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A PAIR OF
ACES AND
BBC Worldwide
They are:
Doctor Who:
Nightmare of Eden starring Tom Baker
(4
25-minute episodes, 1 DVD disc, $24.98)
Doctor Who: Dragonfire starring Sylvester McCoy
(3
25-minute episodes, 1 DVD disc, $24.98) and
Doctor Who: The Happiness Patrol starring Sylvester McCoy
(3
25-minute episodes, 1 DVD disc, $24.98)
Nightmare
of Eden was the fourth story of the series' seventeenth season in 1979.
The Doctor, Romana,
and K9 investigate a distress call from two spaceships that have
become fused together in a hyperspace collision,
a collision caused by a co-pilot under
the influence of the most addictive drug in
the galaxy.
Dragonfire was the last story of the series' 24th
season in 1987. A shopping center called
Iceworld on the frozen planet Svartos
conceals the activities of a galactic criminal
desperate to get his hands on a treasure hidden in
the planet's tunnels and guarded by a
fire-breathing dragon.
Of course, the Doctor just has to look for the treasure himself...
This story sees the departure of Bonnie
Langford as Melanie, the arrival of Sophie Aldred
as Ace, and a return guest appearance of Tony
Selby as Glitz.
The
Happiness Patrol was the second story of the series' 25th season in
1988.
The Doctor and Ace visit a future Earth
colony planet called Terra Alpha where the
inhabitants are required to be happy at all
times. Failure to be happy invites an
audition
at the Forum, a visit to the deadly
formed from the Happiness Patrol itself.
The two Seventh Doctor and Ace stories are
coming out in the
"Ace Adventures"
box set but are being released separately in
Full details of these can be found below.
UPCOMING
RELEASE CALENDAR
The
Sarah Jane Adventures: The Complete Fifth Season
(6
30-minute episodes comprising 3 stories, 1 DVD disc, $19.98)
Doctor
Who: The Seeds of Death Special Edition starring
Patrick Troughton
(6
25-minute episodes, 2 DVD discs, $34.98)
and
Doctor
Who: Resurrection of the Daleks Special Edition starring
Peter Davison
(2
50-minute episodes, 2 DVD discs, $34.98)
SJA:
The Complete Fifth Season is the final three 2-part
stories of The Sarah Jane
Adventures which aired on the BBC in the autumn of last year.
They had been shot in
2010 before Elisabeth Sladen's
tragic death, intended to form the first half of a full
season of 6 stories. With Luke away at college, Sarah takes a
young girl under her wing
called Sky, while
strange curse, and the world's most popular mobile
computer and it's genius creator
may have something alien behind them...
The
Seeds of Death Special Edition is a re-release of the fifth story of the
series'
sixth season in 1969. It came out in the
Earth in the future is entirely dependent
on a global instantaneous transportation
system called T-Mat, which leaves it very vulnerable
when the Ice Warriors attack
its Moonbase control
point for an attack on Earth.
Resurrection
of the Daleks Special Edition is a re-release of
the fourth story of the
series' twenty-first season in 1984. It came out in the
box set.
A desperate squad of Daleks lashes out by
capturing the TARDIS in a time
corridor, by plotting an invasion of Earth using
cloned duplicates, and attacking a human
space station to rescue their imprisoned
creator, Davros.
Doctor
Who: The Krotons starring
Patrick Troughton
(4
25-minute episodes, 1 DVD disc, $24.98)
and
Doctor
Who: Death to the Daleks starring Jon Pertwee
(4
25-minute episodes, 1 DVD disc, $24.98)
The Krotons is the fourth story of the series' sixth season,
from 1969.
The Doctor, Jamie, and Zoe
arrive in a poisoned wasteland nearby to the City of the
Gonds, a culture wrapped up in a
self-perpetuating slavery to their supposed
benefactors, the crystalline Krotons. It is the Day of Selection, when the
brightest
Gond students are made Companions of the Krotons, and never seen again...
With this release, every Second Doctor
story that is still complete in the BBC
archives will have been released on DVD, and every
still-existing episode from
the sixth season will have been as well.
Death
to the Daleks is the third story of the series'
eleventh season in 1974.
En route to a paradise planet, the TARDIS
is instead dragged off course to a
desolate world and drained of all power. The Doctor and Sarah meet a space
expedition from Earth marooned in similar
circumstances, and all find themselves
being forced to become allies with the latest
arrivals - a ship full of similarly
affected Daleks. With this release, all of the stories from
the eleventh season
will have been released on DVD. Also, this will "complete the set"
of Dalek
stories in the classic series. All will be available on DVD as of this one.
Doctor Who: Spearhead from Space Special Edition starring Jon Pertwee
(4 25-minute episodes, 1 DVD disc, $24.98) and
Doctor Who: The Greatest Show in the
Galaxy starring Sylvester McCoy
(4 25-minute episodes, 1 DVD disc, $24.98)
Spearhead from Space was a lot of firsts. It was the first story for the Third Doctor
and Liz Shaw, the
first appearance of the Nestene-Autons, the first
story shot in color
and entirely on
location, and the first story of the 1970 season, the series' seventh.
The Doctor's exile
to Earth begins with his landing amidst a meteorite shower.
UNIT tries to
investigate the meteorites, but finds they've mostly been mysteriously
collected and taken
somewhere. A nearby plastics company has them, and designs
to build a conquering
army of plastic mannequins from the energy found inside each.
With this release,
recent Revistation/Special Edition re-release titles, though more
are now said to be
in the works. See below for more.
The Greatest Show in the Galaxy was the last story
of the series' 25th anniversary
season in 1988-89. An advertising satellite lures the Doctor and
Ace to the Psychic
Circus
on the planet Segonax with the promise of a talent
contest. The small number
of fellow contestants
learn to their cost that circuses, and in particular their clowns,
are sinister and
creepy... and when the acts fail to entertain, deadly.
With this release,
all of the Seventh Doctor's stories will have been released on DVD.
Frequently
Asked Questions: Why are we getting these re-released Special
Editions? What are the Revisitations? Are they delaying the release of
"fresh" titles?
Answers:
Over the last two years there has been an
ongoing series in the
titles that were released very early on in the
DVD range have been seeing re-releases
in 3-story box sets called Revisitations. These re-releases include restoration that
has
been redone from scratch (using techniques
available now that weren’t 10 years ago when
they first came out) and including the sorts of
making-of featurettes that have become
standard in the rest of the range but which
weren’t in common use at the start of it.
Three of these sets have come out in the
Jon Pertwee’s
debut story Spearhead from Space and
released as part of a 2-story “Auton”
box set alongside new-to-DVD story Terror of the Autons. (
only got Terror
of the Autons all by itself). A special edition of Vengeance on Varos is
also now promised for sometime in the future, probably
near the end of the year.
It was indicated by Steve Roberts of the
Restoration Team, speaking at the Gallifrey One
convention in
but probably much less often, and one-at-a-time
(not in box sets anymore).
These re-releases had been slow to come out
in North America as we were behind the UK
in getting "fresh" titles out. They worked in the first half of 2011 to get
the new-to-DVD
titles caught up and in sync with those coming
out in the
schedules for re-releases of older titles. As of June 2011, however, the last of the
“catch-up”
titles was released, and the schedule opened up a
bit. Consequently, the first of the
Revisitations re-releases
came out in
February 2012. Three more have been released in March 2012,
another is now out in
April, and the last two of the Revisitations 2 set are set for June. That will leave only
Spearhead
from Space from the backlog and, eventually, Vengeance on Varos, which isn't
out in the
The name Revisitations is not being used
in
box sets.
Instead they will come out as individual titles with the moniker
“Special Edition”
attached to them.
These re-releases are not delaying the
release of "fresh" titles.
Anytime a fresh title
comes out in the
Indeed, in March, they were originally told
that there would be no fresh titles available,
so they scheduled all three of the Revisitations 3 titles for March, and then were later
told
that the fresh The Face of Evil would be available after all, and so they added
that and had
four titles come out in March.
As they prepare to release a Special
Edition, they are stopping “reprints” of the original
editions of those titles, which is why some of
those older titles are now becoming very hard
to order as supplies run out.
The Future
The following stories have been listed in Doctor Who Magazine as being on the
docket for
release in 2012.
The order they will be released in has now been partly revealed...
Death
to the Daleks starring Jon Pertwee
(4 episodes,
American release on July 10.)
The Krotons starring Patrick Troughton
(4 episodes,
American release on July 10.)
The
Greatest Show in the Galaxy starring Sylvester McCoy (4 episodes,
UK
release July 30, North American release on August 14.)
Planet
of Giants starring William Hartnell (3 episodes,
North
American release therefore probably Sept. 11 (not official yet))
Vengeance
on Varos Special Edition starring Colin Baker (2
45-minute episodes,
(but
not official yet))
It is also known that these next two titles
will be out in 2012, but their order isn't known
yet:
The
Reign of Terror starring William Hartnell (4
surviving episodes – 2 still missing –
The
missing episodes are being animated to the original soundtracks like as
happened with the two missing episodes of The Invasion)
Shada starring Tom Baker (6 unfinished
episodes)
After the titles listed above have come
out, there will be very few complete stories
left to release. Those remaining titles are:
The
Ambassadors of Death starring Jon Pertwee (7
episodes)
It's
known that work has been done on this fairly recently, and it could
conceivably be advanced to a 2012 release.
The
Mind of Evil starring Jon Pertwee (6 episodes)
This
and Ambassadors have wound up near
the back of the queue because they
both need extensive color restoration, which takes extra
time.
Terror
of the Zygons starring Tom Baker (4 episodes)
Steve
Roberts of the Restoration Team has said that he believes this will be
saved to be the very last classic series title to be
released.
There are also some stories that have
missing episodes, but which have more than half
of their episodes intact, and thus are
candidates to be completed with animated episodes.
It is known that at least one of these is
being worked on in at least a preliminary manner,
right now.
