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Doctor Who – The Aztecs Special Edition DVD
Doctor Who – The Aztecs Special Edition DVD
Released in 2013
The TARDIS arrives in fifteenth century Mexico inside the tomb of one-time Aztec High Priest Yetaxa. The travellers become cut off from the ship when they explore the temple outside and the tomb door closes behind them. Barbara is proclaimed by the High Priest of Knowledge, Autloc, as Yetaxa’s divine reincarnation. However, she incurs the enmity of the High Priest of Sacrifice, Tlotoxl, when – against the Doctor’s advice – she attempts to use her new-found authority to put an end to the Aztec practice of human sacrifice.
Events reach a climax on the Day of Darkness – the time of a solar eclipse. Ian’s unwilling conflict with the Aztecs’ ‘chosen warrior’, Ixta, ends in a fight in which the latter falls to his death from the temple roof. The Doctor manages to reopen the tomb door using a wheel-and-pulley that he has carved (the Aztecs not having mastered the use of the wheel) and the travellers make good their escape.
Disc 1
4 x 25 mins approx monochrome episodes with mono audio. Optional Arabic soundtrack for episode four only.
Commentary – stereo. With actors William Russell and Carole Ann Ford, producer Verity Lambert OBE.
Remembering The Aztecs – Actors John Ringham, Ian Cullen and Walter Randall recall the production of the story and of television production in the sixties in general.
Designing The Aztecs – Designer Barry Newbery talks about his work on the story, illustrated with many never-before-seen production drawings and photographs from his personal collection.
Cortez and Monezuma – An extract from a 1970 Blue Peter, introduced by Valerie Singleton on location in Mexico, giving historical background to the Aztec belief in human sacrifice.
Restoring The Aztecs – A short featurette demonstrating the restoration and videoisation effects used for the release. With subtitles.
Making Cocoa – An animated guide to making cocoa the Aztec way, voiced in character by John Ringham as Tlotoxl and Walter Randall as Tonila, with both characters animated and presented in South Park style.
TARDIS-Cam no.3 – The third of BBCi’s TARDIS-Cam shots.
Photo Gallery – production, design and publicity photos from the story
Easter Egg – An animated BBC Enterprises logo recovered from the end of one of the prints sold overseas.
Intro Sequences – The umbrella story title The Aztecs does not appear on any of the episodes, so for (outdated now) BBFC compliance a caption card with the title has been provided. To add interest, six versions have been provided, each with a different voiceover, in character, from three of the actors involved in the production. The intention is that the disc will randomly select one of these six sequences and play it out at the appropriate point.
PDF Material – Radio Times listings in Adobe PDF format for viewing on PC or Mac
Programme subtitles.
Disc 2
Galaxy 4 (dur. 64’ 43”) – a shortened reconstruction of the missing story Galaxy 4, using off-screen stills, audio recordings and animation plus the recently recovered complete episode three to tell the story.
Chronicle – The Realms of Gold – John Julius Norwich’s superlative 1969 retelling of the story of the Spanish conquest of Mexico and the Aztecs, which also features music by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop .
Dr. Forever! – Celestial Toyroom – the first of a new five-part series introduced by Ayesha Antoine looks at Doctor Who toys. With original series producer Verity Lambert, new series creator Russell T Davies, writers Mark Gatiss, Rob Shearman, Paul Cornell and Joseph Lidster, BBC Worldwide product licensing executive Richard Hollis, product approval executive Dave Turbitt and ex- range editor Steve Cole, AudioGO commissioning editor Michael Stevens, Character Options’ Alasdair Dewar, DWM’s toy reviewer Jim Sangster and last, but by no means least, Doctor Who’s very own Winston Churchill, actor Ian McNiece.
It’s a Square World – the very first Doctor Who skit (as far as we can ascertain), with Clive Dunn in full First Doctor costume as a scientist demonstrating his new space rocket to Michael Bentine, resulting in Television Centre being launched into space! Features cameo appearances by Patrick Moore and Albert Steptoe.
A Whole Scene Going – an excerpt from a recently recovered edition of the sixties music and arts programme, featuring an interview with director Gordon Flemyng and a behind the scenes look at filming of his movie Daleks’ Invasion Earth: 2150 AD.
Coming Soon – a trailer for a forthcoming DVD release.
Radio Times Listings in Adobe PDF format.
Programme subtitles.
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prof horner
January 30th, 2013 - 11:30amSad to hear the death of Bernard Horsfall rip.
Connor
January 30th, 2013 - 11:59amR.I.P Bernard horsfall
celestial toymaker
January 31st, 2013 - 9:45amr.i.p bernard
space1999
January 29th, 2013 - 9:26pmi belive the new found episode of hartnell will come with this dvd
MasterKasterborous
January 30th, 2013 - 11:04pmYep, Air Lock (Galaxy 4: Ep 3) is included on the second disc amongst a cut-down recon on 1 & 2 and 3.
McGann is the Doctor
January 28th, 2013 - 6:00pmThat is such an amazing DVD cover.
The Doctor is McGann
January 28th, 2013 - 6:01pmYou can almost see the Matt Smith in his face !
