December 20th, 2024
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Doctor Who The Collection Season 7 Limited Edition Packaging
Available to order from www.amazon.co.uk, www.zavvi.com and www.rarewaves.com
With thanks to BBC Studios
Doctor Who fans can continue to build their own home archive on Blu-ray with a SEVEN DISC box set of the iconic 7th Season, starring Jon Pertwee as the Third Doctor.
- SPEARHEAD FROM SPACE
- DOCTOR WHO AND THE SILURIANS
- THE AMBASSADORS OF DEATH
- INFERNO
In his debut season, the Third Doctor is exiled to Earth, teaming up with UNIT’s Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart (Nicholas Courtney) and scientist Liz Shaw (Caroline John) to confront alien invasions and threats from our own planet’s primeval past.
All episodes have been newly remastered from the best available sources – these classic adventures have never looked or sounded so good on home media.
The Collection: Season 7 is also jam-packed with hours of new and exclusive material including:
NEW DOCUMENTARIES
SPLENDID CHAP
- A profile of beloved actor Nicholas Courtney
LOOKING FOR MAC
- Uncovering the story of writer Malcolm Hulke
TERROR IN THE SUBURBS
- When Doctor Who came down to Earth
LUCKY 13: ROCKETS, ALIENS AND SPARE PARTS
- How the science of the day influenced Doctor Who
BEHIND THE SOFA
- New episodes with Katy Manning (Jo), Matthew Waterhouse (Adric),
- Janet Fielding (Tegan), Sarah Sutton (Nyssa), Sophie Aldred (Ace), Toby Hadoke,
- and the late Caroline John’s family: husband Geoffrey Beevers (The Master) and daughter Daisy Ashford
IN CONVERSATION
- Matthew Sweet chats to John Levene (Benton) about his life and career
THE DOCTOR WHO ESCAPE ROOM
- Will Team Third Doctor escape the room of doom?
MOVIE-LENGTH OMNIBUS EDITIONS
- The Silurians and Inferno
EXCLUSIVE CONVENTION FOOTAGE
HD PHOTO GALLERIES
INFO TEXT
PDF ARCHIVE
PLUS LOTS MORE!
This seven-disc box set also includes hours of special features previously released on DVD including Documentaries, Featurettes, Audio Commentaries and more.
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Tom Williams
December 22nd, 2024 - 8:28amLooked at season 10 lately as it arrived yesterday and this one and season 7 is by far my two favourites on art work Lee Biden did for them 🙂
Peter
December 22nd, 2024 - 9:28am@Tucker Unless my memory is cheating, Mind of Evil episode 1 is apparently the only print that doesn’t have the chroma dots burnt in (e.g. had been telerecorded properly from colour to black and white, with the dots filtered out).
But like you guys, I’m really wanting to know what restoration techniques have been done for this season. I’ve spent so many hours of my life over the years reading all the details on the old RT website. 🙂 Plus I’m massively curious to see what is essentially being marketed as the definitive, curated version of “Ambassadors…” (*TWANG!*). I was (unfairly?) disappointed with the restoration of that back in the days of the DVD range.
“Spearhead”… I wonder how it will vary from the existing Blu-ray from a wee while back? I recall some didn’t like the grading, feeling it was too dark (which was a choice by the RT to resemble the kind of ITC dramas at the time…? [very hazy memory]).
Bob
December 22nd, 2024 - 10:26amJudging by the format these stories are held in, Doctor Who and the Silurians should look similar to Terror of the Autons, The Ambassadors of Death like The Mind of Evil and Inferno like Colony in Space.
I’m expecting Spearhead from Space to have less DNR applied this time, judging by Castrovalva and The Five Doctors’s film scenes. I also think it will have a more bluish colour correction.
Gordon
December 20th, 2024 - 10:31pm“With the announcement of the Doctor Who Season 7 Blu-ray Collection, here’s what is coming up in the PDF Archive for the new set. This 2900 pages will bring the running total of the PDF Archive across the 17 releases to 66,743 pages!”