(which one, they haven't said) These stories are:
The
Tenth Planet starring William Hartnell (4
episodes, episode #4 is missing) and
The
Ice Warriors starring Patrick Troughton (6
episodes, episodes 2 and 3 are missing)
All the other stories with missing episodes
have what's left of them already in release
in the Lost
in Time DVD sets, and are thus
unlikely animation candidates, unless the
costs of doing animations somehow plummet.
There is, however, the special case of The Underwater Menace starring Patrick Troughton,
a 4-episode story that used to have only one
episode in existence. In December 2011,
it was revealed that episode no. 2 had just
been recovered as well, meaning that half of
that story now exists, and episode 2 isn't
already on Lost in Time. Could this now be
an animation candidate as well?
At the same time, the third episode of Galaxy 4 starring William Hartnell (a 4-episode
story) was also recovered, but as that's only
25% of that one back, it doesn't seem a
likely animation candidate. And yet, 2entertain have said they want to
see both of these
recovered episodes released on DVD in 2013.
Many ideas are being mooted for how to
release these, including a Special Edition of
Lost
in Time that could also include more commentaries than the original
had.
When plans are settled on and announced, I
will pass along the news here.
Plans to continue
the Special Edition (Revisitation)
program of re-releases have
recently been revealed, and
will be continuing even beyond the natural end of the DVD
range once all the
complete stories have been released. The
first title to be looked at
will likely be the Jon Pertwee story Inferno,
where it was felt that the picture restoration
could be improved over
what was originally released. Don't look
for this until 2013 though.
OTHER RECENT RELEASES
Doctor Who: The Dæmons starring Jon Pertwee
(5
25-minute episodes, 2 discs, $34.98)
and
Doctor Who: Carnival of Monsters Special Edition
starring Jon Pertwee
(4
25-minute episodes, 2 discs, $34.98)
Torchwood: Miracle Day starring John
Barrowman, Eve Myles, Mekhi Phifer,
Bill Pullman, Alexa Havins,
and Kai Owen.
(10 55-minute episodes, 4 discs: either
a DVD set for $49.98 or Blu-Ray for $59.98)
Doctor Who: The Face of Evil
starring Tom Baker
(4
25-minute episodes, 1 DVD disc, $24.98)
Doctor Who: The Tomb of the Cybermen Special Edition starring
Patrick Troughton
(4
25-minute episodes, 2 DVD discs, $34.98) ,
Doctor Who: The Three Doctors Special
Edition starring Jon Pertwee,
Patrick Troughton,
and William Hartnell (4 25-minute
episodes, 2 DVD discs, $34.98) and
Doctor Who: The Robots of Death
Special Edition starring Tom Baker
(4
25-minute episodes, 1 DVD disc, $24.98)
Doctor Who: The Sensorites starring William Hartnell (6 25-minute episodes, 1 DVD disc,
$24.98)
Doctor Who: The Caves of Androzani Special Edition starring Peter
Davison
(4
25-minute episodes, 2 DVD discs, $34.98) and
Doctor Who: The Doctor, the Widow and the
Wardrobe starring Matt Smith
(1
60-minute episode, 1 DVD disc for $14.98 or 1 Blu-Ray
disc for $19.98)
Doctor Who: Invasion of the Dinosaurs starring
Jon Pertwee (6 25-minute episodes,
2
DVD discs, $34.98) and
Doctor Who: The Android Invasion
starring Tom Baker (4 25-minute episodes,
1
DVD disc, $24.98)
The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Complete Fourth Season
starring Elisabeth Sladen
(12
30-minute episodes, 2 DVD discs for $29.98)
Doctor Who: The Complete Sixth Series
starring Matt Smith
(1
60-minute episode and 13 45-minute episodes
6
DVD discs for $79.98 or 6 Blu-Ray discs for $89.98)
Doctor Who: The Sixth Series, Part Two starring Matt
Smith
(6
45-minute episodes, 2 DVD discs for $24.98 or 2 Blu-Ray
discs for $29.98)
Doctor Who: Colony in Space starring Jon Pertwee
(6
25-minute episodes, 1 DVD disc, $24.98)
October 11,
2011
Doctor Who: The Talons of Weng-Chiang Special
Edition starring Tom Baker
(6
25-minute episodes, 3 DVD discs, $34.98)
and
Doctor
Who: The David Tennant Years Gift Set starring David Tennant
(26
DVD discs, $199.98)
Doctor Who: Day of the Daleks
starring Jon Pertwee
(4
25-minute episodes and a Special Edition, 2 DVD discs, $34.98)
Doctor Who: The Sun Makers
starring Tom Baker
(4
25-minute episodes, 1 DVD disc, $24.98)
and
Doctor Who: Paradise Towers starring
Sylvester McCoy
(4
25-minute episodes, 1 DVD disc, $24.98)
Doctor Who:
Series Six, Part 1 starring Matt Smith
(2
DVD discs for $24.98 or 2 Blu-Ray discs for $29.98,
7
45-minute episodes)
Doctor Who: The Gunfighters starring William Hartnell
(4
25-minute episodes, 1 DVD disc, $24.98)
Doctor Who: The Awakening starring Peter Davison
(2
25-minute episodes, 1 DVD disc, $14.98)
Doctor
Who: Frontios starring Peter Davison
(4
25-minute episodes, 1 DVD disc, $24.98)
Doctor Who: Time and the Rani
starring Sylvester McCoy
(4
25-minute episodes, 1 DVD disc, $24.98)
WARNING:
COUNTERFEIT DISCS ON EBAY
I have received multiple recent reports
from different readers of a Doctor Who
DVD counterfeiting ring. These are coming from people who have tried
buying new
series DVD sets on eBay and received these
inferior products instead. The
counterfeit
packages look like the real ones at first
glance, but upon further inspection there are
numerous changes and mistakes. They are usually also missing the description
booklets
that should come with them, and most
importantly, the picture quality on the discs is very
inferior to the real ones. The reports cover discs from all of the new
series box sets
released so far, from Chris Eccleston, David Tennant, and Matt Smith series. This link
to a youtube video I was sent: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGcbIwaefJ0&feature=related
demonstrates the differences one viewer
found in a counterfeit set of Series Three last
autumn.
The counterfeits appear to be originating
from southeast Asia. eBay has been made
aware
and at least some of the sellers accounts
have been suspended, but there may be others.
I recommend not purchasing any used DVDs
from online sources unless you know the
seller personally.
If you have been affected by counterfeit
BBC DVDs, the BBC would like to hear about it.
Please write them an email about it to this
address: antipiracy@bbc.com
MAY
RELEASES IN DETAIL
Doctor Who: Nightmare of Eden starring Tom Baker
as Doctor Who, Lalla Ward as
Romana, and David Brierley as the voice of K9.
- All 4 episodes of
the story digitally remastered and restored.
- Graphical menus, episode and scene selection features, and
subtitles for the hearing
impaired.
- Optional commentary track with a rotation of
contributors. They are actors Lalla Ward
and
Peter Craze (Costa), writer Bob Baker, visual effects designer Colin Mapson,
and make-up
designer Joan Stribling. Moderated by Toby Hadoke.
- Information Text subtitles option. Displays pop-up production
trivia throughout the story.
- The Nightmare of Television Centre. A 13-minute featurette
about the fractious making
of
this story, featuring most of the commentary track contributors as well as
assistant
floor
manager Val McCrimmon.
- Going Solo. An
8-minute interview with writer Bob Baker about how he tackled writing
for
the series on his own after 8 years of working in a partnership previously.
- The Doctor's Strange Love.
A 16-minute discussion between young professional writers
Simon Guerrier (of Big Finish Doctor
Who audios), Josie Long (British TV writer), and
Joe Lidster (from The
Sarah Jane Adventures and Torchwood)
about what they thought
of
this story.
- Ask Aspel. An 11-minute interview with
Lalla Ward from a British talk show in 1980.
- Photo Gallery. Plays 6 minutes worth of
still photos taken during the production.
- Coming Soon trailer for Dragonfire and The Happiness Patrol. 2 minutes.
- PDF Materials. Place
this disc into a computer and you can have a look at the Radio
Times billing for this story from 1979.
Doctor Who: Dragonfire starring Sylvester
McCoy as the Doctor, Bonnie Langford as
Melanie, and introducing Sophie Aldred as Ace, and guest starring Tony Selby
as Glitz.
- All 3 episodes of
the story digitally remastered and restored.
- Graphical menus, episode and scene selection features, and
subtitles for the hearing
impaired.
- Optional commentary track with a rotation of
contributors. They are actors Sophie Aldred
and
Edward Peel (Kane), director Chris Clough, writer Ian Briggs, script editor
Andrew
Cartmel,
and incidental music composer Dominic Glynn. Moderated by
Mark Ayres.
- Information Text subtitles option. Displays pop-up production
trivia throughout the story.
- Fire and
Ice. A 35-minute making-of featurette, featuring interviews with most of the
commentary
contributors, plus Sylvester McCoy.
- Deleted and
Extended Scenes. A 10-minute package of
36 deleted or trimmed scenes
from throughout
the story.
- The Doctor's Strange Love.
A 16-minute discussion between young professional writers
Simon Guerrier (of Big Finish Doctor
Who audios), Josie Long (British TV writer), and
Joe Lidster (from The
Sarah Jane Adventures and Torchwood)
about what they thought
of
this story.
- The Big Bang Theory.
A 13-minute featurette where Danny Hargreaves, the practical
effects designer
on the new Doctor Who series compares
and contrasts his work with
some of the
bigger explosions shown in the classic series.
-
Photo Gallery. Plays
5 minutes worth of still photos taken during the production.
- Isolated Music
Option. Plays the
episodes with only the incidental music track playing.
- Coming Soon
trailer for Death to the Daleks. 2 minutes.
- PDF Materials. Place
this disc into a computer and you can have a look at the Radio
Times billing for this story from 1987.
Doctor Who: The Happiness Patrol starring Sylvester McCoy as the Doctor and
Sophie
Aldred as Ace.
