August 18th, 2020
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Doctor Who The Faceless Ones DVD
All formats are available to order from www.amazon.co.uk
Also available to order from www.zoom.co.uk and www.zavvi.com
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Doctor Who’s missing serial The Faceless Ones will be released on DVD, Blu-Ray and SteelBook on 16th March 2020.
BBC Studios is pleased to announce that The Faceless Ones will be the next animated Doctor Who release, filling a gap in missing content. Following the success of The Power of the Daleks, Shada and The Macra Terror, The Faceless Ones will be released on DVD, Blu-Ray and as an exclusive steelbook next year.
The Faceless Ones is the mostly missing eighth serial of the fourth season of Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in six weekly parts from April to May 1967. Starring Patrick Troughton as the Doctor, the story concerns a sinister race of identity-stealing aliens known as the Chameleons.
Only two of the six episodes are held in the BBC film archives with snippets of footage and still images existing from the other four. Fortunately, off-air recordings of the soundtrack also still exist, making the animation of a complete serial possible once again.
The six new animated episodes are being made in full colour and high definition and will include the following exclusive special features:
- Photographic reconstruction of the story, including surviving footage of episodes 1 & 3
- Audio commentary on episodes 1, 3, 4, 5 and 6
- ‘Making of the animated series’
- Camera script PDF’s
- Surviving film fragments from the story
- x5 ‘Easter Egg’ surprises
- Coming Soon Fury from the Deep trailer
The double sided cover…
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The Watcher
September 16th, 2020 - 7:34amThoroughly enjoyed this!
Peter Knapp
August 18th, 2020 - 1:41pmThe Region 1 DVD is now available for pre-order on Amazon. booboo, could you update the above entry?
http://www.amazon.com
Anonymous
March 27th, 2020 - 11:07pmThe Wheel in Space would be a great story, to see in animation. The Daleks Master Plan or Evil of the Daleks or the moonbase
Anonymous
March 28th, 2020 - 1:20amI completely agree with the first three. The Moonbase has been animated though.
Prowl 1701
March 28th, 2020 - 7:47amThe Moonbase animation is still my favorite. Liked that style of animation.
Anonymous
March 28th, 2020 - 1:00pmWatched moonbase in January and the animation is excellent.
Anonymous
March 28th, 2020 - 1:43pmThat is an excellent animation. I also like the Invasion. Reign of Terror is by far my least favorite. I’d like to see that one re-reanimated after all the missing ones are animated.
Anonymous
March 30th, 2020 - 5:20pmI wonder if they’ll wait on the Wheel in Space since there is a telesnap version on BritBox.
Lee D
March 22nd, 2020 - 2:50pmDoes anyone know where the Bad Wolf reference is on the DVD ?
Gordon
March 22nd, 2020 - 3:10pmThe eye chart on episode 2 about 7 mins in. It’s spelled backwards. Just under big ron egg which is also spelled backwards
Lee D
March 22nd, 2020 - 3:47pmThank you so much Gordon and for all your knowledge of the show, thanks again !
Joe 90
March 22nd, 2020 - 8:26amI was nicely surprised to see the “Wanted” posters of both Delgado and the new Master on the notice board in the Police station in Ep 1 before the motorcycle cops go and investigate the TARDIS.
Lee D
March 22nd, 2020 - 2:01pmVery good Animation ,but was hoping they would leave the black and white version, free of the wanted sign Easter Eggs !
Anonymous
March 22nd, 2020 - 2:51pmTo be honest I think I’ll only ever watch the original episodes with the black and white animation and occasionally the full colour version.
Anonymous
April 3rd, 2020 - 8:28pmI liked several of the little nods. Magpie electrics, Hibbert’s plastics, the newspaper in air traffic control and the Delgado wanted poster. I liked that the sacha master was there and I liked when it was replaced by the monk later on.
Anonymous
March 19th, 2020 - 8:05pmAnyone else spotted troughton’s floating arm in eps 1 animation? It’s in both versions. Just after polly is kidnapped, Jamie and the doctor walk away and just before they turn the sleeve of the coat appears between them.
Anonymous
March 21st, 2020 - 11:32pmAs you should be aware of by now. “The team don’t have time to work in these animations in small detail and you should be grateful that you even got the story in the first place I mean how rare is that?. Maybe in a couple of years they could finally fix it in the super special edition, which you will have to pay another 12.99 for instead of just making it right first time”. Oxygen was such a great story wasn’t it.
