February 19th, 2013
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The Visitation Special Edition DVD
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The Visitation Special Edition DVD
It’s 1666, and medieval England is in the grip of the Great Plague.
But when the Doctor and his companions arrive, they discover an even greater threat: the entire planet is in danger.
As the Grim Reaper stalks the countryside, the Doctor uncovers an alien menace intent on wiping out humanity and claiming our planet for themselves.
The Terileptils have arrived – and only the Doctor can stop them…
Release dates
Region 1 – 6 May 2013
Region 2 – 6 May 2013
Region 4 – 24 April 2013
(Please note: release dates are provisional and subject to change)
Contents
- Commentary with Peter Davison (the Fifth Doctor), Janet Fielding (Tegan), Sarah Sutton (Nyssa), Matthew Waterhouse (Adric) and director Peter Moffatt.
- Grim Tales – Brand-new 45-minute documentary. Former companion Mark Strickson takes Peter Davison, Janet Fielding and Sarah Sutton back to the original filming locations while other cast and crew discuss their memories of the story.
- The Television Centre of the Universe: Part One – Peter Davison, Mark Strickson and Janet Fielding return to BBC Television Centre and meet up with old friends and colleagues to reminisce on their time in the iconic building.
- Doctor Forever: The Apocalypse Element – Examining the world of Doctor Who on audio. Including interviews with Colin Baker, Russell T Davies, Mark Gatiss and many others.
- Film Trims Shots and sequences cut from the finished programme
- Directing Who: Peter Moffatt
- Writing A Final Visitation
- Scoring The Visitation – Interview with composer Paddy Kingsland
- Subtitle Production Notes
- Radio Times listings and BBC Sales Sheet
- Photo Gallery
- Coming soon trailer
- Isolated Music Score
- Easter Egg
- Digitally remastered picture and sound quality
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Buy me
December 30th, 2013 - 1:37pmI have heard a lot of people get annoyed at the end part one so what happens
Trenzalore
December 30th, 2013 - 1:43pmNothing to make me annoyed, I liked it, it’s one of my favourite Peter Davison stories.
Radburn
May 8th, 2013 - 3:24pmWhat I would really like is people to stop knocking Matthew Waterhouse continually in Interviews & Features – It’s starting to get very tiresome….
Scott the Raptor
May 6th, 2013 - 3:50pmI got this from Asda this morning and I am three quarters of the way through part four.
drjakeyoung
May 6th, 2013 - 4:04pmeven know i pre ordered this from BBC shop months ago it still has not been delivered. Very annoyed.
Scott the Raptor
May 6th, 2013 - 4:17pmI know how you feel! I preordered Day of the Daleks from Amazon and it didn’t come until 3 weeks after the release date.
drjakeyoung
May 6th, 2013 - 5:40pmReally annoys me!
matparks08
May 6th, 2013 - 10:50pmWon’t have been any post today anyway – hope it gets to you by tomorrow!
matparks08
May 1st, 2013 - 10:15pmGot my copy today. Think it’s the earliest I’ve ever had a pre-order arrive. Must have shipped them early so no delays over bank holiday.
drjakeyoung
May 1st, 2013 - 10:19pmwas it from BBC shop? I still haven’t got an email to say they have dispatched it! If it gets here on Saturday, when should i expect an email?
matparks08
May 2nd, 2013 - 1:32pmGalaxy4, not bbc shop 🙂
Dr in the TARDIS
March 17th, 2013 - 12:04amI’ve only read the novelisation, and haven’t actually seen the story. I love the cover, and might get this one!
josh smith
March 18th, 2013 - 7:43ami am i have never read or seen the story
McGann is The Doctor
March 15th, 2013 - 5:02pmAnyone feel kindof dissapointed there is no forest on the cover ? Still a great cover but, no forest 🙁
doctorwhofandom
March 17th, 2013 - 9:56amLove the cover would have been better with a forest tho
Dalekdan12345
February 23rd, 2013 - 9:16pmsorry, what actually are special editions? i know it has remastered sound and picture quality. but does it still have all the original footage? and does it have the original trasnmission version in it to?