- All 3 episodes of
the story digitally remastered and restored.
- Graphical menus, episode and scene selection features, and
subtitles for the hearing
impaired.
- Optional commentary track with a rotation of
contributors. They are actors Sophie Aldred,
director Chris
Clough, writer Graeme Curry, script editor Andrew Cartmel,
and incidental
music
composer Dominic Glynn. Moderated by Toby Hadoke.
- Information Text subtitles option. Displays pop-up production
trivia throughout the story.
- Happiness Will Prevail.
A 24-minute making-of featurette with
interviews with most of
the
commentary contributors, plus actor David John Pope (the
- Deleted and Extended Scenes. A 23-minute package of 56 deleted or trimmed
scenes
from
throughout the story.
- When Worlds Collide.
A 46-minute featurette about how real world
politics influences
the
plots of Doctor Who stories, covering
every era in both the classic and new series.
Features script
editors Terrance Dicks and Andrew Cartmel, writers
Gareth Roberts,
Bob
Baker, and Graeme Curry, and journalist Steve O'Brien.
-
Photo Gallery. Plays
5 minutes worth of still photos taken during the production.
- Isolated Music
Option. Plays the
episodes with only the incidental music track playing.
- Coming Soon
trailer for Death to the Daleks. 2 minutes.
- PDF Materials. Place
this disc into a computer and you can have a look at the Radio
Times billing for this story from 1988.
APRIL
RELEASES IN DETAIL
Torchwood: Miracle Day starring John
Barrowman as Captain Jack Harkness, Eve Myles
as Gwen Cooper, Mekhi Phifer as Rex Matheson, Bill Pullman as Oswald Danes,
Alexa Havins as Esther Drummond, and Kai Owen as Rhys Williams.
A 4-disc release. On
all 4 discs:
- Graphical menus, episode and scene
selection features, and subtitles for the hearing
impaired.
- DTS HD Sound.
- Original 16:9 video. (High-definition on the Blu-Ray
release (1080i))
- Each episode has an extra 1-minute
introduction by John Barrowman and executive
producer Russell T. Davies
On Disc 1:
- Episode 1: The
- Optional commentary on The New World with executive producers Russell
T. Davies
and Julie Gardner.
- Five "Character Profiles" (2
minutes each), spotlighting Capt. Jack Harkness,
Gwen Cooper, Rex Matheson, Oswald Danes, and Rhys Williams.
On Disc 2:
- Episode 4: Escape to LA Episode 5: The Categories of Life Episode 6: The
Middle Men
- FX Special. A 16-minute Torchwood Declassified featurette
spotlighting the visual
effects
throughout the season.
On Disc 3:
- Episode 7: Immortal Sins Episode 8: End of the Road
- Behind the Scenes A 30-minute Torchwood Declassified featurette about
the making of
the season, featuring interviews with all the regular cast
and all the key production
personnel.
On Disc 4:
- Episode 9: The Gathering and Episode 10: The
Blood Line
- Optional commentary on The Blood Line by Russell T. Davies and
Julie Gardner
- Torchwood Motion Comic. A 28-minute animated featurette
starring John Barrowman,
Eve
Myles, and Eliza Dushku. This is all of the animated sequences from
the iPod/
iPhone/iPad video game Web of Lies that was released in
parallel with the original
broadcasts.
- Deleted Scenes. Five scenes cut from the finished shows,
totaling 8 minutes, including
some on-set material before and after each take.
Doctor Who: The Dæmons
starring Jon Pertwee as Doctor Who, Nicholas Courtney
as
Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, Roger Delgado as
the Master, Katy Manning as Jo Grant,
Richard Franklin as Captain Yates, and John Levene
as Sergeant Benton.
A 2-disc release. On
Disc 1:
-
All 5 episodes of the story digitally remastered and
restored. This story existed in the
archives as only
black-and-white film prints until 1993 when the color was restored from
US-sourced tapes recorded off-air and
released on VHS then. The same general
technique has been
applied again but this time with much more rigorous restoration and
much better
technology than was available then, resulting in a night-and-day improvement
over the VHS
version. (And Episode 4 still survived from its original 1971
master.)
-
Graphical menus, episode and scene selection features, and subtitles for the
hearing
impaired.
- Optional
commentary track that was recorded in 2003 with actors Katy Manning,
Richard Franklin, and Damaris Hayman (Miss Hawthorne),
and director Christopher Barry.
-
Information Text subtitles option. Displays pop-up production trivia throughout the story.
On
Disc 2:
-
The Devil Rides Out. A new 29-minute "making of" featurette
with interviews with
the commentary
contributors, plus script editor Terrance Dicks, producer and co-writer
Barry Letts, and assistant floor manager Sue Hedden.
-
Remembering Barry Letts. A 34-minute featurette
about the life and career of the late
Barry Letts,
featuring interviews with his actor sons Crispin and Dominic, Terrance Dicks,
his predecessor
Derrick Sherwin, and former BBC executive Ronald Marsh.
-
Location Film. 7 minutes of mute
"home movie" footage shot in the
(presumably by a
local resident) during the making of this story.
-
Colourisation Test.
25 minutes. An early stab at the recolorisation of Episode 1 is
presented in
full. (The titles are in black and white
because they knew they could
replace those at
any time from their archived masters.)
-
Tomorrow's World. A 5-minute segment
from a 1992 BBC program that spotlighted the
color restoration
applied to this story in time for its rebroadcast and VHS release then.
- Photo Gallery. 6
minutes of still photos taken during the making of the story.
-
PDF Materials. Place this disc into a
computer and you can have a look at the Radio
Times billing for this story from 1971, which included short
interviews with Katy Manning
and Jon Pertwee.
-
Coming Soon Trailer. A 2-minute trailer
for the forthcoming DVD release of Nightmare
of
Doctor Who: Carnival of Monsters Special Edition
starring Jon Pertwee as DR. WHO and
Katy Manning as Jo Grant.
This
DVD originally came out in 2003 as a single-disc release. This special edition
contains nearly 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.
MARCH'S RELEASES IN DETAIL
Doctor Who: The Tomb of the Cybermen Special Edition starring Patrick Troughton as
Dr. Who, Frazer Hines as
Jamie, and Deborah Watling as
This
DVD originally came out in 2002 as a single-disc release. This special edition
contains most 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 release. On
Disc 1:
-
All 4 episodes of the story digitally remastered and
restored. The remastering
has been
redone from scratch and now includes the VidFIRE
video-look processing that was not
used on the original DVD release.
-
Graphical menus, episode and scene selection features, and subtitles for the hearing
impaired.
-
Two optional audio commentaries.
Commentary 1 is from the original DVD release
with Frazer Hines
and Deborah Watling.
Recorded in 2001. Commentary
2 is new
and features a rotating mixture of these contributors:
Deborah Watling, Frazer Hines,
Bernard Holley (Hayden), Shirley Cooklin (Kaftan), Reg Whitehead (Cyberman),
and script editor Victor Pemberton. Moderated by Toby Hadoke.
-
Morris Barry Introduction. Plays the
3-minute introduction that Director Morris Barry
did for the 1992
VHS release of the story.
-
Title Sequence Tests. 3-1/2 minutes of
graphics footage used to form the basis of the
Troughton era
title sequence, set to an extended version of his
era's theme music.
-
Late Night Line Up. A 3-minute interview
from 1967 with BBC Visual Effects
Designer Jack Kine in the BBC's effects workshop.
-
The Final End. A little over a minute of
special effects footage from the conclusion of
the preceding
missing story The Evil of the Daleks showing some of the Dalek
civil war.
- Information Text subtitles option. Displays pop-up production
trivia throughout the story.
-
Coming Soon trailer for the DVD of The Face of Evil.
-
Audio-only trailer for the following story, The
Abominable Snowmen. This was hidden
as an Easter Egg in
the original DVD, and though it's not flagged on this one, it's not
exactly hidden
either. Simply go to the Episode Selection screen and it plays while
that menu appears.
-
1 Easter Egg.
Highlight the blank area of text below to see what is an
how to find it.
In the Special
Features menu, highlight the Title Sequence Tests option and press the
left arrow. A Doctor
Who logo will appear. Click this and
you will see the full-length
Patrick Troughton era title sequence
without any captions on it.
On
Disc 2:
-
The Lost Giants. A new 27-minute making-of documentary featuring interviews with
the commentary contributors, plus actor Michael Kilgariff (Cyberman Controller)
and
visual effects designer Peter Day.
- The Curse of the Cybermen's
Tomb. A 14-minute featurette
with actual archaelogists
tracing the ancient Egyptian origins of the story told in
Tomb of the Cybermen.
- Cybermen
Extended Edition. A 32-minute
"history of the Cybermen" made by host
Matthew Sweet tracing the Cybermen's evolution
and strategies throughout the series
up to the end of the 2010 season.
- The Magic of VidFIRE. A 6-minute featurette about the video-look restoration tool.
- Sky Ray Advert. A 30-second commercial from the 1960s for a
Doctor Who themed candy.
-
Photo Gallery. A new 3-1/2 compilation of still photos taken during production.
- PDF
Files. The Radio Times listings are
available as a .pdf file if you put the disc
into a
computer. Also available are promotional materials from the Sky Ray candy
promotion.
-
There are two features that were in the original DVD release in 2002 not
present
in this Special
Edition. One is the simple "Who's
Who" text biographies of the key
cast members. The other was a 30-minute featurette
called "Tombwatch" that
showed a panel of
the cast and crew at a convention discussing Tomb shortly after it
was rediscovered in
1992. This was left off this release as the rights could not be
re-cleared with the
footage's owner. (There was also an
Easter Egg on the 2002
version that showed
one scene with the VidFIRE processing, but as the
whole story now
has this in the
special edition, this egg was now irrelevant and left out. )
Doctor Who: The Three Doctors Special
Edition starring Jon Pertwee,
Patrick Troughton,
and William Hartnell as Dr. Who, Katy Manning as Jo Grant, Nicholas
Courtney as
Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, and John
Levene as Sergeant Benton.
