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Serial: 5X  Episode Nos. 572, 573, 574, and 575.  Title: The Visitation

Near a manor house in England in the year 1666, a spaceship crashes.  The occupant aliens attack and occupy the house and set about plans to conquer the planet and make it their own.  Arriving soon after are the Doctor and his friends, who are immediately marked as plague carriers by the villagers and blamed for the recent deaths.  Will the Doctor be able to get past the villagers and a near-invincible android and still have time to prevent a genocidal epidemic planned by the aliens?

starring Peter Davison as the Doctor, Matthew Waterhouse as Adric, Sarah Sutton as Nyssa, and Janet Fielding as Tegan. Written by Eric Saward, Produced by John Nathan-Turner, and Directed by Peter Moffatt.

Originally transmitted from 15 February 1982 to 23 February 1982 on BBC1.

DVD Features:

- All 4 episodes of the story, digitally restored and remastered. Episodes are 25 minutes each.

- Graphical menus, episode selection features, and scene selection features.

- “Directing Who – Peter Moffatt” A new 26-minute featurette that interviews director Peter Moffatt and profiles the six stories he worked on on Doctor Who.

(which were this one, State of Decay, Mawdryn Undead, The Five Doctors, The Twin Dilemma, and The Two Doctors.)

- “Scoring The Visitation” A new 16-minute featurette where composer and restoration team sound guru Mark Ayres interviews composer

Paddy Kingsland about his music for this story.

- Film Trims. 5:30 of alternate takes shot during the location filming of the story.

- Audio Options. Here you get the choice to listen to two alternate soundtracks. One contains the Commentary track with all four members of

the regular cast, plus director Peter Moffatt. The other is an Isolated Score option, which plays the episodes with only the incidental

music track playing, i.e. with none of the live action sound or effects under it.

- “Writing a Final Visitation” A new 13-minute interview with writer Eric Saward about how he wrote the story.

- Photo Gallery. 5 minutes of behind-the-scenes production stills.

- Information Text. Displays pop-up production trivia subtitles as the episodes play.

- Who’s Who. Biographies of the actors playing the major parts in this story.

- 1 Easter Egg. Highlight the invisible text area below to see what it is and how to find it.

At the start of the main menu, simply press the left arrow immediately. This will highlight the Doctor Who logo at the top of the screen.

Click on that, and you will see the BBC1 continuity announcements that topped and tailed some of the episodes of this story on their

original UK broadcast. (this isn’t a typo... yes, this is exactly the same sort of Easter Egg that’s on the Green Death DVD.)