DISC 1 – SPEARHEAD FROM SPACE
Rehearsal Script: Part 2 – 41 pages
Filming Scripts: Parts 1-4 – 160 pages
Production Document Archive – 181 pages
Radio Times Material – 22 pages
Season 7 BBC Enterprises Sales Sheets – 42 pages Season 7 BBC Television Play Synopses – 13 pages
Season 7 Programme-as-Broadcast Information – 54 pages
Season 7 Unmade Stories Documents – 43 pages
DISC 2 – DOCTOR WHO AND THE SILURIANS
Rehearsal Script: Part 3 – 40 pages
Camera Scripts: Parts 1-7 – 295 pages
Production Documentation Archive – 258 pages
Radio Times Material – 18 pages
DISC 4 – THE AMBASSADORS OF DEATH
Camera Scripts: Parts 1-7 – 395 pages
Production Document Archive – 345 pages
Radio Times Material – 8 pages
DISC 5 – INFERNO
Dr Who and the Mole-Bore Draft Scripts: Parts 1-7 – 226 pages
Rehearsal Script: Part 7 – 47 pages
Camera Scripts: Parts 1-7 – 334 pages
Production Document Archive – 334 pages
Radio Times Material – 17 pages
Also not mentioned in the press release Inferno ep 5 will include the option to watch it with and without the deleted scene and also the ability to watch the scene in isolation
Andrew
December 21st, 2024 - 11:12amI am curious to see how they have restored Ambassadors of Death the dvd release apart from the first episode was in bad shape to say the least, this would have been a monumental task. Doctor Who and the Silurians is one of my favourite classic stories that would have needed a fair bit of work done too
Tucker
December 21st, 2024 - 10:27pmI’m curious to know more about the restoration work on The Silurians and Ambassadors as well. Spearhead is in good shape from the blu ray release and Inferno was cleaned up for a Special Edition. I see the Silurians has had episodes 2, 4-7 worked on by Richard Russell’s Colour Recovery Working Group. Makes me wonder about episodes 1 and 3, do these have no colour signal like the Mind of Evil episode 1 or is it felt the existing composite with off air NTSC colour signal is the best they have? Also what they can do with Ambassadors bar colour grading as these originate from colour recovered sources for the DVD from 2011?
chris
December 22nd, 2024 - 7:04pmGreat i was hoping you could watch the deleted scene included in the episode itself
Tucker
December 22nd, 2024 - 8:57pmThanks Paul, I’m 42 but I regard Pertwee as my favourite Doctor, with the Great Baker (Tom) a close second. Whilst I remember the McCoy seadon as I was around 7, it was the re-runs from ’92 onwards on BBC2 that made me a fan. Pertwee stood out for me as the Doctor and and I really like all the stories in this season. I can’t wait to see what they do with The Silurians and Ambassadors, Spearhead and Inferno I imagine will be easier to clean up.
Craig F
December 20th, 2024 - 6:13pmDid any of the 16mm film elements/inserts survive for this season?
Excluding Spearhead of course.
Gordon
December 20th, 2024 - 8:54pmThere isn’t any.
Walter Hardback
December 20th, 2024 - 3:11pmWishlist:
Jon Pertwee talking through Spearhead (this is the last chance to use it, if it still exists – it apparently was still around after the initial DVD was finalised and it was too late to include).
Spearhead versions comparison: VHS, VHS master, DVD master, SE DVD master (new prints in SD), SE DVD transfer (new prints in HD), original BD master (HD from neg), raw neg transfer. (Picture and sound comparisons.) Make it an easter egg if it’s too nerdy for normal people.
Silurians and Ambassadors comparisons: NTSC off-air, raw 16mm xfer, the different colorised versions. Plus optical vs off-air vs restored sound.
Ambassadors original American Film Technologie colorization test.
Raw SD transfer of Ambassadors ep 1, as the earliest surviving DW videotape, with dodgy split-screen and the like left alone (even video noise). It’d only take a gig or two.
A featurette on colour recovery can go with Invasion of the Dinos on S11 (where it didn’t fully work). Why they didn’t do something for S10, just including the old remastering feature without updates, I’ve no idea.
Gordon
December 20th, 2024 - 9:30pmMajority of these things like the restorations probably won’t happen due to the restoration for the collections taking right up to the deadline.
Gordon
December 20th, 2024 - 9:56pmRestoration comparisons*
MDS
December 21st, 2024 - 7:54pmI remember there being a restoration comparison being on the end of the Ambassador’s VHS. Hopefully this is included but looking at the above picture of the disc’s it looks like Ambassador’s is only one disc it may not.
