I love how he ad-libbed to give the impression that the control was stiff just to tie in with the slow camera panning on the museum. People like to criticise or ridicule Hartnell for messing up his lines, but Troughton was just better at thinking on his feet and covering mistakes.
Now that was awesome. Gives an entirely new dimension to the 2nd Doctor. Wouldn't it be a dream come true to recover more missing Troughton episodes and have the ability to colorize them like this.
And Hartnell ones, too! If only they hadn’t wiped the tapes - or if the TV companies who bought them for their own bespoke audience had kept them and sent copies back to the BBC, it would be possible to enhance them and colourise them as well, so they look as if television had always filmed everything in colour, but broadcast them in black and white initially, as transmitters weren’t able to broadcast in colour - and, now, here they are, in all their glory, in full colour, looking fresher and newer than when they were fresh and new!
I always loved how it went from 1 wide shot panning back and forth, and then just pictures of all different objects. What a time to make a Television Program!
A shout out to the original set designers and builders, the Tardis's Transparent Acrylic Construction and control panel was years ahead of any other science fiction props of the Mid 1960's. To think it was done on a virtually non existent budget makes it an even more praiseworthy achievement. PS spot the nod to a Crookes radiometer (also known as a light mill) in the 'Black and White' squares. The set designer had some knowledge of Physics.
I think this is just about the best colourisation of b&w Doctor Who that I have seen... better than the official BBC colourisation of The Daleks that was shown on BBC4 last night.
Colorization sure has come a long way! I would never have guessed that was black and white if I hadn't known! The Second Doctor is one of my favourites. He's so funny!
I agree the colorization have come a long way. I mean, back in the 80's it was consider an abomination no thank to some putz colorizing classic B&W movies that looks like smeared crap.
Absolutely amazing. The colour is so good, deep and natural. Most colourised videos I have seen are not as good and look a bit wishy washy and pale. Fantastic effort
Wow, I had always thought this Dr. Who was filmed in B&W ... and then while I was watching this excerpt I thought I must have been wrong, and it must have actually been filmed in colour. It had me convinced and it was only after watching it that I scrolled down and read that you had added colour. Well, I must say that this is really an awesome colourisation job. Well done!
Brilliant work !!! I wish the BBC would consider doing this to an entire Doctor Who story - they would surely make their money out of the effort. Imagine what the original Dalek story would look like...it would give it a new lease of life...bring it on I say!
I love it. As said elsewhere, it looks like it was made in colour. They should get you to do this to all old episodes and have them as optional extras on future releases.
There is a somewhat dismissive reply from people in the Restoration Team (as was) that lone individuals can't deliver the results on time and on budget for these sort of projects. The sentiments were that doing a couple of minutes privately of *whatever* to an episode didn't scale up to doing it for a complete episode. However, it smacked rather more they seemed reluctant to let any part of a project outside of a small circle of their cronies and friends. It sounds to me like they might have had some trouble with the "Mind" 1 colourisation re: time/budget. What somebody needs to do is call their bluff by coming up with a completed colourised story ready to go, at a reasonable cost. No doubt other reasons would then be found, as happened with some of Ian Levine's projects he offered them. The other problem is that things need to start with the best-quality source material - and this isn't stuff ripped from DVDs as that has already been compressed once with MPEG2.
I grew up watching Dr Who in the 1970s in Australia. I never got to see this or the previous version of the doctor as they always repeated John Pertwees doctor the the ones that followed. Its a nice treat to see an episode I have never seen and to see it in colour.
That's spectacular! If everyone who does these small colourisations would just get together and coordinate, we might just have a full episode at some point.....
That is absolutely FANTASTIC!! I cant wait for all the old Epsiodes to be colourised which surely will be the next way the Beeb gets us to re-buy them, LOL! And I would certainly do so, sometimes I prefer B&W, but for general TV entertainment like the 60’s stories, it would just bring a whole new sense of newness and wholeness to them and make re-watching them feel like a wonderous experience! I say bring on the colourisation ASAP! :-) And your skill here is Jedi-level!!! AMAZING Jedi master Climas! :-)
I came to comment how I had no idea Patrick Troughton was on the show when they added colour but then I saw the description. You got me, this looks legit.
I don't normally like colourisation, tend to feel that if something was made to be seen in black and white, then it's probably best to view it in black and white. But I quite like this. It just looks real.
Love the seeds of death as the original six parter rather than the edited together vhs version.i found that to be long and tedious but watching it in 6 25 min episodes it's AWESOME
Those early VHS ‘make it into a movie!’ edits were _awful._ I had ‘Day of the Daleks’ and ‘Death to the Daleks’. I hated that they came in lieu of the cliffhangers. Thank God they rectified that mistake toot-sweet. Fortunately in terms of ‘The Seeds of Death’ I was able to record each episode off of the TV weekly in some early ‘90’s Sunday morning reruns, so _that_ became my de facto VHS copy, cliffhangers and titles intact!
DIRECTOR: Ok...Patrick...you need to act like the TARDIS controls are giving you trouble, you are having issues moving the camera, radar and sensors. PATRICK:...I only got the one knob to turn DIRECTOR: Really work that knob!!! PATRICK: You got it!
Thanks! Yes it's a hard call to make. I used a colour picker and grabbed the colours from the PAL 2" Ambassadors of Death tape, but believe me skin tones are harrrrd.
