The Evil of the Daleks - Episode 7 - Two Tele-snaps brought to life

[MrMinecrafterEXTreme]

in old news reports of the 80's (which thay still have), they show alot of fottage of the old ones that cannot be seen anymore.

[DavrosTheKaled]

I think it's such a shame that such brillantly acted amazing storylines where destroyed, all the money gone to waste...Anybody know why/how they were wiped?

[tomdamann]

@DavrosTheKaled

To re-use the tape and to save space.

[Yetaxa]

There are no telesnaps for Marco Polo ep4, Reign of Terror, Galaxy 4, Mission to the Unknown, The Myth Makers, The Daleks' Master Plan, The Massacre, The Celestial Toymaker, The Enemy of the World ep 4, The Invasion or The Space Pirates.

[Sindre1]

If it where not for this sligthly strange person taking pictures of his TV, we would not have all these recreations of the early episodes.

What a lovely man he must have been :)

[TheZodiacz]

@Sindre1 Cura wasn't strange- his business was selling the photos to people who worked in television such as set and costume designers, directors, etc, so that in pre-video recorder days they could show examples of their work to prospective employers.

[Sindre1]

@TheZodiacz Oh, it was his job?

I'm a bit disappointed about that..

[Hawkeye26]

Brilliant, as always, mindrobber.

[randomdave30]

Telesnaps don't exist for all missing episodes, notably The Space Pirates, the lost episodes of The Invasion, the fourth episode of Marco Polo and all of The Massacre, and I think the second episode of Enemy of the World.

[themirrorsofmymind]

As much as I appreciated and enjoyed the animation featured in the DVD release of Cyberman story, The Invasion, THIS has feel of time travel! It looks EXACTLY like the scenes from their first story "The Daleks", at least, what it would probably look like if the original video tapes had survived, not the dubbed film copies.

[Commandingtripod]

I only just noticed, but I see that in your colour render, all the background is grey, I thought it curious given that the Daleks are coloured, was having it a mixture of grey/black done to reduce the render times? Great work overall though.

[MrClassicDoctorWho]

whats with the slim dalek?????

[themindrobber]

Nobody seems to know. Some theories say it was built so that it could fit through normal-width doorways, but the jury is out as to whether any such scene in Evil would have needed it. Perhaps it was a precaution since they knew there would be location filming in a real house?

[GavSalkeld]

@themindrobber dalek6388 co uk has the details :)

[Grythand]

Wow! That is really amazing.

Fantastic work.

[TheOneAfter9090909]

what font did you use. great work, though, you are brilliant on the computer

[themindrobber]

That 60s font is Eurostile.

[happinesspatrol]

Gorgeous!

[android65mar]

Excellent stuff. I for some reason didn't take any notice of these telesnaps when i reconstructed this scene last year so the placement of the daleks and their shape etc was all 'wrong'. I think your recons of Evil are a lot better than the official recon of Invasion that came out of 2entertain a couple of years back.

Hopefully your day will come.

[themastercrevasse]

absolutely amazing!, if only the beeb took notice of people like you and we would then have a chance to see all the missing episodes completed!

[dbongo1977]

Excellent. The possibilities of reconstructing lost stories are getting more and more endless.

[tangerinealarm]

Excellent work.

Supposedly John Cura (or his widow) offered the BBC some of his telesnaps early on and the BBC didn't want them so many of them ended up chucked out, it was only later that DWM got a hold of some of the others. (I think)

[CommisarTeds]

amazing....

[astrofist]

You continue to amaze and delight

[exterminateallhumans]

Nice job. :-) Good to see the Wilkie Dalek getting some action.  I modelled it myself a while back but never got round to using it.

[exterminateallhumans]

Oh and a nice nod to John Cura - we owe him so much!

[dalekidea]

sure is

[OwenDWF]

yay! its been a very long tie since the last! Fantastic!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Have you ever experimented with humanoid figures?

[solidbronze]

Very nice, mate. That 'why' moment and the reaction to it is one of the greatest moments in the story, so nice to see it moving!

[Grantwebb13]

Stunning. Without John Cura, the sixties who's would be in a darker place.

[doctorwhoross]

very good recon but one of the daleks are missiong a panel, the one on the far right?!

[themindrobber]

You are joshing, of course... because if you're not, then one of us is going to look rather silly ...

[doctorwhoross]

who is right?

[themindrobber]

Please read the explanation at 1:30.

I included that text in the hope that it would prevent people from commenting on the fact that one of my Daleks is 'wrong' ...

[dalekidea]

yes.. have you not seen that dalek before ???

[doctorwhoross]

no, never

[dalekidea]

OMG!!! dude....

[dalekidea]

yeh thats the origonal dalek music

[kingfishertom]

This is great. 5 stars, faved and on playlist.

[farshnuke]

brilliant as always