McGann is the Doctor
January 28th, 2013 - 6:02pmSurely you mean “The William Hartnell” in Matt Smith’s face given who came first ? ❗
And you are so obviously just me pretending to be somone else 😛
drjakeyoung
January 28th, 2013 - 6:39pmare you two the same person or different people?!? 😆
booboo
January 28th, 2013 - 7:35pmsame person
drjakeyoung
January 28th, 2013 - 7:58pmlol
Lachlan
January 28th, 2013 - 9:02pm……. right
Lachlan
January 27th, 2013 - 9:24amThis and the Ark in Space Special Edition covers are now available in Australia and for pre-order via JB Hi Fi also is there a reason for 2 Entertain being displayed? l though 2 Entertain was bought completely by BBC DVD Enterprises or something like that
Lachlan
January 27th, 2013 - 9:25amthought*
gordon
January 28th, 2013 - 2:45amIts just for display purposes. 2e was rebanded into bbc worldwide consumer products
Lachlan
January 28th, 2013 - 8:33aml figured something like that had happened with the Death to the Daleks DVD Release. can l ask though, why do the Region 2 DVD’s from the UK still have it on the very bottom conner on the spine as well as the BBC logo too did it just seem wise to keep because in Australia they’re all without reversible covers and so forth
Lachlan
January 28th, 2013 - 8:36amAnd for the US they combine boxsets like the Legacy Boxset which l find strange as well, l guess there are different ways to it though in how to sell haha
gordon
January 28th, 2013 - 11:18amThey still have them in the uk but its the reverse cover as it matches up with the other 2e logos
No idea why the australian ones are different
drjakeyoung
January 25th, 2013 - 7:39pmextra’s for this story
http://www.doctorwho.tv/whats-new/article/the-aztecs-special-edition-dvd-contents-announced
Some bloke
January 23rd, 2013 - 6:22pmI know its slightly off topic but I wish Dimensions in time would get a dvd release. At least as a special feature on another dvd. Thoughts?
gordon
January 23rd, 2013 - 6:40pmNo chance of it appearing as a special feature. children in need charge about 4k a minute(56k in total).Its not financially viable as an extra. Plus the restoration team website is clear: 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.
No amount of suggestions, “what ifs” or general pleading is likely to change this. That would include for charity purposes
Some bloke
January 23rd, 2013 - 6:49pmthats such a shame, cus all though it is quite bad, its still part of doctor who’s history 🙁
Alex Noonan
January 17th, 2013 - 6:45pmPeople! I want genuine information on animated episodes. I would like to see:
The Crusade, Episodes 2 and 4
The Tenth Planet, Episode 4
The Underwater Menace, Episodes 1 and 3
The Moonbase, Episodes 1 and 3
The Ice Warriors, Episodes 2 and 3
Is this likely? I need to know more about the DVD range’s future 🙂
Connor
January 17th, 2013 - 10:19pmIt’s very likely because they only have one or two missing episodes. I defently want those story’s to be released on DVD!we know that they plan to release the tenth planet,the ice warriors,the underwater menace and the moonbase! I wish they had plans for the crusade but most of these story’s won’t get released this year only maybe the underwater menace,ice warriors and the tenth planet! Hopefully they find more story’s but I think 2014 will be the last releases of the doctor who DVD range then from then on it will be rereleased on Blu ray!
Lachlan
January 17th, 2013 - 10:28pmIt can’t be re-released on Blu-Ray… Once the DVD Range is finished it will be finished there’s no doubt in the future with new Restoration Technology they could produce perhaps finish Special Editions of the Older Releases before 2 Entertain but it looks like Animation Releases is so far the future along with hopefully more recovered Doctor Who Episodes.
gordon
January 18th, 2013 - 9:26amEverything is top secret at the moment. They wont even reveal whether or not ice warriors is getting animated (they have said the vhs recon will appear as an extra but hasnt revealed what is exactly happening with the 2 eps). Im sure things will become clearer after reign of terror is released
MasterKasterborous
January 18th, 2013 - 6:54pmI presume you mean The Underwater Menace Episodes 1 & 4. What we don’t need is another version of episode three…
Mr Zarbi
January 21st, 2013 - 8:50amSpearhead has been re-done for blu ray for sure.
drjakeyoung
January 21st, 2013 - 9:52amsame with the 2 dalek movies
Alex Noonan
January 21st, 2013 - 5:24pmGUYS! I have logical proof they are animating The Tenth Planet Episode 4 and Episodes 2 and 3 of The Ice Warriors!
In Issue 449 of Doctor Who Magazine there is an article called “Infomania!” about the Subtitle Production Notes provided on DVD releases of COMPLETE Doctor Who serials.
At the bottom of the article, in the list called “Who Wrote That?” it lists Stephen James Walker as writing The Tenth Planet notes and Martin Wiggins for The Ice Warriors. These notes would not be provided if they were just doing reconstructions! PROOF.
Some bloke
January 21st, 2013 - 5:41pmto all the people saying about re-release to blu-ray. Its not possible. Spearhead from space is the only classic which will get a blu-ray release cus all of it was filmed on location (filmed directly on to 16mm film). All other 20th century stories were filmed on a mix of 16mm film and video tape. The video footage cant be restored to hi-def quality which is why it isn’t possible for all the other classic stories to be released on blu-ray
prof horner
January 13th, 2013 - 2:49pmWhat are the complications with the underwater menace 2?
Gordon
January 13th, 2013 - 9:11pmgettting animated on time. Nicholas Briggs who was one of the producers on the animated eps of reign has been mentioned that most of the time was spent developing the correct software required and a few months were wasted as the software was unsuitable. future animations should be faster so it might not be an issue after all.
Lachlan
January 13th, 2013 - 11:42pmAre they planning on releasing The Underwater Menace this year???
Gordon
January 14th, 2013 - 12:17amCurrent speculation is yes but nothing is official yet
Lachlan
January 14th, 2013 - 4:16amcouldn’t these new animated releases ruin in a way the Lost in Time release, its obvious they wouldn’t remake Lost in Time with fewer material. Actually a good thing to ask to all you folks haha out there who have Lost in Time, would you buy the future animated releases since you already have the missing episodes on the animated releases because in the future they could make (with the popularity of the Reign of Terror of course) for example The Celestial Toymaker, l mean you’ll already have the episode.
Lachlan
January 14th, 2013 - 4:31amIt would be cool though for Episodes that don’t exist entirely like Marco Polo and Power of the Daleks to be fully animated but of course (economic reasons) I always dream though of Doctor Who to be broadcast again on children’s shows in the afternoon from the First Doctor on, but with Episodes that were missing animated, that would be pretty awesome as such but like that’s ever going to happen haha.
