Great that they were able to realise the original intention to have the tentacled Nestene appear between the dishes. All very well done.

6:38 The way that Delgado's eyes were matched to the mask eyeholes in the new footage is impressive and creepy!😳

This is honestly some of the best replacement effects. Very subtle, very sympathetic to the original effects and really well matched or adjusted. I look forward to enjoying this for myself when I eventually receive my Australian release of Season 8. Well done everyone involved!

Now these are updated special effects I can get behind! No overdone CGI effects, improved yellow screen & perspectives and that Doll animation is just 😩👌

The updated troll doll is utterly chilling. They have given this series a delightful and befitting lick of paint.

My favourite part isn’t even the doll, it’s the improved green screen effects. That tiny attention to detail makes it much more immersive and with tiny improvements like that it’s less frequently reminded that you’re watching a low budget 70’s show ya know?

Out of these new effects, the creepy doll really stands out the most to me. I like how it's CGI, yet it still looks like it was animated with stop motion. It updates the effects, yet retains the charming cheapness of 70's Doctor Who.

The new doll sequence is excellent. Creepy AF and what Dr who should be. The animators have made a great job of the creepy movement.

This is the best work I've seen done on any of the rereleases, it doesn't try to fully replace the old effects, just gives them a new coat of paint that is entirely faithful to the originals. One effect that demonstrates this perfectly is the time lord materialising in, they could have easily added some cheap looking lighting effects like certain other rereleases but instead merely redo the green screen (or yellow screen or blue screen or whatever they used in this episode), they even kept the jarring opacity change at the end, a very fitting touch.

5:00 AN UPDATED CSO KITCHEN! AT LAST! Quite honestly, this is an amazing lot of effects, some of which blend in so perfectly, I don't realize the difference for a while. Well done, a much better improvement than Planet of the Daleks was.

0:53 The thing I remember most about this story is that guy slowly and methodically eating his hard boiled egg 🤣

4:57 i love how the doll speeds up as it approaches Farrell!! also i didn't realise the tin-foily Nestene in the original was supposed to be a Nestene "squid" 😁😁😁

Wow, got to say, I never thought that revoting little homunculus could be more creepy but boy was I wrong. The updated effects were just gorgeous, elevating the entire production while maintaining the 70s feel. Brilliant.

Where are they taking us? Some sort of quarry? A quarry? In 70s Who? I'm shocked!

colour temperature adjustments of the backdrops, chroma-key border adjustments, perspective adjustments. God this is really a true labor of love. It's AMAZINGLY well done! :D Even such minor subtle things can be VERY time consuming to so but i love how it's being done here. It really feels seemless.

Nice trick with the troll doll; now you've got a whole new generation of kids, who won't go to bed with their teddy bears.

Love the materialising Nestene - as the Target Novelisation says: 'Somewhere between crab, spider, and octopus'. It now looks like the cover of the book. Great work there. The troll doll is still beautifully horrid, but now unmarred by obvious CSO borders. Excellent.

8:28 I NEVER KNEW THAT WAS NESTENE OH MY GOD

Excellent work. This is how it should be done. Keep the original shots intact and just fix what didn't work. I am really looking forward to seeing Invasion of the Dinosaurs if the new effects are of this calibre.

The new effects on these sets really have been superb. 90% is stuff a casual viewer would never even know about. The appearance of the Nestene squid was a real surprise

The scenes with the doll look great! He looks more like a stop motion clay figure now, than a guy wearing a costume.

"some sort of quarry" so they're going to space then?

*OH MY SHUB-NIGGURATH THAT NESTENE IS BEAUTIFUL I LOVE IT SO MUCH*

Really happy to see that they did as much as they could to remove most of the colour bleeding and some instances improve picture quality. Making one of best Classic Who serials even better. Looking forward to seeing those techniques replicated across an eventual season 7 release, someday.

oh my goddd the replacing eyes on the mask and that one shot where they mix the cgi nestene with the cso yates are both brilliant

This looks great, the now larger doll is proper creepy. I like the new Nestine, very inkeeping with its description and the Auton spin offs.

Color Separation Overlay (ChromaKey in the USA) was such a mixed blessing. It allowed instant compositing, making previously difficult effects shots easy to do in the studio, but introduced artifacts that are obvious to everyone these days.

Bring on "Invasion of the Dinosaurs" for an effects update ! Hopefully

And to think I only watched this in black and white originally.

The Nestene in those final shots is very impressive; makes me wish there was a Doctor Who adventure involving H.P Lovecraft where the Nestene becomes the inspiration for Cthulhu.

Now THAT is how you improve old effects!

