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 try to find and restore Doctor Who episodes for release on DVD.

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 'classic series' DVD releases to date.[1]

In recent years the team's 'Doctor Who Technical Forum' has sometimes seen debate on just how far restoration should (or should not) go, with the views of some fans occasionally clashing with those of the Restoration Team. The majority of contributors to the team's forum seem generally to support the decisions made.

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
  • Peter Finklestone, designer of VidFIRE
  • Peter Crocker, Director of SVS Resources[2]
  • Steve Broster
  • Richard Bignall
  • John Kelly,
  • Ed Stradling,
  • Jonathan Wood, video restoration
  • Steven Bagley

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  1. ^ The Doctor Who Restoration Team Website
  2. ^ Regenerating an original Doctor Who | Technology | The Guardian

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