Andy Dodds
December 20th, 2024 - 2:23pmI knew it would be announced after it was leaked the other day on YouTube, Can’t wait to get this I expect this will be released around Easter as we already getting Joy To The World, The Savages, Probably The War Games In Colour or Special Edition, then this Season 7, There is a lot of good stuff coming in early 2025 early Christmas Present something to look forward to.
So we might get more stuff coming out next year, insistently 20th Anniversary since the revamp 2005 in March, it’s not an official celebration as that’s on 23rd November, but still it marks 20 Years since Christopher Eccleston had taken us on a trip of a life time. So would be nice if they have something in mind. Don’t know for instance Russell T Davies might have gone back to include the Deleted scenes cut from the First Series The Directors cut or The First Series 20th Anniversary Edition, it would be great if they did.
Bellal
December 20th, 2024 - 5:34pmI would give my right arm to have extended series 1 epsiodes featuring those elusive deleted scenes
Gordon
December 20th, 2024 - 10:48pmRussell has said he’s not doing anything for the anniversary so I’m not really expecting anything major like a new release with deleted scenes or other features. I Think a repackaged stand alone release from the remastered series 1-4 set last year is the best we are going to get. There is already the savages out the same week as the anniversary plus season 7 will be out a couple of weeks earlier plus war games in colour is out at some point then as well.
Nb7
December 21st, 2024 - 10:37amWasn’t the 2005 anniversary celebrated with Day Of The Doctor and the 3 specials last year?! Haha just joking
Lewis James
December 22nd, 2024 - 12:25pmI’d really like them to repackage Matt Smith’s era into one complete box set, he’s my favourite modern doctor along with David of course. Hopefully they will eventually.
daz
December 22nd, 2024 - 1:42pmLewis.
Having bought the remastered Series 1 to 4 and Specials, I hope they do similar for Matt/Capaldi and Whittaker too as a Moffat and then Chibnell collections.
Andy Dodds
December 22nd, 2024 - 7:54pmI think eventually that will happen Matt Smith Series 5 – 7 + Specials, Peter Capaldi Series 8 – 10 + Specials, Jodie Whittaker, Series 11 – 13 + Specials. The BBC double dipping again. They been doing it for years. We as fans are daft enough to buy it. As for the Episodes them selves I can’t see what else they can do with them apart from adding the deleted scenes.
Duncan
December 27th, 2024 - 9:44pmCan’t wait for Season 7 and The Savages. Seven is my second favourite series and Ive always had a soft spot for the Hartnell story. And that’s another season 3 story in the bag.
Gordon
December 20th, 2024 - 9:19amGoing by Toby hadoke’s Patreon photos he’s on the same sofa Geoffrey and daisy so I’m guessing:
Sofa 1: Katy Manning, Matthew Waterhouse
Sofa 2: Janet Fielding, Sarah Sutton, Sophie Aldred
Sofa 3: Toby Hadoke, Geoffrey Beevers and Daisy Ashford
Also they bumped into frank skinner during filming of the looking for Mac documentary so it’s possible that he might be in it. The runtime for looking for Mac is 48: 20. Chris chapman describes it as the most political documentary that he’s ever done with the range. This is the 12th documentary that Chris has done with him. (Looking for Peter, lenny, David, Dursley and Mac, living with Levine, weekend with Waterhouse, cookbook, hadoke vs havoc, abominable snowman and fang rock making ofs plus whose doctor who revisited, ). He has said he has another 4 collaborations with him shot and another 4 in in the planning stage
Matt L
December 20th, 2024 - 11:51amIt looks great, but when migjht we will get a trailer for season 7? Thanks
Ryushinku
December 20th, 2024 - 12:19pmGlad Katy and Matthew are together again, they were a surprisingly fun pairing for the Season 15 BTS.
I like when you get those unexpected pairings that really work. Like Sophie and Peter Purves on Season 14, they had this really easy chemistry and you could see their enjoyment of the season grow with each story.
Also think that’s the first time to get Janet, Sarah, and Sophie on the one sofa. A fresh 80s companion mix.
Prof Horner
December 20th, 2024 - 12:23pmI think after the The War Games in colour, there will be a what happened to The Doctor, clips from season 7.
Gordon
December 20th, 2024 - 3:00pmThere is a bunch of speculation thinking there might be a trailer after war games in colour but nothing concrete.