Gordon
January 14th, 2013 - 10:59amId be prepared to buy any story that gets animated even if they have been in LIT but it all depends on if i like the style of animation. Reign looks beautiful but ive read mixed reviews on the editing style. Some have described it as magna on acid and it sticking out when it compares to the surviving eps and on the other side some have loved it and said it was easy to follow. Not long to wait till i find out for myself.
dr who 1999
January 14th, 2013 - 11:38amwhat is the time period for when they will be monitoring reign of terror sales?
Gordon
January 14th, 2013 - 8:54pmProbably the first week sales. Thats how most companies base their sales. And as they will look at total worldwide sales they wont get that till the 2nd half of february
drjakeyoung
January 14th, 2013 - 10:08pmso would it make more sense to buy it the day it’s released then? (28th)
Gordon
January 15th, 2013 - 12:13amyes or at least buy it in the first week.Ive got it preordered so its no issue for me. Btw babelcolour has finished doing all 205 shots of mind of evil ep 1 and its now in colour. However he is redoing 12 shots that he completed for a test sequence about three years ago that are now showing their age. The dozen old shots will be just updating them (improving the skin-tones etc) and shouldn’t actually take too long to zip through.
drjakeyoung
January 15th, 2013 - 11:51amso by the end of January do you think he will be completely done?
gordon
January 15th, 2013 - 12:43pmHopefully but he said its about 100 hours worth of work and with his full time job on top of the work its 16/17 hour days for the next 2 weeks (not an easy task). He also has a few other shots he personally wants to redo but it all depends on whether or not he gets the time as the deadline for it to be completed is just over 3 weeks away.
drjakeyoung
January 15th, 2013 - 5:13pmwhat happens if he runs out of time? (i know hopefully he wont, but what if)
gordon
January 15th, 2013 - 6:08pmIt will just go in as it is. All 205 shots are done and the the episode is in colour. He is updating shots that were done 3 years ago. All the work now is improving shots that are showing their age or he feels he could do better.
drjakeyoung
January 15th, 2013 - 6:45pmcool, so we can expect mind of evil on DVD around July-august time?
gordon
January 15th, 2013 - 7:09pmId say early august as the restoration is done 6 months in advance and july is full with the spearhead blu ray
Lachlan
January 17th, 2013 - 10:33pmSince l live in Australia in the City how are they going to monitor sales internationally from the UK? there’s no doubt l’ll buy it first day l only have Planet of Giants from the First Doctor so this would be an awesome release 🙂 But l’d just like to know in case it turns out l have somewhere to go for a week and l’m not in a position to buy it.
gordon
January 18th, 2013 - 9:16amThey will recieve sales figures from their australian distributers
Lachlan
January 18th, 2013 - 12:00pmSorry but l meant to say for the Reign of Terror Release how long will they monitor sales outside the UK as being above average not how will they haha l would have thought that obvious ah well silly me not always going over what l type because l type so quickly :/
gordon
January 27th, 2013 - 9:26pmprobably about the same length of time ie first week
Lachlan
January 12th, 2013 - 11:48aml was wondering since we now know all of what’s announced for this year l think? (l don’t think they’re going to squeeze any more Special Edition releases in this year) What should we expect for 2014? or is 2013 the end of the DVD Range? which would make sense for it being the Anniversary Year in a way. I do know that there is the chance for Animation DVD Releases and l’m sure no matter what if any missing episode came to light they would release it somehow but even then the DVD Range for Doctor Who seems like its coming to an end in content…
Lachlan
January 12th, 2013 - 11:54amIs there the possibility in the future for technological advancements to allow for the range to start again in Blu-Ray perhaps? who knows what the future holds but even so it would be good to know what to expect for Classic Doctor Who. Although l’ve heard there iTunes range is going well.
Anonymous
January 12th, 2013 - 12:19pmThe intention was to have all existing footage out by the anniversary, althoguh that might not happen due to complications with The Underwater Menace Episode 2.
Also Blu-Ray is a no go as far as this range is concerned, two stories from the 20th century could be upscaled, one is in the process of being done as we speak and the other nobody knows if the original footage still exists to allow the process to get underway.
drjakeyoung
January 12th, 2013 - 8:05pmplus the 2 dalek movie’s on top of sphere head from space and the movie (which i think you mentioned)
celestial toymaker
January 13th, 2013 - 12:45pmgordon what would think on a city of death se and leisure hive se. for leisure hive remove tom’s face off the cover but still keep foamasi and hive on and replace a new beginning with another making of and remove blue peter but apart from those the rest are fine
LG
January 13th, 2013 - 12:58pmGreen Death special edition coming out with Death of the Doctor as a special feature!
celestial toymaker
January 13th, 2013 - 1:37pmalso remove synthesizing starfields
drjakeyoung
January 13th, 2013 - 9:12pmi think the leisure hive is pretty fine as it is, apart from a couple more special features and a new front cover i don’t think there is enough reasons for a revisit
Gordon
January 13th, 2013 - 9:21pmCity of death is fine. Its got a whole disc of extras and cant be inproved visually. Also i cant see a lesure hive revisit. They wont remove any of those extras as bbcww own the rights to them (everything so far that has been removed was down to rights)and people wouldnt be happy with their removalplus appart from a making of its fine.
Lachlan
January 14th, 2013 - 4:06aml agree with Gordon on this one, The City of Death is a brilliant release cover, extras, quality everything. I think for the few releases left that haven’t been revisited from 2003 – 2006, the 2-Disc Releases shouldn’t need revisiting. Talons of Weng-Chiang was needless to say amazing with its extra disc, though I think the Green Death could very well be the last Special Edition.
pathdw98
January 16th, 2013 - 12:25amDoes anyone on here think that a special edition of an unearthly child could be released for the 50th which could possibly include the mark gatiss drama on a 2nd disc, or would they release that seperately?
drjakeyoung
January 16th, 2013 - 10:31amgood idea, but i would raver just buy it separately, i think an unearthly child is fine as it is (although considering its the 1st doctor who story its defiantly short of extra’s)
drjakeyoung
January 8th, 2013 - 5:09pmthe artwork for this DVD has just been reveled on lee binding’s Facebook page
Ian
January 8th, 2013 - 10:18amLooking forward to this, especially one of the extras,
00:22:33:15 DR. FOREVER! – THE CELESTIAL TOYROOM ;o)
Dr in the TARDIS
January 7th, 2013 - 12:09amThe fact that this DVD includes ‘Air Lock’, the recently discovered episode of ‘Galaxy Four’ is awesome. And ‘The Aztecs’ is a great story too! I’m definitly getting this!!!!!!!!!!
