Serial: 7F Episode Nos. 670, 671, 672. Title: Delta and the Bannermen
The Doctor and Melanie land at a
tollbooth and are surprised upon arrival to have won a free trip back in time
to
in 1959
for some fun in the rock 'n' roll
years, along with a scheduled party of aliens in human disguise. The tour
party hits some snags on the way, however... the least
of which
is they collide en route with a crude American satellite and crash-land at a
holiday camp in
problem is that among them is a woman named Delta who is on the run from a viscious troop of aliens called the Bannermen who
have destroyed all from her race but her, and they mean to finish the job...
starring Sylvester McCoy as the Doctor and Bonnie Langford as Melanie. Written by Malcolm Kohll,
Produced by John Nathan-Turner, and Directed by Chris Clough.
Originally
transmitted from
DVD Features:
- All three 25-minute episodes with full restoration
treatment.
- Graphical menus,
episode and scene selection features, and subtitles for the hearing impaired.
- Optional
commentary track with actors Sylvester McCoy and Sara Griffiths (Ray), script
editor
Andrew Cartmel, and director Chris
Clough.
- Information Text
subtitles option. Displays
pop-up production trivia throughout the story.
-
Episode One First Edit. This is the
first edit of the first episode compiled during the post-production
process before
all sound effects and any of the music had been added. It’s also six minutes
longer than
the final version, including several scenes that had to be trimmed before
broadcast.
- “But First This” A 6-minute segment from a 1987 BBC
magazine show that visited the production
of this story
and interviewed Sylvester McCoy, Bonnie Langford, and Ken Dodd (the Tollmaster).
- Wales Today. A
2-minute segment from a 1987 Welsh news program that also visited the
production
and talked to Sylvester McCoy,
producer John Nathan-Turner, and Stubby Kaye (Weismuller).
- Interview Rushes.
17 minutes of film footage that covers all of the interview footage that
the “But
First This” crew shot and
only took highlights of for their final item.
- “Hugh and Us” A 7-minute interview with the late
actor Hugh Lloyd (Goronwy) shortly before his
death in 1988.
- Clown Court. A
6-minute sketch comedy segment starring Noel Edmonds and Sylvester McCoy
where McCoy is put on a mock trial
for impersonating a Time Lord, and then plays a lot of
blooper footage from his acting
as evidence, most of it from this story.
- Stripped for Action.
A 22-minute featurette about the comic strip
adventures of the Seventh Doctor in
Doctor Who
Magazine featuring interviews with most of the important writers, editors,
and
artists of the period.
- Trails and Continuity.
A 3-minute compilation of the broadcast intros for
this story from 1987 on BBC1.
- Photo Gallery. An 8-minute featurette of still photos taken throughout the story.
- Coming Soon Trailer.
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Patrick
Troughton.
