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post #61 of 99
2/26/08 at 10:40am

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Currently, 273 episodes have been, or are scheduled to be, released in the US. These releases include 5 box sets, whose episode count ranges from 12 to 26 episodes. The remaining DVDs each contain a complete serial, the length of which can range from 2 to 8 episodes, but most often is either 4 or 6 episodes. This works out as 48 separate releases, not counting the releases that were broken out of the boxsets. A bit unwieldy, but more manageable than you are implying.
And if you have a region free DVD player, you can buy some of the box sets Amazon.co.uk has released, like the Jon Pertwee box. They've also done the same with dalek and cybermen stories.
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post #62 of 99
2/26/08 at 12:56pm
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I was thinking the final straw was that JN-T wanted Saward to change the scripted downbeat ending to the Trial season to a "happy" one with Saward being so disgusted that he withdrew permission for the show to use any elements from his original scripted version of episode 14 (to keep JN-T from ruining it), which is why Pip-n-Jane Baker were essentially "flying blind" when they wrote the version that ultimately made it to air.

It was probably a bit of that and a bit of complication from Robert Holmes dieing before the final script for parts 13 and 14 were finished. Then Eric left, took his reworking of the drafts with him and left Pip and Jane (who aint good writers in the first place) to come in at the very last second and try and pick up the pieces.

And I'm not even sure that's the whole story! Which is why I so badly want to get Trial on disc.

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Thats interesting. I always liked Eric Sayward's stuff. If i recall he had a few good Space:1999 episodes. I would have to say i agree with him about JNT. I always felt that JNT was getting bored with the show. I know i read he wanted out but the BBC wouldnt let him go. So i guess he was tyring to kill the show. The last 2 years with McCoy, are for me, unwatchable.

I don't he was trying to kill the show - if that were the case, JNT could have simply left. If anything, it was probably his love of the show (he had been involved in it's production in one capacity or another since the end of the Trouton days), that kept him on. I've read interviews with him where he said that he could have left resigned the post, but he got the very distinct impression from upper management that the show would simply coast to a halt without a producer. So between that and a lack of work for him at the BBC, he stayed to the end.

Is he perfect? No - plenty of miss-steps during his tenure, but from the couple of times I got to see him in person, I think he genuinely cared and did what he thought best for the show.
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post #63 of 99
2/26/08 at 6:51pm

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Saward, see thats what i get for writing after 12 hours of work. Only a week to go until i get Planet of Evil here in the States!
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post #64 of 99
2/27/08 at 4:53am

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If anything, it was probably his love of the show (he had been involved in it's production in one capacity or another since the end of the Trouton days), that kept him on. I've read interviews with him where he said that he could have left resigned the post, but he got the very distinct impression from upper management that the show would simply coast to a halt without a producer. So between that and a lack of work for him at the BBC, he stayed to the end.

Agreed (but not with the spelling of Troughton!).
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post #65 of 99
4/30/08 at 1:25pm
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Rumor time, kiddies, so gather 'round!

DVD site Zeta Minor has given UK release dates for various classic-era stories later this year. According to its newly updated releases page, they are as follows:

K-9 Tales - A box set comprising The Invisible Enemy and the K-9/Sarah Jane Smith spin-off story K-9 And Company: June 16

The Brain of Morbius: July 21

The Trial of a Time Lord box set: August 18

Four To Doomsday: September 15

The War Machines: October 13

Battlefield: November 17

In addition, Revenge of the Slitheen and Eye of the Gorgon, both from spin-off series The Sarah Jane Adventures, are slated to be released on one DVD on January 12, 2009.

I cant wait for Trial on DVD. That one has *SUCH* potential for extras, it's not even funny. The fireing of Colin, the missing 23rd season, the sudden changes in mid-story arc. And if the music video of Doctor in Distress isnt included, I shall be very sad indeed.
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post #66 of 99
4/30/08 at 7:44pm

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Tony, thanks for posting. Course i live in the US, so who knows when we will see some of those titles. I would be interested in the Trial extras as well...give me some good dirt!

Four to Doomsday, a big time pass. One of the worst Who episodes ever! Cringe inducing stuff like the Doctor wearing a motorcycle helmet, and his usual getup, and nothing more, while in space.
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post #67 of 99
5/1/08 at 9:41am
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Yeah, Four to Doomsday was a poor episode - but I'm a completist, so I'll probably pick it up anyway. Besides, even if the show is poor the extras will be outstanding.
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post #68 of 99
5/2/08 at 10:50pm

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Steve Roberts over at the Restoration Team Technical Forum made an interesting comment:

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There is every intention to release every story, including those with episodes missing, within the next four years.

It's been obvious that they have significantly upped the release scheudle recently, but to know they are aiming to finish the entire run quite that quickly is (to my knowledge) new information.

