Editor Benjamin Cook and lead colourisation artist Rich Tipple discuss how they brought the Second Doctor's final adventure to modern audiences with 'The War Games in Colour' The War Games in Colour debuted on BBC iPlayer and BBC Four in December 2024, and now fans can bring home the special colourised edit of the Second Doctor 's finale in a collectible physical release. We spoke. The War Games in Colour was a colourised 90-minute re-cut and updated edition of The War Games, the seventh and final serial of season 6 of Doctor Who.
Among the changes made to the story, such as having the black and white story now be in colour and combining all ten parts into one single episode with updated music and effects, The War Games in Colour very notably replaced the sketches of. In the preview feature in Doctor Who Magazine #611, producer Phil Collinson says that one reason for the choice of The War Games was the improved quality of footage in the later 1960s stories, and indeed there's a crisp clarity here that The Daleks in Colour couldn't achieve. The last black and white Doctor Who adventure to be broadcast on TV has been remade in colour.
The War Games, a 1969 10-episode epic, was the swansong for Patrick Troughton as the Second Doctor. Doctor Who: The War Games in Colour resurrects a classic with speed, colour, and a brand new energy for a new audience. The BBC recently announced a colorization of "The War Games," the final adventure of the 2nd Doctor, Patrick Troughton, and the final Doctor Who serial to be filmed in black.
A Doctor Who serial will be receiving a fully colorized remaster and will feature the never. The 90-minute condensation of 'The War Games' made time to weave some long. The War Games has been announced as the next Doctor Who story to be colorized - complete with the first full depiction of the Second Doctor's regeneration!
Doctor Who is a British science fiction television series broadcast by the BBC since 1963. The series, created by Sydney Newman, C. E.
Webber and Donald Wilson, depicts the adventures of an extraterrestrial being called the Doctor, part of a humanoid species called Time Lords. The Doctor travels in the universe and in time using a time travelling spaceship called the TARDIS, which externally.