Doctor Who REVIEW - The Daleks in Colour | A Controversial Release. 

I didn’t enjoy how it was butchered in the editing it ripped the heart and soul out of the story, the color was fine but i thought the music was intrusive & i half expected Nick Briggs redub the Daleks voices. I'll stick with the B&W 7 part original. A excellent spot on review that perfectly summed up this release 👍

I've no problem with any colourization of any B/W media, it's very clever.

I liked it. The Dalek City Model shots were stunning, and Ibloved how vibrant everything was. But in the future they need to pick a shorter serial, and if they're gonna redesign the music, they should try to make it sound from that era. I loved the soundtrack of Daleks In Colour, but it is too modern.

I own the original Daleks in the Beginnings boxset, I’m not interested in a butchered version of a classic story. I watched the original as a kid and loved it. For me, I’ll stick with the original.

in positive news just come back from the bfi after seeing the celestial toy maker and i thoroughly enjoyed it. Animation actually worked for me after my doubts only problems for me were the mouth movements not quite syncing what they were saying or their tone. Some great new additions that I wont spoil and don’t detract from the story like they have in the past. Also spot on review me and my dad had to turn this off it was like it was mocking the original

I pre-ordered this as soon as it became available, much excitement. Then I watched on iPlayer. Pre order cancelled. It wasn’t utterly horrible I found the edit interesting, the colourisation was “meh”, I’ve seen numerous better examples on RU-vid. What tipped me over the edge was the “incidental” music, once i heard 80s style drumbeats I switched off. Very disappointed in Mark Ayres. As a whole I felt it didn’t respect the original at all. If the aim was to show how much better “old” Doctor Who could be in this day they failed abysmally. I’ll take the slower 7 ep original any day.

A very interesting video which I thank you for posting. Sci-Fi fans are an interesting bunch when it comes to technology. So many tend to overuse it and forget restraint. Simply because new technologies develop doesn't automatically mean they should be applied to all things prior. Viewers often also forget that limitations of the past often lead to greater creativity and finer work. I have not watched this DVD yet and don't know if I will. The original was great. This reminds me of so much with photography and film in general. Producers seem to think the more effects they can throw into the mixture the better the product. ‘Spectacular’ seems to always be a huge intention. But in reality, as beautiful as an environment can be it never looks like what we see in film. I never thought I would think this, but quarries have their place especially in DW. They look like a quarry, but the fact remains a quarry is REAL. This video review was interesting. Cheers.

Great review.

The daleks look more scary in black and white to colour

I have no problem with colorizing black and white episodes. That said, I'd rather see them put the time and effort into reconstruction of lost episodes.

God, they’re even trying to rewrite the original episodes now.

I think cutting it down to 2 hours rather than 75minutes and airing it as a two-parter would have served the originally better. That's still a streamlining of approx 1.5hours, which if you are targeting modern audience without much attention span you probably want to do, while allowing a little more time to immerse the audience in the environment

Haven't see you in a bit!

I have nothing particularly bad to say about the colourisation itself. But the edit? The gaudy music? Entire scenes being reduced to mere seconds so it becomes impossible to follow? No thanks. I watched it on BBC Four on broadcast, and frankly I was glad when it was over.

A better idea would be been to colorize it and edit it into a movie length version with the added features. I think the "target demographic" would be liked it better. Hell, the Peter Cushing version of the story is better than this edited monstrosity .

I think the colouring is awful, none of it looks natural, it’s too vibrant and over saturated. The edit was butchered and the new score was completely out of place, it felt like 80s music put over a 60s story at times mixed in with a bit of new series music and a tiny bit of the original score. If you want to see a concise version of The Daleks in colour done properly just watch Dr Who and The Daleks, it does a much better job at cutting the the story down, this version was just confusing and irritating to watch.

This is the one Dr. Who that should be junked out of existence this is just a butchered down version of a great classic made for people who don't respect the truth and history of it the colour doesn't work the cloister bell doesn't work Nick Briggs Dalek voice being forced in the music the edits it was a mess they should be spending their money on creating lost episodes rather than butchering a classic what's not broken don't fix.

What the BBC did was ruin a classic story. The music change was annoying and unnecessary far to loud and instead was overbearing and out of style for the era of the programme. They cut out essential parts yet continually repeated sections, I guess they never heard of just rewatching or rewinding. I have no problem with them colourising a story, I think its a great idea, I don't mind them editing out mistakes. But they should not destroy the essence of the originals. They should just stick to adding colour and nothing else. I can't believe anyone liked what they did, it was disgusting and quite frankly disrespectful. I have the originals and will stick with those having watched the colourised one on Iplayer.

Definitely yes! We need to support these in order to encourage more! 😊

I like The Daleks in Colour

It looks like someone just ran it thru an AI colorizer