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Two archive interviews are to be released on DVD and are available from Galaxy 4.
An interview with Tom Baker, conducted in 1989, was originally available on Video Cassette, published by Reeltime Pictures. It is released on DVD for the first time. Also available is a brand new title, an interview with Anthony Ainley from April 2000.
Both are released on 27th February.
Myth Makers Tom Baker
The Doctor will never change. He may grow old and fade away, but he will always be the same … so the fun is – how do you colour that?
Ask Doctor Who fans who their favourite Doctor is and the majority are likely to name Tom Baker’s portrayal above all others.
Much of Baker’s popularity has been fuelled by his reticence to appear in public to discuss his time in the programme. Little is actually known about the man or his memories of being the longest running Time Lord troubleshooter!
At last this has changed. In an exclusive interview with Nicholas Briggs, at the location used for The Android Invasion, Baker discusses frankly his life and career.
First released 1989
Myth Makers Anthony Ainley
I was always surprised when he (John Nathan Turner) rang me and called me back, because an actor always thinks a job is his last job!
Anthony Ainley had carved out a successful career as an actor in the theatre, films and television before being asked to play THE MASTER in Doctor Who.
A very private man, Ainley rarely did interviews and died before recording any extensive videos about his thoughts and feelings playing the evil nemesis of THE DOCTOR.
In this special Myth Makers, we are delighted to feature a rare interview with Ainley, recorded in 2000 at an event run by the Galaxy 4 shop in Sheffield.
Together with the memories of the organisers, this Myth Makers is very revealing of the man behind the role, proving Ainley was a very different man to the character we saw on our TV screens.
Recorded 2000
http://www.doctorwhonews.net/2015/02/archive-interviews-on-dvd.html
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Feb 19, 2015 - 12:42 PM
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Reeltime’s Pictures cult range of Doctor Who interviews are being relaunched through a brand new website Time Travel TV.
Reeltime Pictures will be a name familiar to fans active in the 1980's. Formed in 1984 by former Celestial Toyroom editor and then BBC and Channel 4 employee Keith Barnfather, their remit was to produce high quality content for Doctor Who and Cult TV fans alike. Their direct to video output consisted of original drama, documentaries and Myth Makers - a series of in depth interviews with a whole host of classic Doctor Who stars hosted by Nick Briggs. In the days before YouTube and the internet, is was the only way for many fans to view interviews with the stars and producers of their favourite show.
The new site will initially feature fifty titles for fans to download, stream or purchase on DVD. Included in the initial releases is a brand new Myth Makers: A tribute to Anthony Ainley. With a further 11 titles - old and new - being added every month until the entire back catalogue is released.
Keith Barnfather explained
It would be an impossible undertaking to try and get them all online at the same moment. So what we wanted to do was give a nice big cross section available to start and then slowly release the rest. So people can dip in every month.
Reeltime have already recorded a series of brand new Myth Makers to be released over the coming months. As well as the Anthony Ainley tribute; interviews with special effects guru Mike Tucker, composer Dominic Glynn, seventies producer Graham Williams, writer David Fisher and many more are in the pipeline
Also available will be a number of rare curiosities that have remained unreleased until now including Sophie’s Choice, an early 90’s pilot for an unmade children's documentary series hosted by Sophie Aldred. Later this year will also see the release of a brand new drama from Reeltime, White Witch of Devils End. Another sequel spawned from The Dæmons, this six episode series stars Damaris Hayman reprising her role as Miss Hawthorne.
Later this year Reeltime plan to shoot several Myth Makers with actors from the new series of Doctor Who, hopefully done live at a convention.
What we’d like to do one day is offer live streaming. So if we were doing an event and interviewing people, you could subscribe for the day to actually watch all the programming live streamed. I’d love to put my feet up and watch something like that!
These future plans will only come to fruition if there is enough interest in this initial re-launch.
Full details on the Time Travel TV Website
http://www.doctorwhonews.net/2015/02/the-return-of-reeltime-pictures.html
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Oct 21, 2015 - 12:32 PM
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Reeltime Pictures have announced the DVD release of the spin-off adventure Downtime, a direct to video production originally released in 1995 and featuring the character of Brigadier Lethbridge Stewart, as played by the late Nicholas Courtney.
