February 20th, 2013
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Doctor Who Inferno Special Edition (DVD)
Doctor Who Inferno Special Edition (DVD)
Released on May 27, 2013.
With Jon Pertwee, Caroline John, Nicholas Courtney, John Levenea and Olaf Pooley.
An experiment gone awry sends the Doctor (Jon Pertwee) to a parallel universe where his friends and companions are members of a fascist regime in this thrilling and popular episode from the long-running science fiction series Doctor Who.
Inferno is the name of a project designed to drill into the Earth’s core and release a powerful energy source called Stahlman’s Gas; what’s yielded instead is an insidious substance that transforms men into monsters.
The resulting chaos interrupts the Doctor’s travel in the TARDIS and knocks him into an alternate Earth run by a military dictatorship, and where Project Inferno’s progress threatens to bring about an apocalypse.
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booboo
February 23rd, 2013 - 2:34pmyet it would be right, i expect retailers get advanced notice of future releases
Lachlan
February 23rd, 2013 - 12:50pmi think there’s only really the need for 6 more Special Editions in my case and even then the only reasoning for it is not for restoration but because of the extra disc of extras and for a newer cover art these would be: in no real order “The Horror of Fang Rock”, “The Pyramids of Mars”, “The Leisure Hive”, “Earthshock”, “The Dalek Invasion of Earth” and “The Mind Robber” i mean how great would a new cover be for the Dalek Invasion of Earth from Lee Binding 🙂 besides that though there is no reason really for more Special Editions past now.
McGann is The Doctor
February 23rd, 2013 - 5:22pmThe special editions are great, and I agree with your choices but a special edition for Arc of Infinity is much needed, as is Two Doctors.
Would be nice if Mark and the Rani and Genesis of the Daleks had rereleases aswell 🙂
Lachlan
February 23rd, 2013 - 9:30pmi wouldn’t mind Genesis for a new cover but honestly that release is perhaps one of the best, also whilst looking at Arc of Infinity l’m not sure it really needs anything its got a good amount of extras like normal, and Mark of the Rani is for my collection not good, l only collect the 1st to 5th Doctors because 6 and 7 didn’t do a great job in my and many others opinions. apart from that i did like The Two Doctors for Patrick Troughton and that was a great release that could only use a new cover 🙂 just let Lee Binding do covers up to 2006 🙂
Connor
February 23rd, 2013 - 10:25pmI think the six they should only special edition are dalek invasion of earth,Earthshock,Mind robber,ghostlight, horror of fang rock,curse of fenric and maybe the leisure hive! So that’s what I think that should be rereleased.who here agrees and what’s your thoughts?
gordon
February 25th, 2013 - 12:22amThe main reason for the special editions is visual improvements and after this year they are pretty much out of stories that would give enough visual improvments to make special editions worth while in my opinion.
Connor
February 23rd, 2013 - 6:38amIs the DVD range continuing on through to 2014?
gordon
February 23rd, 2013 - 9:08amIt will continue till 2014 but how it will continue hasn’t been announced.
pathdw98
February 23rd, 2013 - 1:46amwith spearhead getting a special edition bluray, could the movie and the new series 1-4 get blurays as well?
gordon
February 23rd, 2013 - 9:20amThe tv movie could be possible if the original negs could get tracked down but if the original negs do still exist at universal is unknown. Also the effects would need to be recreated as they were added in post production on tape. The cost of tracking down the footage remastering for blu ray and recreating the effects in all likelyhood would be too expensive
The Greater Intelligence
February 22nd, 2013 - 9:38pmI wonder how long it is going to be until they release every (needed) story to Special Edition. I’ve noticed all Special Editions ar from 2003-2006 releases and the remaining stories are (not including the so far 2013 releases):
The Dalek Invasion Of Earth
The Web Planet
The Mind Robber
Genesis Of The Daleks
Pyramids Of Mars
The Hand Of Fear
Horror Of Fang Rock
City Of Death
The Leisure Hive
Earthshock
The Mark Of The Rani
The Two Doctors
Revelation Of The Daleks
Ghost Light
The Curse Of Fenric
The Greater Intelligence
February 22nd, 2013 - 9:40pmBy the way, my list may be different because I’m in America and have some releases that the UK doesn’t (ex: The Beginning re-release in December 2012)
Connor
February 22nd, 2013 - 11:44pmI think they only need to release
Dalek invasion of earth
Earthshock
Curse of fenric
The Mind robber
Ghostlight
Horror of fang rock
Leisure hive
And that’s it! No more after that we don’t need special editions of:
Genesis of the daleks
Revelation of the daleks
Two doctors
Pyramids of mars
Mark of the rani
City of death
Hand of fear
drjakeyoung
February 22nd, 2013 - 4:41pmjust got an email from amazon saying ark in space SE has been dispatched to me. Also anyone think the curse of fatal death might be released as an extra on scream of the shalka?