Sammi Carter
January 5th, 2013 - 8:57amso bbc worldwide has not got the tenth planet in animation process at the moment. does this mean that they have recovered episode 4 and the dvd release will be fully restored?
and have they also recovered episode 2 and 3 of the ice warriors? as this story is also not been through animation process
Gordon
January 5th, 2013 - 9:00pmWe dont know yet whether or not they have animated ice warriors and tenth planet.I would like to think they are going to make an anouncement on animation on those 2 after reign comes out. Keeping the more anticipated stories quiet till the less anticipated out of the 3 is released.
Blake
January 5th, 2013 - 9:11pmThey could just be releasing them as recons
Gordon
January 5th, 2013 - 10:21pmIt was mentioned that both stories werent in production but that interview steve roberts was quoted from was february 2012. Plenty could have happened since then. Dont know why doctorwhonews.net are only mentioning it now. It was the same interview that revealed babelcolour was colourising ep 1 of mind of evil shows how long ago it was
drjakeyoung
January 5th, 2013 - 10:42pmwhat makes you think they haven’t got it in the process of animation?
Connor
January 5th, 2013 - 11:34pmThey haven’t found any episodes! Have they? There were news of the moonbase being found and there wanting to release that soon?it would be great to have the ice warriors and tenth planet complete again!! 🙂
Thouw would they keep a secret that big from the who fans? And the tenth planet is the last william hartnell story with his regeneration in it! I dour they would not tell the public strait away! There has been animations for the ice warriors and tenth planet so there maybe getting released this year!!!!!
Gordon
January 6th, 2013 - 9:11pm@conner Moonbase find was false. I think sammi is just assuming they have found the episodes as doctorwhonews.net reported steve roberts mentioned in an interview that animation was not yet in production for ice warriors and tenth planet. What doctorwhonews.net fails to mention is that the interview was taken 11 months ago and a lot could have happened since then
Connor
January 7th, 2013 - 11:38amBut what’s with them not telling us anything about the releases of the ice warriors and tenth planet!In fact the regin of terror DVD was announced to be animated and showed images way before the release! So something’s going on that the BBC and 2 entertain arn’t telling us!Like how is the DVD trailer for the ice warriors already done if they haven’t even done the animation!So there’s 3 explernations for this one being that they have found the episodes,2 they have animated them,3 they haven’t done anything for the lost episodes of these stories!
Gordon
January 7th, 2013 - 8:51pmOr option 4 they are keeping the more anticipated stories quiet until the lesser anticipated story is out as to not get overshadowed by the more anticipated stories.The new dwm is due this week. It could give us hinters what is happening with ice warriors.
Baba
January 4th, 2013 - 12:41pmI will probably get this because the story sounds great and instead of getting it on normal DVD now I can get the special edition version!
Connor
January 4th, 2013 - 3:33pmI can’t wait for this release I will get it on release day! So excited to have the Aztecs at last let alone a copy of galaxy 4 episode 3 which Is a story I have never seen before!
drjakeyoung
January 3rd, 2013 - 2:12pmthe snowmen has just been announced to be released with series 7 part 2
drjakeyoung
January 2nd, 2013 - 6:33pmis it true that inferno se is getting released in June – mind of evil is getting released in July – and green death se in august. i thought there was no room for a July release? (by the way i found this out on other forums and its not on tardis wiki)
Gordon
January 2nd, 2013 - 7:51pmIt came from http://www.timelash.com/tardis/items.asp?video.
Its only placeholder dates
drjakeyoung
January 2nd, 2013 - 8:14pmwell series 7 part 2 is obviously wrong, 31st of march (or possibly 6th April) is the air date of part 2, so like you said, just placeholder dates
Connor
January 3rd, 2013 - 10:38pmI am defernently getting the complete series 7 box set for 3 reasons! 1:the episodes so far are amazing and the episodes in the 2 part of the series looks awsome with the jurney to the centre of the tardis,the last cyberman, the return of the ice warriors and much more exciting things to come! 2: the box set will include 15 episodes! Including the doctor,the widow and the wardrobe and all of series 7 part 1 and 2! And the snowman christmas episode! 3: it’s my favorite season so far so pretty much I want this box set!
drjakeyoung
January 4th, 2013 - 4:16pmi have the 2011 Christmas special and series 7 part 1 limited edition, and now instead of buying part 2 i want to buy the complete series 7 but i already have half the series. I don’t know what to do but i really want the complete box set, i mean should i sell them? i don’t know because i have got that cool poster with the limited edition one. Or should i just keep them and buy those episodes again with the box set?
drjakeyoung
January 4th, 2013 - 4:20pmthe main reason i want the complete series 7 is because of all the extra’s you will get with it. i mean look at the series 6 box set you get tones of extra’s and additional scenes that you don’t with the part 1 and part 2 box sets. what do you all think i should do?
Connor
January 1st, 2013 - 11:20pmWhat happened to the days when they asked the fans what they wanted for DVD release! They need to bring that back so everyone got what they wanted again and it’s much more better for sales if they actually release something that people actually want! I wasn’t a fan of them re releasing the green death I was fine with it! We all have different opinions and what DVDs should be special editioned. I want earthshock and dalek invasion of earth and some people want the leisure hive. So each to there own opinion but they should do that again.
Lachlan
January 1st, 2013 - 11:47pmWell l wouldn’t say some people want the Leisure Hive now that l know about the various extras on that release l would say the first release is good enough, but yes a lot of people do want Earthshock and Dalek Invasion of Earth to be revisited but at the moment l’m pretty sure the Restoration Team has all the cards since there are only a few Stories left to be on DVD with the Main Range finished basically by 2014 there is no real need for the opinions of the fans. Anyway if there is no need for a Special Edition l guess there is no need.
