Shada

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Story Code: 5M / Season 17 UK Airdate: unfinished Doctor: Tom Baker
First airings by location UK Repeats / Foreign Cable and Satellite Previous Story / Next Story
Russian edition of Shada novelisation

Due to a strike 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 narration by Tom Baker were 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


Reconstruction

"Shada: The Lost Episode"
  • 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 also given the title "Doctor Who: The Lost Episode" in some press coverage and online listings.


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