This
DVD originally came out in 2003 as a single-disc release. This special edition
contains most 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 release. On
Disc 1:
-
All 4 episodes of the story digitally remastered and
restored.
-
Graphical menus, episode and scene selection features, and subtitles for the hearing
impaired.
- Optional
commentary track by actors Katy Manning and Nicholas Courtney and
producer Barry Letts.
-
Information Text subtitles option. Displays pop-up production trivia throughout the story.
- Pebble Mill at One. 21 minutes from a 1973 BBC daytime talk show
where
Doctor
Who’s 10th anniversary was spotlighted, using interviews
with BBC
visual effects
designer Bernard Wilkie, and second Doctor Patrick Troughton.
- Blue Peter
Blue
Peter which also spotlighted the series’ 10th anniversary,
featuring Jon
Pertwee showing
off the Doctor’s new alien car, and co-host
Peter Purves mentioning
his own time on the
series as Steven in the Hartnell era. (The original DVD had
only 7 minutes of
this segment.)
- “BSB
Highlights” – 10 minutes of highlights from a 1994 special Doctor Who marathon
that ran on a
satellite TV station called BSB. It features short interviews with producer
Barry Letts,
script editor Terrance Dicks, writers Bob Baker and Dave Martin,
and Third Doctor
Jon Pertwee. Later producer John
Nathan-Turner co-hosts.
- “Five
Faces of Doctor Who Trail” – an advertising trailer that was used to
promote a
series of repeats
on BBC2 in 1981, one of which was The
Three Doctors.
- BBC1 trailer. A
recreation of the original advertising trailer used in 1972 to promote
the start of The Three Doctors.
- Coming Soon Trailer for the DVD of The Face of Evil.
- PDF
Files. The Radio Times listings are
available as a .pdf file if you put the disc
into a computer.
On Disc 2:
- Happy Birthday to Who. A 23-minute featurette
about the making of the story
featuring interviews with actors Katy Manning and Stephen
Thorne (Omega),
producer Barry Letts, script
editor Terrance Dicks and co-writer Bob Baker.
Hosted by Toby Hadoke.
- Was Doctor Who Rubbish? A 14-minute featurette
where fans discuss the common
criticisms leveled at classic Doctor Who by general members
of the public and how
to refute them.
- Girls, Girls, Girls - the 1970s. A 14-minute featurette
where 1970s companion
actresses Caroline John (Liz Shaw), Katy Manning (Jo Grant),
and Louise Jameson
(Leela) discuss their roles with each other.
- Photo Gallery. 4 minutes of photo stills taken during the
production of the story.
- There are two features that were in
the original DVD release in 2002 not present
in this Special
Edition. One is the simple "Who's
Who" text biographies of the key
cast members. The other was a 30-minute featurette
called "Panopticon 1993" that
featured footage of
a Q&A session with Jon Pertwee, Katy Manning, and
Nicholas
Courtney. This footage could not be re-cleared
with the footage's owner.
Doctor Who: The Face of Evil
starring Tom Baker as Doctor Who and introducing
Louise Jameson as Leela.
-
All 4 episodes of the story digitally remastered and
restored.
-
Graphical menus, episode and scene selection features, and subtitles for the
hearing
impaired.
- Optional
commentary track with a rotation of contributors. They are actors Louise
Jameson (Leela),
Leslie Schofield (Calib), David Garfield (Neeva), Mike Elles
(Gentek), and
Harry H Fielder (Assassin), producer Philip Hinchcliffe,
and film
cameraman John McGlashan. Moderated by Toby Hadoke.
-
Information Text subtitles option. Displays pop-up production trivia throughout the story.
- Into the
Wild. A 25-minute
making-of featurette. Features interviews with producer
Philip Hinchcliffe,
director Pennant Roberts, actors Louise Jameson and Anthony
Frieze (young voice of Xoanon),
visual effects designer Mat
designer Austin
Ruddy.
- From the
Cutting Room Floor. 9 minutes of mute
16mm film trims.
- Tomorrow's
Times: The Fourth Doctor. Wendy Padbury presents 14 minutes of
press clippings
from throughout Tom Baker's era as the Doctor.
- Doctor Who
Stories: Louise Jameson. A 17-minute
interview with Louise Jameson
recorded in 2003.
- Swap Shop. A 4-1/2 minute segment from this 1977 BBC
program where Louise
Jameson was interviewed.
- Denys Fisher Toys Advert.
A 30-second ad for a 1977 Doctor
Who toy line which
included a Leela doll.
-
Photo Gallery. 6 minutes of photo stills taken during the
production of the story.
- PDF Files. The Radio Times listings are available as a .pdf file if you put the disc
into a computer. Also available are promotional materials from the Typhoo
Tea
Packet promotion.
-
Coming Soon Trailer for the forthcoming DVD of The Dæmons.
Doctor Who: The Robots of Death
starring Tom Baker as Doctor Who and Louise
Jameson as Leela.
This
DVD originally came out in 2001. This
special edition contains most of the
content from the original DVD plus many new features. The features listed in italics
below are new to the Special Edition.
-
All 4 episodes of the story digitally remastered and
restored.
-
Graphical menus, episode and scene selection features, and subtitles for the
hearing
impaired.
-
2 optional commentary tracks. Commentary
1 is from the 2001 edition with producer
Philip Hinchcliffe
and writer Chris Boucher. Commentary 2 is new and features
actors Tom Baker, Louise Jameson, and Pamela Salem (Toos), and director
Michael E. Briant.
- The Sandmine
Murders. A 32-minute making-of featurette with interviews with
actors Tom Baker, Louise Jameson, Pamela Salem, David Collings (Poul), and
Brian Croucher (Borg), producer Philip Hinchcliffe, costume designer Elizabeth
Waller, and director Michael E. Briant.
- Robophobia. A 12-minute featurette
about comparing the history of robots in the
real and fictional worlds hosted by comedian Toby Hadoke.
- Studio Sound. A
1-minute scene from the story where the natural sound on the
take is played
rather than that applied in post-production (particularly different
is the sound of the
robot's voice.) This is a shortened version of a featurette
on
the original
release that included more very poor quality studio footage that has
been left out of
this release.
-
Model Shots. An 8-minute featurette showing unused footage of the models of
the sandminer and the landscape surrounding it.
-
Studio Floor Plan. A browseable-with-your-remote
display of the original floor plans
for the sets.
-
Continuity. A 1-minute trailer used for
the original 1977 broadcast.
- Information Text subtitles option. Displays pop-up production trivia throughout
the story.
-
Coming Soon Trailer for the DVD of The Face of Evil.
- PDF
Files. The Radio Times listings are
available as a .pdf file if you put the disc
into a computer.
- There are two features that were in
the original DVD release in 2001 not present
in this Special
Edition. One is the simple "Who's
Who" text biographies of the key
cast members. The other was a 20-minute featurette
showing all of the introductions
and trailers
narrated by Howard DaSilva used in the original
Time-Life syndication
package in the
FEBRUARY'S RELEASES IN DETAIL
Doctor Who: The Sensorites
starring William Hartnell as Dr. Who, William Russell
as Ian
Chesterton, Jacqueline Hill
as Barbara Wright, and Carole Ann Ford as Susan Foreman.
-
All 6 episodes of the story digitally remastered and
restored.
-
Graphical menus, episode and scene selection features, and subtitles for the
hearing
impaired.
-
Optional commentary track by actors William Russell, Carole Ann Ford, Joe Greig
(several Sensorites), Martyn Huntley (1st
Human), and Giles Phibbs (2nd Human),
Make-Up Designer Sonia Markham, Production
Designer Raymond Cusick, and
Director Frank Cox. Moderated by Toby Hadoke.
-
Information Text subtitles option. Displays pop-up production trivia throughout the story.
-
"Looking for Peter"
A 21-minute documentary where Toby Hadoke
and Richard Bignell
get to the bottom
of who the author of this story, Peter R. Newman, was.
-
Vision On. A 7-minute interview with
Vision Mixer Clive Doig who explains his old
job's function and
how the studio gallery worked during productions.
-
Secret Voices of the Sense Sphere. 2
more minutes of Clive Doig explaining the origins
of mysterious
voices audible on the soundtrack at various points in this and other 60s
stories.
- Photo Gallery. A 5-minute compilation of stills taken during production of the
story.
-
Coming Soon Trailer. A 2-minute trailer
for the forthcoming DVDs of The Robots of
Death, The Tomb of the Cybermen,
and The Three Doctors. These came out under the
"Revisitations
3" banner in the
- PDF Materials. The Radio
Times listings are available as a .pdf file if
you put the disc
into a computer. Also available are some of Prod.
Designer Raymond Cusick's
design drawings from the original production.
Doctor Who: The Caves of Androzani Special
Edition starring Peter Davison as the
Doctor, Nicola Bryant as Peri, and introducing Colin Baker as the Doctor.
This
DVD originally came out in 2001 as a single-disc release. This special edition
contains most of the content from the original DVD plus many new features. The
features listed in italics below are
new to the Special Edition.
2 Disc Set. On Disc 1:
-
All 4 episodes of the story digitally remastered and
restored. The restoration has been
redone from scratch.
-
Graphical menus, episode and scene selection features, and subtitles for the hearing
impaired.
-
Information Text subtitles option. Displays pop-up production trivia throughout the story.
-
Optional commentary track by actors Peter Davison and Nicola Bryant, and
Director
Graeme Harper. (Recorded for the original
release in 2001.)
-
Behind the Scenes: The Regeneration. An
8-minute featurette showing behind-the-scenes
footage shot while
the regeneration scene was recorded. It's
playable either with the raw
sound from the time
or with this disc's commentary crew talking over it.
-
Behind the Scenes: Creating Sharaz Jek. A 5-minute featurette showing behind-the-scenes
footage shot during
some of Sharaz Jek's key
scenes while the late actor Christopher
Gable speaks about the role from an audio
interview he gave.