(And, by his comment about "including those with episodes missing", I assume he means stories like The Ice Warriors or The Tenth Planet that are almost complete with only one or two episodes missing - since the orphaned episodes have been covered by Lost In Time).
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post #69 of 99
9/18/08 at 1:18pm
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So from the Utterly Rumor department, we have this for the 2009 releases:

Cybermen Boxset - Revenge Of The Cybermen / Attack Of The Cybermen / Silver Nemesis
http://www.zetaminor.com/dvd/incomin...ng.php?id=7360

The E-Space Trilogy - Full Circle / State Of Decay / Warriors' Gate
http://www.zetaminor.com/dvd/incomin...ting.php?id=15

The Keys Of Marinus
http://www.zetaminor.com/dvd/incomin...ng.php?id=7359

Delta And The Bannermen
http://www.zetaminor.com/dvd/incomin...ng.php?id=6185

The Black Guardian Trilogy - Mawdryn Undead / Terminus / Enlightenment
http://www.zetaminor.com/dvd/incomin...ng.php?id=5752

The Chase
http://www.zetaminor.com/dvd/incomin...ng.php?id=4808

The War Games
http://www.zetaminor.com/dvd/incomin...ng.php?id=4785

I'd guess the Pertwee release(s) would include

Planet Of The Spiders
http://www.zetaminor.com/dvd/incomin...ng.php?id=3705

Like I said - pure rumor, but it comes from the highly reliable Zeta Minor website, so I'd say it's a very strong rumor.
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post #70 of 99
9/18/08 at 4:48pm

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Interesting rumors, Tony...thanks.

Did anyone notice that I posted the announcements yesterday for USA releases of War Machines and Four To Doomsday?

Doctor Who DVD news: Announcement for Doctor Who - Story #027: The War Machines and Doctor Who - Story #118: Four to Doomsday | TVShowsOnDVD.com


I'm also a completist, so I'll get Four To Doomsday even though it's a thoroughly awful episode. Gotta love the way the studio writer described the episode in the material I quoted at my story ("Peter Davison's recently regenerated Fifth Doctor is burdened by the most irritating trio of companions in the history of the show (Adric, Nyssa, and Tegan)"; "Meanwhile, Monarch, a giant green frog-thing, wants to travel back to the Big Bang to meet God, who he is convinced is himself.").

On the other hand, I've never seen War Machines, and always wanted to. I understand it bears a striking resemblance to the central idea of a certain big-budget film classic of James Cameron's, which has had numerous sequels (including more coming), and a more recent television spin-off. The plot, as I understand it, is about an immobile computer called "WOTAN" that is extremely intelligent and able to network into every other computer in the world, and decides humans are no longer needed, and causes deadly mobile robots to be built to go around and destroy them. Any of that sound familiar, hmmm? Nope, I'm not referring to Colossus: The Forbin Project (close, though).
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post #71 of 99
9/18/08 at 5:23pm

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War Machines didn't have Ahnuld.

I can (and may) do without the McCoy serials, but the rest are must-haves. I do wish we'd see more Pertwee serials; the releases so far have been overly slanted towards the Tom Baker years.
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post #72 of 99
9/18/08 at 6:06pm

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Just get me The Deadly Assassin, and all will be good. I hate Four to Doomsday...as bad as anything McCoy did. Only, i like Peter Davison, and i dont like the McCoy Doctor. The preview on the Restoration site does look pretty cool for The War Machines. I will be broke after i buy the 4th season of new Who anyway.

I am so in for the E Space thing when that ever happens.
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post #73 of 99
9/18/08 at 6:15pm

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I am also waiting for the "Deadly Assasin", but the releases have been stepped up and so far, I enjoyed every one of them. The Restoration team has done a commendable job so far. I hope they keep it up. I prefer the classic Doctor Who stories compared to the new Doctor Who ones.
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post #74 of 99
9/19/08 at 5:54am

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I do wish we'd see more Pertwee serials; the releases so far have been overly slanted towards the Tom Baker years.

I suspect it has a lot to do with the fact that many of the Pertwee stories need a lot of restoration work done to them, with many of them needing either Reverse Standards Conversion (with 1970s-era NTSC conversions being the only masters), re-colouring (combining the archive B/W 16mm prints with Tom Lundy's off-air Beta recordings, then VidFiring the whole thing), or in the case of four serials, some (or all) of the episodes existing only as black-and-white film prints (with no off-air source for recolouring, or one too poor to use).

