Thank you for asking me to create this Making Of feature! I feel very loved by all the nice comments, and so happy I could do my small part for this amazing recreation 💜 It’s nice to say “on the official channel” rather than my own! 😂

So nice to see Josh on the official Doctor Who channel

Still hard to believe that a Dalek I built at 10 with my Dad, dog-eared after a hundred charity events, would scrub up to contribute to such a great project. I had a blast operating it on set, flashing the lights in time with Nick Briggs' voice, and turning the crazy tight corners of Kembel. UCLAN have the perfect vehicle to remake lost loved TV, and with the concession of recast actors, I believe they should run with it. BBC please consider the staggering enthusiasm for this project

Could the BBC do everyone a favour and bring Josh on full time for Behind the Scenes stuff involving all things Doctor Who? His work is brilliant and I think Classic & Nu-who could both benefit from his wisdom and editing skills. :)

Excellent 'making of'. I love Josh Snares' work, and I was especially touched to hear mention of Dave Butler, who recorded the original soundtrack. Dave, who was a personal friend of mine, sadly died Xmas Eve 2017. He would have loved the remake, and his family will be particularly proud to know he's remembered in this way. Thanks Dave, for your dedication, and friendship.

Looking back on this, 5 years later, this was such an acheivement, I'm so glad we as Doctor Who fans can enjoy this episode with this high-quality recreation.

Anyone think this should get a DVD release?

Straight on it, what a phenomenal recreation, blew my mind, spot on production

I think this style of behind the scenes are what Fans want, if confidential wont come back then PLEASE LET JOSH SNARES make the behind Scenes for SERIES 13

This is just incredible, a wonderful concept carried out to perfection.

This was super insightful! Massive congrats to our old lecturer Andrew Ireland and co! So cool to get the BBC on-board to help make this happen!

What a wonderful production and a great behind the scenes documentary by Josh Snares! Loved the entire production so much and it's clear it has meant a lot to everyone involved and those who originally worked on the episode. It was a really brilliant experience! :D

Love how the smoke machine triggered the fire alarm. Reminds me of similar issues they had back in the 60's.

BBC, this NEEDS to go into your archive and be preserved forever as the DEFINITIVE copy of "Mission to the Unknown", since the original is clearly gone for good...MAKE THIS the official release version and do not EVER EVER EVER LOSE IT! 😍😍😍😍 These kids did an AMAZING job with this episode...I feel like I've just been given another new-old Doctor Who episode and I LOVE that feeling! This was terrific...update Wikipedia with a special note regarding this episode to the extent that while the original films will forever be missing, "Mission to the Unknown" now exists as a fully live-action recreation and thus considered to be a complete episode...☺☺☺☺😍😍😍😍

Sometimes, something comes along that just makes you think "Love created this".

Fantastic, loved everything about it! Now, can it be released to buy!!! 👍

Ooh, that brought tears to my eyes. Thanks, Josh for another great video.

This was absolutely incredible. Really well done to all involved! This deserves a dvd release for sure! Heck, even a steel book! 10/10 :)

A phenomenal experience to work on! Such a relief that it’s finally out and we can properly talk about it with the fans of the show and it’s so good seeing that the fan reactions are really great! This making of documentary did a really great job of capturing that crazy but amazing week!

That was done so beautifully well. Now all we need is the Dalek Masterplan featuring Nicholas Courtney, Katrina the first companion to die.

Dvd please we need this really badly the recon is amazing the actors are spot on

It was really well done. There's also a fully animated reconstruction somebody made, which I don't think was official, but that one was very impressive also.

THANK YOU everyone who worked on this. I'm so happy I get to see this and this is really wholesome what you made

As I said about this on another channel: Asomeone who was a child back in the 60's, what I really LOVE about the way this was done is how faithful it stayed to the production & filming methods of the time. The pace of the story was slower - as it needed to be with storylines having to run over 4 or 5 episodes with a 'cliff-hanger' at the end of each. It's what kept us on our toes and impatiently anticipating the next episode with excitement. You didn't try to 'modernise' it in any way, or try to speed up the telling in order that the whole story arc could be presented, feared and solved all in one 40 minute episode as it is in the episodes of today. Even the costumes of the aliens and the sets were put together in the 'cheap & shoddy' (meant with affection) way the technology and budgets of the time dictated. Watching this brought back real memories of my childhood and the nostalgia flowed through me like it hasn't done for far too long. You've made a fella who's getting old far too quickly really happy - really well done & thank you. I'm off to search now to see if you finished the story in another episode. lol

What an incredible achievement. Well done everyone.

