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Missing stories animations to continue, more Hartnell likely

Missing stories animations to continue, more Hartnell likely

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Plans are afoot for more animated revamps of missing episodes following the release of The Underwater Menace. Good news for Doctor Who fans in the BBC sci-fi’s 60th anniversary year – more missing stories are set to receive the animation treatment. Out of 253 episodes from the show’s first six years, 97 remain lost in their original form, due to the BBC’s policy of junking archive programming between 1967 and 1978. As a result, numerous adventures of the First Doctor (played by William…

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Doctor Who stars pay tribute to Patrick Troughton at plaque unveiling

Doctor Who stars pay tribute to Patrick Troughton at plaque unveiling

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Legends of classic Doctor Who gathered to pay tribute to Patrick Troughton as a plaque was unveiled in his honour at his former school. The Doctor Who Appreciation Society, the show’s longest-running fan club, collaborated with Mill Hill School in London to place the plaque at the school’s Patrick Troughton Theatre. Sylvester McCoy, who played the Seventh Doctor, Sophie Aldred, who played Ace, and Frazer Hines, who played Jamie McCrimmon, were among those pictured in attendance to celebrate the actor, best known as the Second Doctor. Carole…

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