skyjedi2005 said:Are all the Tom Baker episodes going to ever be remastered and released?
That was the Doctor Who i loved as a kid, the one they used to show on pbs around the mid to late 1980's.
Yes he wears a funky scarf and is dressed like a hippie, but this show was really cool when i was a kid. I used to pretend time travel based on this show, using a telephone booth because that is what the doctors time machine looked like, lol.
I still find it funny that Peter Cushing aka governor tarkin played dr who in a movie. Which i read somewhere not entirely sure that it was not canon.
Cushing is awesome in those old hammer horror films as DR Frankenstein, Van Helsing etc. Also funny how Count Dooku (Christopher Lee) played Dracula.
The DVD releases have been through various restoration processes (as were the VHS ones back in the day).
http://www.restoration-team.co.uk
They are released in a rather piece-meal fashion (you can't get all of any of the Doctor's adventures yet other than McGann and Eccleston).
There are still many missing episodes (sadly most of them from the Patrick Troughton era and I love Pat's Doctor) some of them turn up now and then.
Here is a list of what is missing (as original video though some has since been returned in other formats) :
http://www.lostshows.com./default.aspx?programme=d6488108-4abb-42c8-810e-8f98536258e5
The soundtracks for all of them exist (thanks to fans who taped them of the television back in the day) so there are fans working on animating the missing episodes :
http://www.wired.com/underwire/2008/09/who-recon/
The DVD set for The Invasion was completed with animation from Cosgrove Hall (of Dangermouse fame) and works really well.
There have been some fun attempts to add colour to some of the monochrome episodes :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YhTGyfLDU4&feature=channel_page