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- TARDIS-Cam No. 2 – more visual effects of the TARDIS travelling through the time vortex, originally made for use on the BBCi website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