It’s also possible there isn’t one. Pete mctighe who normally does them has been busy with the doctor who spin off in between the land and sea. He may have been too busy. It’s also possible that they couldn’t think of anything for Benton. Another possibility is the restored footage for the trailer wasn’t available in time due to them still working. Could be many reasons.
Craig F
December 20th, 2024 - 6:59pmAny idea where the convention footage is from?
Gordon
December 20th, 2024 - 9:39pmNot sure but I assume it’s somewhere where both Jon and Caroline are both at. Maybe Nicholas too
DanielM
December 21st, 2024 - 4:21am@Gorden If they don’t have any ideas of what to do for an announcement Trailer they can always just do what they did with the Blake’s 7 Series 1 Set Trailer which had no new voiceover and solely relying on clips and onscreen text which I was quite happy with.
Gordon
December 21st, 2024 - 10:54amAs I say it’s possible that the newly restored clips might have not been ready to do that. Could be any number of reasons why we don’t have one
AnaBear
December 20th, 2024 - 8:08amMy main fear about this set is the restoration. The last Pertwee set looked fantastic, but it seemed like everything sort of slipped with Season 20, 15 and unfortunately Season 25. They must have added some sort of upscaler but the results make the image look so smeary and it picks up details that aren’t there when you compare them with the DVD footage. This now seems to be a regular occurrence with BBC boxsets as it is the same with The Young Ones, Blackadder and now Wallace and Gromit. My sincere hope is that they do what they’ve done with Season 9. Remaster the film in its highest quality, overlay the NTSC recordings or chroma dot recovery in top and touch up the colour if necessary to remove colour bleeds and leave it be. No unnecessary upscaling to Spearhead, Silurians, Ambassadors or Inferno. Just do what you did before Season 20 and it’ll be the best set of the year. I’ll be absolutely disappointed if they upscale any of Season 7 when it isn’t necessary. It looks cheap if they do, much like with the recent Wallace and Gromit set.
Frax
December 20th, 2024 - 9:01amThis is indeed worrying. I haven’t collected a Limited set since season 20 so I wasn’t aware there were issues with the upscaling since. Has anyone from the restoration team addressed this? Why would they mess around with them when what they had going on with these sets, up to season 20, was amazing quality!
Gordon
December 20th, 2024 - 11:08amIt’s worth noting that the team that handled blackadder/young ones have nothing to do with the doctor who restorations.
I didn’t notice anything wrong with the young ones. Wasn’t that much of an improvement with the remastered DVDs but considering its majority vt that’s not really a suprise. The film sequences were smashing though.
The issues with blackadder are quite possibly down to the editing techniques used and the bbc having ditched the masters but on the positive side the film sequences in season 1 looked great. .
From what I gather bbc had pretty much nothing to do with the release outside of distributing the disc in the uk. Ardman handled the restoration for the 4k disc. Whoever it was that handled it botched it massively firstly before anything else not applying hdr was a massive missfire.
It is also worth noting the ai usage on the doctor who releases aren’t recent. I found out recently It’s been ongoing since about shada 2017 just on a low level. It’s not something that has just been started to get used. Its to get it to an acceptable standard for blu ray. It’s probably become far more noticeable for some as the likes of horror of fang rock had a couple of restoration issues and season 25 is on 1 inch tape. I can’t say I agree with its usage but I get why it’s being used
Walter Hardback
December 20th, 2024 - 1:20pmGordon: Do you know what software was used on Shada, and how? I noticed the heavy noise reduction, but didn’t spot sharpening and/or added detail. “AI” covers many bases though, as you could argue noise reduction and VidFIRE interpolation rely on analysis and machine learning.
If you want a “laugh” (note quotation marks), see what Paramount did to I Love Lucy with its added ghost faces. (The source who spoke to Indiewire is wrong though, or talking about a different episode – no way those faces were on the film material waiting to come out, those were added by insane software.)
Walter Hardback
December 20th, 2024 - 2:22pmUpscaling is just the term for going from SD resolution to HD resolution, so all classic Who outside of Spearhead is upscaled in one form or another; the issues come from how it’s handled.
I can’t say that I’ve spotted what are usually considered the typical AI artefacts on what little Who I’ve seen recently (it’s not like Aliens 4K – thankfully), just excessive noise reduction and filtering. It’s a quick and easy magic fix and any videotape noise is seen as evil, particularly upscaled on a big screen (hence its use on the other BBC titles too). Unfortunately the higher it’s dialled up, the more smear it creates and the more detail it takes out. But it’s cheap.
