Five Doctor Who serials to remake

The BBC has just released publicity stills for their Lost Sitcoms project. It's a great idea. Basically, over the 1960s and 1970s the BBC Archive became over-stuffed with recordings of the broadcaster's television and radio programs and had to make room. Repeats of old programs were comparatively rare, and rights-wise they were complicated to approve, and on top of matters home video was not really a commercial concern of any kind. Seeing no great worth in keeping everything, the BBC started junking old recordings to make space.

The result of this action is that today, when historical television programs are highly valued, there are numerous gaps in old and well-loved shows. What The Lost Sitcoms is doing is remaking select episodes of famous BBC sitcoms with entirely new casts and crews but retaining the original scripts verbatim. Series featured include Hancock's Half Hour, Steptoe and Son, and Till Death Do Us Part.

Of course the thing is that if the BBC can undertake this project with their old sitcoms, there is every chance they could undertake it with dramatic works as well - and what BBC drama series is more famous, or has more notable gaps in its history than Doctor Who? So let us assume the BBC gives that a go, and remakes a single 1960s Doctor Who serial with the original script but a new cast: which serial would we nominate to return? Here are my top five picks.