About this episode

The episode discusses the colourisation of The War Games and its recut into a TV movie format, featuring guest R. Alan Siler.

We’re joined by legendary friend-of-the-podcast R. Alan Siler as we let out a collective “WHY!?!?” at The War Games in Colour. Naturally, we look at both the colourisation itself, as well as the re-cut of the story from 10 episodes into a 90 minute TV movie – especially the highs and lows of the new material added. Join us as Julie reignites her love for Jamie, while we discuss such important matters as clips shows, the excessive blue-ness of Troughton’s shirt, bad colourisations of classic movies by TBS, why physical media continues to be King, Terrance Dicks’ original intents (and how some were ignored here), and how uncomfortable deep fake technology makes Reilly feel. Finally, Anthony goes on quite a fantastic rant about the sheer arrogance of Russell T. Davies. If you would like to watch along with us, you can get these episodes on physical media from Amazon UK (https://amzn.to/3T5oqfz) and Amazon US (https://amzn.to/4bf6wNI). Other media mentioned in this episode*: Dragonball Z – Seasons 1-9 (Amazon US: https://amzn.to/4wc0hlZ | Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/4anTRI7) Community – The Complete Series (Amazon US: https://amzn.to/3hPClB0 | Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/39hGzwz) Star…

People in this episode

Guest: R. Alan Siler

Topics covered

• colourisation
• The War Games
• physical media
• deep fake technology
• TV movie recut
• classic movies
• Doctor Who

Keywords

• The War Games
• colourisation
• Doctor Who
• physical media
• deep fake technology
• Russell T. Davies
• classic movies

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Amazon UK, Amazon US, TBS, Russell T. Davies

Books & works: The War Games in Colour, Dragonball Z, Community, Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga, Harry Potter: Complete 8-Film Collection

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