Personally I’d be happy with an SD-BD release of Classic Who, warts and all, but it would only sell about five copies.
Babelbro
December 20th, 2024 - 8:25pmJust to add to this – I still remember looking at the Restoration Team’s website entry on their 2008 dvd of ‘The Five Doctors’, with a screenshot of the Tom Baker footage, and while there was visible grain a huge amount of white haziness and more extreme noise had been digitally removed – basically the raw image just didn’t look viable at all to go on a commercial dvd put it that way, let alone Blu-ray 15 years in the future.
When the source image is in a poor or very low resolution state then of course it has to look presentable to a wider audience, and since most of the dvd range already used ai for both picture and audio anyway for nearly 2 decades, clearly it was working seamlessly.
The problem is studios and directors today utterly abusing the tools of ai and completely destroying too much of the original picture detail – while skimping out on actually going back to the source footage just to rake in more profit from falsely advertising their products as true 4k restorations (cough James Cameron).
Walter Hardback
December 21st, 2024 - 5:11amMmm, “AI” is a terribly vague term because noise reduction and motion interpolation all involve software analysing the image and predicting/creating a replacement.
I don’t have the same memories of the Five Docs article though. I remember it comparing the original 1983 telecine transfer of the film inserts to the new one carried out for the DVD, meaning many of the faults just weren’t there anymore, like the analogue tape and telecine noise, or bleached out skies. Beyond the standard bit of noise reduction they used at the time, the only thing they actually removed was the wire in the Raston Robot scenes (much more visible in the new scan). You can see the 1983 film transfer on the original Five Docs disc, with only minor tweaking.
rich
December 21st, 2024 - 11:56amI’ve seen no problems with recent swasons, perhaps you all need better, or worse, blu ray players
SVH
December 23rd, 2024 - 3:26pmI’m not worried about the restorations at all. The stories on the S8-10 box sets looked great, I’m sure these will look great too. I was happy with these stories on VHS, on DVD, and I’ll be delighted with them on blu-ray.
I’m just happy to have them. It could be worse, they could still be missing from the archive.
GeordieW
December 19th, 2024 - 10:38pmDisappointing there’s not 5.1 mix, I was really hoping for a surround sound mix of Inferno, the score is so haunting I would have loved to have heard it all around me!
The Grumpy Dalek
December 20th, 2024 - 2:00amYeah, that story’s score is made up of Stock Music so it could have been done. There’s only 1 cue in the story which isn’t known due to an incorrect production music listing, but I’m sure they could’ve just cleaned up the cue from the episode
Gordon
December 20th, 2024 - 8:08amThink it’s a budgetary thing. The picture restoration I’m guessing took up a huge chunk of the budget.
Craig F
December 20th, 2024 - 6:06pmI thought Spearhead had already had a 5.1 mix done on the single blu ray release.
On checking the cover it says DTS-MA Stereo.
Is it the same or different?
Walter Hardback
December 21st, 2024 - 5:18amSpearhead was dual mono, so stereo with two identical channels.
SVH
December 23rd, 2024 - 3:33pmFor me the 5.1 and Atmos mixes are always surprising bonuses.
Original mono is fine for me, I’m just happy if they sound great.
I have to admit, I now always watch The Sea Devils with the beautiful Dolby Atmos soundtrack, but if it wasn’t an option I’d be OK with that.
Mike Phair
December 19th, 2024 - 10:22pmIs that a Silurian arm in front of Liz on the booklet?
The DR.
December 19th, 2024 - 11:21pmArm and Hand I’d say.
Philip Shaw
December 20th, 2024 - 10:23amI thought she was carrying a log, but it’s a Silurian claw!
Bobby Fackrell
December 19th, 2024 - 6:34pmIn Conversation with John Levine!!!
Where do I sign?
Auton
December 19th, 2024 - 10:13pmIt’s always interesting to hear what John has to say
Pipkin
December 19th, 2024 - 10:28pmWe learnt a little from his ‘living with Levene’ documentary with Toby Hadoke especially how Tom ‘Was a Tough nut to crack’ and how they never clicked when he worked with him in those dying U.N.I.T days.It will be interesting to hear about his early life.
Richard
December 20th, 2024 - 12:35amThat Living with Levine doc was excruciating to watch.
