Editing Shada (Doctor Who) (section)

===2017 animated restoration===
On 24 November 2017, an effort to complete the serial officially, using newly recorded dialogue from the original cast (using the serial's original recording engineer and audio equipment), and new animated footage to complete the missing segments, was released as a digital download; DVD and Blu-ray releases followed on 4 December that year, in Region 2.<ref>{{cite web |first=Cameron |last=McEwan |url=http://www.doctorwho.tv/whats-new/article/unfinished-fourth-doctor-classic-shada-to-be-finally-completed |title=Unfinished Fourth Doctor Classic 'Shada' To Be Finally Completed! |publisher=Doctor Who |date=10 October 2017 |access-date=10 October 2017 |archive-date=10 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171010104453/http://www.doctorwho.tv/whats-new/article/unfinished-fourth-doctor-classic-shada-to-be-finally-completed |url-status=dead }}</ref> The new sequences were animated by the same team that undertook the 2016 animated edition of the 1966 serial ''[[The Power of the Daleks]]'',<ref name="radiotimes.com"/> including director Charles Norton, with lead character art by Martin Geraghty, character shading by Adrian Salmon, props by Mike Collins, and background art by Daryl Joyce.<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Guerrier |first1=Simon |title=Story Preview: The Power of the Daleks |issue=505 |magazine=Doctor Who Magazine |date=December 2016}}</ref>

A two-disc Region 1 DVD release was originally set to be made available on 9 January 2018; this was later postponed in the US and Canada to 4 September that year.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Doctor-Shada/23830|title=Doctor Who – We've Waited This Long For 'Shada,' So What's Another...YEAR?!?!?!?!?|date=27 November 2017|access-date=28 November 2017|work=TVShowsOnDVD|first=David|last=Lambert|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201041222/http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Doctor-Shada/23830|archive-date=1 December 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B076W4DBYP |title=Doctor Who: Shada – Amazon.ca |access-date=3 December 2017 |via=Amazon}}</ref> The serial was released on 10 January 2018 in Region 4.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.jbhifi.com.au/movies-tv-shows/movies-tv-shows-on-sale/tv-sci-fi/doctor-who-shada/548100/ |title=Doctor Who – Shada |publisher=Doctor Who |access-date=4 December 2017}}</ref>

The final completed version received its US debut broadcast on 19 July 2018, on [[BBC America]], with guide data giving the episode title as "The Lost Episode" rather than "Shada".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/la-et-st-tvhighlights-20180719-story.html |title=Thursday's TV highlights: 'Doctor Who: The Lost Episode' on BBC America |last=Stockly |first=Ed |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=18 July 2018 |access-date=20 July 2018}}</ref>