I just wish they would employ one animation company and keep to a consistent style. Honestly, I wish the BBC had had the budget to stick with Cosgrove Hall as The Invasion is still my favourite. Your rankings matched my own pretty perfectly!

The macra terror and the evil of the daleks are my personal favourites. The macra terror is so well animated and the evil of the daleks, while not as well animated, is still really high quality

Patrick was such an incredible Doctor. It's truly a shame than most of his stories in their entirety are forever lost. Thankfully we have the animations.

Can't believe you didn't mention the best bit of animation The table wobble in moonbase That attention to detail is incredible

My ranking of the animations 1. The Evil of the Daleks 2. The Macra Terror 3. The Moonbase 4. The Invasion 5. The Tenth Planet 6. The Faceless Ones 7. Shada 8. The Power of the Daleks 9. Fury from the Deep 10. The Ice Warriors 11. The Reign of Terror 12. The Web of Fear

I enjoy them very much, it's really cool that they bring these lost episodes back to life thru animation

I really enjoyed Evil - my first animated story since I was very unimpressed with the original power release. Thanks for summarising them

I wish the incomplete Cyberstory Wheel in Space would be animated and released on DVD, asap and that would be awesome in billions and trillions of ways and also I have the audio cd with narration by Wendy Padbury.

Just combine the top 2 rankings and I'm happy. Luckily i went home from uni for a family eventthe weekend Evil arrived from zavvi, and even my older brother and his gf (who's French and has never seen dr who) sat and watched it and got invested. Its been a favourite of mine since getting the record boxset last year, and the animation has made me love it even more.

As a Classic Who Music aficionado, hearing actual music from those stories being played always gets a smile out of me! (Like you actually used the clean released music from The Invasion! I’ve seen reviews of The Invasion where they’ve just used a KZfaq rip from the audio of the episode itself, even tho the score has been officially released!)

Admittedly, I've only seen The Tenth Planet and Power of the Daleks but from what I've seen in this video there's definitely a bunch more I'll have to add to my watchlist. Definitely agree with the ruling on Web of Fear though. Those animations just look like floppy ragdolls being loosely puppeted.

WHERE ARE YOU? ITS BEEN A YEAR SINCE YOU POSTED.

Also cheers for the unintentional shout out as well Jack. Wasn’t expecting it but it was more than welcome. Keeping doing the things that you do and all that.

I agree completely with this ranking.

That was the best outro I've ever seen- You actually got me to like the video and sub😆

The awkward ending of the video killed me! great video!

I am tickled by the idea that the Fury From The Deep relies on wide shots because of Covid, as if the animated characters are having to socially distance from each other! 😂😂

Can tell he’s about to return

There's something jarring about 60s B&W episodes in colour, and/or modern aspect ratio. Not seeking to recapture the atmosphere, trying to make it 'better'... misses the point. For me anyway. The missing episodes, even those that comprise full stories across multiple episodes, exist within a context. Trying to 'do something different' asks us to not just engage with the DW premise, which we've already agreed to, and then engage with animation of that in live-action format, but asks us to step through further layers that take all that away from the 60s into something entirely different. Context matters. I tend to rewatch seasons, or sit to 'watch the second doctor' (BIG second doctor fan here), and as someone else noted, sticking with audio and stills actually works better than most of the animation efforts to date for all the reasons noted above. But I have all the animations regardless. Because... Doctor Who.

why did you include the web of fear ps2 game on this tier list?

I think people big up The Macra Terror’s animation too much nowadays, it’s way too uncharacteristically smooth and looks like how a computer interprets human movements. Evil’s animation is simply perfection and yes I do agree with The Invasion’s also being one of da best of da best.

The Invasion is 15 years old?!

Why does the 15 year old one look basically the same as the new ones....

I just saw Power of the Daleks and was blown away. I think that’s the greatest doctor who story ever told. Wow

Imagine in 2023 the daleks master plan will get animated.

Nice review. I only have a few of these stories on DVD/Blu Ray (we get short changed in the US and most are only on DVD) so now I have an idea which to get first and save the not so good for last. 👍

I feel when when the CBBC went to their own dedicated channel the quality went downhill and we lost alot of prime quality content. This was the era when programs started going into computer based animation and we stopped having great British animation and programming which has had an effect on the quality we produce today

I completely agree with ya with the Da Best of Da Best. The animation is spot on, and of course great stories.

Web of fear looks like a Nintendo 64 game

Troughton in The Ice Warriors looks like he’s gonna ask to see the princess

I don't know of it is deliberate but I can't hear the phrase "could have been better" without thinking of young Chibnall's didn't-age-well critique of season 23. As an aside, those Ice Warrior claws predate Lego minifigures: just another example of Doctor Who did it first!

Hoping for a special edition of the underwater menace with the animation

I love all the animated story's apart from the web of fear

7:06 Plus the original footage of this particular moment exists and doesn't play out like this at all.

Roll on galaxy 4

Are they doing all the rest missing episodes? I think they should do a new season of Doctor Who where they remake missing episodes!

in my opinion i think they should do the animeish style, it seems to fit more.

good video on Animation guide any Updates on what has come out?