Gordon
December 20th, 2024 - 1:19amLevine is definitely a marmite personality. Eccentric plus there feels like a performance at play especially when cameras are rolling. He also never seems to know where the line is. Heard numerous stories of things that he’s said or done that really comes across as bad taste. The dying baby comments in the time monster commentary is only one example. I’ve been told he’s also had to be spoken to about his behaviour at conventions numerous times. I like the Benton character but I’m never really sure when it comes to John.
Pipkin
December 20th, 2024 - 9:23amWell Tom has actually referred to him as a fantasist so thats quite telling.
Craig F
December 20th, 2024 - 6:45pmI remember meeting John at a signing for his Wartime video release back in 1988.
It was at our local group meeting in Liverpool the MLG.
He chatted away for a good hour & answered our questions, A very funny & lovely man.
We had many guests at our group over the years, I miss those days lol.
Erato
December 19th, 2024 - 6:04pmAnd does anyone know when they first aired omnibus versions of Silurians and Inferno? What original material have they used to recreate these?
Bob
December 19th, 2024 - 6:23pmThey never did, I think these are new versions made for the boxset.
Gordon
December 20th, 2024 - 1:24am90 mins each. Both made exclusively for this set
Erato
December 20th, 2024 - 8:09amOh ok, not sure I see the point in doing those tbh, but each to their own. I’m sure they’ll appeal to somebody.
Walter Hardback
December 20th, 2024 - 1:55pm“Like Silurians and Inferno? Don’t have 6 hours spare? Then have we got something for you!”
Or they’re aimed at people who only (90/175 x 100)% like the stories.
Or for dads whose kids don’t like Classic Who: “I’ve already selected the short version, now put your phone away.”
Or they’re cheap disc fillers created by one man and a laptop.
(I’m sure someone had fun though cutting them down as some kind of editing exercise…)
Craig F
December 20th, 2024 - 6:30pmGordon
Were the 2 omnibus versions planed then dropped at the time?
As I recall from an interview Barry Lettes done on a DVD that he made notes for possible omnibus repeats.
Just wondered if true that his notes were used for the new omnibus versions?
Gordon
December 20th, 2024 - 10:17pmNo these were never planned. I’m guessing they decided to do them after being inspired by the silver nemesis one.
Bob
December 21st, 2024 - 8:38amI guess Inferno was originally conceived as a 4 parter so it could be interesting to see a version with that runtime.
SVH
December 23rd, 2024 - 5:59pm@Bob Inferno was only ever a 4-part idea at the original story pitch stage. The Parallel World plot line had been inserted and it was developed into a 7-parter long before it even reached the script stage. So to see the ‘originally conceived’ 4-part version would mean removing the entire Parallel World plot and that would be impossible.
David
December 19th, 2024 - 4:06pmI wonder what the menu screen will be like for this season, no TARDIS interior, so it will be interesting to see what they do with it.
Ricky
December 19th, 2024 - 4:19pmWill they use the inferno backdrop or the Ambassadors? I’m intrigued .
SV7
December 19th, 2024 - 4:26pmMaybe a bit of a mash-up? The console as it appears in Ambassadors 1 in the control room from The War Games?
Season 12’s TARDIS menus were a mash-up of elements from Seasons 11 and 13 weren’t they?
Bob
December 19th, 2024 - 6:23pmMy guess is its appearance from Inferno.
DPHill
December 19th, 2024 - 10:43pmSeason 12 obviously had no interior nor something standing for it but inferno and ambassadors both have the workshop, I feel inferno as this was such a classic story and it would be amazing to see it and Bessie there
SVH
December 23rd, 2024 - 11:32amI’d like to think the menu system will be the TARDIS console in the wooden work shed from Inferno, but the fact that S12 has a TARDIS console room menu system despite us not actually seeing inside the TARDIS in S12, I’m guessing we’ll get a similar mash up/interpretation Console Room menu system for S7.
Erato
December 19th, 2024 - 3:10pmNo trailer for this one?
Jamiouse
December 19th, 2024 - 3:15pmJust thinking the same thing
Coupeskidoo
December 19th, 2024 - 3:57pmThey stopped making the trailers after Season 15.
Auton
December 19th, 2024 - 4:12pmThey stopped doing live action episodes for the trailer. They didn’t stop completely as Season 25 had one
D84
December 19th, 2024 - 4:59pmMaybe a trailer isn’t quite ready – but they have dropped the details early due to the leak?
