Ultimate black and white journey to air in color

BBC The Doctor (Patrick Troughton) and his companions, Jamie McCrimmon (Frazer Hines) and Zoe Heriot (Wendy Padbury) in colourised scene from 1969 story The War Games — Patrick Troughton’s Second Physician (centre) and his companions, Jamie (Frazer Hines) and Zoe (Wendy Padbury)

The final black and white Physician Who journey to be broadcast on TV has been remade in color.

The Struggle Video games, a 1969 10-episode epic, was the swansong for Patrick Troughton because the Second Physician.

The present has been became a 90-minute movie colourised by a staff led by fan Wealthy Tipple from Saltdean, close to Brighton, and can be screened on BBC 4 and BBC iPlayer on Monday.

Mr Tipple, who additionally labored on the colourisation of the unique Dalek story in 2023, mentioned: “I used to be past excited to be given the chance to deliver this story again to life for a contemporary viewers.”

The Struggle Video games marked the top of an period for the Second Physician (Patrick Troughton) and his companions Jamie (Frazer Hines) and Zoe (Wendy Padbury).

The trio land in a battlefield that seems to be a World Struggle One army zone. However all isn’t because it appears.

Russell T Davies, Physician Who showrunner, mentioned: “From the day I arrived again on Physician Who, this was the plan – to colourise outdated tales and produce them again to life.

“It appears to be like so vivid and new.”

Wealthy Tipple and his staff spent 12 months turning The Struggle Video games into color

Rich Tipple Rich Tipple smiling to camera wearing a pink shirt with two large monitors behind him showing a scene from the colour version of The War Games — Wealthy Tipple and his staff spent 12 months turning The Struggle Video games into color

Lead colourisation artist Wealthy Tipple and his staff spent 12 months engaged on the challenge.

He mentioned: “Some individuals discover black and white a barrier to observe.

“Making this in color is an opportunity to open it as much as an entire new viewers who can now respect how good the Sixties golden period of Physician Who was.”

The journey noticed the primary look of the Physician’s race, the Time Lords

Three Time Lords (Bernard Horsfall, Trevor Martin and Clyde Pollitt) standing in robes looking solemn — The journey noticed the primary look of the Physician’s race, the Time Lords

The Struggle Video games was filmed extensively in East Sussex areas together with Brighton, Cuckmere and Birling Hole.

Mr Tipple mentioned: “It was a pleasure to work on one thing that had such wonderful hyperlinks to the place I am from.

“It was magic to have the ability to flip areas that I am so accustomed to into vibrant color.”

The episode will characteristic the Second Physician’s never-before-seen regeneration into the Third Physician (Jon Pertwee), alongside recovered footage not seen because the unique broadcast.

The Struggle Video games airs on Monday at 21:00 GMT on BBC 4 and on BBC iPlayer.

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