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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
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
DVD features:
This DVD originally came out in 2003
as a single-disc release. This special
edition
contains
all of the content from the original DVD plus many new features. The
features
listed in italics below are new to
the Special Edition.
A 2-disc set. On Disc 1:
- Graphical
menus, episode and scene selection features, and optional subtitles for the
hearing
impaired.
- Optional commentary track no. 1 by Katy Manning (Jo)
and Producer/Director Barry Letts.
- Optional
commentary track no. 2 moderated by Toby Hadoke and
featuring actors
Cheryl Hall (Shirna),
Jennie McCracken (Clare), and Peter Halliday (Pletrac), and
sound effects
designer Brian Hodgson.
- Production Notes Subtitles.
- In the 2003
edition, there was an Extended and Deleted Scenes package, salvaged from
a surviving early
edit of episode 2. On this edition, the entire early edit of Episode 2 is
presented instead. It also includes the "
had been presented
as its own featurette on the original DVD. 30 minutes.
- Behind-the-Scenes – film footage from various
places in the studio taken during camera
rehearsals
- Five Faces of Doctor Who – a trailer from a 1981
series of repeats on BBC2 which
included Carnival of
Monsters. 4 minutes.
- Director’s amended ending – showing Barry Letts’ preferred ending to the story which
cuts around a bad bald cap on one of the alien actors. 1 minute.
- Visual Effects Test Film – raw film footage of
some of the model and puppet work used
in the story. 9
minutes.
- TARDIS-Cam No. 2 – visual effects of the TARDIS travelling through the time vortex,
originally made for use on the BBCi
website. 1 minute.
- CSO Demo – BBC training footage of Barry Letts showing how the color seperation
overlay process worked.
3 minutes.
- One Easter Egg - highlight
below here to see how to get it and what it is:
- Go into the Special Features’ menu. Stay on the first page, and arrow down to
highlight “Director's
Amended Ending”
- 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.
- The 2003 DVD had an additional Easter Egg
of the clapperboard countdown
from the start of the early edit of
Episode 2. That's now included in the full
early edit of
Episode 2 featurette on this edition, to the Easter
Egg was now
redundant and is
not on this edition.
On Disc 2:
-
Destroy All Monsters! A 23-minute
"making of" featurette with interviews with
all
the contributors to
both commentaries, plus assistant floor manager Karilyn
Collier,
and visual effects
assistant Colin Mapson.
-
On Target with Ian Marter. A 16-minute featurette
spotlighting Ian Marter, who guest
stars in this story
as Andrews and later played companion Harry Sullivan opposite Tom
Baker and Elisabeth Sladen,
with emphasis on his writing of the Target novelisations
of Doctor Who TV
stories in the 1970s and 80s. Features
interviews with writers
Terrance Dicks and Gary Russell, actors Tom
Baker, Elisabeth Sladen, Nicholas
Courtney, and Nigel Pluskitt
(Unstoffe in The Ribos Operation).
-
The A-Z of Gadgets and Gizmos. A
12-minute featurette spotlighting 26 of the strange
pieces of equipment
the classic series Doctors have worked with, each starting with a
different letter of
the alphabet.
-
Mary Celeste. An 18-minute featurette with historical experts discussing the stories
of several maritime
mysteries about ships that disappeared without trace (like the
fictional SS
Bernice does in this story) with particular attention to the Mary Celeste
which was found
abandoned and adrift in 1872.
- Photo Gallery. 3 minutes of still photos taken during production of the story.
The original edition included a "Who's Who" selection that displayed cast biographies as
text files.
These have been left off this release.