Do you have a link to the tier list so we can do it

Are "Don't do this" and "Let's not go there" Whose Line Is It Anyway references?

Good tier list but the colors for the positive and negative things are wrong, green should be the higher tiers. red to orange should be the bottom.

How do you rank Scream of the Shalka and the Tennant animations ? Can you do this same treatment to doctor who spinoff media ? (P.r.o.b.e, the Sontaran movies, Sil, Downtime and the Auton trilogy, etc)

Hoping that Power of the Daleks is high on this list

i feel you should have given the 2020 power of the daleks more time

I don’t know why but every time that I watch those animations I think of bojack horseman, I think k they have a similar animation

Galaxy 4 was released before Evil wasn't it? dvd wise. I'm surprised you didn't add it.

The Moonbase by far has the best a animation of the bunch.

Have the 1990's audio cassette release of Evil of the Daleks and comparing it to the blu-ray (and indeed the audio only transfer of said cassette included as a bonus feature) I 100& agree that Mark Ayres has done a fantastic job with the audio. I know they were dealing with 90's technology and probably zero budget but those three original mid-90's lost story narrated soundtrack releases (Evil of the Daleks, Tomb of Cybermern and Macra Terror) sound terrible by modern standards. I only keep them as BBC Worldwide having misplaced the master tapes they are unbelievably themselves now regarded as lost media.

What would you rank the recent release of Galaxy 4 recreation?

Have any of you seen the new one (Screened at the BFI last sat)? What are your thoughts about it?

1:46 I think its pronounced Curios

I have to disagree with you on The Macra Terror, it's tough to explain but the best way I can is, the characters seem to be constantly moving to the point that , for me, it detracts from the story. Even when standing listening, the characters seem to shrug or sway and move appendages throughout.

In animation alone I think The Moonbase is top tier, but I couldn't help but feel like the animation didn't fully line up with the audio. I can't remember the scene but two people are talking over a radio, the voices obviously indicating which character was in the room for the shot, and sometimes the animation would hold on somebody as their voice went from clear to tinny as the shot was supposed to change. I dunno, it wasn't major, but it took me out of it a bit. Still, like I said, the animation itself is amazing, I'll never be ungrateful for any of these releases

I do think they give the dalek and cybermen episodes more budget as they figure dalek and cybermen episodes sell better

Well I guess we don’t need to worry about the quality declining- Cause they just gave up on them all together

Why did they rush The power of the Daleks?

Even though it ends and incomplete. The Studio 55 is the best in animation adaptation!!!

Disliked. Unsubscribed. Flagged for Terrorism. Great video, Jack.

I love every second doctor story that has been animated up to 2022 and I the tenth planet episode 4 animated version and the shrda and 2023 the shard animated is not really good that should have not done it because the power of the daleks animated version is way better because I looks way better

Shame they can't do 3d animation with motion capture etc * I prefer the 3D, it just needs investment and refinement

3:28 What the heck is this?

Personally I really want like one original animated episode. I'd prefer it not be a gimmick episode where "The Doctor and the companion get sucked into a TV WOAAAAH", cause I feel like that's cliche, just... Make like a straightforward Doctor Who episode... but it's animated. But it actually has the budget of an average episode so some money can actually be put into the animation. Hell, that would be a good idea for the 60th. How do we include all the past Doctors if the actors are much older than they're supposed to be, or can only be played by look-alikes/sound-alikes? Make it animated. I heard that Big Finish would make visual medium stories if the actual show ever goes under, and if that happens, I hope they go the animated route instead of just making a live action show again. or like a motion comic at least, so you can save some money on the animation.

part 5?!?!?. just kidding. or maybe 😳... really though, hope you are doing well :)

In my opinion fury from the deep is the best animation ever

Hi will you be coming back to KZfaq - really enjoy ur content especially ripping into Chibnall! Would love to watch a video on ur thoughts of the power of the doctor. Please upload again :)

The frustrating thing about who production from 1963 to now is that it has always been rushed and underfunded . A particularly annoying fact because Dr Who has been the biggest earner for the BBC by a country mile , and fans have always been squeezed for every last penny ! Grrrrrr

Let's be honest, Reign of Terror / The Moonbase & Tenth Planet (all Planet 55 productions) are the best animations...🏆🥇🎖️ all the rest look way to inferior... sorry BBC, I mean I do appreciate them getting animated & am looking forward to Galaxy 4🤞🏻, but the early animations are the better... so I disagree with the guy on the video...to me the more highly detailed animations look 💯% better than the new stuff 👍🏻👾

I like that one. You know, that one?

Huh, good breakdown, thanks for this. Shame about the Web of Fear, it looks horrible

Qurios is pronounced curious

I completely agree with everything you said

I refuse to watch Hartnell and Troughtons stories in color.

Wonder why they didn't put more budget in these. Like bru h

Planet 55 kept getting better and better. They should have just completely taken over. The Macra Terror bugged me. They took liberties with a lot of the visuals, didn’t present a 4:3 option and they edited scenes out. It depends what you want from the animations, I suppose. I’m happy for them to just plug the gaps in a nice way, not win an animation award.

I really don't think the animations work in 16:9.

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