http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/08/arts/television/new-versions-of-lost-doctor-who-episodes-coming-this-fall.html 2016-09-07 20:23:37 New Versions of Lost ‘Doctor Who’ Episodes Coming This Fall The BBC is producing an animated version of “The Power of the Daleks,” a story from 1966, streaming in England on Nov. 5 and showing on BBC America on Nov. 12. === Six formerly “lost” episodes of “Doctor Who” from the 1960s “The Power of the Daleks,” a story with six episodes from 1966, was among many early installments of the beloved cult science-fiction series that the BBC later erased from its archives, thanks to the broadcaster’s then-common practice of recording over or otherwise discarding old programs. The master negatives of the “Power of the Daleks” shows were destroyed in an archive purge in 1974. But now the BBC is producing an animated version of the story, which featured Patrick Troughton as the Doctor, based on surviving clips, photographs and audio recordings from the episodes. The new episodes will be available for The animated adaptation “is the most ambitious ‘Doctor Who’ archive restoration ever attempted,” Charles Norton, the producer and director of the new series, said in a statement. Aside from the novelty of recreating previously unavailable episodes, the “Power of the Daleks” story is notable for introducing Mr. Troughton as the Doctor, thereby inaugurating the series gimmick of having the character occasionally regenerate with new characteristics, and played by a new actor. (William Hartnell starred as the first Doctor.) Radio Times, which has written at length about the lost “Doctor Who” episodes, called the first “Power of the Daleks” episode the