Anonymous
March 22nd, 2020 - 9:39amEr, it’s not a complaint just an observation. It’s a very minor error and makes no difference. I just wondered if anyone else had spotted it. Due to time and money it’s inevitable that some errors will creep in and not be fixed. Besides it’s on Episode one an episode that exists!
Anonymous
March 19th, 2020 - 6:18pmgood dvd nice distraction from the world for a couple of hours
Anonymous
March 19th, 2020 - 7:04pmJust got mine today, watched the original episodes with the b&w animation, about to watch 1 and 3 in b&W now. Have to say I think that did one is the one I’ll probably watch most. Great fun to watch this story. Not the greatest story but troughton and Hines are just so watchable. Also have to admit I thought this was a vast improvement on macra. I wasn’t keen on the alterations made to macra so I’m very happy with faceless as they seem to have tried to get the animation to match more to how it should have been. Colour version tomorrow then reconstruction and extras Saturday. The one silver lining of isolation!
Anonymous
March 20th, 2020 - 10:13pmWatched it all now. Enjoyed the colour version but I’ll probably make the original episodes black and white animation my go to watch. The reconstruction is decent but you do need to put the narration on. The extras are sparse, but the making of is interesting.
Anonymous
March 19th, 2020 - 2:56pmCan anyone put the locations of the Easter eggs on please!
Rob W
March 19th, 2020 - 4:01pmDisc Three, there’s only one Easter Egg. Try Soecial Feature, use the right arrow key on each feature. I don’t want to spoil your enjoyment of finding it!
Anonymous
March 19th, 2020 - 4:52pmThe easiest way is put in audio navigation and the Easter eggs show up in the list,
Anonymous
March 19th, 2020 - 12:11pmStill waiting for this to arrive…
DPHill
March 19th, 2020 - 12:08amHas anyone else noticed a sticking on episode one? I’ve only done episode one on disc two in colour and it has been rubbish to watch ; the episode is very intriguing and thankfully uplifted, but the issue is really taking away from it all…
DPHill
March 19th, 2020 - 12:55amNow I’ve looked at disc one and that is perfect, disc three plays, but – now this one I have never seen in all the hundreds of dr who dvds – the cursor will sometimes get stuck and then disappear rendering the disc unplayable until you restart
Also, only found one out of five Easter eggs…
I’m thinking there must be some on disc one and two as they say “bonus contents” yet haven’t any bonus
Anonymous
March 19th, 2020 - 9:34amBluray or DVD? And try it in a different machine as well
Rob W
March 19th, 2020 - 4:06pmThere’s only one Easter Egg I’ve found (five B/W Production Stills).
RPG74
March 19th, 2020 - 6:00pmI’ve just watched Episode 1 in colour and there was no sticking for me. I have the blu ray though-I assume you’re talking about the DVD?
Anonymous
March 19th, 2020 - 8:01pmI’ve got the DVD, episode 1 in colour played just fine for me. Could you tell us what scenes you are experiencing problems with? (Or the time stamp)
Anonymous
March 19th, 2020 - 8:03pmIt could be your machine
Anonymous
March 19th, 2020 - 8:06pmOh you mean on the menu screen screen! That tends to happen on an old player of mine. Not so much on the newer player
d
March 19th, 2020 - 12:07amAnyone having a problem with the episode sticking? Only watched one episode and it has been less than enjoyable due to this – which is a real shame but thankfully I know the first episode anyway- what can I do?
me
March 18th, 2020 - 6:04pmdoes anybody know what is the x5 ‘Easter Egg’ surprises ?
Anonymous
March 19th, 2020 - 1:14pmIt’s a photo gallery featuring 5 photos
Rob W
March 19th, 2020 - 4:09pmTry disc 3 Special Features and use the left or right arrow keys on each feature.
DPHill
March 18th, 2020 - 8:38amSomething that bothers me with releases since for six consecutive years across nine releases is the “years” banner at the bottom where the doctors era appears and their photo – why since jan 2014 have they all been blue? Surely this has been noticed and is getting old – why aren’t there other colours?
2014 – web and moonbase- blue
2015 – underwater menace – blue
2016 – power and TV movie – blue
2017,18,19 – Shada, enemy SE, Macra – all blue
2020 has now got faceless in the typical template and yet again it’s blue!
