Serial: 5T Episode Nos. 552, 553, 554, and 555. Title: The Keeper of Traken
The Keeper of Traken presides over the most harmonious empire the universe
has ever known. With his time of death nearing, the Keeper senses an
all-pervading evil encroaching on Traken, and to combat it, he asks the Doctor
to come to Traken.
Once there, the Doctor and Adric find themselves almost immediately framed for
the disturbances that have been happening by a force of evil living inside an
apparantly calcified statue... a force the Doctor knows all too well.
This story sees the debut of Sarah Sutton as Nyssa and the reintroduction of the Master, here played by Geoffrey Beevers.
starring Tom Baker as Doctor Who, Matthew Waterhouse as Adric, Sarah Sutton as Nyssa, and Geoffrey Beevers as the Master. Written by Johnny Byrne, Executive Produced by Barry Letts, Produced by John Nathan-Turner, and Directed by John Black.
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- Digitally
restored and remastered pictures and sound.
- Graphical menus, episode
selection, and scene selection features.
- Commentary track by writer Johnny
Byrne and actors Matthew Waterhouse (Adric), Sarah Sutton (Nyssa), and Anthony
Ainley
(Tremas/The Master). This
commentary was recorded a few years ago and is unique in that it features
Anthony Ainley in
the
only DVD commentary he recorded before his death in 2004.
- Information Text: pop-up production
information subtitles that play throughout the story.
- Subtitles for the hearing
impaired.
- “Sarah Sutton on Swap Shop” An 11-minute
appearance by Sarah Sutton on Noel Edmunds’ Multi-Coloured Swap Shop from 1981,
when
The Keeper of Traken was being
broadcast.
- “The Return of the Master” A new
featurette about the reintroduction of the Master in this story, with
interviews with actor
Geoffrey Beevers (Melkur/the
Master), script editor Christopher H. Bidmead, and
director John Black. 10 minutes in
length.
- “Being Nice to Each Other” A new
featurette on the general making of this story, with interviews with actors
Sarah Sutton (Nyssa),
Sheila Ruskin (Kassia),
Geoffrey Beevers (Melkur/The Master), writer Johnny Byrne, script editor
Christopher H. Bidmead,
and
director John Black. 30 minutes in
length.
- Trails and Continuities. Plays 6 minutes worth of the trailers and
other BBC announcements that preceded or followed each episode
as
it was originally broadcast in 1981.
- Photo Gallery. An 8 minute presentation of
photographic stills of the production.
- Doctor Who Annual 1982 and Radio
Times billings. If you place this DVD
in the DVD-ROM drive of a computer, you can access
these
.pdf files which contain the full text of the 1982 Doctor Who Annual and the
Radio Times program guide listings for this story.
- Isolated Music Option. Select this and the episodes will play with
only the incidental music score playing.
- 1 Easter Egg. Highlight the invisible text section below to
see what it is and how to find it.
- Keep watching episode 4 all the way through the closing
credits. When they’re done, a
dedication to the memory of Anthony
Ainley
appears, plus a small clip of him as the Master taken from the 1997 PC game “Destiny
of the Doctors,” which
he recorded links for.
Most of the rest of these links will appear on the forthcoming DVD of
the story Survival.
- This DVD starts with an
advertisement for the Doctor Who Series 2
box set that lasts 34 seconds, but you can skip through it with your
remote if you wish.
