Doctor Who Restoration Team
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The Doctor Who Restoration Team is a loose collection of Doctor Who fans, many within the television industry, who actively seek to restore damaged Doctor Who episodes.
The Restoration Team was formed in 1992 when a small group of Doctor Who fans approached the BBC's Television Archivist wanting funding for a unique project. This original project was to restore a monochrome Jon Pertwee story back to its original colour form. The results of this were so successful that the BBC Archives co-funded the Team to restore three more complete stories. Since then, the Team has expanded and has contributed to many Doctor Who projects for both BBC Television and BBC Worldwide. These include many of the final Doctor Who VHS releases and all of the DVD releases to date (of the classic series).
Releases prior to the start of the Restoration Team were often criticised for using the wrong masters: several times edited masters were used by accident instead of the original broadcast master, as with Carnival of Monsters and The Brain of Morbius on VHS. This has generally not happened since the Restoration Team became active.
Peter Finkelstone left the team in 2003.
One member, Mark Ayres, has done much of the audio restoration work for the final VHS releases, as well as many of the DVD releases, and all of the "Missing Soundtrack" CD releases since 1999. Other known team members, past and present, include:
- James Russell
- Ralph Montagu
- Steve Roberts
- Paul Vanezis, video restoration
- Richard Molesworth, research
- Peter Finklestone, designer of VidFIRE
- Steve Broster
- Richard Bignell
- Johnathan Birkett, video editing
- John Kelly
- Ed Stradling
- Jonathan Wood, video restoration
- Steven Bagley
