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The Key to
Time – Special Edition starring
Tom Baker as the Doctor, Mary Tamm as Romana,
and John
Leeson as the Voice of K9.
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Available as a
single digistack box set containing 7 discs for the
suggested retail price of $99.98.
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The individual
stories are also available separately in single Amaray
cases for $24.98 each, except
The Armageddon Factor which contains 2
discs and is priced at $34.98.
Descriptions of the individual
titles follow, but remember that everything in
the individual titles is also on the discs in the box set.
The only thing
you miss out on in the box set is the individual title covers.
Descriptions of the contents of each title in the set follow
below.
Extras and features that appeared on the
2002 editions are listed in italics.
Doctor Who: The Key to Time Special
Edition starring Tom Baker as Doctor Who, Mary Tamm as Romana, and
John
Leeson as the Voice of K9.
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Available as a
single digistack box set containing 7 discs for the
suggested retail price of $99.98.
-
The individual
stories are also available separately in single Amaray
cases for $24.98 each, except
The Armageddon Factor which contains 2
discs and is priced at $34.98.
Descriptions of the individual
titles follow, but remember that everything in
the individual titles is also on the discs in the box set.
The only thing
you miss out on in the box set is the individual title covers.
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The box set
contains an 8-page booklet that contains the text details on one page each that
are on the
back covers of the separate Amaray
box releases, so you don’t miss out on any of that if you buy the box.
Doctor Who: The Ribos
Operation Special Edition starring Tom Baker as Doctor
Who, Mary Tamm as Romana,
and
John
Leeson as the Voice of K9. Guest starring Cyril Luckham as the White Guardian.
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All four 25-minute episodes with full
restoration treatment.
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Graphical menus, episode and scene selection
features, and subtitles for the hearing impaired.
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Commentary
with actors Tom Baker and Mary Tamm
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Production
Notes subtitles. Displays pop-up
production trivia throughout the story.
- “A Matter of Time” 60-minute
documentary about the whole of Graham Williams' producer-ship.
Features
interviews with actors Tom Baker, Mary Tamm, John Leeson, Louise Jameson (Leela),
Lalla Ward (the
second Romana), Paul Seed (Graff Vynda-K),
writers Bob Baker, Dave Martin,
Gareth
Roberts, David Fisher, Douglas Adams, script editor Anthony Read, visual effects designers
Colin
Mapson and Mat
Production
designers Richard McManon-Smith and Dick Coles,
directors Pennant Roberts,
Darrol Blake, Michael
Hayes, Ken Grieve, and Christopher Barry, and Graham Williams’ widow
Jackie
Williams. Narrated by
Toby Longworth.
- “The Ribos File” 20-minute featurette
about the making of The Ribos Operation.
Features interviews
with actors Mary Tamm, Paul Seed, Nigel Plaskitt (Unstoffe), and Prentis Hancock
(Captain of the
Shrieves), stuntman Stuart Fell, and
Doctor Who Magazine editor Clayton
Hickman.
- Continuities. 2 minutes of the
intro and outros from the BBC broadcasts.
- Season 16 Trailer.
40 seconds.
- Photo Gallery.
6 minutes of stills. (Not the same ones as on the old set. This is true for all
the discs.)
- Radio Times Listings. A pdf
file on the disc of the TV listings for this story, readable by a computer.
Doctor Who: The Pirate Planet Special
Edition starring Tom Baker as Doctor Who, Mary Tamm as Romana, and
John
Leeson as the Voice of K9.
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All four 25-minute episodes with full
restoration treatment.
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Graphical menus, episode and scene selection
features, and subtitles for the hearing impaired.
- Commentary 1 with director Pennant
Roberts and actor Bruce Purchase (the Captain)
- Commentary 2 with actors Tom Baker
and Mary Tamm, and script editor Anthony Read.
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Production
Notes subtitles. Displays pop-up
production trivia throughout the story.
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“Parrot
Fashion” 30-minute behind-the-scenes documentary. Features interviews with writer Douglas Adams
(archival footage),
Tamm, Bruce Purchase, Primi
Townsend (Mula), Rosalind Lloyd (Nurse/Xanxia), and John Leeson,
script editor Anthony Read, Visual Effects
Designer Colin Mapson, Film Cameraman Elmer Cassey,
and Director Pennant Roberts.
