June 14th, 2021
39 comments
Doctor Who – Web of Fear DVD New Edition
Available to order from www.amazon.co.uk, www.hive.co.uk, www.zavvi.com and other selected retailers.
Available to order in the USA from www.amazon.com
Available to order in the Australia from www.sanity.com
Textless Cover By Lee Binding
In order to escape an attack in space, the TARDIS makes an unscheduled landing and ends up deep inside the London Underground. Here the travellers soon find themselves engulfed in a thrilling battle with the Great Intelligence and the Yeti, a deadly enemy set to invade the Earth.
But as events take a turn for the worse, it becomes clear that the golden prize is not just the Earth, but the Doctor’s mind too…
This release includes all 5 surviving episodes, plus a brand new fully animated reconstruction of the missing third episode created from the surviving audio-only recordings.
You can watch a clip of the newly constructed animation below:
The Web of Fear is the partly missing fifth serial of the fifth season of Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in six weekly parts from February to March 1968. Starring Patrick Troughton as the Doctor, the story concerns an abandoned London and the return of the fearsome Yeti, patrolling the London Underground. It also marks the first appearance of the popular character Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart (before his promotion to Brigadier).
The six episodes (available in black and white and the newly constructed animation in colour and black and white) will include the following exclusive special features:
- Audio commentaries on all episodes (with two on episode 1)
- An episode 3 Telesnap Reconstruction
- Photo Gallery
- A ‘Making Of’ documentary
- A ‘Making the Animation’ documenatary
- The Web of Fear Trailer
- The Missing Years documentary
- The Many Voices of Jack Woolgar documetary
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Anonymous
July 4th, 2021 - 11:18amI think the 3D animation would be much better received if it was more like Marcus Dilloni’s Wheel in Space opening on YouTube.
Anonymous
June 16th, 2021 - 8:45amI would’ve thought there’d be production note subtitles on this DVD, especially since Fury from the Deep had them and this has 5 existing episodes out of 6.
Though in Fury’s case, they didn’t mention the production notes on the initial press release, and we found out through, I think, Zavvi?
Auton
June 16th, 2021 - 10:40amYou would think that the production notes would be included given the fact that 5 of the 6 episodes still exist
Anonymous
June 16th, 2021 - 1:57pmYeah, exactly
Fledershrew
June 15th, 2021 - 4:14pmArguably one of the best Dr Who DVD covers so far. Seems like a whole lot of love went into making this one.
Nick
June 15th, 2021 - 1:36pmFantastic animation – looks brilliant!! Fabulous cover too. Looking forward to Evil and Abominable being animated.
Gopher
June 25th, 2021 - 7:08amEvil Is Probably The most appealing one in my opinion
A T
June 15th, 2021 - 11:02amLovely cover, shame the animation is so terrible!
Anonymous
June 15th, 2021 - 12:38pmIt really isn’t. For the first time, the characters aren’t flat and static.
Anonymous
June 15th, 2021 - 9:52amI’m happy the animations actually move now
Pete X
June 14th, 2021 - 9:46pmHMV have the Blu-ray and DVD versions up for pre-order (but not the steel book – at least at the time of writing).
Mrs Croot
June 14th, 2021 - 9:08pmSome very old enemies…
Ah yes, the monsters from three stories ago, very old indeed
(Nothing against their return or the story, i’m just saying that for the sake of it)
Chance W
June 14th, 2021 - 7:20pmI would like this artwork to be used on the original region 1 covers but I doubt that they’re not going to do that because they didn’t do it for Power of the Daleks, Macra Terror, The Faceless Ones, and Fury from the Deep.
Anonymous
June 14th, 2021 - 6:53pmI should imagine the DVD will have the usual reversible cover? I like to display them all looking fairly uniform.