celestial toymaker
February 22nd, 2013 - 8:26pmmaybe
pathdw98
February 22nd, 2013 - 8:26pmhope so as i cant see any other release they could put it on unless they release it on its own
drjakeyoung
February 23rd, 2013 - 1:50pmIt’s only 20 minutes long, so i don’t see it getting it’s own release. High bets on the shalka release.
gary
February 22nd, 2013 - 11:36amSo what are they gonna do once they’ve released every story on DVD? Are they gonna go through them all and release them all as special editions?
celestial toymaker
February 22nd, 2013 - 12:48pmprobably not probably the ones that are left like leisure hive and fang rock fang rock definitely needs a se
celestial toymaker
February 22nd, 2013 - 12:49pmthis cover is a bit drastic for liz’s departure
McGann is the Doctor
February 22nd, 2013 - 12:59pmIt’s not her departure story, it’s just her last TV story.
Same goes for Ace in Survival.
Anonymous
February 22nd, 2013 - 11:21amI think they should spend less money on SEs and more on animating the lost episodes
gordon
February 22nd, 2013 - 3:46pmEach DVD gets its budget alocated by how much its expected to sell. If they didn’t do special editions there wouldn’t be more money avalible to do animated stories. Even if it was the case it would not make much difference to the ammount of animated storiesas special editions are much cheaper to do than animated stories
AlzieWhozie
February 22nd, 2013 - 8:45amI’ll keep my original signed cover copy. So other than an “improved” picture quality, is there anything else on this SE because at the moment this could be my first SE that I won’t be buying.
gordon
February 22nd, 2013 - 10:01amThe full list of new extras haven’t been revealed but there is the hadoke vs havoc and the fourth part of the dr forever series (parts 1 2 and 3 are on the se of ark in space Aztecs and visitation)
Connor
February 22nd, 2013 - 4:22amThis is my 3rd favorite story! I hate the DVD cover it looks like the video release covers,I prefure the old release DVD cover to this! I hope theres a lot of special features, I think this will probably have the most special features in the DVD range! I love the monsters in this story and the parallel universe theme! This is the last story of the first season and the last story to feature Liz shore! I will defently be getting this DVD on the release date for shore! I really think thouw it didnt need a special edition! What’s you’r thoughts?
gordon
February 22nd, 2013 - 10:18amThere will be 2 possibly 3 new documentaries that wasn’t on the original. The original release the picture quality wasn’t as good as some others of that era. Based upon the improvements on ep 2 and 3 of axos which went through the same restoration techniques as inferno I have high hopes for the picture quality of inferno
Anonymous
February 21st, 2013 - 9:22pmWhy are they re-relesing this I mean the original is fine. Plus I want to see dimensions in time and the curse of fatle death on dvd
booboo
February 21st, 2013 - 9:27pmbetter picture quality to start with
Gordon
February 21st, 2013 - 9:54pmdimensions in time will never get an official release. The restoration team website is clear on this: Dimensions in Time was an insert in the BBC’s Children in Need charity telethon. As the artistes taking part gave their time free of charge it was agreed that BBC Worldwide (then BBC Enterprises) would never seek to exploit it commercially in any form. (DC)
No amount of suggestions, “what ifs” or general pleading is likely to change this.
pathdw98
February 21st, 2013 - 10:03pmi know dimensions in time wont get released but what about curse of fatal death as it was released on vhs? also what new features will be on inferno that wasnt on the original?
