At long last The Gallifreyan Newsroom can finally confirm that 50 years after its first and only UK transmission the BBC have fully animated the classic six-part 1966 Patrick Troughton story “The Power Of The Daleks”.

The animated makeover of The Power of the Daleks is based on film clips, surviving photographs and audio recordings featuring the original cast.

The six-part story was the first full outing of Patrick Troughton’s Doctor.

It will be available on 5 November at 17:50 GMT on BBC Store, 50 years to the minute after its broadcast on BBC One.

The adventure sees the newly regenerated time-traveller battling the evil Daleks with his companions Polly and Ben.

The Power of the Daleks is being produced by the same team behind the animated version of a lost Dad’s Army episode that was released on BBC Store in February.

On Saturday 5 November there will be a special screening of episodes 1-3 of Doctor Who: The Power of the Daleks at BFI Southbank, London which will also include a Q&A with Anneke Wills, Charles Norton and Frazer Hines. Further information will be available from bfi.org.uk from Monday 19 September., with a DVD release to follow on 21 November.

Charles Norton, producer and director of the black-and-white animation, said it was “the most ambitious Doctor Who archive restoration ever attempted”.

“Intelligent, suspenseful and magnificently staged, Power of the Daleks is one of the great lost classics of 1960s television,” he added.

Ben and Polly have just watched the First Doctor collapse to the floor of the TARDIS and have witnessed his change of appearance into a younger man. Polly knows that the man is the Doctor, but Ben believes he is an impostor, because the Doctor neglects to confirm nor deny his identity. The TARDIS brings the “renewed” Doctor, Ben and Polly to the planet Vulcan where, on arrival, the Doctor witnesses the murder of the examiner, a man sent from Earth to check on the human colony located on the planet. After checking the body, the Doctor discovers a badge.

A security team, led by Bragen, escorts the Doctor, Ben and Polly (pretending to be, as the security team assumes, the examiner and his party) back to the colony. The examiner was summoned by Quinn, the deputy governor, to investigate a group of rebels. The governor regards the problem with the rebels as insignificant.

Meanwhile, Lesterson, the colony’s scientist, has discovered a crashed space capsule. The Doctor goes to investigate the capsule, and after having a quick look inside, he says that is enough for one night and goes off to bed.

Later that night, Ben and Polly see the Doctor heading towards Lesterson’s laboratory and go inside the capsule. They follow, and he opens an inner compartment to find two Daleks inside. He deduces that the third Dalek is missing from the capsule. Polly, who had joined the Doctor in the capsule, along with Ben, spots a small mutant crawling across the floor which disappears into a small opening. Polly screams.

The Doctor, Ben and Polly leave the capsule to find Lesterson, who immediately starts questioning them on why they are in his lab. The Doctor says that his badge (the examiner’s badge) says that he can go anywhere in the colony. The Doctor questions Lesterson on where he has put the third Dalek; he is afraid that Lesterson might be trying to reactivate it.

Once the Doctor, Ben and Polly have left, Lesterson opens a secret compartment where he has hidden the third Dalek. He gets his helpers, Resno and Janley, to help try to reactivate the Dalek. He is successful, but in the process, the Dalek shoots Resno dead. Janley assures Lesterson that Resno will be fine, although she knows he is dead. At that point, Lesterson removes the gun stick from the Dalek.

Meanwhile, Quinn has been accused of sabotaging the communication console and summoning the examiner. Quinn is put on trial and the governor gives Quinn’s old job to Bragen. The Doctor, Ben and Polly attend Quinn’s trial, during which Lesterson arrives with the reactivated Dalek, which claims to be the colony’s servant. It is subjected to intelligence tests, the results of which astound the colonists. When the Dalek creates a computer which can detect meteorites, it is accepted without further hesitation. The Doctor remains extremely suspicious, however. When he approaches it the Dalek recognises him as the Doctor, which convinces Ben regarding who he really is.

Lesterson then reactivates the other two Daleks and removes their guns. They also claim to be the colony’s servants. The Doctor notices that there are more than three Daleks in the colony, and warns that they are breeding. This is met with incredulity as the colonists believe that the Daleks are machines.

The Doctor, Polly and Ben are imprisoned. The Doctor is seen rolling pieces of fruit along the floor, and Polly says this is the sort of behaviour that makes them wonder if he really is the Doctor. It turns out that the Doctor is checking if the fruit contains a bugging device. They manage to escape when the Doctor generates the correct tone to open the prison cell by making a partly filled wine glass chime.

One night, Lesterson goes inside the Dalek capsule and discovers that Daleks are being manufactured there. He sees an inert mutant being placed on a stand and then suddenly come to life. It is then lifted off the stand by a Dalek and placed into a Dalek base, with the top fitted to the base.

A long Dalek production line creates hundreds of Daleks; they attack the humans, and a great battle ensues. The Daleks exterminate half the colonists, but several dozens of Daleks are destroyed by laser guns. The Doctor, Ben and Polly escape imprisonment and help the humans fight what appears to be a losing battle. Governor Hensell is killed by Bragen. The Doctor finally destroys the Daleks by turning their own power source against them. Bragen is revealed to have sabotaged the communication console, and killed the real examiner. Quinn has the charges against the Doctor dropped, and Bragen is shot by Valmar after attempting to kill Quinn, who is made governor. The Doctor, Ben and Polly return to the TARDIS. An inert Dalek stands next to the TARDIS. Ben kicks it and exclaims that they will not be having any trouble with Daleks from now on. As the TARDIS dematerialises, however, the eyestalk of the nearby Dalek rises upwards.