So much cso in this one and they have done a great job

Fantastic, I did hope someone would do a comparison. Didn’t expect it so quick, I’ve only watched the first two episodes so far (though I’d already had a quick nosey at the effects). The troll doll is so creepy now in it’s movement, and the giant squid a great nod to the book. But total credit for all the work put in to fixing the cso fringing, perspective shots and background focus. This is probably the most impressive restoration yet.

Thanks for this excellent comparison. Can't wait to see the full episodes myself, with what looks like one of the best upgrades yet. I really hope that when it comes to Invasion of the Dinosaurs, we'll be equally impressed!

I love the subtle changes they've made! Especially the green screen effects :D

I dunno. The New CGI troll doll is really well done and fantastically sympathetic to the existing footage, but there's something about that original version; the way it unsteadiky gets to its feet and almost seems to brush itself down... It's almost like a toddler, in a really grotesque sort of way, and all the creepier for it.

I had so many nightmares about that doll thing when I was a kid

One thing I miss on cars, the wing vents. Use to get so much air from them.

Probably my favourite restoration effects, very nicely done and unobtrusive. Nice work putting them all together- I like the approach they took with the new effects.

Nice subtle improvements to all the CSO scenes in that story. Its always been my view that they went OTT with the use of blue screen in that story. Best improvements: That monstrous plastic puppet. Looked a lot more realistic. The appearance of the octopus type thing in the final scenes. Thanks for posting.

Excellent enhancements. And this is a real classic from the best era of true Doctor Who. Well done for making it look better than ever 👍

At least you get option to watch the original version. Unlike other franchises.

I have to agree with many of the comments here. Very well done effects replacement. Subtle and not in your face or out of place, like many of the other attempts have been. A credit to the restoration team!!!

Love the improved doll FX!

The CGI doll looks great. Even creepier and a perfect realization of the original intent.

Fantastic. Loved watching some of this late Monday night. I can’t wait to watch the rest of it.

God I miss Delgado. He was taken from us far too early :(

Amazing work throughout, but particularly on the new background plates for the in-car shots. I wonder if they went back to the original locations to reshoot them in order to get them as authentic as possible? Either way, these new effects are almost perfect; refined, polished, logical, but above all sympathetic to the tone of the original show -- as it should always be! As an aside, it's criminal that such hard work has never (to date) been given a shoutout on the Blu-ray extras. I'd rather have an extra about the creation of updated special effects for all the stories that have them in place of, say, the Behind the Sofa featurettes. The same goes for the aural magic that Mark Ayres performs for the optional 5.1 mixes. The fact he can craft convincing surround mixes from a composite monaural mix is quite amazing and, again, worthy of being discussed in the extra features.

Thank you! I love these videos!

I haven't even got my copy yet and you've already made a video on it :O

The best use of updated effects (After Dalek Invasion of Earth) ever used on the DW range.

Brilliant work on the effects, they seem to be getting better every time, the blue screen work must be very time consuming to correct it.

Echoing others, whilst all of the new effects are excellent (and sympathetic, which is important), the doll is by far the best of the bunch. That, and the Nestene at the end, are probably the most anticipated!

There’s something very unsettling about the original auton doll in the way it moves that just works

Quite impressive, some of it simply done such as the color separation overlay with the background (a field) not being in sharp focus with the foreground (the doctor/brigadier etc) being in sharp focus. The octopus shaped thing on those satellite dishes was a vast improvement though

Wow, there were more changes than I realised! Great work!

Nicely done new effects. Does this mean SPEARHEAD FROM SPACE will also get an overhaul to match up to this? The infamous foam tentacles, ensnaring the gurning Doctor, may be a challenge to fix.

Great updates, Really looking forward to getting my Season 8 set. Maybe here tomorrow. If only on the Season 10 set the fixed the CSO on The Green Death instead of Planet of the Daleks

Excellent job of hiding the old CSO edges, and the new doll is as creepy as the Target novel.

The troll doll effects are incredibly better than the original! Same with the nestene creature at the end, Never even knew what it was supposed to be in the original lol altho i think the shrunk guy in the luch box looked slightly better in the original

Haven't got my copy yet but this looks like a fantastic update!

These look surprisingly good actually.

I remember this story as a young kid and was scared stiff with the doll!

The one effect they could have done better was when the Doctor and Jo were in the back of the police car and he pulled off the mask to reveal an Auton beneath. In both the original and 2021 redub its painfully obvious its an Auton with a fake mask on

Wonderful, Dan. Thank you for being so fast!👍🏼 I'm disappointed by Mrs. Farrell's CSO kitchen. I hoped they'd really go to town. 😂

Nice to see that there fixing Sco bleeding. If can do a bit off putting on certain episodes

I missed out on the Blu-Ray box set, so I'm hoping to have a separate issue of the updated Terror of the Autons as a "Special Edition" sometime in the future.

Funny thing is, when the Nestene was just a blobby glowy lump, I thought it was quite effective. When I saw the cgi, I just thought, "Why would a squid be flying?"

