When the Tom Baker episodes were first sold to the US, it was decided to edit the stories a bit to make them easier to sell to commercial TV stations. Something else they decided to do was make clip montages at the start and finish of each episode to help remind people what happened previously...
To add to Richard's comments, there are some reports stating that the VidFIRE processing on the Region 2 Hartnell/Troughton disks gets washed out if you watch them on a NTSC set (letting the DVD player do the conversion). You don't want to lose that restoration effect, so one should stick with...
James, the "statement" from Steve Roberts was completely fabricated IIRC. He had no idea how the article author came up with that idea as he couldn't think of a proper way to stick a lone episode into a DVD release at that point. I'd point you to his exact quote, but it scrolled off of the...
With the stunning level of restoration work being done to these episodes (VidFIRE, manual deblobbing on thousands of video frames per episode) along with all of the deleted scenes, documentaries, interviews, commentaries (verbal and text) and other extras (like alternate CGI effect sequences...
http://www.gallifreyone.net/news.php...pAVpkEygkjXhRj More info should appear later this week, but here is what is expected Doctor Who-wise from BBC Video for Region 1 this year. March 2: The Seeds of Death and The Three Doctors old news June 1: The Curse of Fenric and The Two Doctors...