Gordon
February 21st, 2013 - 11:13pmWe dont know what the new features are yet appart from the hadoke vs HAVOC documentary
Space1999
February 22nd, 2013 - 8:56amDimensions in time and the cause of fatal death could be an upcoming DVD extra or it should of been with more then 30 years in the tardis boxset
gordon
February 22nd, 2013 - 9:52amEven if there wasn’t legal issues regarding dimensions in time the cost of getting access from cin is 4k a minute which just isn’t worthwhile for what is an extra
McGann is the Doctor
February 21st, 2013 - 1:47pmI like this cover, the only thing is, what is that big purple round thing behind the Doctor ?
Anonymous
February 21st, 2013 - 1:12pmI think that An Unearthly Child should get A ’50th Anniversary Edition’. That would make sense.
drjakeyoung
February 21st, 2013 - 1:57pmand on disk 2 they should have an adventere in time and space.
pathdw98
February 22nd, 2013 - 4:49ammaybe. just found out it is getting released on dvd files on 27th nov so dont know how that would affect a full release.
Space1999
February 22nd, 2013 - 9:00amDVD files it only getting the DVD for a cheaper price but the only cheap price I use in on is in the bbc shop and forbidden planet which on some DVDs only cost £7.99 which to me is cheap
gordon
February 22nd, 2013 - 9:44amI think it will be the other way around adventures in time in space might come with an unearthly child as an extra
Ben Roberts
February 24th, 2013 - 7:42pmIf they release An Unearthly Child – Ultimate 50th Anniversary edition, it should be a 3-disc. One with all the original content from the original release. One with an Adventure In Space and Time and one with a movie-legnth edit of AUC (WITH an ultimate commentary featuring all surviving Doctor actors, Russell T Davies, Steven Moffat and Jenna-Louise Coleman)
Doom Dalek
February 21st, 2013 - 12:59pmgreat to HAVE A special edit Ion BUT THERE ARE OTHER STORIES THAT NEED A SPECIAL EDITION MORE THAN THIS 1 !
McGann is the Doctor
February 21st, 2013 - 1:46pmTwo Doctors and Arc of Infinity.
gordon
February 21st, 2013 - 3:16pmDisagree. Picture quality in inferno was pretty poor compared with others.there is nothing wrong with ark of infinity
Connor
February 22nd, 2013 - 4:28amI agree I think the dalek invasion of earth, Earthshock, mind robber and ghostlight all need special editions! And maybe the leasure hive and the horror of fang rock should be rereleased maybe? But I don’t want a special edition of the two doctors and the pyramids of mars as they are perfectly fine! And I think there should be more special editions! And maybe one day we will get these storys special editioned!
Space1999
February 22nd, 2013 - 9:08amI reckon some releases are a rip off you spend a lot of money to the first release then twelve years later another one comes out spending maybe another lot of money but there are some releases that a worth getting like the Aztecs which has galex 4 some that came out back in the day should come out again and for the 50th year on 23rd of november I reckon there must be a box set which contains an unearthly child , the three drs , the five doctors , the two doctors with extracts from the time crash , dimeansions in time, the cause of fatal death
gordon
February 22nd, 2013 - 9:39amNone are a rip off. You have to realise technology has moved forward in the past 7 to10years. What was good at the time doesn’t match now. Just look at the difference between the picture quality of ep 2 and 3 of claws of axos and the original and you will see what I mean
drjakeyoung
February 21st, 2013 - 12:05pmthe brigiders head looks photoshoped. I much preferred the original release. After the fantastic visitation cover we get this. W ell i suppose its not to bad.
kiwi63
February 21st, 2013 - 8:29amwow that cover is rubbish
Lachlan
February 21st, 2013 - 7:54amGreat Cover! not sure about the colour being Pink l think Red like its previous cover would have been good. Been waiting to complete Pertwees Season with this1 for awhile now 😛
Lachlan
February 21st, 2013 - 8:08amby the way is Scream of the Shalka actually going to be a worthy buy? l’ve never seen it but l’m not sure its even Canon or even part of the Classic Series and i mean how is it to be released? Classic series format or something similar to Dreamland? either way l’m pretty sure the majority would rather have some of The Underwater Menace DVD Release news than what has probably not been seen at all by many with The Scream of the Shalka… feel free to discuss that though l’m open ears on peoples opinions and views.
josh smith
February 21st, 2013 - 9:15amimpossible as it dosnt exsist i would much rather have dimentions in time
Space1999
February 22nd, 2013 - 9:10amI reckon the underwater menace will be out with the ice warriors
gordon
February 22nd, 2013 - 9:55amAs Dan hall has said there are no firm plans on underwater menace ep 2 I wouldn’t be so sure
Blake
February 21st, 2013 - 3:49amLooking foward to this release but I dont really like the cover, not dark enough for its story
John Smith
February 21st, 2013 - 8:26amPersonally I think that a good green would do it.
