Doctor Who: Remastered

Doctor Who: Remastered was a remastered version of Chapter One of Doctor Who''. ''

Originally, airing on UPN from 23 November 1999, each story was edited into an omnibus episode lasting for usually for 45 minutes, unless the story was a surviving story of a greater-length, which would then form a two-parter. Each episode of the series was remastered into full colour, with further picture and sound restoration, as well as additional CGI effects, in some circumstances.

For missing episodes, the decision was made to animate the stories, again in an omnibus format. For stories which had some surviving and some missing episodes, the decision was made to use animation and live-action footage, cutting between each as necessary, many members of the viewing-audience found this method, quite famously, very jarring and disorientating.

Although originally Chapter One had been made up of six seasons consisting of about 40x25 minute episodes after the remaster Chapter One was made up of five seasons consisting about 13x45 minute episodes, apart from Season 3 which consisted of 10x45 minute episodes.

The series was commissioned for a sixth and seventh season, released exclusively on Paramount+ in 2021.

Summary
UPN broadcast the first season of Doctor Who - Remastered, which also were abridged and cut-down versions of the originals, every Tuesday night from November 1999 to February 2000. The Reign of Terror was the first animated episode to air, with portions of it being animated, while other portions were live-action. The first full missing episode animation, Marco Polo, wasn't completed in time for its transmission date and was subsequently aired after the Reign of Terror. The first two stories of the original season 2 comprised the final 3 episodes of Season 1.

The following September, Season 2 was aired beginning with The Rescue and ending with a three-part version of ''The Daleks' Master Plan. ''Three episodes in this season were partially animated, and a further three episodes were fully animated.

It was in September 2000, that BBC Two agreed on a deal with UPN to air the first two seasons, and they did so back to back from September until March. From Season 3 onwards, BBC Two aired the episodes the week of UPN's broadcast.

Season 3 began airing the following September and due to the large number of missing episodes needing to be animated, the season only ran for 10 episodes, which several stories which would have normally been multi-parters being abridged even further to a single-part to save on animation costs. The season began with The Massacre and ended with the conclusion of the William Hartnell era with The Tenth Planet.

The fourth season required the most amount of animated episodes overall with 5 fully-animated episodes, and five further partially-animated episodes, leaving only three live-action episodes overall. Despite considering delaying the airing of this season, due to the heavy amount of animation needed, Paramount granted the season a larger budget and brought a second animation studio onboard to help with the workload. The season began with The Power of the Daleks and concluded with ''The Ice Warriors. ''

The fifth and final season was timed as to conclude just before the fortieth anniversary of Doctor Who, 18 November in the US and the day before, 22nd November 2003, in the UK. 3 episodes were fully-animated with other partially-animated episodes. 7 of the 13 episodes were live-action, including the original ten-parter, The War Games, which was heavily abridged to a two-parter and served as the finale to the entire series.

Just over 17 years later, the sixth series of Doctor Who: Remastered was released, all 13 episodes at once, with the launch of Paramount+. Like the previous remaster, Season 6 included abridging each story, some up to 7 episodes, down to a single 45-minute episode, as well as replacing original effects with new CGI effects. The Mind of Evil was the only episode colourised, as the only known copy existed in black and white, the rest were already available in full colour. Unlike the first five seasons, the show was released in High-Definition, with existing film prints scanned in at a 4K resolution, but downscaled to 1080i for release, and the remaining studio footage was upscaled, by CBS Digital, to match a similar standard. A controversial change was that the logo on the title sequence was replaced by the 2020 variation of the Doctor Who logo, which while similar had been subtly redesign - this worried fans, as in future, when different logos were in use, CBS may go onto change that to the 2020 logo as well. Additionally, a change which fans were even less fond of, was the fact that every title card on every episode had been changed from the original to the new 2021 unified title card design. While all 13 episodes were released on Paramount+ at the same time, BBC Two aired them over a period of 13 weeks, however, BBC iPlayer released them simultaneously with Paramount+.

Season 7 was released in August 2021, and was similar to Season 6 in its look, feel, format and release. Like with Season 6, some of the stories were reordered to suit the Remastered running order better. Also, in order to complete the entire Jon Pertwee era in this 13 episode season, it was decided to introduce 2 double-part episodes, the first being the original 6-parter The Green Death, and the second Jon Pertwee's finale, Planet of the Spiders, which was originally only 4 episodes and thus wasn't abridged like the other episodes, only remastered - which also served as the finale for the season. The Season 6 title sequence remained in place for the season, including the final 5 serials of the original Season 11.

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