The Troughton Years

The UK cover

The Troughton Years was a video containing rare episodes from Patrick Troughton's time as the Doctor. It was presented by Jon Pertwee and contained the following full episodes:

• The Abominable Snowmen, Episode 2 (includes a breif edit because of a "hole" in the audio, this was restored for the DVD using syllables from nearby episodes.)
• The Enemy of the World, Episode 3
• The Space Pirates, Episode 2

as well as clips from: The Tenth Planet, The Web of Fear, The Three Doctors, The Five Doctors and The Two Doctors.

Behind the scenes

• This was the second of a series of videos produced by John Nathan-Turner intended to release rare episodes and incomplete seriels, as well as interveiws and other extras that wouldn't have seen a video release at the time.
• All British releases were handled by BBC Worldwide, Australasian releases by Polygram and American releases by CBS/Fox
• The video was classified U (in the UK) and G (in Australia).It was released on 03/06/1991 in the UK, later that year in the America and on 04/03/1992 in Australia.
• The arrangement of the Doctor Who theme used for this and succeeding Years releases was originally arranged by Keff McCulloch for the 1989 album Doctor Who: Variations on a Theme.

See also

Six similar videos were also released up to 1994, they were

• The Hartnell Years
• The Pertwee Years
• Daleks: The Early Years
• Cybermen: The Early Years
• The Tom Baker Years
• The Colin Baker Years

In 1993 the BBC refused to fund production of The Davison Years and The McCoy Years. thumb|300px|right|Part one of the links by Jon Pertwee

thumb|300px|right|Part two of the links by Jon Pertwee