Maybe we’ll see a trailer when this may have “supposed” to have been announced – my guess would be a couple of weeks after new year.
6sek
December 19th, 2024 - 2:57pmYou get 10% rarewaves with code RWSPECIAL10
Neil
December 19th, 2024 - 11:28pmWas the rare waves deal ever “in stock” today?
Or was ir just a ploy to harvest our email addresses?
David
December 19th, 2024 - 2:27pmAny idea when it’s going to get released. I heard that the 9th Doctor season is getting the collection treatment to celebrate 20 years since it’s been on TV..
scotel
December 19th, 2024 - 2:42pmProbably around March (which certainly rules out any sort of collection release to coincide with 20 years since Eccelston).
Tom Williams
December 19th, 2024 - 3:08pmThis was hinted as February from the leak on eBay the other day but probably at this stage will be pushed till march
Gordon
December 19th, 2024 - 3:16pmThe Zavvi email I got said 3rd of march
Babelbro
December 19th, 2024 - 4:55pm@David Where the heck did you hear about a Ninth Doctor Collection set?
There’s literally been zero serious mention of a Paul McGann let alone New Who 2005+
If this is legit, it’ll be absolutely fascinating to find out how the ‘restoration’ will be tackled – going back further beyond the broadcast masters to the (I guess) raw camera firewire footage? If so then damn it that would be beautiful.
Just don’t do it on a cheap ai job. Wallace and Gromit’s 4k’s been utterly massacred by it and looks awful.
Alan
December 19th, 2024 - 6:35pm@Babelbro
I’ve heard that the vaseline filter was applied in post and I’m really hoping that’s true
TheMaster
December 19th, 2024 - 7:12pmWould be better to finish The Collection sets before re-releasing 2005 onwards yet again, again.
Gordon Wilson
December 20th, 2024 - 2:43am@Tom Williams. February was only “hinted at” because you’re only allowed a maximum of 40 days dispatch on any eBay listing – so from when the listing went live, 40 days later would take it to mid February. If you went into the actual description that they had made for it, they covered themselves by saying a release date in the year 2030, as they never knew when the official date of release actually was.
Tom Williams
December 20th, 2024 - 3:07am@gordan Wilson it wasn’t hinted actually as there is a seller who has listed one already on eBay and states end off February but Gordon said himself it is more likely in march as it was confirmed off Zavi I said it myself that it will most likely be pushed now till march which is more likely at this stage
King Charles III
December 20th, 2024 - 11:33amTom, you mustn’t believe everything you read on the Internet.
Walter Hardback
December 20th, 2024 - 1:41pmA lot of early New Who was shot with a “Pro Mist” filter on the lens, which is a professional version of the old net stockings over the camera, so at least some of the softness is locked in. (You can find articles online explaining what these filters do to light sources, etc.)
Have they even kept the raw footage though? It was shot on Digibeta tape back then, interlaced, so it’ll always look soft. They could use AI software to help with problem diagonal stair-stepping effects though, I’ve seen some nice work there. (Look up AstroRes, which works brilliantly upscaling anime – even 480i digipaint series, creating sharp, fine HD outlines without artefacts.)
Gordon
December 20th, 2024 - 3:05pmI doubt we are getting anything 9th doctor related outside of a repackaging. It was only restored last year. They ain’t going to restore it again. Plus those involved with the range have said previously that there wouldn’t be any sort of discussion on the 2005 era joining the collection range until after the classic era is done
Tom Williams
December 20th, 2024 - 4:04pm@kingcharles 3 I’m not taking ur advice thanks
Gordon
December 20th, 2024 - 9:50pmIf there is a series 1 collection set in the works the collection team are not involved with it or even aware of it: Richard bignell: “It’s certainly nothing that the Blu-ray Collection team of heard of or have any part in.” If Richard says he knows nothing about it I’m convinced it ain’t happening.
Tom Williams
December 20th, 2024 - 10:38pmI think In my opinion if they was allowed like on Etsy I seen custom steel book versions of series 1-Season one off blu ray standard form would be much better but I guess now days using steel book art work onto a standard form would be a lot off work and pressure too produce easy
Andy B
December 19th, 2024 - 2:14pmI wonder if Spearhead From Space has been further improved after the last blu ray release?
bryan
December 19th, 2024 - 1:52pmBrilliant. Lots of inclusion of Carry John’s family pleases me very much. I love Carry and Liz to bits.