Lachlan
February 21st, 2013 - 8:55amhaha noooo go with Red like Inferno!!! haha XD
WHOlikes Jelly Babies
February 20th, 2013 - 9:52pmThe original was the first ever classic Doctor Who DVD I got and I loved it! I dont really see why they have re-released it.
gordon
February 20th, 2013 - 10:49pmMuch better picture quality
gordon
February 21st, 2013 - 10:36amDan hall said at galifrey 1 that shalka is getting a full DVD release. Ie production notes documentary etc and its a very good package overall
Ryan
February 20th, 2013 - 6:53pmCan’t wait for this! My fave Pertwee, now with even better picture quality! But, the quality better be a great improvement, because, other than that, the original didn’t need a special edition! And, I prefer the original cover, but, this new one, just tweak the Brig’s head a little, and I may like it a bit more! :p Still, it’s a great cover!
celestial toymaker
February 20th, 2013 - 8:34pmhow pointless why have they even done one
celestial toymaker
February 20th, 2013 - 8:36pmmust admit the brigadiers head does look funny lol
Esterath
February 20th, 2013 - 8:50pmWell, the picture quality wasn’t good in the original version.
Scott the Raptor
February 20th, 2013 - 9:03pmThe cover was brilliant on the first edition. I really don’t like this one.
gary
February 20th, 2013 - 6:06pmThat cover is terrible!! The original was far better! I do t really think this story needs a rerelease yet but whatever haha it’s a great story!!
eddy
February 20th, 2013 - 5:34pmbetter thAN THE LAST COVER
Doctor Who Crazy Ross
February 20th, 2013 - 5:25pmWhat is it about this cover that makes me love it so much?! Also, does anyone know the best website to get the cover art (excluding Doctor Who Art and Tea-Lady Designs on Facebook)?
The TARDIS
February 20th, 2013 - 5:00pmOne of my favourite Pertwee’s, so I’m definitely getting it. Although I’m not entirely sure if its in need of a special edition, the original was fine in my opinion. And I’m not too sure about the cover either, I think I prefer the original.
Some bloke
February 20th, 2013 - 5:04pmsay what!!!! (to the cover thing)
Scott the Raptor
February 20th, 2013 - 5:18pmI agree. This cover looks far too colourful and bright to be such a dark and also to have a character leaving.
Mandrels eat lettuce
February 20th, 2013 - 4:55pmOH MY GOD, SO GETTING THIS!!!
matparks08
February 20th, 2013 - 4:48pmNice cover, but something doesn’t quite look right with Nic Courtney here – like the pic from the old cover stuck on a drawn body? Is it just me? One of the very best classic stories though – well worth revisiting!
Some bloke
February 20th, 2013 - 4:49pmits just his head was taken from a photo of him sat down, and then put onto the body of him stood up, thats why it looks a little odd, but ohwell
Some bloke
February 20th, 2013 - 4:47pmLOVE IT!!! Amazing cover design from lee binding as usual. brigade leaders head looks a bit off, only because his head was taken from an image of him sat down, but that doesn’t matter to me, I JUST LOVE IT!!!
josh smith
February 20th, 2013 - 4:38pmyay my fav story ever! i never got the original so im buying this one
Space1999
February 22nd, 2013 - 9:09amHow could you not get the old one how
Cymon Hodson
February 20th, 2013 - 2:54pmGreat story, hopefully the picture quality will be better than on the previous edition. Well worth buying.
Planet Dalek
February 20th, 2013 - 3:09pmOh, that’s a hell of dodgy scene
Tardis’nt
February 20th, 2013 - 2:22pmooh nice, a parrallel universe story!