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Doctor Who: The End of Time starring David Tennant as the Doctor, John Simm as the Master,
and Bernard Cribbins as Wilfred Mott. Guest starring Catherine Tate as Donna Noble and
Timothy Dalton as the Narrator. (Also guest
starring Freema Agyeman as
Martha Jones,
Noel Clarke as Mickey Smith, John
Barrowman as Captain Jack Harkness, Camille Coduri
as Jackie
Tyler, and Billie Piper as Rose Tyler. Oh, and the Narrator played by Timothy
Dalton
is really Lord
President Rassilon.)
The Doctor has been warned that his song is ending soon and that “he will knock four times.” His old friends the Ood
further warn him of the nightmares to come… of the resurrection of his archnemesis, the Master back on Earth,
as Christmas of 2009 approaches. Donna’s grandfather Wilf has nightmares of the Master too that cause him to seek
out the Doctor for help, and meanwhile a powerful man seeks out the Master for help with an alien machine he has
dubbed the Immortality Gate. But can anything be truly immortal, when the prophecies agree that the end of time
itself approaches?
SPECIAL FEATURES OF THE STANDALONE EDITION
2-disc set. On both discs:
- Graphical menus, episode and scene selection features, and subtitles for the hearing impaired.
- 5.1 surround sound
- 16:9 aspect ratio.
- The disc boots up with trailers for other BBC Video DVD sets, but these are skippable with your remote.
- Available in both high-definition (1080i) Blu-Ray or standard definition (480i) DVD.
On Disc 1:
- The 60-minute Part One with 5.1 sound
- Commentary track by actors David Tennant and Catherine
Tate and director Euros Lyn.
- Doctor Who Confidential 57-minute
behind-the-scenes documentary.
** There is a sound fault on this Confidential, where everything has been
pitch-shifted downwards
by about half-a-note.
It now sounds as though it’s running a little too slow, but the
running time
is actually the same as the original.
-
David Tennant’s Video Diary 40
minutes of footage shot by David Tennant himself as he made the
episodes Planet of the
Dead and The End of Time Part Two
and did some media appearances
to promote the specials.
- BBC Christmas Idents. Four short segments the BBC used at Christmas
to introduce its Christmas
programming, all featuring the
Doctor or the TARDIS and a Christmas theme.
On Disc 2:
- The 70-minute Part Two with 5.1 sound
-
Commentary track by actors David Tennant and John Simm
and director Euros Lyn.
- Doctor Who Confidential 57-minute
behind-the-scenes documentary.
-
Doctor Who at Comic Con 2009 A 21-minute featurette
that follows the adventures of David Tennant,
John
Barrowman, Russell T. Davies, Julie Gardner, and Euros Lyn as they were guests
at
the 2009
- Deleted Scenes with Russell T. Davies
Introductions A
17-minute featurette showing a total of 12 scenes
deleted from
across all the specials except The End of
Time Part Two, each introduced by Russell
T. Davies who gives his reasons for
their being cut.
THE COMPLETE SPECIALS EDITION
This story is also available as part of The Complete Specials box set. That version has all the same special features
that are in the standalone edition.
If one counts this series as a continuation of the original series, then this is story number 206, and episode
numbers 766 and 767. Originally transmitted on