Gordon
January 2nd, 2013 - 12:10amActually when there was rumours about an earthshock se the general consensance on the gb forum was pretty much negative. Most dont feel it needs revisiting.
Lachlan
January 2nd, 2013 - 12:42am(Well when it comes to the amount of people that have commented on Doctor Who Merchandise) all l’ve seen over the past few days on Special Editions is about Earthshock and the Dalek Invasion of Earth.
Gordon
January 2nd, 2013 - 8:39amIf dan hall did listen to what stories fans say needs revisiting we would have just endless revisits and it would get silly (i have actually seen somebody say they want war games revisited and imo that is one of the best dvd releases that they have ever released).As conner says different fans want different things. Some fans are already sceptical about the double dip and rereleasing stories only because of a couple of fans wanting it is not going to help matters. There has to be some technological reasons involved and there really isnt any.
Gordon
January 2nd, 2013 - 9:12amEvery story rereleased so far has had technological advancements or errors fixed
Remembrance: transform decoded (td for short) better encoding (be for short) and errors fixed
Five doctors: (td) originally broadcast version added be
Talons : be
Androzani: td, be
Tv movie, td, be
Seeds: better vidfire, be
Carnival: be
Resurection:be and the original transmitted version added
Spearhead: td,be better graded, correct tardis sound and correct music in factory
Tomb: Vidfired, be
Three: Error on part 2 fixed, be
Robots: td, be, graded
Gordon
January 2nd, 2013 - 9:18amVaros: td, be
Claws: Ntsc and the rsc combined for better picture quality on eps 2 and 3
Ark: td, be, graded,
Aztecs: better VIDFIRE, be
Inferno:Ntsc and the rsc combined for better picture quality on all 7 episodes
Visitation: be
Green death: be, Less compression as extras are on 2nd disc
GILU67
January 2nd, 2013 - 9:51amMore importanly before re-releasing stories, IMO, i’d rather see all stories released, for example Mind of Evil rather than seeing Inferno released again. Some of the stories mentioned for a re-release are fine as they are, we don’t need a re-release of Earthshock or Dalek Invasion of Earth; they were fine as they were along with their extras. And whilst I’m happy to see Green Death get more of an extra treatment, for one just one more 30-minute documentary making of i’m not sure is worth an extra £16. The Who pound can only go so far.
Gordon
January 2nd, 2013 - 10:13amRevisitations are extra releases and dont effect the main release schedule For example inferno being rereleased isnt effecting the release of mind of evil. The colourisation of mind of evil is what is holding that one back not the restoration of another story.
Gordon
January 2nd, 2013 - 12:56pmThere was a poll recently on the gb forums about what title should be revisited next. Out of a choice of 6 Green death won with a massive 41 percent (bear in mind that was before it was announced) then it was 2 doctors then pyramid of mars, then dioe (only 12 percent) then earthshock (9 percent) and fenric.
Mr Zarbi
January 2nd, 2013 - 4:49pmInferno quality is awful and Spearhead is getting a blu-ray se and they are re-releasing the dalek movies for blu-ray.
Mr Zarbi
January 2nd, 2013 - 4:54pmMaybe a terror of the autons se as you can only get it in a boxset with spearhead se.
Gordon
January 2nd, 2013 - 7:59pmNo they wont do a special edition because of that. More likely they will just rerelease autons seperatly. Mind you they have said they have no current plans to do so
MasterKasterborous
January 3rd, 2013 - 10:12amIOTD would be an interesting special edition having only have just been released but I think if it’s possible in the future they should re-colour Episode 1.
Lachie
January 3rd, 2013 - 10:19pmAre there any DVD’s out now that need the better encoding, transform decoding and grading etc.. etc.. or are all releases from late 2006 on perfectly fine. no errors or technical things needed to improve any dvd releases right now l think it would be good for the Restoration Team to make more Documentaries and Extras like on the 3 – Disc Talons of Weng – Chiang Revisitation but obviously not all things can fit there budget
Gordon
January 4th, 2013 - 1:20amThere isnt any stories that need the transform decoder as every colour story that would need it has been revisited (think they started using it round about resurection onwards) . Better encoding started on genesis of the daleks. 2003 to 2005 releases would have slight improvents (and based on talons it would only be slightly visible) but that alone would not be enough of a reason to revisit (in the case of talons it had making of and other extras missing to warrent its revisit)
Connor
January 30th, 2013 - 12:49amI would like to see a box set with dalek invasion of earth and earthshock! And have for dalek invasion of earth colorised and have new CGI put in it and make it a movie addition! And have also for a special feature for dalek invasion of earth have a new making of and a Peter Cushing movie of the dalek invasion of earth included! Now I no most of u will say that’s never going to happen but it is a great idea! Also for earthshock I want new CGI and maybe also a movie addition included as well as a new making of! I and of cause new cover art for..
Connor
January 30th, 2013 - 12:52amThis DVD release box set! What do you think about my ideas and what would you like in a new special edition box set! With the story’s the dalek invasion of earth and earthshock special edition!
Blake
January 30th, 2013 - 4:35amSorry mate but I think that’s not a very good idea having dioe in color, I like them in black and white, maybe a special edition of Earthshock on its own but yeah. When are you coming back to YouTube?
Connor
January 30th, 2013 - 8:15amComing back in august! So hopefully it will come soon. Also my channel name will be Killaconzila so yea.
gordon
January 30th, 2013 - 11:19amIt wont happen conner sorry. Dioe in colour would need to be colourised by hand as there are no chroma dots and considering babelcolour took 18 months to do 1 ep of mind of evil it would take too long and be too expensive.It already has new cgi on the 2003 dvd as does earthshock. BBC dont have the rights to the cushing films so no chance of that happening either. Earthshock already has 1 making of it doesnt need another. Do bear in mind the budget for the revisits are smaller than the brand new releases so new cgi isnt affordable
gordon
January 30th, 2013 - 11:30amThere isnt any more alternative cgi special edition stories happening after day of the daleks. They said that 2 years and it has been true so far.
