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Post #1210523

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towne32
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Doctor Who
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25-May-2018, 9:39 AM

Anakin Starkiller said:

Twitch is gonna be streaming Classic Who…most of it. Any stories with missing episodes are skipped, even if they’ve been animated, except Web of Fear, for some reason, which isn’t even animated. And they’re missing tons of Dalek stories too. So many important or enjoyable stories like The Tenth Planet, The Five Doctors, and Remembrance of the Daleks are being skipped. Oh well. At least they have The Gunslingers, which is next on my viewing list (watching the entire series), so I guess I’ll watch that live.

This is almost always the case with their streaming package. Terry Nation’s estate demands enormous amounts of money to include Dalek stories not written by Nation himself. Sadly, this includes The Five Doctors due to the 30 seconds a Dalek is on screen.

They also need to work out deals with the animating companies normally. Invasion tends to be included as it was made much earlier and with a different contract. But this one is strange, as it doesn’t even include Power of the Daleks (made recently, with streaming in mind, and available usually in streaming packages). So presumably they just don’t want to show animation.

Not sure what their plan is for Ice Warriors. It would be very strange to show that low quality animation. Maybe they’re using the old 15 minute condensed recon for episodes 2 and 3, originally made for VHS.