Doctor Who in Australia of the cuts now seem utterly inconsequential, and it is hard to imagine why anyone was bothered, but they stand as a testament to changing community values over the decades. In 1996, about 25 minutes worth of some very short censored black and white 16mm film clips were recovered from the National Archive vaults, snipped by the censor from a variety of 1960s episodes, these cut portions of 16mm film had not been in the hands of the ABC, and had been impounded by the Australian censors. The two Peter Cushing as Dr. Who and the Daleks films, produced by
Doctor Who and the Daleks in the Seven Keys to Doomsday the universe with the help of their crab-like slaves, the Clawrantulars. The play was directed by Mick Hughes and written by Terrance Dicks, former script editor for the Doctor Who television series. Dicks would later use some of the plot elements in his Fourth Doctor story "The Brain of Morbius". The play was actually titled "Seven Keys to Doomsday" but the additional wording regarding Doctor Who and the Daleks came into common usage due to its prominence on promotional material. In December 1981, the Buxton Drama League staged a production at the Buxton Opera House in the United Kingdom, starring