My guess is animation for the missing stories is a better way of using their budget than doing cgi for stories that do exist
Doom Dalek
December 31st, 2012 - 10:30amThey Need A Special Edition For All The Classics That Haven’t Said 2 Entertain On The Side Of The Cover e.g. The Dalek Invasion Of Earth, The Curse Of Fenric, Ghost Light, The Mind Robber & Many More. They Should Also Release Terror Of The Zygons, The 10th Planet and Galaxy 4 and the rest of the episodes
Gordon
December 31st, 2012 - 10:39amDoesnt work like that. Its how much picture quality can be improved not 2e branding plus 2e have been rebanded as bbc worldwide consumer products so its pretty pointless doing special editions because of lack of 2e logo. Mind of evil zygons tenth plnet galaxy 4 etc are all due 2013
drjakeyoung
December 30th, 2012 - 5:27pmfrom my point of view i can see good points and bad points from putting galaxy 4 on Aztecs SE. The good point is that instead of paying 13 quid for a recon with 1 proper episode and then paying an extra 13 quid for Aztecs SE, all in all, £26 for both of them, but instead it is being put together for £13, 2 in 1 if you like which saves us a heck of a lot money.
drjakeyoung
December 30th, 2012 - 5:31pmthe bad point is that if you want galaxy 4 and don’t want the Aztecs, you cant! perhaps it would have been better to see how the sails of reign of terror go and maybe lift the curfew of two episodes to animate and animate the remaining 3 episodes of galaxy 4 and release it separately. I for 1 am not particularly bothered about this as i do not have the original release of this but for fans who do have, i will leave for you to decide.
Gordon
December 30th, 2012 - 9:01pmIf they had waited till the sales of reign of terror went we would be waiting till 2014 to see it. It was put on ztecs as it was the fastest possible way of getting the episode out plus there is no room on reign and apparently there is no room on teth planet either.
Connor
December 30th, 2012 - 9:47pmI don’t own any doctor who DVDs before 2005 so I don’t own the Aztecs so this release I will be getting for shore! I hope the special features of the old release will be there plus some new ones! The DVD cover looks really good and hopefully next year they will relase another revisitations 4 box set with dalek invasion of earth,mind robber,Earthshock! That would be the best revisitations box set ever! Would u get that revisitations box set and what would u put the
revisitations 4!
drjakeyoung
December 30th, 2012 - 10:00pmmost people would disagree with me and i can see why, because they don’t really need revisiting, but i would have to say dalek invasion of earth, earthshock and pyramids of mars (and perhaps the two doctors)
Gordon
December 30th, 2012 - 10:01pmThey have said they arent doing any more revisitations box sets. I wouldnt buy any of those as there isnt really much improvement that can be made to picture quality for those plus the extras for those 3 stories are fine as they are
celestial toymaker
December 30th, 2012 - 10:15pmi would have thought dioe, pyramids of mars and mind robber would have needed revisits at least plus be rid of the blue background on earthshock
Gordon
December 30th, 2012 - 10:27pmall 3 the picture quality is about as good as you are going to get plus all 3 have pretty good extras plus as i have said previously on the subject dvd cover alone isnt enough to warrent a revisit
Connor
December 30th, 2012 - 10:45pmI would just be happy if they would relase a special edition of dalek invasion of earth and earthshock. A lot of people would agree that it would be a good special edition release! And It would be good to release even those two story’s in a 2 pack box set! See Inferno didn’t need a special edition relase it had a lot of special features and it was released in 2006! So I think because the dalek invasion of earth and earthshock were released in 2003 they have a more higher chance of getting a special edition! And the covers a crap on the origanal
Gordon
December 31st, 2012 - 9:56amInferno does need a special edition over dioe and earthshock and i will explain why.DIOE and earthshock exisist in their original negs. Inferno doesnt.It exists in an ntsc format.Inferno was restored originally for the dvd using reverse standards colarisation(RSC) but this time round they are combining the rsc with ntsc film prints(which wasnt financially or technologicly available in 2006) and will give a much better picture quality (for example just look at the new edition of claws and see how much better ep2 and 3 look over the original dvd)
Connor
December 31st, 2012 - 10:03amI think they need to do special editions on dalek invasion of earth and earthshock because the cover art on the DVDs are crap and the special features on these DVDs are good but can do with much more special features! Also the reason also for a revisitation is that the release date for both these DVDs was in 2003 and inferno was released in 2006 and I’s getting a special edition! Also it could be released in a 2 pack DVD box set with the dalek invasion of earth and earthshock! What’s you’r thoughts?
Gordon
December 31st, 2012 - 10:03amRestoration skills for earthshock and DIOE havent really moved forward and picture quality will roughly look the same. The special editions Its not how old the dvd is its how much of a picture quality improvment can be made is how these revisits are chosen.
Plus i know for a fact there isnt a earthshock special edition being planned. Steve roberts said 2 weeks ago that there are currently no plans at the moment to revisit earthshock.