I saw this episode when I was a kid with my Dad in 1965 we were both massive fans and it's great to see this version of the original. Thanks hope there's more well done guys. Stay lucky stay safe Mike UK.

There needs to be a Marc Cory: Space Agent spinoff for Big Finish. P.S. Marco Simoni is a rather handsome fellow...😉

I’m dying to see this but I can’t get my Who fans together just yet, might have to wait till the weekend, so hyped tho, great idea, I hope it leads to more recreations!

Amazing that the BBC is acknowledging Josh Snare's excellent talents!

Fabulous documentary as always Josh, Regards Paul.

I kinda hope that the original MIssion to the Unknown is not found. This honestly does the perfect job recreating the episode and I don't want these talented people to have their hard work forgotten about.

Amused at the junk yard reference, my Grandad had a visit from the props guys from BBC/Dr Who in that era and bought a load of stuff from his scrapyard, including oscilloscopes and stuff with switches and buttons on to be used in Dr Who, they later returned the stuff, which had been painted and used in the show.

I would love it if the Daleks' Master Plan could be recreated in a similar way somehow, perhaps even with David Bradley getting involved...probably almost as vain a hope as the complete return of the originals, but one can dream.

They should do what the students at University of Central Lancashire did and remake them. It'd be a good project for students doing drama as well as TV/film production. If you think about it properly, the drama students will get experience in doing TV work and students working in TV/film production will get first-hand experience working in that sort of environment, also it'll look good on the CV and drama students could use it as a film reel when auditioning for work. Everybody wins, experience gained and everyone's got something to watch and enjoy. Who knows, they could go round all Universities that do drama courses and see if they'd be interested.

my favorite part of the actual production is the fact they basically recreated (or at least as close as possible) how it would have been shot in the 60s

What a wonderful labour of love this is. It’s absolutely exquisite and we need more of these.

I do remember. The Vargas scared me to death with their shivering and spikes and I remember vividly asking my dad “When is Dr Who going to come on” (I.E. show up) very weird for an 8 year old. It showed 6 days after my 8th birthday. It’s still ingrained in my mind.

Josh Snares is on an official Doctor Who video! I'm so excited for him. 😃

0:34 I just love this shot. It shows how much we have from what we are missing.

Congratulations, University of Central Lancashire, for being yet another affirmation of how the fans always know what is best for Doctor Who. Thank you too, Josh, for another of your very thoughtful documentaries. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

I'd love it if Josh could be the narrator of official making of documentaries on upcoming animated stories like Fury From the Deep

This is perfect and so insightful. Thank you for bringing back this episode for us all to enjoy! :)

The project really was a labour of love and I think it's turned out beautifully! Congrats to all! Really nice to see the official Who channel getting Josh Snares to do this documentary as he really does know his stuff about the early days of Doctor Who.

That is so cool!!!! I remember seeing Dr. Who as a kid and I really didn’t understand much of it. Now as an adult, I can’t get enough of it!!!! SOS sad many of these episodes are lost or worse destroyed. Great work guys!!!!

I remember this and was 7 when it was first broadcast. Terrifying for a youngster

They all did an amazing job on this. Thank you.

Josh is the best Doctor Who youtuber out there, hands down!

I remember it as I watch it each weekend in my shed

A really well-done recreation of the original. And a really great making-of featurette by Josh. Great work all around.

They did amazing job

They could do one of these every couple of years, I’m sure the fans love it and the students have a great time

Superb. Shocked to discover the Dalek ship scene was achieved with model work. (Not something you could always say about the Hartnell era...).

Thank you and Bravo for your amazing work!

Thank you for the behind the scenes. Can't wait to see what is next.

Just watched it, a marvelous production/recreation of a marvelous episode.