The story was devised as a sequel to the second Doctor serials involving the Great Intelligence, The Abominable Snowmen and The Web of Fear, and included the return of Victoria Waterfield and Professor Edward Travers, as played by Deborah Watling and her father Jack Watling; it also saw the return of investigative journalist Sarah Jane Smith, reprised by Elisabeth Sladen. The video was also notable in introducing the character of the Brigadier's daughther, Kate Lethbridge-Stewart, now a firm favourite in the ongoing series of Doctor Who on television.
The character of the Brigadier was created in 1968 for the story The Web in Space, written jointly by Mervyn Haisman and Henry Lincoln, who authorised the original video production. However plans for Reeltime to release the drama on DVD have been contested by the Executor of the Haisman Literary Estate, Haisman's granddaughter Hannah Haisman-Hatt. She posted on Facebook:
It has been brought to my attention that Reeltime Pictures and One Media are releasing Downtime, the Doctor Who spin-off film made in 1995, on DVD. This is being done so without my consent or permission. As Executor of the Haisman Literary Estate, and thus copyright holder of Lethbridge-Stewart, Professor Travers, the Great Intelligence and the Yeti I should have been approached over this.
Attempts to negotiate have fallen on deaf ears, and my rightful claim has been refuted the producers. I have now been forced to take legal action to protect the copyright of my grandfather, Mervyn Haisman, after their refusal to renegotiate an agreement made twenty years ago for a film made for straight-to-video release only.
Reeltime Pictures have disputed her claim, with a spokesman informing Doctor Who News:
Reeltime Pictures has been approached by Hannah Hatt regarding the agreement we signed with her grandfather, Mervyn, in 1995. As we explained to her, the agreement is still in force and covers any exploitation that we might choose to undertake. Certainly no other party involved in the project has raised an issue with their agreements and we have assured her that no renegotiation is necessary.
There is little else we can do at this time other than to wait upon any legal representation she might make.
This is not the first time a dispute has arisen over characters and objects created for Doctor Who. In 2013 the son of Anthony Coburn, the writer of the very first story, claimed ownership of the TARDIS.
http://www.doctorwhonews.net/2015/10/dispute-over-downtime-dvd-release.html
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May 26, 2017 - 7:08 PM
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Fighting alone this time, without their famous time-traveling scientific advisor, Sarah Jane Smith (Elisabeth Sladen - DOCTOR WHO) and The Brigadier (Nicholas Courtney - DOCTOR WHO) investigate the New World University; a sinister organization seemingly run by another familiar face - Victoria Waterfield (Deborah Wating - DOCTOR WHO). It's difficult to tell friend from foe as The Brigadier's old enemy The Great Intelligence returns to Earth in the guise of Professor Travers (Jack Wating - DOCTOR WHO) and begins a new invasion attempt using the planet's own technology, but to win it must find the Locus that binds its power.
A few years ago, British company One Media released Downtime as a 2-DVD set in the U.K., with the 1995 production starring Nicholas Courtney as "Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart," Elisabeth Sladen as "Sarah Jane Smith," and 2nd-Doctor companion "Victoria Waterfield," played once again by Deborah Watling, who originated the role (and last played her in 1993's Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time).
Downtime is also the story which introduced the character of "Kate Lethbridge-Stewart," the Brigadier's daughter; she's better known these days as played by Jemma Redgrave, but in Downtime (and the follow-up 2004 production, Dæmos Rising) she was played by Beverley Cressman. The enemy is The Great Intelligence ("The Abominable Snowmen," "Web of Fear," "The Snowmen," "The Bells of Saint John," "The Name of the Doctor")...so it's probably not a surprise that Jack Watling (Deborah's father!) also reprises his Doctor Who role as "Professor Edward Travers."
One Media has now teamed up with North American manufacture on demand distributor Allied Vaughn, and their first release is an MOD for Downtime! Officially available starting this past Tuesday, May 23rd, it's just now rolling out to online sellers of MOD product (for example, it's not available yet from Amazon's CreateSpace MOD program, although an import copy of the U.K. version is for sale...however, being Region 2 encoded, it won't work in most DVD players in the USA and Canada).
The American release comes on a single disc, with the 154-minute feature and two extras: "Behind the Lens" and a "Post Production Glimpse." List price is $19.95 SRP, and below is the front box art, as supplied to us by Allied Vaughn. Note that despite other changes to the cover, One Media elected to leave on the triangular British "PG" logo, denoting the rating for U.K. audiences; it's not something normally seen on DVD covers in the States, though! Nevertheless, this does appear to be the American version of the box front:
http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Doctor-Downtime/23324
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