Lachlan
December 31st, 2012 - 12:57pml would agree maybe with Earthshock and The Dalek Invasion of Earth but they would have to be fairly later like 2014 and the only reason for that would be financially if the DVD had a better cover it would be good but if they put up more extras combined with the newer collectors not wanting a 10 year old DVD release it could make a good Re-release
Lachlan
December 31st, 2012 - 1:00pmI’m actually more interested though in the Possible Revisit of the Leisure Hive l haven’t bought the DVD yet and l’m not sure whether too if they could re-release it in 2014 can someone give me any insight into reasons why or why not The Leisure Hive could get a re-release
drjakeyoung
December 31st, 2012 - 1:28pmi would want leisure hive to be revisited too. i haven’t got that one yet but any insight into why it would be re released i will leave to @gordon to explain 🙂
Blake
January 1st, 2013 - 9:59amI got the leisure hive for Christmas, I probably wouldn’t recommend it for special edition because the picture quality is pretty good, the features include
Commentary
A New Beginning- A look at the changes made by incoming producer JNT
From Avalon to Argolia- David Fisher and Christopher H Bidmead look at the writing for the story
Synthesizing Starfields- Sid Sutton and Peter Howell recall the creation of the new title sequence
Leisure Wear- Costume designer talks about her work
Blue Peter
Music Only Option
Photo Gallery & Production Subtitles
Gordon
January 1st, 2013 - 9:14pmIm with blake on this one. Its a good dvd release. I doubt if they would do a revisit because younger fans that are not happy with a 10 year old dvd as majority of buyers are adults
Lachlan
December 28th, 2012 - 2:55aml know this is a longshot but there isn’t any chance of a Special Edition of Genesis of the Daleks is there? l normally wouldn’t ask this kind of question considering its 2006 release date but Genesis, City of Death and a few others from 2005-2006 are no longer available in Australia along with the Davros, and Sontaran Collection Boxset. Luckily l have City of Death but l do not have Genesis…
Blink
December 28th, 2012 - 8:46amThe region 2 DVD has dual capability with an Australian player.
Gordon
December 28th, 2012 - 11:06amI cant see genesis or city of death getting special edition treatment. Great stories but there isnt realy any improvment to picture quality or extras. You could always import them from amazon
Lachlan
December 28th, 2012 - 11:20amthanks l might just do that Genesis is to brilliant to be missed in a spot in my collection haha 🙂 btw is there any more news on the last announced DVD Release Terror of the Zygons? so far we’ve seen (l think?) all of the Covers from the announced DVD Release Date Releases in the Doctor Who Magazine except for Terror when should we expect to hear more on that?
Gordon
December 28th, 2012 - 12:23pmAs its due in june the cover wont have been done yet.
drjakeyoung
December 28th, 2012 - 12:29pmBabelcolour has put up a new frame from the Mind of Evil http://babelcolour.com/wp-content/gallery/mind-of-evil-frames/moe-09.jpg
he says he has only 9 frames left to colourise, so expect the DVD just after terror of the zygons (in my opinion)
Gordon
December 29th, 2012 - 2:02amThat doesnt include the grading and vidfire which cant be done till its bc has finished ep 1. The deadline for mind of evil to be completed and handed in to bbcww is 8th february. At the earliest we can possibly expect it is about 3rd june (normally things are handed in about 4 months at least in advance for clearance etc). If it is not then probably 5th of august as 24th june and 15th july are taken with zygons and the spearhead blu ray
Connor
December 29th, 2012 - 3:21amSo there not making city of death DVDs in Australia!I live in Australia and there Is so many good storys on DVD in the year 2006 and I already have Genisis of the daleks but not City of death! I don’t want to buy a region 2 copy because there different style to the region 4 copy’s! Were did u here this as I haven’t heard this anywhere else yet? If it’s true I’m going to quickly buy the city of death and all the other ones from the year before they are all horn!!!! 🙁
Lachlan
December 29th, 2012 - 6:49aml expected you to comment fellow Australian Whovian, but it is indeed discontinued from the manufacturer l think sometime around 2010 you couldn’t find any in store anymore l found the Davros Boxset luckily and its awesome now that i have Genesis, l think because the Australian releases were on the border line between 2 Entertain and the non 2 Entertain releases with the older age recommendation logos
Lachlan
December 29th, 2012 - 6:54amOh and thanks for the news on Mind of Evil and the information on Terror of the Zygons Gordon and drjakeyoung can’t wait for anymore information
Blake
December 29th, 2012 - 10:46pmThat’s weird cause here in nz they don’t seem to be taking away the older releases, the only ones I would say are missing are remembrance (original)
Caves of androzani (original)
And tomb of the cybermen (original)
Lachlan
December 30th, 2012 - 6:41amno they have the older releases like Tomb, Robots of Death and Carnival of Monsters etc etc.. but for City of Death and Genesis they must have been discontinued for issues because 2 Entertain didn’t publish or produce those 2 DVD’s.
MasterKasterborous
December 30th, 2012 - 11:00amdrjakeyoung BabelColour hasn’t stated he has 9 frames left it was 9 shots (now 8). Each shot is made up of many frames (although he only does approximately every 6th one). But as Gordon says there’s much to do after that! 🙂
Connor
December 30th, 2012 - 12:10pmI heared they are planning to do special editions of the dalek invasion of earth and earthshock! Hopefully this is true as they have supposerdly they have done special features and better quality for the dalek invasion of earth dvd release, and for earthshock they have done new comentry and special features for this special edition release! Hopefully thouw this is true and that it will get released late 2013! What are your thoughts on these choices of re releases? And what other DVDs do u want releases? I will defently get them! 🙂
drjakeyoung
December 30th, 2012 - 3:08pmwhere did you hear that? if that is true i will be over the moon 🙂 my original copies of those two releases are damaged and i can not play them, so if this is true then i wont have to buy the original releases again!
drjakeyoung
December 30th, 2012 - 3:10pm@MasterKasterborous thanks for clarifying 🙂
MasterKasterborous
December 30th, 2012 - 4:15pmThat’s fine drjakeyoung. Though I don’t really think we’ll be getting those SE (just yet at least). The special features and quality were good on the original release though I’ll be happy to be proved wrong.
Gordon
December 30th, 2012 - 8:56pmSteve roberts (head of the restoration team) said about 2 weeks ago there are no plans at the moment to revisit earthshock. There was rumours of 1 down to david banks (cyberleader) saying he did a commentary of episode 4 but it was convention commentary
Cuddly Alzie
December 24th, 2012 - 12:29pmAir Lock and the missing episodes with off-screen pictures, missing clips and narration all bodes well for Galaxy Four.
Another SE worth buying me thinks. I take back some of my earlier criticisms.