I, for one, hope the stories containing B/W episodes (Ambassadors of Death, Mind of Evil, Planet of the Daleks and Invasion of the Dinosaurs) are saved until last, so that hopefully, some sort of colour source (either a master or an off-air) turns up, or the cost of having the B/W episodes recoloured comes down to an acceptable level.
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post #75 of 99
9/19/08 at 10:13am
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The War Machines is frustratingly uneven. The plot is downright illogical, but it's got good production values and it moves along so briskly that you probably won't notice any of the flaws. We get two new great companions and we ditch the Worst Companion Ever*, so that's a selling point - and the restoration looks great, even for the RT's work.

*Second to Adric, I mean

It's just a shame that this is pretty much the bulk of Ben and Polly's time as companions.
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post #76 of 99
9/19/08 at 1:14pm

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So from the Utterly Rumor department, we have this for the 2009 releases:

Cybermen Boxset - Revenge Of The Cybermen / Attack Of The Cybermen / Silver Nemesis
The E-Space Trilogy - Full Circle / State Of Decay / Warriors' Gate
The Keys Of Marinus
Delta And The Bannermen
The Black Guardian Trilogy - Mawdryn Undead / Terminus / Enlightenment
The Chase
The War Games

I'd guess the Pertwee release(s) would include

Planet Of The Spiders
I don't know - three box-sets seem unlikely - especially when none of the stories have been previously released, so they're not going to be a repackaging like the Davros or Bred For War boxes.
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post #77 of 99
9/19/08 at 2:01pm

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It's not unreasonable, though. We got two boxsets this year -- Beneath the Surface and The Trial of a Time Lord.
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post #78 of 99
9/19/08 at 2:08pm

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It's just a shame that this is pretty much the bulk of Ben and Polly's time as companions.


You mean, it's the bulk of what Ben and Polly episodes that still exist, of course. This is also the only story with Ben and Polly that exists in full.
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post #79 of 99
1/12/09 at 6:02am

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Resurrecting an old thread (or even regenerating it, ha ha) to note what's currently scheduled so far for release in 2009 (as per article in the latest issue of DWM):

January - E-Space Trilogy boxed set (Full Circle, State of Decay, Warriors' Gate)

February - The Rescue / The Romans

March - Attack of the Cybermen

Date TBA - The Deadly Assassin, Image of the Fendahl, Delta and the Bannermen, The War Games...

...and last but certainly not least, a boxed set entitled Dalek War, containing the consecutive stories Frontier in Space and Planet of the Daleks, with episode three of the latter restored to full colour! Details of how this was done are here.
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post #80 of 99
1/12/09 at 7:25am

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The article also confirms that there are no less than seventeen stories planned for release this year, and four boxsets.

This means that in addition to the stories posted above there are five additional ones, some of which will be in a further boxset (the other three being the E-Space trilogy, the Rescue/Romans double pack and of course the Dalek War set).

It seems to have become an established pattern of at least 15 stories a year, and this fits in nicely with the idea of a full release by the end of 2012.

It's certainly one hell of an improvement over the ludicrous six a year, which would have completed sometime in the 2020's
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post #81 of 99
1/13/09 at 6:48pm

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Yesss.....The Deadly Assasin will be mine. Oh, yes.

I would be in for The E Space discs as well.

Thanks for the info guys!
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post #82 of 99
1/14/09 at 5:46pm

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Those must be UK release dates. The E-Space box isn't coming to the US until May.

I'm definitely looking forward to some of these. The E-Space box, Deadly Assassin, and Image of the Fendahl will definitely have a place in my collection. But I'd like to see more Pertwee and Davison stories released. Seems like I've been saying that for a few years...
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post #83 of 99
1/15/09 at 7:11am

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The article also confirms that there are no less than seventeen stories planned for release this year, and four boxsets.

This means that in addition to the stories posted above there are five additional ones, some of which will be in a further boxset (the other three being the E-Space trilogy, the Rescue/Romans double pack and of course the Dalek War set).

Two of those titles have been announced today; The Keys of Marinus and The War Games. And yes, the release dates mentioned above were UK.
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post #84 of 99
12/29/11 at 1:33pm

Very much looking forward to the Region 2 release of The Daemons next year. Not interested in the new Doctor Who series. Jon Pertwee was my favourite of the Doctors in the original series, and of the stories which I saw from his era, The Daemons is the story which I liked the most. Finally, it's being released on DVD. The UK release date is Monday 26th March, 2012 (source: Amazon UK).

 

Also coming soon on Region 2 are the following stories (source: Amazon UK):

 

Doctor Who: U.N.I.T. Files boxset (Invasion of the Dinosaurs & The Android Invasion) - Monday 9th January, 2012

Doctor Who: The Sensorites - Monday 23rd January, 2012

Doctor Who Revisitations 3 (The Tomb of the Cybermen, Robots of Death and The Three Doctors) - Monday 13th February, 2012

Doctor Who: The Face of Evil - Monday 5th March, 2012.

