One of Doctor Who's great lost classics, 'The Power of the Daleks', has been revived and restored as an animation - but is it the first of many?

Producer and director Charles Norton and his team have created new animated visuals to accompany the surviving soundtrack of the Patrick Troughton story, which is missing from the BBC archives.

So could more reconstructions follow? There's certainly enough missing episodes (97 in all!) in the Doctor Who back catalogue...

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"We need to do see what the fans think, and how well received this is," said Paul Hembury, Executive Producer for BBC Worldwide on the 'Power of the Daleks' reconstruction.

"We know there are lots and lots of missing stories and the soundtracks are in existence for all of them, so there clearly is more that can be done, and lots and lots has been learned from this one."

Speaking at a launch for the 'Power' reconstruction, '60s Who companion Anneke Wills (Polly) named 1965's 'The Crusade', 1966's 'The Smugglers' and 1968's 'Fury from the Deep' as stories she'd like to see get the treatment.

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[Above: William Hartnell and Julian Glover in Doctor Who, 'The Crusade']

"There are certain stories that are perhaps more doable than others," cautioned Norton. "'The Crusade' is an interesting one, because it's one we're missing two episodes from. So you look at it and think, 'Two episodes? 45 minutes? We've just done two and a half hours - 45 minutes would be easy!'

"Then you actually look at 'The Crusade', as I did a few days ago, and you realise that there are 24 speaking characters and they all have multiple changes of clothes. There's lots of different costumes and sets. But I'm not saying it's impossible. Nothing's impossible."

Doctor Who: The Power of the Daleks - an all-new animation - will be released on BBC Store on Saturday, November 5 at 5.50pm and will be released to DVD on Monday, November 21.

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Watch a clip from the animated Doctor Who: The Power of the Daleks right here:

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