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Film Inserts, Deleted Scenes,
and Outtakes. 13 minutes. Over twenty
deleted scenes, alternative
takes, or
outtakes. (Most of the ones from film
inserts also appeared on the 2002 edition.)
- “Weird Science” 17-minute
spoof science show that takes the mickey out of the
science in 70s s.f. shows.
Starring David Graham, Matthew Irvine, and STEVII the super-computer.
- Continuities. 4 minutes. (These are the BBC introductions and trailers
for the episodes.)
- Photo Gallery.
7 minutes.
- Radio Times Listings. A pdf
file on the disc of the TV listings for this story, readable by a computer.
Doctor Who: The Stones of Blood Special
Edition starring Tom Baker as Doctor Who, Mary Tamm as Romana, and
John
Leeson as the Voice of K9.
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All four 25-minute episodes with full
restoration treatment.
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Graphical menus, episode and scene selection
features, and subtitles for the hearing impaired.
- Commentary 1 with actor Mary Tamm and director Darrol Blake
- Commentary 2 with actors Tom Baker,
Mary Tamm, and Susan Engel (Vivien Fey), and writer
David Fisher.
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Production
Notes subtitles. Displays pop-up
production trivia throughout the story.
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“Getting
Blood From the Stones” 27-minute making-of documentary. Features interviews with actors Mary
Tamm, John Leeson, and
Susan Engel, writer David Fisher, script editor Anthony Read, Doctor Who Magazine
Editor
Clayton Hickman, SFX Magazine’s
Steve O’Brien, and director Darrol Blake.
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“Hammer
Horror” 13-minute documentary looking at links between Hammer horror
movies and Doctor Who.
Features
interviews with actor Tom Baker, writers Terrance Dicks and Anthony Read, Shivers’ magazine’s
David Miller, and
English Gothic magazine’s
Jonathan Rigby.
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“Stones
Free” 9-minute documentary about the real life stone circle in the story,
hosted by Mary Tamm,
where she talks to local historians about the
site.
- Deleted Scenes. Two scenes taken out of Part
Two. 2 minutes’
duration.
- Continuities. 2-1/2
minutes. (These are the BBC
introductions and trailers for the episodes.)
- Model World. 2-1/2 minute excerpt from a contemporaneous
show that looked at the model work in this story.
- Blue Peter. 6-minute segment from
1978 that spotlighted Doctor Who's 15th anniversary.
- Nationwide. 9-minute
segment from 1978, again about the anniversary. Interviews Tom Baker,
Mary Tamm,
and Carole Ann Ford.
- Photo Gallery.
8 minutes.
- Radio Times Listings. A pdf
file on the disc of the TV listings for this story, readable by a computer.
Doctor Who: The Androids of Tara Special
Edition starring Tom Baker as Doctor Who, Mary Tamm as Romana, and
John
Leeson as the Voice of K9.
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All four 25-minute episodes with full
restoration treatment.
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Graphical menus, episode and scene selection
features, and subtitles for the hearing impaired.
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Commentary
with actors Tom Baker and
Mary Tamm, and director Michael Hayes.
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Production
Notes subtitles. Displays pop-up
production trivia throughout the story.
- “The Humans of
Paul
Lavers (Farrah), and Neville Jason (Prince Reynart), writer David Fisher, script editor
Anthony Read,
and director Michael
Hayes.
- “Now and Then: The Androids of
in the making of this
story, spotlighting how it looked in 1978 compared to the present.
- “Double
Trouble” 11-minute featurette on the history of
doubles in Doctor Who. With
interviews with Tom
Spilsbury of Doctor Who Magazine, and Paul Lang and Moray Laing
from Doctor Who Adventures.
- Photo Gallery.
8 minutes.
- Radio Times Listings. A pdf
file on the disc of the TV listings for this story, readable by a computer.
Doctor Who: The Power of Kroll
Special Edition starring Tom Baker as Doctor Who and Mary Tamm as Romana.
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All four 25-minute episodes with full
restoration treatment.
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Graphical menus, episode and scene selection
features, and subtitles for the hearing impaired.