-
Deleted Scenes. Three scenes cut from the finished show. The first was present on the
original DVD
release and has an optional commentary track from the cast and Graeme
Harper. The
remaining two are new to this release and have no commentary track.
-
Trailer. An original 30-second trailer
from the 1984 broadcast.
-
News. Three different news segments
covering Peter Davison's departure from 1984,
totaling 5 minutes.
-
Isolated Music Soundtrack. Plays the entire show with only the music soundtrack playing.
- Coming Soon Trailer. A 1-minute trailer for the already released
DVD of The Seeds of
Doom.
- PDF
Materials. The Radio Times listings are
available as a .pdf file if you put the disc
into a computer.
- 1 Easter Egg. Highlight the area of blank text below to see
what it is and how to find it:
Go to the Episode Selection screen and
highlight Part One, then press the left arrow.
The Doctor Who logo in the top left will become
highlighted. Click on this and you
will see the first
four minutes of the episode playing with the
original, unrestored
opening shots of Androzani Minor where the matted-in background mountains
were
stable while the
foreground location footage wobbled as the film weaved.
On
Disc 2:
-
"Chain Reaction" A new 36-minute making-of documentary
presented by Matthew Sweet.
Features interviews with actors Peter Davison, Nicola Bryant, Martin
Cochrane (Chellak),
Robert Glenister (Salateen),
and Maurice Roëves (Stotz),
script editor Eric Saward,
director Graeme Harper, production designer John Hurst, and
incidental musician
Roger Limb.
-
Directing Who: Then and Now
A 12-minute interview with director Graeme Harper
who compares directing Doctor Who in the 1980s with
directing it in the late 2000s
on the new series. Includes behind-the-scenes footage from both eras.
- Russell Harty A 9-minute segment from Russell Harty's talk show in 1984 where he
simultaneously interviewed Peter Davison and Colin Baker.
-
Photo Gallery. A
new 5-minute featurette displaying production stills
from the story.
-
Other Notes. In the original release,
the restoration involved the replacement of a smoke
effect over some of
the location film scenes with a new one that didn't quite match the
original, and a
seamless branch point to allow the viewer to switch between the two.
This time the original effect has been
preserved and the branch point has been removed.
Also, unfortunately, a mistake happened in
the new restoration where a transition between
two scenes
originally accomplished with a dissolve effect was replaced with a simple jump
cut
instead. The original North American release (but not
the
Who list of cast biographies
that has been left out of the new one.
Doctor
Who: The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe starring
Matt Smith as the Doctor
and Claire Skinner
as Madge Arwell.
-
Available either as a standard-definition DVD or a high-definition (1080i) Blu-Ray.
-
The 60-minute episode as shown on the BBC.
-
DTS HD Surround sound on the feature and the prequel. Stereo on the "Best
of" specials.
-
Trailers for Doctor Who: The Eternity Clock (a video game coming in 2012) and for
the
Complete
Sixth Series Box Set.
-
Prequel. A
that featured on the
BBC websites in the weeks prior to broadcast.
- BBC America's "Best Of"
Specials. These were 43 minutes each and featured
American
TV, music, and comedy figures discussing
highlights from the entire series. There
are
three here:
"The Best of the Doctor," "The Best of the Companions," and
"The Best
of the
Monsters." (These seem to be
taking the place of the usual Doctor Who
Confidential special that would go on a
release like this, but that series has been cancelled
now and so there
was no special to include this time.)
-
Inside the cover is a set of 6 Doctor
Who: Worlds in Time stickers.
JANUARY'S RELEASES IN DETAIL
Doctor Who: Invasion of the Dinosaurs starring
Jon Pertwee as Doctor Who,
Elisabeth Sladen as
Sarah Jane Smith, Nicholas Courtney as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart,
Richard Franklin as Captain Mike Yates, and
John Levene as Sergeant Benton.
A
2-disc set. On Disc 1:
- All 6 episodes of the story digitally remastered and restored.
Parts 2-6 are in full color and source from the original broadcast
tapes.
Part 1's original broadcast tape no longer exists, however a black and
white film copy of
it does, and it is presented here as the default version when you play
the disc.
The Restoration Team's Color Recovery program has been applied to this
film copy,
and reasonable but imperfect color was pulled back out of the film and
is available to
watch here by turning it on from the Special Features menu.
- Graphical menus, episode and scene
selection features, and subtitles for
the hearing impaired.
- Optional commentary track by actors
Richard Franklin, Peter Miles (Prof. Whitaker),
and Terence Wilton (Mark), production designer Richard Morris, script
editor
Terrance Dicks, and director Paddy Russell. Moderated by Toby Hadoke.
(Russell appears only with Mr. Hadoke and on
parts 1, 4, and 5. Hadoke
moderates
a
mix-and-match panel of the others on the remaining episodes.)
- Information Text subtitles option. Displays pop-up production trivia throughout
the story
-
Coming Soon trailer for the forthcoming DVD of The Sensorites.
On
Disc 2:
- "People, Power, and Puppetry." A 33-minute making-of documentary hosted by
Matthew
Sweet and featuring interviews with everyone
from the commentary track as well as
archive interviews with producer Barry Letts and the Doctor himself, Jon Pertwee.
-
Deleted Scenes. 5 minutes worth of
scenes (5 in number) deleted from the final show.
-
Now and Then. Another installment of
this often-appearing DVD feature comparing
and contrasting the locations as they looked
in 1973 during shooting versus how they
look at the time of the DVD's
production. 15 minutes.
-
"Doctor Who Stories: Elisabeth Sladen Part
1" A 14-minute interview with
Elisabeth
Sladen recorded in
2003 detailing her memories of all her stories with the Third Doctor.
Future parts will appear on other
forthcoming DVDs.
-
John Levene Commentary. Mr. Levene
submitted his own solo commentary for certain
of his episodes, and 10 minutes of what he
had to say about the start of Part Five are
presented here.
-
Photo Gallery. A 6-minute compilation of
photo stills taken during the production.
-
Billy Smart's Circus.
A 2-minute segment from a 1974 circus show where Jon Pertwee
drives the Whomobile into a circus for a chat
with two children.
- PDF Materials. The Radio Times listings are available as a .pdf
file if you put the disc
into a computer. So too are two sets of artwork from the 1975 and 1977 Weetabix
Doctor Who tie-in box covers.
-
1 Easter Egg. Highlight the blank area
below to see what it is and how to find it:
Go to the
Special Features menu, highlight the Now and Then selection and press
the left
arrow. A Doctor Who logo will
appear. Select this and you will see the
30-second
countdown clock from the start of the master tape for Part Five.
Doctor Who: The Android Invasion starring Tom Baker as Doctor
Who, Elisabeth Sladen
as Sarah Jane Smith,
Ian Marter as Harry Sullivan, and John Levene as RSM
- All 4 episodes of the story,
digitally remastered and restored.
- Graphical menus, episode and scene
selection features, and subtitles for
the hearing impaired.
- Optional commentary track by actors
Milton Johns (Guy Crayford) and Martin Friend
(Styggron), producer Philip Hinchcliffe,
and production manager Marion McDougall.
Moderated by Toby Hadoke.
- Information Text subtitles option. Displays pop-up production trivia throughout
the story.
-
"The Village That Came to Life"
A 31-minute making-of where presenter Nicholas
Briggs takes on a tour around the real-life
village that stood in for Devesham in this
story.
Features interviews with real villagers who were around during the
shooting.
Also features discussions with director
Barry Letts, producer Philip Hinchcliffe,
and actors Martin Friend and Milton Johns.
- Life After Who. Producer Philip Hinchcliffe
is interviewed for 30 minutes about his
career and life after leaving Doctor Who
by none other than his own daughter
Celina Hinchcliffe,
herself now a BBC sports presenter.
- Photo Gallery. A 5-minute compilation of photo stills taken
during the production.
- Weetabix
Advert. A 30-second commercial from the
time for Dalek Weetabix.
- Coming Soon Trailer for the forthcoming DVD
of The Sensorites.
-
PDF Materials. The Radio Times listings
are available as a .pdf file if you put the disc
into a computer.
-
1 Easter Egg. Highlight the blank area
below to see what it is and how to find it:
Go to the Special Features menu and highlight the Weetabix Advert selection, then
press the right
arrow. A Doctor Who logo will
appear. Selecting this will play
8 minutes of
sound rushes from the location filming.
DECEMBER’S RELEASE IN DETAIL
The Sarah Jane
Adventures: The Complete Fourth Season starring
Elisabeth Sladen as
Sarah Jane Smith, Tommy Knight as Luke Smith,
Daniel Anthony as Clyde Langer,
Anjli Mohindra as Rani Chandra,
Alexander Armstrong as the Voice of Mr. Smith,
and John Leeson as
the Voice of K9.
The third story guest stars Matt Smith as the
Doctor and Katy Manning as Jo Jones
(nee Grant).
- 2 Discs.
On both discs, graphical menus, scene selection features, and
subtitles for the hearing impaired.
-
Disc 1 contains stories 1 – 3: The
Nightmare Man, The Vault of Secrets and
Death
of the Doctor
-
Disc 2 contains stories 4 – 6: The Empty Planet, Lost in Time and
Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith
-
There are no special features on this release, just the episodes. It’s a “vanilla” set.
-
The UK release was also made available on high-definition Blu-Ray. This is not
being done in
-
The UK release also included a bonus disc that contained Doctor Who: Pyramids of
Mars,
the 1975 story starring Tom Baker and Elisabeth Sladen. This has been
removed from the North American edition as
the additional disc would have added
significant cost,
and BBC Worldwide
NOVEMBER RELEASES IN DETAIL
Doctor Who: The Complete Sixth Series
starring Matt Smith as the Doctor, Karen Gillan
as Amy Pond, and Arthur Darvill
as Rory Williams. Guest stars Alex Kingston as River Song.
