Season Seven - 1970 "Spearhead from Space": released "Doctor Who and the Silurians": released "The Ambassadors of Death" * "Inferno": released
Notes: One unreleased title *.
Season Eight - 1971 "Terror of the Autons" * "The Mind of Evil" * "The Claws of Axos": released "Colony In Space" * "The Daemons" *
Notes: Four unreleased titles *. The least represented on DVD.
Season Nine - 1972 "Day of the Daleks" * "The Curse of Peladon": released "The Sea Devils": released "The Mutants" * "The Time Monster": released
Notes: Two unreleased titles *.
Season Ten - 1972-1973 "The Three Doctors": released "Carnival of Monsters": released "Frontier In Space": released "Planet of the Daleks": released "The Green Death": released
Notes: The only season that is complete on DVD.
Season Eleven - 1973 - 1974 "The Time Warrior": released "Invasion of the Dinosaurs" * "Death to the Daleks" * "The Monster of Peladon": released "Planet of the Spiders" *
Taking place on Saturday, 20th June 2010, ReUNITed is a one off Doctor Who event featuring star guests from the series “UNIT era” of the early 1970s.
With Jo Grant actress Katy Manning, script editor Terrance Dicks, and Corporal Bell actress Fernanda Marlowe (and others to be announced) ReUNITed is a rare chance to see these three personalities from Doctor Who’s earlier days.
The event takes place at the George IV Public House & Comedy Club (Chiswick, London) and tickets cost £30 – the fee includes TWO autographs per guest.
Former Doctor Who assistant Katy Manning will be doing the Crusaid Walk For Life this Sunday (6 June) in London. Katy, who returns to star alongside new Doctor Matt Smith in The Sarah Jane Adventures later this year, volunteered to do the walk with the deputy editor of GT, Darren Scott, when she heard he had agreed to do the walk in a novelty Dalek costume. Referring to her infamous naked Dalek photoshoot from the 70s, she joked that the pair should recreate the pose, albeit fully clothed.
Episode One of the BBC Two show Home Movie Roadshow featured some rare archival footage of Jon Pertwee as The Doctor meeting fans and driving the Whomobile. See the footage in the player below.
2|entertain have announced that the 1972 Third Doctor story, Day of the Daleks, will be released on DVD in 2011.
The announcement was made at Time and Space, the DWAS convention in London, where commissioning editor Dan Hall confirmed the story would be released with new SFX and Dalek voices.
The story was the first story of Season Nine and was first broadcast between January 1 and January 22, 1972. Alongside Jon Pertwee as The Doctor, Katy Manning starts as Jo Grant with Nicholas Courtney playing Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, Richard Franklin as Captain Mike Yates and John Levene as Sergeant Benton. Guest stars include Aubrey Woods as The Controller, Anna Barry as Anat, Scott Fredericks as Boaz and Jean McFarlane as Miss Paget.
The story was one of four written for the series by Louis Marks, who died last month. It was directed by Paul Bernard and designed by David Myerscough-Jones.
The story was first released on VHS and Betamax in an omnibus format in 1986 and re-released in episodic format in 1994.
While folks don't always rate Day that highly amongst the Dalek Stories (even the Pertwee ones, what with "oh, they were written in after the script was completed", "there's only three Daleks", "their voices sound funny", ect, but I love it. Except maybe for the ATV chase, because it goes almost as fast as an Orgon.
2|Entertain have sent DWO the cover and details for the January 2011 DVD release of The Mutants.
The Mutants
Featuring: Jon Pertwee as The Third Doctor
The Time Lords send the Doctor and Jo on a mission to deliver a sealed message pod to an unknown party aboard a Skybase orbiting the planet Solos in the 30th century.
Solos is due to gain independence from Earth's empire but its Marshal is determined to prevent this. He arranges the murder of the Earth Administrator and, with his chief scientist Jaeger, plans to transform Solo's atmosphere into one more suited to humans.
Ky, a young Solonian leader, is falsely accused of the murder and flees to the planet, taking Jo with him. The Doctor follows and joins them in an old thaesium mine. Ky turns out to be the intended recipient of the message pod, which opens automatically for him. Inside are stone tablets carved with ancient inscriptions...
Special Features:
Disc 1- Episodes
• 6 x 25 mins approx colour episodes with mono audio.
• Commentary - stereo. With actors Katy Manning and Garrick Hagon, director Christopher Barry, script editor Terrance Dicks, co-writer Bob Baker, special sounds supervisor Brian Hodgson and designer Jeremy Bear. Moderated by Nicholas Pegg.
• Coming Soon (dur. Approx 1’) - a trailer for a forthcoming DVD release.
• Programme subtitles.
• Subtitle Production Notes.
Disc 2 – DVD Extras
• Mutt Mad (dur. 20’ 43”) – cast and crew look back at the making of the story. With actor Garrick Hagon, producer Barry Letts, director Christopher Barry, co-writer Bob Baker, script editor Terrance Dicks and designer Jeremy Bear.
