April 28th, 2020
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The Power Of The Daleks Special Edition Blu-ray
Available to order in the UK from www.amazon.co.uk
Also available to order from www.zoom.co.uk and www.zavvi.co.uk
Available to order in Australia from www.sanity.com.au
Patrick Troughton stars in this recreation of a lost classic from 1966.
The TARDIS brings the Doctor, Polly and Ben to a colony on the swamp planet of Vulcan. Soon after arriving, the Doctor witnesses a brutal murder.
Meanwhile, in another part of the colony an ancient crashed space capsule has been discovered in the swamps. The colony’s misguided chief scientist opens the capsule and discovers a group of strange metal ‘creatures’ inside. The creatures appear to be long dead. The Doctor calls the metal creatures ‘Daleks’ and claims that they are incredibly dangerous.
‘Power of the Daleks’ was the first Doctor Who story to star Patrick Troughton as the Doctor – broadcast between November and December 1966. Sadly, none of the six original broadcast episodes of ‘Power of the Daleks’ any longer exist in the BBC Film Archives. However, complete audio recordings of the lost episodes have survived in the hands of private collectors. And it is these audio recordings that are used as the basis for this special animated production of the programme. Now in a brand new edition and brought to you in glorious black and white…
Includes exciting new special features:
• Two new documentaries about Power of the Daleks
• 1993 BBC audio version of The Power of the Daleks narrated by Tom Baker
• Raw incidental music
• Photogrammetry Featurette
• Whicker’s World – I Don’t Like My Monsters to Have Oedipus Complexes
• Daleks – The Early Years: A 1992 documentary presented by Peter Davison
• Robin Hood – 1953 Episode: Patrick Troughton’s earliest surviving TV appearance
• BBC archive footage from BBC regional news, BBC Breakfast, Blue Peter and Newsnight
• Previously unreleased animation trailers and animatics
Additional bonus material:
• Audio commentaries by Anneke Wills on each episode
• Animation test footage
• Photo Gallery, including previously unreleased and rediscovered full colour on-set photos from 1966.
• Servants & Masters – The Making of The Power of the Daleks
• Doctor Who – The Highlanders
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Sambot22
January 17th, 2021 - 7:44pmThis is available on zoom for 10.49 at the moment but only until midnight tomorrow. You have to use the code BLUMON25.
Deano
August 4th, 2020 - 4:20pmMuch improved animation giving the overall look and feel more natural with the facial expressions of Lesterson and the Dr greatly improved so much so they stand out from the other characters but in a good way.
The extras are fascinating especially for me the regional south today news reel as it’s my region.
A very worthy addition.
Brian
August 3rd, 2020 - 7:54pmIs this a completely different animation from the previous Bluray, and anyone know any details of the Highlanders on this release?
Rob W
August 5th, 2020 - 11:04amSome of the scenes are revised, there is also an Easter Egg of the omitted/deleted scene of the Doctor doing a jig. No Highlanders that I can see on the Menus (there are 3 discs to get through though).
Rob W
August 5th, 2020 - 11:08amRevised animation for some sense plus a couple of Easter Eggs including the omitted scene of the Doctor doing a jig. No Highlanders I’m afraid Brian.
Richard
July 28th, 2020 - 8:22pmDoes anyone know, are hmv stocking this in store?
Rob W
July 29th, 2020 - 4:51pmYes, HMV have copies at £17,99 Richard.
And Argos too, a penny dearer at £18 folks.
Jamiouse
July 18th, 2020 - 8:26pmStill expected to be released on Monday 27th July?
Gordon
July 18th, 2020 - 10:48pmYes it’s still due out then
Peter Knapp
July 2nd, 2020 - 1:58pmWill this edition be released in the U.S.?
Graham
June 5th, 2020 - 7:39pmJust had an email from Amazon advising the release date has changed to 27th july
Pete X
June 6th, 2020 - 9:07amI’ve had similar from Zoom.
Gordon
May 24th, 2020 - 12:07pmThere is going to be coming soon according to Charles norton.
Mr Bewildered
June 1st, 2020 - 10:29pmBut how soon is the trailer coming soon?
Gordon
June 3rd, 2020 - 10:20pmAt a guess Some point in the next 4 weeks. Maybe even sooner if it gets an early iTunes release like faceless ones
Jamiouse
July 7th, 2020 - 2:08pmAre we still expecting a trailer at this point?
Gordon
July 7th, 2020 - 2:39pmCharles Norton last week said it’s still coming.