-
Commentary
with actors Tom Baker and John Leeson
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Production
Notes subtitles. Displays pop-up
production trivia throughout the story.
- “In Studio” 11 minutes of the
raw studio recording taken from a surviving black and white videotape of the
session, featuring
the making of two scenes from late in the story in the refinery control room.
- Variations. 6-minute
segment from a local news program that visited the location filming.
- “There's Something
About Mary” 10 minute featurette spotlighting
Mary Tamm's year on the show, featuring
interviews with her.
- “Philip Madoc:
A Villain for All Seasons” 10-minute featurette
about Philip Madoc's four roles in the series
and his one in the
second
- Continuities. 3 minutes. (These are
the BBC introductions and trailers for the episodes.)
- Photo Gallery.
5 minutes.
- Radio Times Listings. A pdf
file on the disc of the TV listings for this story, readable by a computer.
Doctor Who: The Armageddon Factor Special
Edition starring Tom Baker as Doctor Who, Mary Tamm as Romana,
John Leeson as the Voice of K9, and
guest starring Valentine Dyall as the Black Guardian.
2
discs.
On Disc 1:
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All six 25-minute episodes with full
restoration treatment.
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Graphical menus, episode and scene selection
features, and subtitles for the hearing impaired.
- Commentary 1 with actors Mary Tamm and John Woodvine (the
Marshal) and director Michael Hayes.
- Commentary 2 with actors Tom Baker,
Mary Tamm, and John Leeson.
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Production
Notes subtitles. Displays pop-up
production trivia throughout the story.
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PDF Files. Two pdf files on
the disc: one of the Radio Times TV listings for this story, and the 1979
Doctor
Who Annual. The files are readable by a
computer.
On Disc 2:
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“Defining
Shadows" 16-minute making-of featurette, featuring
interviews with writers Bob Baker and
Dave
Martin, actors Lalla Ward (Princess Astra), Barry Jackson (Drax), Davyd Harries (Shapp),
designer Richard McManan-Smith, and director Michael Hayes.
- Alternative/Extended Scene. 3 minutes
from a black and white videotape of a scene that was truncated
a bit in the final
edit in Part Three of the Doctor meeting up with Shapp
on Zeos.
- Directing Who. 8-minute featurette about Michael Hayes' three stories as the director
(those were
The Androids of Tara, The
Armageddon Factor, and City of Death), featuring an interview with Hayes
himself.
- “Rogue Time Lords” 13-minute featurette about all the renegade Time Lords we've met down
the years.
- Pebble Mill at One. 8-minute interview
with Tom Baker from 1979 tying in to the series hitting its 500th
episode as of Part
One of this story.
- Radiophonic
Feature. 4-minute segment from Pebble Mill in 1979 that visited the BBC Radiophonic
Workshop. Features interviews with
Dick Mills and Brian Hodgson of the Workshop.
- The New Sound of Music. 1-minute bit
from the cutting room floor of that same BBC RW feature.
- Merry Christmas, Doctor Who. Special
1-minute sketch recorded from the Armageddon
Factor set where
K9
asks the Doctor what he most desires at Christmas... and then he has a look at Romana....
- Continuities. 3 minutes. (These are the BBC introductions and trailers
for the episodes.)
- Photo Gallery.
5 minutes.
- Late Night Stories. Five children’s short story readings by Tom Baker for a short
TV series.
Each
is about 15 minutes. The titles are The
Photograph, The Emissary, Nursery Tea, The End
of the
Party, and Sredni Vashtar.
- Easter Egg. Highlight the blank area below to reveal the
invisible text and find out what this is and where…
Highlight the “Continuities” selection on page
2 of the Special Features, then press the right arrow.
A Doctor Who logo
will appear up in the top right corner.
Select this and you will see a reconstruction
of a technical fault that occurred during the
original 1979 broadcast that interrupted the program for
a minute as the video playback machine jammed
and they put up some music to cover the dead air.
The only things that were on the 2002 edition that are not in the
Special Edition are the original photo galleries
(which were very minimal and have been
replaced by much better ones on the special edition) and the Who’s Who
text file biographies of the principal cast members, which were
discontinued from all releases some time ago.