• Race Against Time (dur. 37’ 38”) - Noel Clarke narrates a documentary looking at the representation of black actors in Doctor Who and on British TV as a whole. With writer and critic Bidisha, writer Stephen Bourne, actor Fraser James, and Doctor Who Magazine’s assistant editor Peter Ware. Narrated by Noel Clarke.
• Dressing Doctor Who (dur. 27’ 04”) – three-times Academy Award winning costume designer James Acheson takes an affectionate look back over his earlier work on Doctor Who from his home in New Zealand. Narrated by Simon Ockendon.
• Blue Peter (dur. 1’ 35”) – Peter Purves takes a look at a collection of Doctor Who monsters prior to the opening of an exhibition of visual effects.
• Photo Gallery (dur. 2’ 56”) - production, design and publicity photos from the story.
Wired Magazine have reported that Third Doctor Jon Pertwee's adventure from Season Seven, The Ambassadors of Death is in the process of being completed for DVD.
The story is one of a number that do not exist in the BBC Archives in full colour; though an off-air camera copy exists, this does not provide a good signal for recreating a colour version as seen in the DVD release Doctor Who And The Silurians (details of that process may be read from the Restoration Team's Beneath the Surface article). A new colour decoding strategy was deployed for episode three of the Planet of the Daleks DVD release (see article), and has now reached maturity to tackle the third Doctor's third adventure:
Their method is a refined version of that trialled on the 2009 Planet of the Daleks re-release; it is now being deployed on a seven-part 1970 Jon Pertwee adventure, The Ambassadors of Death. "It seemed on most recordings, they didn't filter off the colour carrier [encoded as a 'chroma dot' pattern in each frame], which for the last few decades has been nothing more than an annoyance." Team member Richard Russell used the signal to reverse-engineer raw colour pictures that could be retouched frame by frame. "It's very, very labour intensive -- several hundred man hours' work every episode," says Steve Roberts. Luckily, a new "quadrant editor" is helping them to produce better source material upfront, so they hope to deliver the Ambassadors episodes to the BBC within weeks.
No other details on the future DVD release is known at present, though a commentary for the story was recorded back in late 2009, featuring members of the cast and crew including Nicholas Courtney (The Brigadier), Terrance Dicks (script editor), Peter Halliday (alien voices) and Derek Ware (stunts/fight arranger).
I'm pretty excited about "Ambassadors", as Liz Shaw is my favorite.
BTW, which Pertwee Dalek story has them pushing the pepper pots around like they were furniture after having thrown some bright purple rugs over them? LOL Is that "Death to the Daleks"?
You may have some small idea how insane it is to pose a question like that! Only in Classic Dr Who, right?
BTW, which Pertwee Dalek story has them pushing the pepper pots around like they were furniture after having thrown some bright purple rugs over them? LOL Is that "Death to the Daleks"?
Purple rugs? That would be Planet of the Daleks. LOL
BTW, which Pertwee Dalek story has them pushing the pepper pots around like they were furniture after having thrown some bright purple rugs over them? LOL Is that "Death to the Daleks"?
Purple rugs? That would be Planet of the Daleks. LOL
Gah! In the '70s, there was a McDonald's "character" named Grimace who "represented" "milkshakes." When I saw those purple Dalek-covering rugs, I immediately thought of a skinned Grimace.
It has been confirmed that the upcoming DVD re-release of the Third Doctor's first story, Spearhead from Space, will include the previously missing Fleetwood Mac track, Oh Well Part One.
Steve Roberts of the Doctor Who Restoration Team posted on Gallifrey Base that the track will be included on the soundtrack of the story due for release around the world later this year.
The music was present on the original transmission, during scenes of dolls being manufactured at Auto Plastics. Because of rights issues the track was removed from the 1988 BBC Video release and the 2001 DVD Release. The track is now covered by the PPL agreement, the same agreement which allowed the missing Beatles music to be restored to the UK release of The Chase.
However, unlike the release of The Chase, the Fleetwood Mac track is covered internationally and so will be included on all versions of the story.
of Death has been delayed due to ongoing restoration issues.
It was hoped that the story would be out later this year and it was due to be released along with the 1977 story The Sun Makers. However the company confirmed via their twitter account that the story will not now be released this year.
The story only existed in the BBC Archives in a mixture of formats. Although the original Transmission Master of Episode One exists, the rest of the story was only kept as 16mm black and white film. A second generation colour copy exists as an off air recording from WNED Channel 17 in Buffalo, and this was used to restore episodes five and six to colour for the 2002 Video release. However the quality of the colour recording was not good enough to allow for the restoration of the rest of the story.
Earlier this year it was reported that the remaining episodes were being restored to colour using the same technique applied to Episode Three of the 1973 story Planet of the Daleks. However it appears this process has run into problems and the release date has been delayed to give the restoration team more time to work on the project.