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 restore Doctor Who episodes for release on a variety of formats.

The 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 monochrome recordings of a Jon Pertwee story back to their original colour form, as the originals had been lost. 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 and Blu-Ray releases to date.^[1]