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Serial: 4C Episode Nos. 386, 387, 388, and
389. Title: The
The TARDIS arrives on a strangely dormant space station. Exploring, the Doctor and his friends find hundreds of people in suspended animation, but their revival systems have been sabotaged by an intruder: a giant alien insect called a Wirrn. When the sleepers start to revive, the Queen Wirrn's larvae also awaken...
starring Tom Baker as Doctor Who, Elisabeth Sladen as Sarah Jane Smith, and Ian Marter as Harry Sullivan. Written by Robert Holmes, Produced by Phillip Hinchcliffe, and Directed by Rodney Bennett.
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DVD Contents:
- Graphical menus, episode selection features, and scene selection
features.
- Commentary track by actors Tom Baker (the Doctor), Elisabeth Sladen (Sarah),
and Producer Philip Hinchcliffe.
- Production Notes Subtitles.
- Original 4:3 aspect ratio.
- New CGI Model Sequence - The exterior shots of the
generated images. You can choose to either watch all the new shots at once or let them appear during the episodes as you play them. (The new CGI shots
only appear within the story if you select this option. If you don’t, you see the original
unaltered episodes with the original model footage.)
- Unused Title Sequence
- Original Model Effects - Selecting this plays some
film reels of the original modelwork from 1974 of the
space-walking around the
- Trailer for Episode 1
- Photo Gallery
- Who’s Who – displays actors’
biographies
- Space Station Schematics - This selection displays a
computer-generated schematic animation of the structure of the
- Howard Da Silva Intros - This selection plays a 15-minute featurette that shows all of the introductions and end-of-episode teasers narrated by Howard Da
Silva that were used in the initial 1978 American syndication package of the first four Tom Baker seasons of the series. (This option is exclusive to the North
American Region 1 DVDs.)
- TARDIS-Cam- This selection plays a 1-minute modern modelwork featurette of the TARDIS having landed on a desolate planet which has the remains of a
Cyberman’s head on it. This is as a sort of promo for the BBC’s own official Doctor Who website at www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho for which other TARDIS-
- Two interview featurettes. One with set designer Roger Murray-Leach, shot recently, and the other with Tom Baker while filming on location for the next
story that was in production after
- DVD Subtitles
- There has been only one flaw found with this disc, and it’s a pretty minor one. If one has the subtitles selected on (either the closed captions or the production
notes), the picture dims for about 1 second at a few various points in Parts Three and Four and also during the Howard Da Silva featurette. This doesn’t
happen if the subtitles are not on, and when it does happen
with them on, it’s very, very brief.
-There are some “Easter Egg” hidden features built into this disc for you to hunt for. However, if you’re not much for hunting, use your mouse to highlight the
blank-looking area below and you’ll see how to find
them.
o There are three Easter Eggs to find. They are the same ones that were hidden on
the Region 2 UK discs, but they are hidden in different places to those discs.
o Egg 1: Go into the
Episode Selection menu. When you enter,
if you press the “up” button you’ll see that you can
highlight the Doctor Who logo on this
page. Click on the logo, and the Doctor
will appear for about 17 seconds, tell you “goodbye” and that he
can’t stay long because he’s going to
o Egg 2: At the
conclusion of the final episode, after the credits have finished rolling, the
Doctor appears again in another short segment for that
o Egg 3: In the
Special Features menu, go down to highlight the Photo Gallery selection. Now, press your left arrow and you will see a
Doctor Who logo appear out of
nowhere. Click the logo, and you will
see the 30-second countdown clock and slate for Part Two of the story used at
the start of its master video tape.