6
Discs. Available either in
standard-definition yet widescreen DVD or high-definition
(1080i)
Blu-Ray. The
disc contents are otherwise identical between the sets.
It has an outer cover, containing a
“booklet” style box within with each disc on its own
“page”
of the booklet. The booklet also has some pages detailing the
contents, and a comic-book
style page of artwork that depicts key
moments from the story arc.
On
all of the discs:
-
DTS HD 5.1 sound.
- Graphical menus, scene selection
features, and subtitles for the hearing impaired.
On
Disc 1:
-
The 2010 Christmas Special, A Christmas
Carol. 62 minutes.
-
A Christmas Carol Confidential. Full 56-minute length making-of-the-show
documentary.
-
Comic Relief Sketches: Space (4
minutes) and Time (3 minutes). These are mini-episodes
made for the annual Comic Relief charity
telethon featuring the main stars, and the problems
that arise when the TARDIS materializes
inside itself.
On
Disc 2:
-
Episodes 1 – 3 of the 2011 series.
These are The Impossible
Astronaut, Day of the Moon,
and The Curse of the Black Spot.
- Commentary track for The
Impossible Astronaut featuring Arthur Darvill,
Producer Marcus
Wilson, and Line Producer (US)
David Mason.
-
Monster File – The Silence. An
11-minute featurette spotlighting the Silence
monsters.
-
Prequels. These appeared on the BBC
website in advance of the broadcast of Episodes 1
and 3
and run 1-2 minutes long. The first
features President Nixon receiving a mysterious
phone call in the Oval Office. The other is a diary entry by Captain Avery
about the
circumstances that have befallen his pirate
ship.
On
Disc 3:
-
Episodes 4 - 6 of the 2011 series. These
are The Doctor’s Wife, The Rebel Flesh, and
The
Almost People.
-
Commentary track for The Doctor’s
Wife featuring writer Neil Gaiman.
-
Commentary track for The Rebel Flesh featuring
actors Marshall Lancaster (Buzzer),
Mark Bonnar
(Jimmy), and Director Julian Simpson.
-
Monster File – The Gangers. A
13-minute featurette spotlighting the Gangers.
-
“Night and the Doctor” These
are a set of 4 mini-episodes exclusive to this set, never before
seen on television. They are:
-
“Bad Night” (4 minutes) where Amy catches the Doctor off
having adventures on his
own while she and Rory sleep at
“night” in the TARDIS.
-
“Good Night” (5
minutes) where Amy and the Doctor have a heart-to-heart about the
conflicting memories she has about the
two different timelines she’s lived in.
-
“First Night” (2
minutes) where we see the first time the Doctor broke River Song out
of Stormcage
Prison for a night out on the universe.
-
“Last Night” (4
minutes) where the Doctor takes River out three times over, and
discovers the tragedy of one of those
times.
On
Disc 4:
-
Episodes 7 – 10 of the 2011 series.
These are A Good Man Goes to War,
Let’s Kill Hitler,
Night
Terrors, and The Girl Who Waited.
-
Commentary track for A Good Man Goes to
War featuring actors Arthur Darvill, Neve
McIntosh (Madame Vastra),
and visual FX supervisor Tim Barter.
-
Monster File – The Anti-Bodies. A
9-minute featurette spotlighting the antibody robots
from
Let’s
Kill Hitler.
-
Prequels. More from the BBC
website. Again 1-2 minutes long, and
there are two here, one
for A
Good Man Goes to War where the Headless Monks make a purchase from Dorium, and
one for Let’s
Kill Hitler where Amy leaves a message for the Doctor on the TARDIS asking
if he’s found her daughter yet.
On
Disc 5:
-
Episodes 11 – 13 of the 2011 series.
These are The God Complex, Closing Time, and
The
Wedding of River Song.
-
Commentary track for The Wedding of River
Song featuring Writer and Executive Producer
Steven Moffat, actress Francis Barber
(Madame Kovarian), and Director Jeremy Webb.
-
Monster File – the Cybermats. A 10-minute featurette
spotlighting the Cybermats seen in
Closing
Time.
-
Prequel. A 1-minute prequel from the BBC
website for The Wedding of River Song
where
the ominous children’s rhyme plays
over scenes from the episode.
-
“Night and the Doctor – Up All Night.” One more 2-minute scene from this series,
although
this one looks more like an unused website
prequel. It goes with Closing Time
and features
Craig, Daisy, and baby Alfie
in their kitchen just before Daisy leaves for the weekend.
-
Trailers (2). The 1-minute long each
trailers that previewed the two halves of the season on
the BBC.
On
Disc 6:
-
Doctor Who Confidential Cut-Down. These
are abbreviated versions of the Doctor
Who
Confidential
documentary series that accompanied each episode on BBC3 straight after
BBC1 transmission. (The series has just been cancelled as well,
so this is the last set we’ll
see these on.)
-
The episodes are: 1) “Coming to
America” (14 minutes), 2) “Breaking the Silence” (11 min),
3) “Ship Ahoy!” (12 min), 4)
“Bigger on the Inside” (12 min), 5) “Double Trouble”
(14 min),
6) “Take Two” (12 min), 7)
“The Born Identity (9 min), 8) “River Runs Wild” (13 min),
9) “About a Boy” (14 min), 10)
“What Dreams May Come” (11 min), 11) “Heartbreak
Hotel” (9 min), 12) “Open All
Hours (13 min), 13) “When Time Froze” (9 min), and
14) “The Night’s Tale”
(15 minutes).
-
That last one, “The Night’s Tale,” is exclusive to this set
and has never been broadcast on
television.
It spotlights, with Director Richard Senior, the making of the mini-specials
that
appear elsewhere on this set.
Frequently
Asked Question: What are the differences
between the “vanilla” versions of the
sixth
series episodes that were released earlier and what’s on this set?
Answer: Everything that was on the vanilla releases
is also present on this set, with one
exception. The standalone release of A Christmas Carol contained the
57-minute Doctor Who
at the Proms special of concert Doctor Who music from the Royal Albert
Hall in the summer
of
2010. That is not present on this
set.
Doctor Who: Colony in Space starring Jon Pertwee
as Doctor Who, Katy Manning as Jo Grant,
and Roger Delgado as the Master. (cameo by
Nicholas Courtney as Brig. Lethbridge-Stewart)
- All 6 episodes of the story as originally
broadcast, but digitally remastered and restored.
It
should be noted, however, that the archive’s videotapes for this story
are not the original ones
it
was made on and are of noticeably lower quality than usual. (Still much better
than the VHS
release was though.)
- Graphical menus, episode and scene
selection features, and subtitles for
the hearing impaired.
- Optional commentary track by actors Katy
Manning (Jo Grant), Bernard Kay (Caldwell),
Morris Perry (Dent), director Michael Briant,
script editor Terrance Dicks, and assistant
floor manager Graeme Harper.
- Information Text subtitles option. Displays pop-up production trivia throughout
the story
- “IMC Needs You” A 25-minute making-of-the-show documentary
framed with an “IMC
Recruitment” video.
Features interviews with all of the commentary contributors, plus
producer Barry Letts.
- From the Cutting Room Floor. 13 minutes of mute film trims from the
location shoot.
- Photo Gallery. A 6-minute featurette
of photo stills taken throughout the production of the story.
- PDF Materials. The Radio Times listings are available as a .pdf
file if you put the disc
into a computer.
- Coming Soon Trailer. A 1:30 trailer for the forthcoming DVDs of Invasion of the Dinosaurs
and The Android Invasion.
Doctor Who: Series Six, Part Two starring
Matt Smith as the Doctor, Karen Gillan as Amy Pond
and Arthur Darvill as Rory Williams. Guest stars Alex Kingston as River Song.
(6 45-minute episodes, 2 DVD discs for $24.98 or 2 Blu-Ray
discs for $29.98.)
On Disc 1:
- Episode 8, Let’s Kill Hitler, Episode 9:Night Terrors, and Episode 10: The
Girl Who Waited.
- The Monster Files: the Antibodies. A short behind-the-scenes featurette
about the making
of the monsters from Let’s
Kill Hitler.
On Disc 2
- Episode 11: The God Complex, Episode 12:
Closing Time, and Episode 13: The Wedding
of River Song.
- Monster Files: the Cybermats. A short featurette
about the Cybermats seen in Closing Time.
There is also a DTS 5.1 sound mix on all
episodes, and the Blu-Ray versions contain the
full 1080i high-definition versions of the
episodes. There are also subtitles for the hearing
impaired.
OCTOBER RELEASE IN DETAIL
Doctor Who: The Talons of Weng-Chiang Special Edition starring Tom
Baker as
Doctor Who and Louise Jameson as Leela. 3 discs.
On
Disc 1:
- All 4 episodes of the story as originally
broadcast, but digitally remastered and restored.
The restoration has been completely redone from scratch for this Special
Edition.
- Graphical menus, episode and scene
selection features, and subtitles for
the hearing impaired.
- Optional commentary track by actors
Louise Jameson (Leela), John Bennett (Li H’Sen
Chang), and Christopher Benjamin (Henry Gordon Jago),
producer Philip Hinchcliffe,
and director David Maloney. (This is the same commentary as in the
earlier release.)
- Information Text subtitles option. Displays pop-up production trivia throughout
the story
On Disc 2:
All of the content on this disc is new. None of it appeared in the earlier release.
-
“The Last Hurrah” A
32-minute conversation between Tom Baker and Philip Hinchcliffe
at Tom’s home where they discuss how
this was their last story together. Also
features
actors Louise Jameson, Christopher Benjamin,
Trevor Baxter (Prof. Litefoot), costume
designer John Bloomfield, designer Roger
Murray-Leach, and director David Maloney.
-
“Moving On” A 5-minute look
by Philip Hinchcliffe at the ideas he had for the
next
season had he remained in charge.