 

The Region 2 boxset of Spearhead from Space and Terror of the Autons I recommend.

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post #85 of 99
12/29/11 at 1:40pm
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Very much looking forward to the Region 2 release of The Daemons next year. Not interested in the new Doctor Who series. Jon Pertwee was my favourite of the Doctors in the original series, and of the stories which I saw from his era, The Daemons is the story which I liked the most. Finally, it's being released on DVD. The UK release date is Monday 26th March, 2012 (source: Amazon UK).

Also coming soon on Region 2 are the following stories (source: Amazon UK):

Doctor Who: U.N.I.T. Files boxset (Invasion of the Dinosaurs & The Android Invasion) - Monday 9th January, 2012
Doctor Who: The Sensorites - Monday 23rd January, 2012
Doctor Who Revisitations 3 (The Tomb of the Cybermen, Robots of Death and The Three Doctors) - Monday 13th February, 2012
Doctor Who: The Face of Evil - Monday 5th March, 2012.

The Region 2 boxset of Spearhead from Space and Terror of the Autons I recommend.

I don't remember if it's been officially announced yet, but Daemons is rumored to be due out in America in April.

I'm also looking forward to the single American releases of those revisitations box sets. Was watching Caves of Androzani the other day, and it could definitely use a cleaning up. It was one of the first US Who DVDs released, so odds are it wasn't remastered to look as good as later releases... kind of like how Key to Time was shoved out there in the US because of a fan vote, and eventually got the good Special Edition release.

The Who serial I'm most looking forward to in 2012 though, is the Troughton serial (Ice Warriors?), which I'm hoping has the missing segments animated.
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post #86 of 99
12/29/11 at 8:43pm
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I'm also looking forward to the single American releases of those revisitations box sets. Was watching Caves of Androzani the other day, and it could definitely use a cleaning up. It was one of the first US Who DVDs released, so odds are it wasn't remastered to look as good as later releases... kind of like how Key to Time was shoved out there in the US because of a fan vote, and eventually got the good Special Edition release.

Caves was also one of the first UK releases and the US release was simply a standards-conversion of the UK disc, so it wasn't "rushed" out in the US like Key was, it was just early days of the range before more time, effort, etc. was invested in the releases (and before the 'transform decoder' was used on the stories. I think Ark in Space is the last of the early releases that hasn't had a 'revisited' or 'special edition' upgrade released/announced (which includes a pass through the decoder).

There is one error on the revisited Caves, though. Although all the film sequences were replaced (thanks to the original A/B rolls of film existing for this story), there was a cross-fade from film to studio videotape that wasn't re-done when they replaced the film this time, so instead of a cross-fade, there is a hard cut. So, some people will complain (and have) about that, but I guess that's how it goes: improved picture quality on the filmed scenes, but one tiny detail missed out!

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The Who serial I'm most looking forward to in 2012 though, is the Troughton serial (Ice Warriors?), which I'm hoping has the missing segments animated.

I'd say that animation for that serial's two missing episodes is quite likely (and has been hinted at along with the already-confirmed Reign of Terror).
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post #87 of 99
12/29/11 at 9:54pm
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I'd say that animation for that serial's two missing episodes is quite likely (and has been hinted at along with the already-confirmed Reign of Terror).

Ah, Reign of Terror... that's the one I was thinking of that was coming with animated reconstructions.

I just automatically assumed it was a Troughton serial, because there are at least two Second Doctor serials with most of the episodes surviving that could be completed with animation (three, if you count the Underwater Menace in the bunch, since they just recently rediscovered a second episode, which means half the serial now exists).
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post #88 of 99
12/30/11 at 2:17am
I would suggest that the strongest candidates for animations would be The Tenth Planet (featuring the introduction of the Cybermen and as the final Hartnell story that introduces regeneration) and The Ice Warriors (it's status as one of the two remaining viable Troughton stories)

I would be extremely surprised if we got a Hartnell historical animated but did not get these two. It's nice to get a Hartnell, but the story isn't what I'd call iconic and there is a reasonably good range of his era stories available whereas the Troughtons are desperately thin
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post #89 of 99
12/30/11 at 9:09am

Would be interested in reading about the history of the Tom Baker-era story Shada.

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post #90 of 99
2/18/12 at 9:52am

Revised release dates list from post #84 of this thread (source: Amazon UK):

 

 

Doctor Who: The Face of Evil - Monday 5th March

Doctor Who: The Daemons - Monday 19th March

Doctor Who: Nightmare of Eden - Monday 2nd April

Doctor Who: Ace Adventures Boxset (contains Dragonfire and The Happiness Patrol) - Monday 7th May.


Edited by WaveCrest - 3/14/12 at 9:58am
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