Based on Nicola Methven and Mark Jefferies of The Mirror, an announcement that the lacking 1966 Physician Who serial, The Celestial Toymaker, is to be animated will coincide with with The Toymaker character’s imminent return to tv.
The Celestial Toymaker was the seventh serial of Season 3 of Physician Who. It launched The Toymaker, a strong being portrayed by Michael Gough who ensnares sentient beings in seemingly infantile video games rigged in his favour — together with his captives’ freedom at stake.
Solely the fourth episode of the four-part story, The Last Take a look at, exists within the BBC Archives as an incomplete 16mm black and white movie telerecording. All authentic videotape masters Sixties Physician Who episodes have been wiped and reused. Nevertheless, because of filmed copies of the masters recovered from numerous sources, many episodes have been recovered.
The Mirror’s supply mentioned, “For a lot of followers, The Celestial Toymaker is among the best Physician Who tales ever.”
Neil Patrick Harris is solid as The Toymaker within the Physician Who sixtieth anniversary particular The Giggle, which can air a while late this 12 months between November and Christmas, to coincide with the sixtieth anniversary of the primary transmission of the programme on November 23, 1963.
Physician Who will return in November 2023 with three sixtieth anniversary specials starring David Tennant because the Fourteenth Physician and Catherine Tate as companion Donna Noble titled The Star Beast, Wild Blue Yonder and The Giggle.