-
“The Foe From the Future” A
7-minute look at the original unmade story concept by
writer Robert Banks Stewart and producer
Philip Hinchcliffe that was then completely
changed and rewritten into The
Talons of Weng-Chiang.
-
“Now and Then” An 11-minute
look at the locations the story was shot at and how
they look today.
-
“Look East” A 4-minute
feature a 1977 news program did on the making of this story
on location, including an interview with
Tom Baker.
-
“Victoriana and Chinoiserie” An 8-minute
discussion of the literary influences in this
story between producer Philip Hinchcliffe and Dr. Anne Witchard,
an expert in literature.
-
“Music Hall” A 22-minute
documentary about the history of the real music hall theaters.
-
“Limehouse: A Victorian
and its uses in
this story and in other stories in English literature.
On Disc 3
This contains nearly
all of the bonus content that was on Disc 2 of the original UK release.
It is missing two
features that were on the original North American edition (because they
weren’t on the
“Who’s
Who” biography text and the Howard DaSilva
introduction narration featurette.
It also missing
the title sequence Easter Egg that was present on the original releases in all
territories.
- “Whose
Doctor Who” – a 1977 BBC2 documentary running 1 hour that examined
the
program’s history, how it affects
children, and went behind-the-scenes on the making of
The
Talons of Weng-Chiang.
- Philip Hinchcliffe Interview – a 1977 BBC TV interview with
producer Philip Hinchcliffe,
running 11 minutes.
- Behind-the-Scenes
– 24 minutes of poor quality “wild” video footage of the
final
Talons
studio session.
- Blue Peter
– 26 minutes of segments from 1970s episodes of the children’s
series
Blue Peter that taught children at home how to build their own Doctor Who
theater from items found around the house.
- 40th
Anniversary Celebration – a 3 minute “music video” of clips
from the entire series
set to a reedited version of the theme music
as recorded by dance club music group Orbital.
- Subtitles
option. All featurettes
can be played with caption subtitles for the
hearing impared.
- Trails and
Continuity. A little more than 2 minutes
of the BBC announcers trailers
for The
Talons of Weng-Chiang and the Whose Doctor Who documentary.
- Photo Gallery
SEPTEMBER RELEASE IN DETAIL
Doctor Who; Day of the Daleks
starring Jon Pertwee as Dr Who, Nicholas Courtney
as
Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart,
Katy Manning as Jo Grant, Richard Franklin as Captain
Yates, and John Levene
as Sergeant Benton.
On Disc 1:
- All 4 episodes of the story as originally
broadcast, but digitally remastered and restored.
- Graphical menus, episode and scene
selection features, and subtitles for
the hearing impaired.
- Optional commentary track by actors Anna
Barry (Anat) and Jimmy Winston (Shura),
producer Barry Letts, and script editor
Terrance Dicks.
- Information Text subtitles option. Displays pop-up production trivia throughout
the story.
- “Blasting the Past” A new
30-minute featurette about the making of the story,
featuring
interviews with actors Katy Manning (Jo Grant), Anna Barry (Anat), Jimmy Winston
(Shura), Nicholas Briggs (Dalek
Voices) and Ricky Newby (Dalek Operator),
maskmaker John Friedlander, Doctor Who Magazine writer Dave Owen, Doctor Who
writers (of other stories) Paul Cornell
and Ben Aaronovitch, script editor Terrance
Dicks, and producer Barry Letts.
- “A View From the
Gallery” A new 20-minute featurette spotlighting how Doctor Who
was shot from the studio control gallery, with producer Barry Letts, and the Vision
Mixer on this story, Mike Catherwood.
- Nationwide. A 3-minute segment from this news magazine show
from the time showing a
a
school class receiving a Dalek as a prize from a Radio Times competition they won.
- Blue Peter. A 5-minute segment from the venerable
children’s magazine show from
1972 that both spotlights presenter Peter Purves’
former role on the series and the
Daleks from this story, hinting at their imminent return.
- Photo Gallery. A package of still photos taken during the
production. 6 minutes long.
- PDF Materials. : the Radio
Times listings are available as a .pdf file if
you put the disc
into a computer. This story
received a special cover and extra articles, and these are
included.
- Coming Soon Trailer for the forthcoming
release of Colony in Space.
On Disc 2:
- The Special Edition. All 4 episodes of the story are presented
again, but this time
they’ve been boosted with newly-created special effects and
newly-shot footage to
enhance the key action scenes, and the original Dalek
voices have been replaces with
newly recorded ones by new series Dalek voice
artist Nicholas Briggs so that they
better match voices heard in the rest of the series (unlike the
originals on this one).
There are also episode and scene selection features, and subtitles for
the hearing impaired.
- The Making of the Special Edition. A 14-minute featurette. It’s title tells you the rest.
- Now and Then. A 5-minute featurette
in an ongoing series about how the locations used
looked when the show was shot versus how they look when the DVD was
made.
- The UNIT Family Part Two. A new 31-minute featurette
about the family of characters
that surrounded the Doctor during his exile to Earth by the Time
Lords. This is “Part
Two” and spotlights the middle Jon Petwee
years. Part One appeared on the DVD of
Inferno, and Part Three will appear on a
future DVD. Features interviews with
actors Nicholas Courtney, Katy Manning, Richard Franklin, John Levene, and
Fernanda Marlowe (Corporal Bell), stuntman and founder of
HAVOC Derek Ware,
script
editor Terrance Dicks, and producer Barry Letts.
- The UNIT Dating Conundrum. A 9-minute featurette
narrated by Toby Hadoke about
the inconsistencies in the series continuity when it comes to the years
that the UNIT
stories were supposed to be taking place in. Features Ben Aaronovitch,
Nicholas Briggs,
Dave Owen, and Terrance Dicks.
- The Cheating Memory. An 8-minute featurette
where memory expert Dr. Sarita Robinson
(herself a Doctor Who fan)
explains how our memories of a show we saw when we were
very young can be so different to the reality.
- Teaser.
A 20-second teaser that was used to publicize this DVD release in
advance.
AUGUST RELEASES IN DETAIL
Doctor
Who: The Sun Makers starring Tom Baker
as Doctor Who, Louise Jameson
as Leela, and John Leeson as the Voice of K9.
- All 4 episodes of the story, digitally remastered and restored.
- Graphical menus, episode and scene
selection features, and subtitles for
the hearing impaired.
- Optional commentary track by actors Tom
Baker, Louise Jameson, and Michael
Keating (Goudry), and director Pennant
Roberts.
- Information Text subtitles option. Displays pop-up production trivia throughout
the story.
- “Running From the Tax
Man”. A new 25-minute documentary
about the making of the
story, featuring interviews with Louise Jameson, Pennant Roberts,
Michael Keating,
TV
historian Dominic Sandbrook, and astronomer Marek Kukula.
-
Trailer. A 43-second trailer that
advertised the story in 1977.
-
“The Doctor’s Composter –
Part 2.” An interview with the
regular music composer for
the series throughout the 1970s, Dudley Simpson. (Part 1 appeared on the previously
released DVD of The War Games and
was about his 1960s stories.)
- Outtakes.
Half-a-minute of bloopers from a scene where Cordo
tries to fire a gun into
the ceiling that doesn’t want to fire.
- Photo Gallery. A package of still photos taken during the
production. 4 minutes long.
- PDF Materials. : the Radio
Times listings are available as a .pdf file if
you put the disc
into a computer.
Doctor Who: Paradise Towers starring Sylvester McCoy as the Doctor and
Bonnie Langford as Melanie.
- All 4 episodes of the story, digitally remastered and restored.
- Graphical menus, episode and scene
selection features, and subtitles for
the hearing impaired.
- Optional commentary track by actress Judy
Cornwell (Maddy), writer Stephen Wyatt,
special sound designer Dick Mills, and moderated by Mark Ayres.
- Information Text subtitles option. Displays pop-up production trivia throughout
the story.
- Alternate Score. Selecting this in the Audio Options menu will
play the story with a
different music score to the broadcast version (which was by Keff McCulloch).
This
is the score that was composed by David Snell and then rejected near the
last minute
by producer John Nathan-Turner and the McCulloch version hurriedly
written to
replace it.
- “Horror on the High
Rise.” A 34-minute documentary
about the making of the story,
presented by Mark Ayres. Features
interviews with script editor Andrew Cartmel,
writer Stephen Wyatt, composers David Snell and Keff
McCulloch, and actors
Catherine Cusack (Blue Kang Leader), Howard
Cooke (Pex), and Richard Briers
(Chief Caretaker/Kroagnon).
-
Deleted and Extended Scenes. An
8-minute package of 18 deleted scenes.
-
Continuity. A 4-minute package of
the BBC’s continuity announcements introducing
and advertising the story from 1987.
-
Girls! Girls! Girls! The Eighties.
A 22-minute discussion between three of the 1980s
companion actresses: Sarah Sutton (Nyssa), Janet Fielding (Tegan), and Sophie
Aldred (Ace).
-
Casting Sylvester. A 4-minute
interview with Producer Clive Doig, who played a role
in the casting of Sylvester McCoy as the Doctor.
- Photo Gallery. A package of still photos taken during the
production. 5 minutes long.
- PDF Materials. : the Radio
Times listings are available as a .pdf file if
you put the disc
into a computer.
JULY RELEASES IN DETAIL
Doctor
Who: The Gunfighers
starring William Hartnell as Doctor Who, Peter Purves
as Steven, and
- All 4 episodes of the story,
digitally remastered and restored.
- Graphical menus, episode and scene
selection features, and subtitles for
the hearing impaired.
- Optional commentary track by actors Peter
Purves, Shane Rimmer (Seth
Harper),
David
Graham (Charley the Barman), Richard Beale (Bat Masterston),
production
assistant Tristan de Vere Cole, and moderator Toby Hadoke.
- Information Text subtitles option. Displays pop-up production trivia throughout
the story.
