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Circuit Breaker - The Black Archive Files: What's the deal?

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I often talk about how much care and attention to detail goes into the Classic Series releases to convince us fans to shell out on something a lot of us have already bought at least two or three times. Then comes along a random release out of the blue that makes you ask who does this appeal to? But some unexpected new bonus material alongside some unusual and rare episode variants perhaps gives enough value to justify buying.    Circuit Breaker is the latest multi-platform event from BBC Studios, following on from Time Lord Victorious (2020) and Doom’s Day (2023). This time focusing on the mysterious Fugitive Doctor as played by Jo Martin, who has refreshingly been heavily involved with the entire range. I’ve personally not been following the story that closely, but the premise involves the Doctor teaming up with Osgood who is now working in the Black Archive as objects from the Doctor’s personal timeline have gone missing. This new Blu-ray release features 10 Doctor Who stori...
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Why The Crusade might not ever get animated.

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  When reading online discussions about the animation and The Collection ranges, one of the most common wishes from individual fans is for the BBC to animate the two missing episodes for The Crusade.   Just by animating those 2 episodes it would complete the 4 part story and the whole Season 2, enabling a complete watchable run from An Unearthly Child through to Mission to the Unknown (if you count the cut-down recons on DVD of Marco Polo and Galaxy 4 plus the brilliant UCLAN recreation of Mission to the Unknown). But sadly, it is not as simple as that. Back in the days of the DVD range, the general rule for animation was if a story requires two or less missing episodes then it might be feasible.   This rule led to the animation of missing episodes from The Reign of Terror, The Tenth Planet, The Moonbase, The Ice Warriors and The Invasion plus the animation for The Underwater Menace which was never completed. When it comes to The Crusade, the biggest ...
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