The actual regeneration clip was shown on Blue Peter and was from the original tape. The rest was recorded directly off the TV by a fan I think, hence the quality
@@harrysgf_real So... they have the original tapes but would rather animate it and use shitty audio recordings than the proper things? Or is that the only remaining piece of tape that was *somehow* not lost along with everything else?
Tilt's his head, sighs "I must go now". just finished Hartnells series and discovered the circumstances of his departure from the show in 2024 and it's made me very sad.
Can someone explain story behind this footage? I know from the bbc dvd with animation btw. I just want to know why the original footage looks like it was recorded off the tv and why it looks bad.
I just started watching this series and I am almost at the end of the fourth season. I know there are lots of changings in the future. But this one wasn't properly explainned yet. I hope that when the third doctor arrives, they explain better.
Now THAT was cool. I could have done with the Troughton photage being lined up with the animation as well for a few minutes into his time after the regeneration. Still.... wow!
I'm going to be in the minority here but I love the simplicity of this regeneration, it makes it really powerful to watch. I hate how ridiculous and over the top the new series regenerations are, especially Matt Smith to Peter Calpadi. The most recent with Jodie Whittaker to David Tenant too, landing the Tardis on Durdle Door and clothes regenerate now too? I mean come on, really? I think my favourite has to date has to be Peter Davison to Colin Baker, again on the Tardis floor like this. No over the top pyrotechnics or explosions. I think the new series try too hard with regenerations and it ruins it for me.
I completely agree. Davison and Hartnell are two of my favourite regenerations alongside Tom Baker and Eccleston's. Smith and Capaldi's are utterly dreadful.
I agree too. The effect of the transition from Hartnell to Troughton is practically flawless, even more remarkable given the limited technology for special effects at the time. My favourite is Tom Baker to Peter Davison, which is so good because of the music. You have this melancholy music in a minor key as the Fourth Doctor dies, then it modulates into a major key as the white face of the Watcher morphs into that of Peter Davison, and finally the Fifth Doctor sits up as the first three notes of the Doctor Who theme tune play, to announce, "This is the Doctor!" All this orange regeneration energy shooting out from a Time Lord's head and hands and wrecking the Tardis every time doesn't make sense.
I would think that a Timelord's fist regeneration could be very exciting and scary at the same time. The complete change from one look to another and adjusting to that new look for who knows how long. Also, the anxiety of the regeneration to complete and have to complications to happen from it.
Blasphamy. William Hartnell will forever be the doctor, not doctor 1 ,2 10 or 12 THE doctor. Then played by Richard Hudnell in the 5 doctor and David Bradley in twice upon a time
*29th October 1966* "WHAAAAAT?! WTF?! The Doctor's transformed into a younger man?! But... how can this be? How can Doctor Who possibly continue on with some other guy now playing the Doctor? William Hartnell IS the Doctor and has been the last 3 years! You can't just have someone else play the part! I mean sure, we've already had different companions come and go, but they've each been different characters. Here we have the same character, but now gonna be played by someone else? How's this even gonna work? Bet the show will get poor reviews with this Patrick Troughton in the role and the show won't last long before it gets cancelled. I mean it's not like this is gonna be a prelude to anything spectacular or whatever."
"Keep warm..." I know they expanded on the 1st Doctor's last words in Twice Upon a Time, but his departing words of "keep warm" always struck me with such sadness and care. A kind of knowing he was about to go, but still wanted his companions well looked after. Bless William Hartnell.
Thank you! I've been watching via Britbox. I knew some eps were missing, but I had no idea there were SO MANY! I don't even know who these 2 other companions are or what happened to Vicki & Dodo. And I sure had no idea that I wouldn't get to say goodbye to the First Doctor. This helps a bit.
Hello! It may be of interest to you that all Doctor Who audio survives. In more modern times we have some animation and telesnap reconstructions so technically you can watch “all” episodes.
I liked the Tenth Planet and the debut of the Cybermen was awesome in billions of ways and the Cybermen were intended to replace the Daleks as the recurring villains of dr who
This scene is so monumental and huge to this show and few today could understand the significance and impact this had on the program and it's 50 plus year continued existence. Without the concept of regeneration the show either would have folded up after Hartnell or they just would have replaced the actor with someone like the first Doctor and it probably would have failed. The idea of being a timelord/alien from another world that could renew himself or regenerate after a tragedy was pure genius and making the character different each time gave a new lease on the program and it never felt dull or the same.
