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Serial: PPP  Episode Nos. 334, 335, 336, and 337.  Title: Carnival of Monsters

The TARDIS lands on what appears to be a ship in the Indian Ocean in 1926, but when the ship is attacked by a dinosaur, the Doctor's suspicions are aroused.  He and Jo are in fact within a MiniScope, a technological peepshow with whole habitats of various worlds in miniature for the viewing amusement of the outside world.  The Scope and a whole planet are endangered by the political machinations of one of a race of xenophobes who wishes for his own ends to see the most ferocious creatures within released...

starring Jon Pertwee as Dr. Who and Katy Manning as Jo Grant. Written by Robert Holmes, Produced and Directed by Barry Letts.

Originally transmitted from 27 January 1973 to 17 February 1973 on BBC1.

DVD features:

- Graphical menus, episode selection features, and scene selection features.

- Optional subtitles for the hearing impared.

- Commentary track by Katy Manning (Jo) and Producer/Director Barry Letts.

- Production Notes Subtitles.

- Original 4:3 aspect ratio

- Extended and deleted scenes, salvaged from a surviving early edit of episode 2.

- Director’s amended ending – showing Barry Letts’ now-preferred ending to the story which cuts around a bad bald cap on one of the alien actors.

- Five Faces of Doctor Who – a trailer from a 1981 series of repeats on BBC2 which included Carnival of Monsters

- Delaware Opening Titles – actually this is both the opening and closing titles from that surviving early edit of episode 2 which had the experimental “Delaware”

version of the theme music on them instead of the original we’re used to. (The name comes from that of the synthesizer it was generated on.)

- Visual Effects Test Film – raw film footage of some of the model and puppet work used in the story.

- Photo Gallery – showing still photos of the production

- Behind-the-Scenes – film footage from various places in the studio taken during camera rehearsals

- TARDIS-Cam No. 2 – more visual effects of the TARDIS travelling through the time vortex, originally made for use on the BBCi website

- “Who’s Who” – detailed actor’s biographies

- CSO Demo – BBC training footage of Barry Letts showing how the color seperation overlay process worked

- Two Easter Eggs (hidden features – highlight below here to see how to get them and what they are):

Egg 1: - Go into the Special Features’ menu. Stay on the first page, and arrow down to highlight “Delaware Opening Titles”

- Press the left arrow, and a Doctor Who logo icon will appear and be highlighted. Click on it to see the Easter Egg.

- The egg is the full-length, fully restored Jon Pertwee opening title sequence without any episode credits on it.

Egg 2: - Go into the Subtitles menu. You can highlight the “Doctor Who” logo at the top of the page. Click on it and you’ll see the

30-second countdown shot of the clapboard at the start of the master tape for episode 2. (thanks to Mark A. Scott for this one)