Interesting no 5.1 (possibly on the omnibus editions ? ) there’s not much CGI used in these episodes, that anything added newly .
Excellent
Auton
December 19th, 2024 - 2:30pmPlus the previously released tribute to Caroline John should be included so alot of love towards one of the most underrated companions in Doctor Who’s History
Ricky
December 19th, 2024 - 1:36pmReally nice cover art on the set itself and the booklet and great use of the TARDIS picture on the opener ,will be interesting to see which of the 2 TARDIS console backdrops they use for this one!
NoTrailer
December 19th, 2024 - 1:26pmShame no trailer as they have lost out on tons of free adverts with people posting trailers
I’m Batman
December 19th, 2024 - 1:24pmSeason 7? I was not expecting this to be the next release, nor for it to come any time soon. I am pleasantly surprised!
It’s not like John Levene mentioned doing an interview recently, or any form of leaks have surfaced. How do they keep a tight lid on things, I’ll never know.
Number 6
December 19th, 2024 - 1:32pmWas expecting more Blu-ray Releases on the remaining Tom Baker series but this is rather unexpected! Looking forward to have a new addition to my Blu-ray collection.
Auton
December 19th, 2024 - 1:15pmA beautiful cover and some amazing special Features for a season where so few people are still with us. Really looking forward to my all time favourite Doctor Who Season to get the Blu-ray treatment
Alzie Who
December 19th, 2024 - 1:08pmI did wonder whether there would be extra CGI on any of these, but not a worry. Looking forward to these and I’m sure the trailer will come soon enough. Let the guessing game begin on who will be on the Behind the Sofa! Possibly Geoffrey Beevers and Caroline John’s daughter? Would be nice if Sean Pertwee would do one also
Snowman
December 19th, 2024 - 1:01pmAlready looking forward to the BFI Screening (Even though it will be months away) and picking up a few Official Signed/Unsigned Postcards of that Gorgeous Artwork.
Snowman
December 19th, 2024 - 1:35pmJust Ordered. I was that busy reading Comments on all the Different Threads that I forgot I hadn’t Ordered yet. LOL.
Pipkin
December 19th, 2024 - 12:40pmI may also wait for the standard edition and just manage with the dvds.
Things that go bump in the night
December 19th, 2024 - 12:39pmPre-ordered… Jon Pertwee is really my Doctor that I watched regularly and grew up with (yes I did watch Hartnell’s and Troughton’s Doctor from time to time, but not every episode)
WhereTheresLife
December 19th, 2024 - 12:31pmNo trailer ?
James
December 19th, 2024 - 1:16pmWas wondering that to
Prof Horner
December 19th, 2024 - 12:24pmWell for once I was right! Looking for Mac . Malcolm Hulke was the number one Pertwee writer . One fascinating person. Looking forward to seeing this.
The Silurians and Inferno Omnibus editions , look forward to seeing how these work out. Fantastic! I will be getting on Amazon and ordering now.
Master
December 19th, 2024 - 12:38pmAnd to be honest they dont really need the new CG. They are of their time but suited to the stories. If they are needed all well and good.
Craig F
December 19th, 2024 - 11:55pmWould be nice to see Frank Skinner appear on this, as he done a great job on the Terrance Dicks tribute.
Gordon
December 20th, 2024 - 12:46amToby Hadoke is hosting this one. I actually thought it would be on the invasion of the dinosaurs disc. Still welcome. Would be nice to get a Robert holmes. The one on the 2 doctors disc didn’t really cover his life or his non who career.
DPHill
December 19th, 2024 - 12:23pmThis is amazing! Surprised ambassadors is only on one disc and no omnibus, shame we don’t get a trailer of any sort with it, nonetheless what a stunning set for a stellar season!!!
David
December 19th, 2024 - 12:14pmPre ordered.
Ricky
December 19th, 2024 - 12:14pmI can’t wait for this, lovely.cover and classic season that I never bore of.
PETER BOWEN
December 19th, 2024 - 4:36pmI totally agree. Been a longtime coming. I cannot wait. Being my favorite Doctor, I look forward to season 11 to complete the Third Doctor. Hopefully they will slip in the two radio adventures with that season