The Celestial Toymaker Animation

The BBC has confirmed that the part-missing first Doctor story The Celestial Toymaker will be the next animation to be released on Blu-ray. 

The story, first shown in 1966 stars William Hartnell as the Doctor with Jackie Lane as Dodo and Peter Purves as Steven. Michael Gough plays the mysterious Toymaker, a character returning to the series this Saturday. 

Only Episode Four of the four-part story exists in the BBC archives. 

The two-disc set features all four episodes animated in colour using off-air audio recordings of the missing three episodes.

Special features include: 

Disc One

• Episodes 1-4 – Animation – Black and White
• Episodes 1-3 – Reconstruction
• Episode 4 – Original 1966 Episode newly restored
• New Audio Commentaries

Disc Two

• Episodes 1-4 – Animation – Colour
• Making The Animation
• Doctor Who Escape Room – Team First Doctor
• Sylvester McCoy Introduction for episode 4 as per the original VHS release
• Photo Gallery
• PDF Material including camera scripts

The disc is available to preorder on DVD, Blu-ray and as a Steelbook. 

The Celestial Toymaker: Animated Teaser The first game between the Doctor and the Toymaker - now fully animated! 🎲