Thank goodness for Biddy Baxter. The formidable producer of Blue Peter would not allow the erasure of any episodes and consequently saved the clips if other shows contained within them. Which is why we still have the very first regeneration scene.
ok so i can clearly tell that the scenes are rotoscoped, they traced over the live action video as a reference, if they didn't trace and rotoscope over the scenes, then the animation would have been okay. if they made the designs realistic, but still easier to animate with out rotoscopeing, then i feel like that the animations would have been much much smoother and less choppy.
There’s plenty to imply here already that the Doctor knew about regeneration or even that they have regenerated before. A case can easily be made that even this wasn’t their first face. Also, the animation reminds me of the Templar Bionicle flash animations from 2002
Well, yes, it’s like growing up amongst humans gives you a decent idea of what happens when you break your ankle and how to fix it. Doesn’t mean you’ve broken your ankle before just because you put a splint on it. Chibnall’s era is a bloody mess and you can’t pretend that his stupid ideas could be inferred from the shows past. The closest you get is during Seven’s era where there are broad hints that the Doctor is more than just a run of the mill renegade Time Lord and the incarnation of the Doctor that was Merlin- but even that doesn’t imply that the First Doctor wasn’t the First.
@@biosonic100regeneration is based on a rare gas on the planet inhabited by the Sisters of Karn, which gives them immortality. The Time Lords discovered how to make the gas in the lab and use it to regenerate, though being immortal is illegal, of course.
It always bothered me Troughton's in an entirely new set of clothes with regeneration. It wouldn't have been accurate but I wish the animated version put him in Hartnells clothes and he gets his outfit when he goes to the trunk. Would have been a nicer flow instead of a continuity error.
This was the Doctor's first regeneration (and still is as far as I'm concerned) and the implication was that the process relied on the TARDIS. The second Doctor states as much in the next story. Presumably, given that the regeneratee's physical dimensions will alter, the TARDIS is programmed to select clothes that will fit. Quite how it decided that the second doctor's clothes were a good fit is not so easily explained.
I wish all the Troughton missing episodes had been done in this style rather than what they used after The Invasion. Its so bad I can't bear to watch them even though Two is tied for my favorite. Would rather watch a series of stills. This, however, is pretty good and I like the actual stills mixed in.
first, you can see a series of stills second the invasion was the first animation they did so cut them some slack. and perhaps they’ll have another go at some point
The first words are cut out here because we don’t have actual video of them, but they were “stop! Stop! Concentrate on only one thing! One thing!” Referring to post regenerative disorientation. This is followed up immediately with “its over” as seen here
There's something so melancholy about Hartnell's last few lines here. He's always looked like an old man but he suddenly starts to show it as he reaches the end of his first life. He was supposed to have a different, slightly more dramatic last line ("I simply will not... give in!") and they obviously gave him one that was more nobly resigned in "Twice Upon a Time", but here... so sad.
@That One Guy You Walk Past yeh and it upset me. I can understand bill was ill and so but as always bbc dont give a rats ass. I used to work for them in salford before i left for itv so i understand how they treat people like any showbiz do
Do you think history repeats itself? I see resemblance with new and classic who. BBC treatment with Hartnell and Eccleston. Also with how BBC not caring anymore like in the late 80s and now when BBC uses Doctor Who for political agenda instead of being a decent sci fi show.
@@W0LV1E45 History is repeating itself more often then. The BBC treated many people badly, not the least of which were Hartnell, Eccleston, and of course, Colin Baker. Tom Baker, much like Eccleston, decided to distance himself from the show for a decade before an official return in extended media (Baker in Dimensions In Time, Eccleston in the new Big Finish audio dramas).
Issue. Hartnell is the one who retired. He quit, he wasn’t fired: the BBC did all they could for him, even giving him cue cards of his lines as his memory started to fail. He even suggested Patrick Troughton, a friend of his, as a replacement once he found out about the concept of regeneration.
Hi there my friends ,I have the full version of the tenth planet on DVD, where at the end, William Hartnell regenerates into Patrick Troughton. From J. N.
power of the daleks only exists as an animated story now, its still vert good, but treasure this, much of 10th planet 4th episode is lost, for the precious first every regeneration to still exist is very very special
I can't stand how scientifically retarded the hosts are and how they get away with doing zero research. "Edge of the universe?" A) Galaxies are not the Universe and B) they're not on the edge of the Galaxy. How does such stupidity thrive?