- “The End of the Line”
43-minute featurette about the turbulence
behind-the-scenes
in
this period that would lead to total turnover in cast and crew, including William
Hartnell. Features
interviews with story editor Donald Tosh, actors
Peter Purves,
Maureen O’Brien (Vicki), Anneke Wills
(Polly), new series writer Gareth Roberts,
and Ian Levine (consultant).
- Tomorrow’s Times. Mary Tamm presents
a look at the contemporary press coverage
of
the First Doctor’s era. 14
minutes long.
- Photo Gallery. A package of still photos taken during the
production, set to the full
Ballad of the Last Chance Saloon. 4 minutes long.
- Coming Soon trailer.
- PDF Materials. : the Radio
Times listings are available as a .pdf file if
you put the disc
into a computer.
Doctor
Who: The Awakening starring Peter
Davison as the Doctor, Janet Fielding
as Tegan, and Mark Strickson as Turlough.
- Both episodes of the story, digitally remastered and restored.
- Graphical menus, episode and scene
selection features, and subtitles for
the hearing impaired.
- Optional commentary track by director
Michael Owen Morris, script editor Eric Saward,
and moderator Toby Hadoke.
- Information Text subtitles option. Displays pop-up production trivia throughout
the story.
- “Return to Little Hodcombe”. A featurette where some of the cast and crew revisit
the village locations as they discuss the making of the story. Includes
actors Janet
Fielding, Keith Jayne (Will Chandler), script editor Eric Saward, director Michael Owen
Morris, and some of the real villagers who were present during filming.
20 minutes.
- “Making the Malus”. The visual effects team physically revisit
their creation of the Malus.
Features designer Tony Harding, craftsman Richard Gregory, and Paul
Burrows, the fan
who paid 3500 pounds to buy the Malus prop and
currently preserves it. 7 minutes.
- “Now and Then” A featurette
comparing and contrasting the locations as they appeared
in
the original production with how they look today. 7 minutes.
- “From the Cutting Room
Floor.” An extended and deleted
scenes package. This one
is
more notable than most in that includes a long-lost scene with the
shape-changing
Kamelion robot that was an experimental companion of the
Doctor’s in this period.
There are six scenes and additional film trims and outtakes. 9 minutes.
- “The Golden Egg Awards” A program from 1984 where Doctor Who and Peter Davison
were awarded a special prize by Noel
from television for the year. The winning clip was the massive destruction caused
by
a
horse to a prop lych-gate in this story.
2 minutes.
-
Isolated Music option. Plays the
program with only the incidental music score playing.
- Photo Gallery. A package of still photos taken during the
production.
- Coming Soon trailer.
- PDF Materials. : the Radio
Times listings are available as a .pdf file if
you put the disc
into a computer.
Doctor Who:
Series Six, Part One starring Matt Smith as the Doctor, Karen Gillan as Amy Pond
and Arthur Darvill as Rory Williams. Guest stars Alex Kingston as River Song.
(7 45-minute episodes, 2 DVD discs for $24.98 or 2 Blu-Ray
discs for $29.98.)
On Disc 1:
- Episode 1, The Impossible Astronaut, Episode 2, Day of the Moon, Episode 3 The
Curse of the
Black Spot, and Episode 4 The Doctor’s Wife.
- The Monster Files: the Silence. An 11-minute behind-the-scenes featurette about the making
of the monsters from the opening two-parter.
On Disc 2
- Episode 5 The Rebel Flesh, Episode 6 The
Almost People, and Episode 7 A Good
Man Goes
to War
- Monster Files: the Flesh.
A 13-minute featurette about the Flesh
creatures seen in
episodes 5 and 6.
There is also a DTS 5.1 sound mix on all
episodes, and the Blu-Ray versions contain the
full 1080i high-definition versions of the
episodes. There are also subtitles for the hearing
impaired.
JUNE
RELEASES IN DETAIL
Doctor Who: Frontios starring Peter Davison as the Doctor,
Janet Fielding as Tegan,
and
Mark Strickson as Turlough.
- All 4 episodes of the story, digitally remastered and restored.
- Graphical menus, episode and scene
selection features, and subtitles for
the hearing impaired.
- Optional commentary track by actors Peter
Davison and Jeff Rawle (Plantagenet),
John
Gillett (the Gravis), script editor Eric Saward, and
special sound designer
Dick
Mills.
- Information Text subtitles option. Displays pop-up production trivia throughout
the story.
- “Driven to Distraction” A new 33-minute behind-the-scenes featurette featuring
interviews with writer Christopher H. Bidmead,
script editor Eric Saward, production
designer
David Buckingham, and actors Peter Davison, Mark Strickson,
Jeff Rawle,
and John Gillett.
- Deleted and Extended Scenes. A 16-minute package of deleted footage from
over 30 different scenes.
- Photo Gallery. A 5-minute package of still photos taken
during the production.
- Isolated Music track. Selecting this will play the episodes with
only the incidental
music playing.
- Coming Soon trailer for Earthstory, a
2-story box set coming to the UK that will in fact
be released as separate stories in
- PDF Materials. : the Radio
Times listings are available as a .pdf file if
you put the disc
into a computer.
Doctor Who: Time and the Rani
starring Sylvester McCoy as the Doctor, Bonnie Langford
as Melanie, and Kate O’Mara as the Rani.
- All 4 episodes of the story, digitally remastered and restored.
- Graphical menus, episode and scene
selection features, and subtitles for
the hearing impaired.
- Optional commentary track by actors
Sylvester McCoy and Bonnie Langford, and
writers Pip and Jane Baker.
- Information Text subtitles option. Displays pop-up production trivia throughout
the story.
- “The Last Chance Salloon” A
29-minute featurette about the rapid setting-up of
this
entire season, casting the 7th Doctor, and production of this
story. Features interviews
with former BBC Executive Jonathan Powell, producer John Nathan-Turner,
director
Andrew Morgan, actors Sylvester McCoy and Kate O’Mara, incoming script
editor Andrew Cartmel, and title sequence
designer Oliver Elmes. Also features footage
from the screen tests recorded by Sylvester McCoy, and other hopefuls
David Fielder
and Dermot Crowley, acting opposite Janet Fielding as a villain.
- “7D FX.” An 11-minute featurette
about the making of the special effects for this story,
which for the first time included extensive CGI. Features interviews with visual effects
designers Mike Tucker, Colin Mapson, and Dave Chapman.
- “Helter Skelter” A 9-minute featurette
about the creation of Doctor Who’s
first CGI
title sequence by designer Oliver Elmes and
Gareth Edwards of CAL Video.
- “Lakertya” A 2-minute featurette
of dueling interview subjects: the director Andrew Morgan,
and writers Pip and Jane Baker over their visions of what this alien
planet should’ve looked
like.
- “Hot Gossip” A 2-minute featurette
where some of the subjects of the previous interviews
talk at length about their co-stars Wanda Ventham
and Donald Pickering.
- “On Location” A 4-minute segment from a magazine show from
1987 that took a look at
the location recording and interviewed Sylvester McCoy, Bonnie
Langford, and Kate O’Mara.
- “Blue Peter” A 1-minute segment from a 1987 edition of
venerable kids’ magazine show
Blue Peter that introduced
the new Doctor to the viewers.
- Photo Gallery. An 8-minute package of still photos taken
during the production.
- PDF Materials. : the Radio
Times listings are available as a .pdf file if
you put the disc
into a computer. These include
some season-launch interviews.
- 3 Easter Eggs. Highlight the blank area below to see what
they are and how to find them.
Egg 1:
Go to the Special Features menu, highlight the “7D FX”
feature, and press the
left
arrow. A Doctor Who logo will appear.
Click this and you’ll see a new version
of
the regeneration scene where Colin Baker’s real face has been added to
the start
of
it.
Egg 2:
Go to the Special Features menu, 2nd page. Highlight the PDFs
option and press
the
left arrow. You will see Sylvester McCoy
tell a story about how he was in a play
with
Timothy Dalton when he was informed he’d be taking over James Bond, and
at
almost
the same time Sylvester had won the part of the Doctor.
Egg 3:
Go to the Special Features menu, 2nd page. Highlight the Blue Peter option and
press the left arrow. You will
see a short interview section with Kate O’Mara and other
crew
where they relate the story of an injury she suffered to her eyes from hanging
upside-down
too long with the Tetraps.
Though we can’t play the UK’s
Region 2 DVDs on our ordinary North American DVD
players and TV sets, it’s still worth our
while to keep an eye on what they’re getting
over there, as the titles we get are
usually what’s first been released over there, and
usually with the same sets of bonus
features, and usually (but not always) in the same
order they got it.
The titles they’ve got that we
haven’t yet are as follows:
Revisitations 2 Another box
set of previously released stories with new extra features.
They
are The Seeds of Death starring
Patrick Troughton, Carnival of
Monsters starring Jon Pertwee and Resurrection
of the Daleks starring
Peter
Davison. (
in
April 2012. The other
two in
Spearhead
from Space Special Edition starring Jon Pertwee. (Came out in the UK paired
with Terror of the Autons in a box set.
Similar treatment to this story as
in
the Revisitations
series.)
The
Sarah Jane Adventures: The Complete Fifth Season starring Elisabeth Sladen
(
Upcoming…
Nightmare
of Eden starring Tom Baker (
Ace
Adventures (will contain Dragonfire and The Happiness Patrol) starring Sylvester
McCoy
(
Death
to the Daleks starring Jon Pertwee (
The Krotons starring Patrick Troughton
(
The
Greatest Show in the Galaxy starring Sylvester McCoy (
North American release therefore
probably Aug. 14 (but not official yet))
Planet of Giants starring William Hartnell
(3 episodes,
North American
release therefore probably Sept. 11 (not official yet))
Vengenace on Varos Special Edition starring Colin
Baker (2 45-minute episodes,
(but not official yet))
And the following titles have been
announced by 2entertain in the
(not necessarily
in this order, however):
The
Reign of Terror starring William Hartnell,
including animated episodes to cover the
two missing episodes of this 6-parter.
Shada starring Tom Baker
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I hope this
all helps!
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