RPG74
May 20th, 2020 - 6:45pmPurely out of interest, does anyone know why Macra and Faceless were not given the same 5.1 remix treatment as Power? Not that it matters, i’m just curious.
bob hellier
May 4th, 2020 - 6:00pmi would like evil of the daleks animated because it is Victoria Debbie watling first story and i met and had an autograph signed from her in Bath at a convention and was sad when she died [ and caroline john and Elizabeth sladen lovely sarah jane smith and mary tamm to name but a few]
Alan D
July 12th, 2020 - 10:48pmAm I right in thinking that the colour version is not included in this release?
Gordon
July 12th, 2020 - 11:00pmThat’s correct.
flo
April 30th, 2020 - 8:08amI’ll buy it if there’s a steelbook edition 😉
Tim M
May 1st, 2020 - 2:18pmI plan to take the discs out of my ‘Power of the Daleks’ steelbook, and replace them with the ‘special edition’ Blu-ray discs.
Gordon
May 1st, 2020 - 6:44pmWith the steelbook I’m Keeping the colour Blu ray disc with the mp3cd recon but swap out the other 3 discs with the new discs. Means I’ve got the old Colour animation, new animation the mp3cd recon the new telesnap recon and the 1993 bbc cassette all in the same place
Anonymous
May 3rd, 2020 - 9:54amI’ll just buy this DVD, possibly the Blu-ray at some point in the future, and keep the steelbook and original DVD intact.
Gordon
May 3rd, 2020 - 10:26amCharles norton has said there isn’t 1 planned but if the demand is there bbc studios could reconsider
Tardis7K
May 3rd, 2020 - 3:45pmWould it be worth emailing bbc for a steelbook
Gordon
May 3rd, 2020 - 8:45pmIt’s always worth trying
Anonymous
May 4th, 2020 - 5:18pmDoes anybody have the bbc email address to contact them about a steelbook . Thanks .
Gordon
May 5th, 2020 - 10:04am[email protected]
Bobby Fackrell
May 6th, 2020 - 7:37amThanks Gordon I emailed them my interest
Anonymous
May 12th, 2020 - 4:17pmThis is the email i got from the bbc today about a steelbook
Thanks for taking the time to get in touch with the team.
We always love to hear from dedicated fans of the Doctor Who series. At this time, there are unfortunately no plans for a Steelbook edition of the upcoming Power of the Daleks release.
Doctor Blu
May 24th, 2020 - 9:35amI expect a steelbook will be released at some point. No doubt also featuring a colour animated version of the updated animation. That way the BBC get the fans to buy yet another version of ‘The Power of the Daleks’. The colour version exclusive to only the steelbook maybe?
Gordon
May 24th, 2020 - 10:56amFrom Richard Bignell: This is not a story that is being completely reanimated from scratch, so if you were going to do a colour version, you’d need to do it all in post, just as the BBC America colourisation on the original was – and given that the team pretty much hated what had been done in that regard, I can’t imagine that it’s something that they would have been keen to repeat.
Kevin Megannety
April 29th, 2020 - 1:06pmIs it safe to assume that these episodes getting standalone releases will eventually be included in the current ongoing blu-ray collection series and just wait until then? I’m not collecting everything Who I Just want to have every possible episode available on a physical disc and not have two copies of it.
Anonymous
April 29th, 2020 - 3:13pmThe episodes will be included in the Collection eventually, but Season 4 won’t be any time soon
Bill Silver
April 29th, 2020 - 11:58amThis looks great. Hoping the Whicker’s World episode is complete. There’s a version of it on YouTube but the quality is not the best. And the inclusion of “Daleks :The Early Years” means stand-alone episodes of “Master Plan” and “Evil” on Blu-ray for the first time. Can’t wait for this.
Gordon
April 29th, 2020 - 1:10pmWickers world isn’t complete. There are nudity and unclearable Sections that aren’t on it. No the early years are just the interview bits. The episodes of the early years aren’t included
Anonymous
April 29th, 2020 - 7:39pmI presumed the early years was the linking material and interviews. Which I’m happy about
Alex
April 29th, 2020 - 7:52amOoh, a new reconstruction, that’s nice. The recon on the previous release was somewhat lacking, I though. They hadn’t even incorporated the existing clips into it.
And that Highlanders reference is tempting, but probably a recon. Which would still be nice to have, it’s actually harder to find a good Highlanders recon than you might expect.
Doctor
April 28th, 2020 - 5:08pmBooboo is this blu ray got re done animation
booboo
April 28th, 2020 - 5:30pmyes, improved
Tardis7K
April 28th, 2020 - 11:37pmDoes it include the colour version or not ???
