'Shada' is an un-broadcast serial of the British TV show 'Doctor Who' from 1979. The serial was written by Douglas Adams who often worked as script editor on 'Doctor Who during the late 1970s and would later find fame after writing 'The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy', the radio show, the book and its many sequels.
The story revolves around an alien genius known as Skagra (Christopher Neame) who has taken control of an orb that can drain people's minds. He uses the orb in order to find an ancient book in the possession of an old man who is accompanied by the Doctor (Tom Baker) and the companion at the time, Romana (Lalla Ward). The book itself hold information on accessing an intergalactic prison where Skagra hopes to free one of the most powerful criminals in time and space.
The story was only partly filmed due to strikes that occurred at the time, meaning that the story has never been fully completed through live-action.
Since 1979, there have been multiple home releases. First was a VHS release which was later transferred onto DVD. It featured Tom Baker standing in and narrating the parts of the serial that had not been completed. This is the version of which I have taken my footage from for this project.
Another is a Blu-Ray/DVD release from late 2017 which featured animation to fill in the missing parts with all surviving cast members providing new material as voice actors for these parts as well as upscaled and re-edited versions of the live action footage.
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