Serial: 5Y Episode Nos. 568, 569, 570, and 571. Title: Kinda
The jungle paradise planet Deva Loka is home to a mental serpent that possesses Tegan's mind
in a dream. It then tries to foment war between the natives of the planet and the human colonization
expedition set up in a dome nearby. With the human in charge going completely insane as well,
will the Doctor be able to stop the cycle of destruction from starting?
starring Peter Davison as the Doctor, Matthew Waterhouse as Adric, Sarah Sutton as Nyssa,
and Janet Fielding as Tegan.
Written by Christopher Bailey, Produced by John Nathan-Turner, and Directed by Peter Grimwade.
Originally
transmitted from
DVD Features:
- All 4
episodes of the story, digitally remastered
and restored.
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Graphical menus, episode and scene selection features, and subtitles for
the hearing
impaired.
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Optional commentary track by actors Peter Davison, Janet Fielding, Matthew
Waterhouse,
and Nerys Hughes (Todd).
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Information Text subtitles option. Displays
pop-up production trivia throughout
the story.
-
Isolated Music option. Selecting this
will play the story with only the music soundtrack
playing.
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“Dream Time”
A 34-minute behind-the-scenes making-of featurette
which interviews
script
editors Christopher H. Bidmead, Antony
Root, and Eric Saward, writer
Christopher Bailey, director Peter Grimwade, actors Janet Fielding,
Mills (Aris),
Nerys Hughes, and Simon Rouse (Hindle),
production designer
Malcolm Thornton
and new series writer Robert Shearman.
- “Peter Grimwade – Directing
With Attitude.” A 23-minute
feature on this story’s director
featuring
interviews with the man himself (from 1987), Eric Saward,
Malcolm
Thornton, Nerys
Hughes, Janet Fielding, Christopher Bailey, story consultant
Ian Levine, production assistant
Margot Hayhoe, production secretary Jane Judge,
Editor of the novelisations
Nigel Robinson, and presented by actor Mark Strickson
(Turlough)
- Deleted and Extended Scenes. A 15-minute package of 28 deleted and
extended
scenes from
the first two episodes (which had run very long).
-
CGI Effects Option – replaces the “of it’s time” giant
snake at the end of the story with
a modern
CGI version.
-
CGI Effects Comparison – a featurette that
plays the two versions of the giant snake
sequence
side-by-side
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Trails and Continuity. A 4-minute
package of the trailers the BBC ran with the original
1982 broadcast.
-
Photo Gallery, 5
minutes of still photos taken during the production.
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PDF Materials: the Radio Times listings
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Coming Soon Trailer for the Revisitations 2
box set the UK will be getting later in the
year, which
is a bit odd as the titles in it won’t be coming out in this form in
North