Love the animated clip of episode 4 of Tenth Planet, roll on November!!
gordon
December 25th, 2012 - 2:30amExcept its not from episode 4. Hartnell didnt have any outdoor scenes himself in episode 4. More likely its just test footage
Connor
December 25th, 2012 - 9:00amWhat clip from the tenth planet! Can someone put a link up please! I heared the DVD is getting released this year and it’s getting released at the end of the year. The DVD should have great special features and the quality should be good as they had avers to do this DVD! Hope the animation is good!
gordon
December 25th, 2012 - 3:41pmhttp://planet55studios.com.au/ Do bear in mind ep 4 hartnell didnt have any outdoor scenes himself and its probably just test footage in the same way invasion had test footage of the cybermen that are at st pauls cathedral
Connor
December 25th, 2012 - 10:10pmThanks looks great I love how the animation isn’t like the invasion animations as this one looks more detailed and more free flowed in movement then the invasion one were they don’t even walk wright!
WFK DVD Collector 12
December 27th, 2012 - 9:20pmHas anyone else seen that in this clip at 48 seconds in, there is a small clip of a man who is looking very wooried and has the name LESTERSON on his bage!
Could this be the first clue of an animation of the power of the Daleks for the 50th anniversary???
gordon
December 27th, 2012 - 9:47pmCould just be test footage. Dan hall said back in october that anything over 2 eps of animation is extremely unlikely. Plus its in the wrong ratio (16:9 widescreen and in colour)
WFK DVD Collector 12
December 28th, 2012 - 8:19amWell it may not be power of the daleks, but you were right about there being a small section of animation of the first doctor walking in the snow. 🙂
And also if it is the tenth planet it must be test footage like they did with the Invasion.
But why it says LESTERSON on his badge and then when the camera zooms up to his eye the TARDIS is spinning will be a mystery antill the 50th anniversary!
Ross Campbell
December 22nd, 2012 - 8:10pmI hope to get this I only want it because of air lock
Mr Evil Fez
December 22nd, 2012 - 6:48pmThis looks cool!
Benji
December 22nd, 2012 - 1:13pmUS Cover art can be seen here:
http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Doctor-AztecsSE-and-ArkInSpaceSE/17862
Connor
December 22nd, 2012 - 11:42amI love the Aztecs!and a special edition i’v been waiting for,for ages and this is the best historical story ever and one of the best classic William hartnell story’s ever!This is also going to feature galaxy 4 episode 3 air lock:which in my opinion is going to be brilliant because it’s a story we’ve never seen before and I love listening to the audio and my favorite episode of the story is episode 3! So I’m defernetly going to get this DVD release and it’s going to be the best special edition yet!So are u going to get this release? Happy 50th!
Blake
December 22nd, 2012 - 9:55pmI will but not straight away, I will wait a few months cause there other DVDs I need to catch up on.
P.S Connor when are you planning on coming back to YouTube?
Connor
December 23rd, 2012 - 12:16pmNext year near January.
dr who 1999
December 22nd, 2012 - 11:15amgetting his with my birthday money, it’s only released 10 days after
WFK DVD Collector 12
December 22nd, 2012 - 11:10amI can’t wait for this to come out! (and yes, I’m only getting this for Galaxy 4 air lock!)
WHOlikes Jelly Babies
December 22nd, 2012 - 6:46pmSame here!
MasterKasterborous
December 22nd, 2012 - 8:23pmIt’s a great little episode and I will be pre-ordering this to see it again. Plus then I get four bonus, highly restored episodes! 😀
gordon
December 22nd, 2012 - 10:32amAudio Commentary
Doctor Who – Story #018: Galaxy 4
NOTE: this first story of the original show’s third season, starring William Harnell as the 1st Doctor, was among those productions “wiped/junked” by the BBC in the 60s & 70s. In 2011 a 16mm reel of the 3rd episode, “Airlock,” was located and has been restored. It will be included on this DVD release, reportedly along with narration and surviving clips/stills of the 1st, 2nd and 4th episodes “Four Hundred Dawns,” “Trap of Steel” and “The Exploding Planet”
gordon
December 22nd, 2012 - 10:33amChronicle – The Realms of Gold
Doctor Forever! – Celestial Toyroom
It’s a Square World
A Whole Scene Going
Remembering The Aztecs
Designing The Aztecs: Cortez and Montezuma
Restoring The Aztecs
Making Cocoa
Easter Egg
TARDIS-Cam no.3
Photo Gallery
Intro sequences
PDF materials: Radio Times Listings
Production Note Subtitles
gordon
December 22nd, 2012 - 10:38amMock up of the r2 artwork http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u46/christopher_loftus/Aztecsse.jpg
Sugar doc
December 22nd, 2012 - 10:05amWhat makes it special edition ????
gordon
December 22nd, 2012 - 10:17amNew restoration and new extras
The TARDIS
December 22nd, 2012 - 10:23amIt has lots more special features and better sound and picture quality. Hopefully with a new commentary as well!
dr who 1999
December 22nd, 2012 - 11:17amGalaxy 4 is included, packaging redesigned, picture quality improvement, better bonus features and that is enough to get me to buy it again
gary
December 22nd, 2012 - 11:20amIt’s a re-release with more special features and restored to a better quality than the original. Just like all the other re-releases they’ve done over the last 3 years.
DoctorWhom
December 22nd, 2012 - 12:02pmIt contains episode three of Galaxy Four. That about really though I presume there will be some other other special feature to warrant the term Special Edition.
Anonymous
December 22nd, 2012 - 12:05pmThey’ve restored the episodes again and thrown in new features (including Galaxy 4),
The Whofan101
December 22nd, 2012 - 12:45pmIt’s being remastered and has new special features, such as Part 3 of Galaxy 4
gary
December 22nd, 2012 - 9:52amI will be getting this for one reason only: Galaxy 4 episode 3 – Air Lock.
dalek99
December 22nd, 2012 - 8:39pmso it is only the missing part of galaxy 4 that was found recently
gordon
December 22nd, 2012 - 11:19pmNo the dvd also includes episodes 1, 2 and 4 which are represented by telesnaps recon