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Serial: 6V  Episode Nos. 637 and 638.  Title: Vengeance on Varos

The people of the planet Varos toil in misery and despair and are given back nothing in return but the spectacle of death on their television screens at home.  They have a precious mineral resource essential to time/space travel, but are unaware of their luck thanks to payoffs to their top officials from the alien Sil who buys their products.  Unaware, that is, until the Doctor arrives on Varos needing the mineral to repair the TARDIS, however the powers that be will stop at nothing to ensure that their power remains intact...

This story sees the debut of Nabil Shaban as Sil.

starring Colin Baker as the Doctor, Nicola Bryant as Peri, and Nabil Shaban as Sil. Written by Philip Martin, Produced by John Nathan-Turner, and Directed by Ron Jones.

Originally transmitted from 19 January 1985 to 26 January 1985 on BBC1.

DVD Features:

- Graphical menus, episode and scene selection features.

- Commentary by actors Colin Baker (the Doctor), Nicola Bryant (Peri), and Nabil Shaban (Sil)

- Two BBC1 broadcast trailers.

- Pop-up production notes subtitle commentary. (the UK versions had a defect where it stopped displaying after the layer change… this is fixed on our version.)

- Deleted and extended scenes. (Ten of them.)

- Behind-the-scenes featurette. This shows “wild” footage of several of the cast making a few different attempts at a scene as they try to improve the scene.

- Optional “production” soundtrack. This plays the story with no post-production sound effects or music.

- Continuity announcements. (The BBC’s announcer giving the time and a brief description of the upcoming show.)

- Photo gallery.

- Who’s Who actors biographies

- Digital remastering and clean-up of the video recordings.

- Outtakes featurette, showing the cast try to perform a scene and various things going wrong each time.