Please can we have some more originality for fury – I’m hoping for green to spice it up because Troughton banners seem very blue – thoughts…
anonymous
March 18th, 2020 - 11:34amSince 2017 they are actually purple
Anonymous
March 18th, 2020 - 12:35pmCan’t really say I’m bothered
Anonymous
March 18th, 2020 - 4:58pmI see what they mean. It is a bit strange having a blue banner on a cover like Macra Terror. At least they have the roundel template
DPHill
March 18th, 2020 - 10:09pmHas anyone spotted it mentioned last years who animation as the wheel in space?
RPG74
March 17th, 2020 - 6:07pmWell, just bought mine from the local, completely deserted, HMV. I did consider the steelbook but decided against it. Since there’s no extra content over the standard release, a la Macra Terror, I don’t see the point of paying an extra £8 for an attractive piece of tin. Each to their own though, and to those who wanted it and got it, congrats. I’ll be watching this on days off the rest of this week. Can’t wait!
Anonymous
March 17th, 2020 - 9:42amStill nothing from hmv
TheQuestion
March 17th, 2020 - 11:41amThey have them in store all three versions
Can they send from there?
Anonymous
March 17th, 2020 - 2:24pmNo, only from warehouse. Had them in warehouse 48hrs now and still nothing. No point in emailing as it takes them 3 days To respond. I order online because I suffer from depression and can’t always leave the house, so you fan imagine how I felt when told to just cancel the preorder and “just go and by it, it’s here, what’s the problem?” From a member of staff on the phone when I phoned to see if the release had been put back.
Anonymous
March 17th, 2020 - 6:07pmIts finally been sent which is a relief. Especially in these increasingly scary times. I need something to occupy myself with to keep myself on an even keel. Sounds daft I know but that’s the way it is. Faceless will keep me going for awhile!
Anonymous
March 17th, 2020 - 9:00amI’m really loving these animated releases. They fill in the gaps, that are lost to time (no pun intended). I would like to see some from the Hartnell era done in animation, there are gaps there too. Let’s hope this animated era continues, so WHO fans can fill in the gaps
Chance W
March 16th, 2020 - 2:41pmAre there any news on a region 1 release because I know that we’re gonna have to wait so many months for it to release in my country because in December 2017 Shada released in region 2 then November 2018 Shada released in region then in March 2019 the Macra terror region 2 then November 2019 The Macra Terror released in region 1. Can somebody explain why they can’t pick a date for it to release it worldwide than releasing it in one region then wait a couple months to release it in a another region?
Gordon
March 16th, 2020 - 7:49pmIt’s because bbc America majority fund it. They want it for broadcast and they want to wait till it’s close to the tv broadcast on bbc America before releasing it.
Anonymous
March 17th, 2020 - 8:16amWhilst not an American, I do feel sorry for the R1 fans who have to wait for it
Jimbob
March 16th, 2020 - 11:04amNot arrived from Amazon. No payment taken yet. Changed from delivery today to we shall let u know date when released. Are they just short of stock or has it been postponed
booboo
March 16th, 2020 - 11:06amtheir delivery is late they have not had any stock i don’t think
booboo
March 16th, 2020 - 11:28amsorry was referring to the steelbook , DVD’s have been sent out unless they did not get their full allocation
Jimbob
March 16th, 2020 - 11:18amWish is fine if that is the case. Just would be nice if they emailed to tell people that.
mick
March 16th, 2020 - 11:20amMines on it way today from amazon
Jimbob
March 16th, 2020 - 11:24amI just find it funny that I’ve had it on pre order since June last year, this morning it was marked for delivery today but payment hasn’t been taken and now it showing we shall let you know a date for delivery.
Jimbob
March 16th, 2020 - 11:35amAnd I am talking about the steel book by the way.
Alan Silvester
March 16th, 2020 - 12:23pmI agree, Jimbob. Had my steelbook on pre-order since June. Up until yesterday it was showing as “arriving tomorrow”, now received e-mail saying no idea when (if) it will be delivered. Amazon are becoming a joke. I’ve cancelled it and ordered from Zoom. Think I will use zoom going forward, as they always seem to deliver their releases on time or ahead of time. Amazon just don’t care.
Anonymous
March 16th, 2020 - 12:27pmUnfortunately it may just be a case of future times. We might have to accept that things we want may be delayed.