Wow, solid improvements all around this time. Much better then what they did with Planet of Fire.

It seems the majority of these are just smoothing out the green screen and improving the backgrounds. Quite subtle, but brilliant stuff.

Looks like great work.

All that CSO work! Great job very hopeful for a watchable version of “Underworld” now 🙂

This is godly whenever there's a remaster they always add these unnecessary extended cg scenes but this this is brilliant

Now these are the types of effects I fully support. Not knocking the attempts done with certain dvd releases in the past, but some of the prior updates actually distracted as they added effects that didn't fit seamlessly into the story. Here, it is the total opposite. These updates are so seamless you'd be hard pressed to notice them on first viewing (only the kitchen, the doll and the nestene are ones I immediately noticed). The work done to the backgrounds, improving the lighting and removing the CSO fuzziness is first rate. Great work all round and it has me excited to see what they can do in the future. They are only going to get better.

No idea how I got here... I don't mean biologically, but I mean this video? But if what I read in the description is true, are you seriously telling me I can now have a 5:1 BBC monophonic synth turned up to 11 on my system? This really is the most excellent news... THANK YOU! 🏆🇬🇧 (STRAIGHT TO AMAZON)

Well done

That doll looks legitimatly creepy

A contender for the best new effects to date

EXCELLENT!!!

5:51 is me watching basically every classic story lmao

5:52 Here we go again, Doctor Who and quarries😄

Excellently updated! Way, way better than George Lucas revisiting his original Star Wars films, especially with the Nestene creature on the satellite dishes.

The update on this story is truly terrific, there has been an incredible level of restraint so if you watched it without knowing it was a special version, you could believe it was the 1971 original - Nestene squid at the end excepted, perhaps. The CGI troll is brilliant though and doesn't look too computery at all, it just blends in so well. Brilliant brilliant work.

After watching the first episode without the updated effects, I decided to watch the other episode with them. While I respect the classic effects for what they are, I think the new effects are definitely better. Especially the puppet animation is a vast improvement.

Wow you can actually see the the nestene. Great improvement with the green screen shame I don't have a blu ray player but I do have Terror of the autons on dvd.

Classic "hide behind the sofa" Dr Who

I'm confused. I just watched all of this with the new Blu Ray & it only had the original effects. How do I watch with the new effects on?

This convinced me to get the season 8 blu ray the Remasters actually look remastered here and terror of the autons having New CGI and CSO clean up is a dream come true.

@5:52 “where are they taking us?” “some sort of quarry..” To film the next scene set on an alien planet then! LOL! And the recompositing (I think that’s the proper term) of the CSO background shots is very welcome! I’m curious where they came from as its obviously the same locations yet they are different (different wallpaper, updated equipment/furniture yet still from decades ago…it’s like they went back to the original locations and took new background insert photos…yet only a few years after the original was filmed, not recently and certainly not CGI otherwise I’d think the wallpaper, dishes, furniture would be the same, not a few years later in terms of decor.

1:40 was he meant to be flying like Mary Poppins or did they just time mess up camera zoom? XD

0:23 - That guy looks like Michael Grade.

I recently bought the Season 8 boxset and I might actually try watching Terror of the Autons with the updated effects this time around. Unlike some stories where the new stuff looks out of place, most of these additions look like they would have been possible to do in 1971 if they'd had a bit more time and the budget had been bigger.

As with Logopolis, some of these look almost as convincing as the originals.

I didn;t really like the effect of the Nestenes arriving on Earth at the end; the whole point is that they are a disembodied force of energy, with no physical form, unless they occupy and animate plastic. The original effect reflects this, the new on eis just a dodgy squid

We have the whole BBC orchestra, should I let them know we need incidental music? Nah....we have a synthesizer!

For decades I was far too embarrassed to watch this episode. The original FX were so ineptly realized. It was a rare example of an episode rendered nearly unwatchable by the abysmal production values. I am amazed at the care and effort put into this enhancement. It vaults Terror up into my “must see episodes!” Next up needs to be Planet of Dinosaurs, please!

I like that they've improved the green screens, because that's what bothered me the most about the serial, almost like a fever dream. However, effects aside, the original doll scene is always going to have a special place in my heart :)

I'm always of mixed mind when it comes to new effects -- they do look better, but it's so nice to see what was possible back then, and how they managed to put together a good show with relatively few tools. But I have to admit that matching the color balance on the CSO backgrounds is a damned blessing. It's subtle, but that was distracting even when they were broadcast.

5:00 ~ - I get they’d need to use CSO for the countryside viewed from atop a radio telescope, but why use it to convey a _kitchen?_

These effects look amazing! But unfortunately I predict that in a few years it will be compared to the special editions of the Star Wars OT.