Shada
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| Story Code: 5M / Season 17 | UK Airdate: unfinished | Doctor: Tom Baker |
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Due to on-going union disputes at the BBC, this 6-part serial was never completed and did not air on TV in early 1980.
All the surviving location footage and studio recordings plus specially-filmed to-camera linking 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 one episode per week on the BBCi website from 2 May to 6 June 2003. The full soundtrack of this version was also released on CD by Big Finish.
- The full webcast itself is no longer available, but some of the supporting behind the scenes material can still be accessed on BBCi'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.
- List of Shada novelisation editions
Reconstruction
- The story was officially reconstructed using full animation to replace all the missing material (but edited into an omnibus rather than 6 episodes) and released as a digital download, DVD and Blu-ray in 2017.
- 19 July 2018: BBC America aired the animated omnibus restoration at 8pm. It was given the title "Doctor Who: The Lost Episode" in some press coverage and online listings.