Anonymous
March 16th, 2020 - 4:40pmMy Blu Ray has been dispatched (16:26 UK time).
prototype dalek
March 16th, 2020 - 9:01pmI got mine today from Amazon this afternoon
Anonymous
March 16th, 2020 - 10:21amAbsolutely nothing from hmv! No emails and no payment taken! Can’t reorder elsewhere until they bother to reply.
Prof Horner
March 16th, 2020 - 12:13pmJust got my faceless ones Blu Ray from hmv in Leeds with gift card. Looking for to watching it on my day off tomorrow.
Anonymous
March 16th, 2020 - 4:36pmHmv warehouse received the DVD today but still no dispatch
Neil
March 15th, 2020 - 5:57pmMy copy came today, had pre-ordered from Amazon. Wasn’t actually expecting it to come until tomorrow. Very good, looking forward to Fury now. But the cover artwork for the last 2 animated Troughton stories has been AWFUL, surely they could have come up with something better, given all the effort that has been put into bringing this story back to us!
Anonymous
March 15th, 2020 - 6:14pmI’ve got some custom covers that match the main releases so I’m just going to keep using those.
Anonymous
March 15th, 2020 - 2:14pmDefinitely not getting it tomorrow or anytime soon. Nothing from hmv. No emails no explanation.
mick
March 15th, 2020 - 10:50amMine hasn’t even gone into the packing stage from Amazon yet
Duncan Parsons
March 15th, 2020 - 11:41amNeither has mine. But given the current situation there’s probably less people working in the warehouse.
Gary Masters
March 14th, 2020 - 11:59pmI received mine today (SATURDAY 14th) from Zoom. .Three disk, Blue Ray format. Great animation. I just finished watching the sixth episode in colour. The vast amount of extras will be a treat for later.
Tim M
March 14th, 2020 - 8:35pmThe reverse cover looks good. Mine has been dispatched from Amazon, so it might turn up tomorrow, but likely Monday.
Tim M
March 15th, 2020 - 6:25pmSurprisingly got it delivered today. Only watched the first three animated episodes so far. Great animation though, when you consider it being only a small team of animators. Good to see the surviving episodes 1 and 3 can be viewed alongside photographic reconstructions of the missing episodes as an alternative.
Anonymous
March 14th, 2020 - 12:11pmThe telesnap recon has production subtitles!
Anonymous
March 14th, 2020 - 4:52pmCloser to the classic releases of old. I really hope they do info text on all the telesnap recons. I think they’d perfectly compliment them.
Anonymous
March 14th, 2020 - 5:56pmFalse alarm. Just “descriptive” subtitles.
booboo
March 14th, 2020 - 10:54amzoom ordered item has arrived double sided cover posted
Anonymous
March 14th, 2020 - 11:24amDoesn’t look like my copy from hmv is going to arrive by Monday. No payment taken and no dispatch email.
Stewart
March 14th, 2020 - 12:12pmGot mine too – was a bit surprised it turned up today – but woohoo!!!
Anonymous
March 14th, 2020 - 12:32pmJust been informed by hmv to “just cancel the preorder and go and get it instore” never using hmv again.
Rob W
March 14th, 2020 - 12:41pmArgos are stocking this, check instore or online Monday. Hope you get a copy Anonymous.
Anonymous
March 14th, 2020 - 1:10pmI’ve put a cancellation request in but it takes days for hmv to do anything. Once all my preorders are confirmed cancelled I think I’ll use zoom. Just means I won’t get faceless for at least a week. So much for supporting shops!
Anonymous
March 14th, 2020 - 4:22pmI would always use Amazon or Zoom. Nearly always cheaper too.
Lee D
March 14th, 2020 - 4:43pmI really like the double sided cover with the roundels on ! Hope the Easter eggs on the disc are subtle ! Can’t wait to get mine on Monday from HMV.
me
March 5th, 2020 - 12:50amdoes this and the 12th series come out on the same day ?
Gordon
March 5th, 2020 - 1:04amBy the looks of things yes
Doctor…Who?
March 1st, 2020 - 9:38amSaw the whole thing at the BFI South bank yesterday and, I have to say it was one of the best animations so far! In 2 weeks will also be going to see The Talons of Weng-Chiang for the season 14 Blu-ray release!
Steve
March 14th, 2020 - 4:38pmDelayed until May
Anonymous
February 22nd, 2020 - 2:00amIsn’t it amazing that the almost 20 year old roundel template is still in use?
TIMELORDTC .
March 14th, 2020 - 3:32pmIf it aint broke