The Cybermen turn 60 this year!
(Ok so not till October... I didn't really think this through) Anyway, in colour!

#DoctorWho #Colourised #Cybermen #WilliamHartnell #AnnekeWills

A bit early for the 62nd anniversary (and very late for the 60th!) Our first look inside the TARDIS, now in colour!

Star Trek: The Original Series - Bloopers from a (very faded) 16mm print, colour corrected as much as I could!

Full version: youtu.be/FcCU5q_zA4U

#StarTrek #TheOriginalSeries #Bloopers #FadedFilm #16mm

Quatermass and the Pit: "The Enchanted"
12th January 1959

#Quatermass #NigelKneale #RudolphCartier #AndréMorell #CecLinder #Colourisation #1950s #LiveTelevision

Quatermass II: "The Food"
5th November 1955

#Quatermass #NigelKneale #RudolphCartier #Colourisation #1950s #LiveTelevision #Sequel #JohnRobinson #RupertDavies

The 1950s Quatermass serials in colour:
(And in chronological order for once!)

The Quatermass Experiment: "Persons Reported Missing"
25th July 1953

#Quatermass #NigelKneale #RudolphCartier #ReginaldTate #Colourisation #1950s #LiveTelevision

The Aztecs 2/2

The first image here (from Episode 4) demonstrates one of the difficulties with some of this early material - the highlights are so blown-out there's very little picture information for one side of Hartnell's face. I've done my best with it!

The last in this little series of colourised frames:

The Aztecs 1/2

I haven't done so many from this story as they're so fiddly to do!

The Enemy of the World 3/3

The Enemy of the World 2/3

This week's colourised frames from:

The Enemy of the World 1/3

The Sensorites 3/3

The Sensorites 2/3

This week's colourised test frames from:

The Sensorites 1/3

I've always quite liked this story, though apart from the spaceship it's probably been the hardest to create colour schemes for!

Ah I did wonder if that prop might have appeared elsewhere (tbh I didn't do an exhaustive search)

Anyway here's how it looks in those colours - though it does seem rather darker in Seeds so it may have been repainted, who knows!

The Seeds of Death 3/3

The Seeds of Death 2/3

Back to Troughton for this week's colourised stills with:

The Seeds of Death 1/3

The Chase 4/4

The Chase 3/4

The Chase 2/4

More colourised test frames, this week's story is:

The Chase! 1/4

(Just to reiterate: these are just stills colourised for my own amusement, they are not indicative of any future project official or otherwise)

Several people have asked to see more screengrabs from the new restorations on the Dr Who season 7 Bluray collection, so I’ll post some from an episode each day. Here is Silurians ep 1. Colour Recovery did not work so colour is smudgy from the NTSC Betamax off-air tape from 1977.

Initially I tried putting strong colours in the costumes since there isn't much in the sets - but with lots of characters on screen a brighter colour can indeed get distracting!
(Hence the pastel greenish colour being my main choice)

Tomb of the Cybermen 3/3

Testing different colour schemes for their anoraks

Tomb of the Cybermen 2/3

Throughout work on War Games I'd sometimes colourise frames from other stories.
Mostly for fun, but with half an eye on a possible future projects - but since there's nothing immediately forthcoming I thought I'd share!

First up: Tomb of the Cybermen 1/3

There was a lot of discussion about those curtains!

Haha fair enough!

Who's going to do the restoration work once you've retired? There can't be many other people with your knowledge & experience with this type of vintage TV material!
(Or are you hoping to have all the DW blu ray restorations done by then?!)