial was never completed and did not air on TV in early 1980.
The surviving location footage and studio recordings plus specially-filmed to-camera narration by Tom Baker was released on VHS video in 1992.
A limited-movement "flash animation" adaptation with a newly-recorded soundtrack (by Big Finish Productions, using different actors in most of the main roles - i.e. this new version featured Paul McGann as the eighth Doctor) was released on the BBC Online website in 2003.
- The webcast itself is no longer available, but some of the supporting behind the scenes material can still be accessed on the BBC's website:
Novelisation
- The story was novelised by Gareth Roberts, published by BBC Books in March 2012.
- The book was later translated into several languages, and published in Italy, France, Hungary, Brazil, Turkey, China, Germany, Czech Republic, and Russia, between 2013 and 2016.
Reconstruction
- The story was officially reconstructed using full animation to replace all the missing material (but edited into an omnibus rather than as 6 episodes) and released as a digital download and on DVD in 2017.
- 19 July 2018: BBC America aired the omnibus restoration at 8pm. It was also given the title "Doctor Who: The Lost Episode" in some press coverage and online listings.