Gordon
April 28th, 2020 - 11:40pmAs mentioned on the dvd thread:
From Charles norton:
The animation hasn’t just been tweaked. It’s been very extensively revised. Big ground up re-build. Huge job. Every shot has been re-composited. Many sections have been re-animated from scratch. In fact, the entire first third of episode 1 has essentially been redone completely anew. That part’s unrecognisable now. It’ll be a good quarter of an hour in before you’ll see any shots that are even close to how they used to look. It’s still limited animation of course, made with limited resources. However, it should be twenty times better than it was. It should feel like a new programme and will sit far more comfortably alongside the other Troughton animations we have done since. It’s essentially what we set out to do back in 2016, on the original rush-release, but were unable to complete in the time. We’ve gone in and fixed all the things (well, most of them) that have niggled us since 2016. It’s not a completely new animation – not a completely fresh-start – in that we’ve not scrapped all the original work. There’s still lots of the original in there, but it is still a massive revision.
As for the special features, I’m not sure if it’s made clear in the press release, but the reconstruction is a completely new one, made by Derek Handley. Additionally, all the surviving footage has been newly restored. There’s a little bit more of it now too! Oh, and ‘Whicker’s World’ is from a new 2K scan of the original film negs.
The US colourisation will not be on this release, no. It wasn’t really something that was ever originally intended to have a UK release and none of us on the team had any involvement in it. It’s probably best viewed in the same way as the colourised versions of films like ‘Casablanca’ and ‘Way Out West’. They’re out there for those wish to seek them out, but it’s not really representative of how the film-makers originally intended these things to be seen.
Jesse
April 29th, 2020 - 2:24amAccording to Charles Norton’s message on Roobarb, the color version will not be included.
David
April 28th, 2020 - 3:04pmWill HMV be getting this in? I’ll happily order it from another reliable retailer, but I like to stick with HMV as they’ve never let me down and it’s best to try and keep them in business in these troubling times.
Rob W
April 28th, 2020 - 3:42pmRelease date is 6 July so I’d say they will.
Anonymous
April 29th, 2020 - 7:40pmI’ve had to give up with them. Not been receiving DVDs and virtually no customer service
6sek
April 28th, 2020 - 2:05pmWill their be a new steelbook of it?
Robert Sienicki
April 28th, 2020 - 2:00pmPre-ordered! I’ve always wondered why this one wasn’t released on blu-ray outside of Steelbook.
Nick D
April 28th, 2020 - 2:46pmIt was released on a standard Blu-ray, but the steelbook was the definitive version.
Robert Sienicki
April 29th, 2020 - 3:51pmWhere? I couldn’t find it (apart from Australian edition, but not my region) and the only releases I could find was standard DVD and steelbook blu-ray.
The Loiterer
April 29th, 2020 - 8:11pmRobert, the standard release was only available in Aus and NZ. It didn’t have the booklet, but was significantly cheaper than the UK Steelbook even when you added UK delivery. Mine worked out at around £8.
I’m wondering if it didn’t get a standard UK release because the Steelbook took a while to sell out, possibly because it was only announced after most people had just bought the DVD (which was included with the Steelbook again). They wisely went for simultaneous releases for the next animation.
DalekAgent
April 28th, 2020 - 1:53pmSlightly of topic but ive just pre ordered this on zoom and noticed that season 14 box set has been sent to warehouse so fingers crossed we will be getting them next week
Bicky
April 28th, 2020 - 4:12pmIn my experience with Zoom, these box-sets arrive on the Friday before release.
Henrik V
April 28th, 2020 - 1:29pmI’d have to see a trailer first before I commit to this one.
Anonymous
April 28th, 2020 - 3:38pmIt will be the same as the one thats already out
Anonymous
April 29th, 2020 - 4:52amNo, it’s been almost completely reworked
Darren
April 28th, 2020 - 1:19pmWill there be a steelbook?
Anonymous
April 28th, 2020 - 2:43pmThere’s already a steelbook for the power of the daleks
Anonymous
April 28th, 2020 - 12:45pmWill this include the colour version as well as the black and white version?
Rob W
April 28th, 2020 - 1:38pmIt’s a re-release, the colour version was on the previous Collectors Edition Steelbook.
Rob W
April 28th, 2020 - 1:44pmIt’s 3 discs (according to Zoom) so you might be right
Jesse
April 29th, 2020 - 2:25amAccording to Charles Norton’s message on Roobarb, the color version will not be included.
Anonymous
April 28th, 2020 - 12:31pmCurious about “The Highlanders”. A trailer? A telesnap reconstruction with the recently recovered high quality audio?