This was great. Peter Purves comment that you could 'feel the love' sums up the project. Loved it.

It was about time that Josh’s amazing talent as an editor and great video style was brought to something like this!

that genuinely brought a tear to my eye

Bravo! Great behind the scenes video.

Fantastic work all of you

I am actually pleased with this. It went above and beyond my expectations. It looks like the real thing but I know it isn't. If I can't see the real thing this will work nicely. I got the Ice Warriors, The Underwater Menance and a few more classic Dr Who shows on dvd with reconstructions. I have ordered a few more. I got to see as many classic Dr. Who episodes as possible. Great job guys

Did see the episode on KZfaq absolutely fantastic great work guys

Awesome recreation! Bravo!

Don't know what's cooler this behind the scenes video or the episode! Both very cool, thanks Kanye.

I think this will definitely mark the beginning of the doctor who community coming together and attempting more projects such as this weather it be creating animations of lost episodes themselves like some have already done . realizing live action audios and comics or full on acting out lost scripts in attempt to fill the gap and complete these lost episodes of this fandom we all love.Great work cant wait to see the result.

I can't thank everyone enough who was involved with this "making of" and the full remake. I have been trying to help people think of where to search for missing episodes for over 30 years. This was as close to a full recovery as we may get for these missing stories. I hope BBC and the universities allow for more of these productions. (Idea: have these recreations be a course each term. You could have masters' projects be making various parts for this. I guarantee if you asked for fans to contribute a few quid/dollars/euros to a section of the university's endowment to make these, you would be inundated with contributions from fans like me.)

What a brilliant piece of work. Well done all.

They did a FANTASTIC job!!!

I really hope they find all the lost sixties episodes one day! 🙏 There’s only 97 left to find. But still well done to these guys for recreating a classic. 👏

Really interesting to see the behind the scenes of this. I so wish my uni had done something like this project.

Congratulations!!! Geat job. I love it

Loves this video! Bring back josh snares please

They could do multiple verisions using this. Colour, widescreen (probably) and a mix where they try and mix the original audio in syncing it up with the actors (if at all possible). Really brilliant remake

I've just watched this episode. I love it.

Now being a film student I love making all kinds of things but working on something like this would be a dream 👌

The remake of Mission to the Unknown looks amazing.

absolutely canonical

This was excellent. Definitely felt like a 60's episode. Hopefully we will see more like this.

1:34 9th October 1965 was also John Lennon's 25th birthday. In the week following The Beatles went back into the studio to begin recording 'Rubber Soul'.

Great Work Guys!

Amazing work, and really glad to see this and the recreation on the official Doctor Who Channel! Maybe inclusion in a future 'The Collection' Blu-Ray? Great job everyone! :)

what a fantastic idea! I would have gone for color though

I love the recreation

Really interesting and well done all. I admit to remembering the original episode vividly and yes absolutely I was behind the sofa for most of it. I had nightmares for weeks after about the Vargas - though I had forgotten that was their name!! 54 years!!!! Bloody hell!

Yessss, go Josh!!! And well done everybody on this recreation!!!

THANK YOU.

Heck yes Dalek Cutaway. I remember that episode! I watched the lost episode's audio. All the lost ones have surviving audio recorded by fans at home, and they were set to any surviving images or promo clips by a production company called Loose Canon. And I was born in 1990. But I watched them all! If anyone is interested in the history of the lost episodes, look up Ian Levine. We owe a lot to him. The history of this show is inspiring and fascinating.

i said it on the actual episode too but can these guys please just recreate ALL the missing episodes? this was INCREDIBLE and so well done. i bet david bradley would love to come on and reprise his role while helping students learn what goes into acting and production

*FANTASTIC!*

I did watch this episode! I was 6 -and you have the plant infection just right! Genius!

Truly amazing!

Amazing. What an achievement!

I NEED MORE PLEASE

this is amazing!

This is awesome !

BBC do this instead of animation!!!! It was so cool watching it done 1960s style loved it! Well done to the students and everyone involved you smashed it!

They did a fantastic job.

This is amazing

I have watched Mission to the Unkown with the recon episodes, can't wait for this remake!

VARGANS ARE SOOOO FLUFFY