Anonymous
June 14th, 2021 - 8:37pmYeah I really want to see the roundel cover, especially since it’s a Lee Binding cover
Auton
June 14th, 2021 - 5:54pmFor the people wondering, the new special features are Audio commentaries on all episodes (with two on episode 1), An episode 3 Telesnap Reconstruction, Photo Gallery, A ‘Making Of’ documentary, A ‘Making the Animation’ documenatary, The Web of Fear Trailer, The Missing Years documentary and The Many Voices of Jack Woolgar documetary
Steven
June 14th, 2021 - 5:39pmIf only episode 3 is animated will it be in colour considering the rest is black and white or is the trailer just in colour, it would be great if they actually colourised the whole story but I highly doubt it
Anonymous
June 14th, 2021 - 6:13pmEpisode 3 is available to watch in either colour or black and white. The rest is black and white only.
Anonymous
June 14th, 2021 - 5:14pmBest cover yet
Prof Horner
June 14th, 2021 - 5:13pmGreat news that we finally have a date for this coming out and a great cover. I am a little disappointed that episode 3 hasn’t been returned, I still something to look forward to.
Anonymous
November 24th, 2020 - 7:33pmHappy Doctor Who day!
*sigh* One day late.
Anonymous
November 24th, 2020 - 3:36amAnyone know why the link to amazon isn’t working yet?
Anonymous
November 24th, 2020 - 8:56amDVD is definitely available to order now and the link seems to be working now.
Anonymous
November 25th, 2020 - 2:15pmSomething’s weird here, the link still doesn’t work for me. And when I do a search on Amazon from the home page it still doesn’t find it. I’m in the US, and I normally buy my Doctor Who DVDs from the UK Amazon with no problems. I wonder if I’m geo-blocked somehow?
Benny
November 23rd, 2020 - 6:54pmLoooking forward to seeing what special features we get as although I’m getting this i prefer telesnap recons personally.
Nick
November 23rd, 2020 - 2:41pmOh BRILLIANT – at last – animated episode 3 and the trailer too!!! The animation looks FANTASTIC!!! Well done all involved!! Certainly buying this!!! And on Blu Ray too!!! Needed some good news today!!
Nick
November 23rd, 2020 - 2:41pmHAPPY DR WHO DAY EVERYONE!!!
Anonymous
November 25th, 2020 - 5:48amYes, the animation on that trailer is certainly a lot more impressive than what we’ve had previously, it seems less jerky to me.
Anonymous
November 23rd, 2020 - 12:11pmI’m looking forward to the release with all 6 original episodes. As an old duffer I’m hoping it come’s back within the next ten years or so…
simonhanlon77
November 23rd, 2020 - 10:27amso it’s going to be re-released again with just a different version of the rubbish telesnap reconstruction? because they said the first time around they called it fully animated! if that’s the case i won’t be getting it…however if is an animated episode as in like ‘fury from the deep’ etc animation then i will def be getting it! hope so because it’s been a long time coming!
Gordon
November 23rd, 2020 - 11:00amThis was how it was reported by the bbc:
Episode three is still missing, but has been reconstructed from stills to enable restored versions of both stories to be made available for sale via download on Friday.
They NEVER described it as fully animated. Even on the back of the dvd it is stated near the bottom that episode 3 is reconstructed via telesnaps.
This release will have ep 3 animated and is produced by big finish creative in collaboration with BBC Studios, with animation created by Shapeshifter Studios.
Anonymous
November 24th, 2020 - 5:38pmIt does look hopeful now that we will get underwater menace at some point. I hope so as I quite like it, yes its daft but it’s fun. Be nice to able follow the plot in episodes 1 and 4 via an animation.
the ergon
November 23rd, 2020 - 9:53amI,ll be swapping round the web special edition with the original should it come in the clear case again to keep the DVDs matching.
Anonymous
November 23rd, 2020 - 2:19pmIt will be a clear case that is the new plastic laws.
the ergon
November 23rd, 2020 - 10:06pmPlastic laws. The autons have infiltrated and taken over.
Anonymous
November 24th, 2020 - 2:05amI’ve just bought a brand new release from studio canal and they normally do standard DVD cases. This one was released last week and it’s in a slimline case. Apparently that is something we’ll see more of now
Matt p
November 23rd, 2020 - 6:56amNice to get some good news on Who’s birthday …. though the date on amazon says 1st June 2022 (hope not that far away)
MikeM
November 23rd, 2020 - 6:36pmThe trailer states “coming 2021”
Anonymous
November 24th, 2020 - 5:30pmSays 2021 on Amazon now