I feel with animations due to the style changing every story it can be harder
I feel if maybe watched in order of release like in order of how the animations where made there is a potential way to get into it that way like the invasion is very faithful to the telesnaps I know that for sure
I stand by my answer of a time machineā¦
Or time travel back to when the Nigerian(?) company called the bbc and said we have some tapes do you want them and the receptionist never passed the message on so they apparently destroyed the tapes. So Iād go back and get that receptionist job and be that receptionist that dayā¦ Yes itād be a paradox but Iām sure itād sort itself out
I would travel to the future after the missing episodes have been recovered, then bring some copies back and turn them in for the BBC to release as newly recovered lost episodes, thus creating my own bootstrap paradox
(plus itās funny that they have a clip of half a second of a door closing, and reuse it approximately 100 times over two episodes. Thatās cinema)
I prefer recons as well I think Power of the Daleks, Celestial Toymaker, and Mission might be the only ones on rewatched Iāll watch the animation for.for to the Unknown
But most others Iāll watch any surviving episodes + recons
Mission to the Unknown doesnāt have an animation, it has a restaging done by the University of Lancaster.
I have a massive migraine lol so I think when trying to rattle through episodes my brain said reconstructed and for some reason it put it with animated while I was typing I knew something looked odd but couldnāt figure out why/what thanks
I prefer animations since I want to sit down and actually watch it and is the only way I can watch it since I donāt have any audio players. Watching an audio of one makes me feel like Iām missing out.
I mostly prefer the recons, because I want to get as good of a sense as I can of what things looked like originally - the animations change too much for my liking. When I do watch the animations, I watch them in black-and-white! 
I learned recently that one of the companies that did a few animations used rotoscoping, which Iāve always liked the look of, so Iām going to focus my missing episode purchasing on those.
@DazFlorpLebam, have you seen the Fleischer Superman shorts?
I like most of the animated stories, but it depends on the animation style of each story. I also watch some in colour and some in black and white. If episodes of the story exist I first watched the surviving episode(s) and the missing animated episodes in black and white. However I also watch at least one colour animated episode to see if I think the colour adds to the story. I think it does for Galaxy 4, so now I only watch the colour animation. I also love the colour palette used for The Macra Terror.
I did animations on my recent watch-through and I donāt think Iād do it again. In the case of the Reign of Terror and Fury From The Deep animations they actually lowered my opinion of the stories. Most of the other ones are pretty enjoyable productions but there are some liberties taken like cutting out scenes or designing brand new sets (see Galaxy Four). If I want to see a remake of a story theyāre great, if I want to see the story itself then Iām best off with the recons. With them youāre seeing everything that still exists of the story.
Usually my go to is animations if available, however, I canāt stand scenes being cut just for the budget. When an animation, like Macra, does that, Iāll reach for the retcon instead.
Thereās a fan animation. Itās about the same quality as the official animations.
Thereās a live restaging. If thereās an animation please provide a link.
There is Ian Levineās version (although the availability of that is limited) and there is also this version which came up when I searched on Youtube (along with a few other variants and short scenes):
Thanks for the link.
To be fair, I donāt know thatās the one that @bethhigdon was referring to, just what I was able to quickly search for on Youtube.
There are a lot of fan animations out there for missing episodes like Marco Polo and DMP.
I wish I were able to get into the animations a bit more. So many of them are Troughton stories though, and his magic as a performer was a series of tiny little choices, physical and vocal, which are really sort of unpredictable on a second by second basis, animation at this budget isnāt really capable of capturing him all that well. The backgrounds and colors (& monsters!) are pretty great, but the main characters so rarely work for me. The audio is the one element that remains intact, so it feels the most genuine. Telesnap recons are nice too for getting to see as much of the actual sets and costumes etc as remains, but I find static pictures and this style of animated character kind of equally a slog to get through!