Gordon
February 23rd, 2013 - 9:56pmIn most cases it has all the original footage but in 1 or 2 cases there is an odd ocasion where a documentary has rights that have expired and getting the clearance to put it on the new edition isnt possible. Tombwatch on tomb of the cyberman and Panopticon 93 footage on three doctors to name 2. All special editions are as transmited
drjakeyoung
February 24th, 2013 - 12:12amand the Jon Pertwee news thing on the original movie release.
Gordon
February 24th, 2013 - 1:27amIts just a 2 second mention of his name at the end of the movie if i remember right
drjakeyoung
February 25th, 2013 - 5:47pmwasn’t there a news article on the original movie release that was an Easter egg?
drjakeyoung
February 25th, 2013 - 5:48pmforgot to put my avatar up 🙂
drjakeyoung
February 25th, 2013 - 5:52pmi thought there was an Easter egg on the original release that let you see a news clip of the announcement that he died?
Gordon
February 26th, 2013 - 1:31amJust double checked. You are right about it being an easter egg but its just a dedication caption rather than a news item
The Greater Intelligence
February 23rd, 2013 - 2:08amThis release has just been put on barnesandnoble.com for pre-order for anyone who is interested about different stores carrying it in advance.
THE ERGON
February 22nd, 2013 - 5:27pmLove the android from this story and the terileptils are one of my favourite 80s aliens. looking forward to the upgraded picture quality and extras. So glad it got the re-release.
The Greater Intelligence
February 22nd, 2013 - 2:48pmI think I’m the only one to notice this, but did anyone else realise that the London Fire is behind and under The Doctor. It’s almost like it’s consuming him, but not the Terriliptel or android. Very cool way to imply the results of the story.
drjakeyoung
February 24th, 2013 - 12:14amSPOILER! I haven’t seen it yet! lol
The Greater Intelligence
February 24th, 2013 - 1:19amSorry, but you have to admit it does sound more intruiging after what I said, doesn’t it.
drjakeyoung
February 25th, 2013 - 5:49pmyes OK it does! I really want to see it now!
The Greater Intelligence
February 26th, 2013 - 1:02amYou are welcome
McGann is the Doctor
March 1st, 2013 - 11:53amWhat do you mean Greater Intelligence ? I have seen the story and don’t understand what you mean ? ❓
The TARDIS
February 20th, 2013 - 4:43pmThis story definitely needed a rerelease. The special features were… Sparse, at best. And the new cover is a serious improvement!
AlzieWhozie
February 20th, 2013 - 4:12pmThis looks like a SE well worth getting – to think a few years ago that Janet Fielding wouldn’t give a “to-camera interview” and now here she is doing interviews, Big Finish stuff, etc. Seeing PD, SS, MS and JF all together again on screen will be well worth it. And for me The Visitation was the story where I thought “yup, Peter Davison IS the Doctor”.
Ryan
February 20th, 2013 - 11:25amLove the story, and, yeah, this did need a special edition! I’d love to see much more special editions this year, only a few mind; An Unearthly Child in November with an Adventure in Space and Time on of course, Horror of Fang-Rock (a making of), Earthshock (it’s rumoured), The Two Doctors (picture quality and making of), Ghost Light (picture quality) and The Curse of Fenric (making of, even though it was packed with features, so, probs not) And THAT cover… WOW…
celestial toymaker
February 20th, 2013 - 11:50amit would be absolutely awesome if there were to be 50th anniversary se’s of the 5 doctors and the 3 doctors
McGann is the Doctor
February 20th, 2013 - 12:49pmI really don’t think the Five Doctors or 3 Doctors need a rerelease, the latter has been recently rereleased and the former has a VERY substantial rerelease from 2008.
I have heard that unfortunately, Ghost Light is as good looking as it ever will be, though I hope they can improve it somehow.
An Unearthly Child DEFINITLY needs a rerelease because the original DVD was pink. That’s right, the glorious first ever episode of Doctor Who, has a pink cover. What a disgrace ❗
Give me a Two Doctors rerelease with a better cover soon ❗
josh smith
February 21st, 2013 - 9:16amno they dont re realese things becasue of cover i like the pink cover
Connor
February 20th, 2013 - 9:51amDoes anyone know if this is the last 5th doctor DVD to be released? I really want this to be the last but at the same time I want a Earthshock special edition as it in my opinion I’s the only one needed to be special editioned for Peter Davison range.what’s you’r thoughts do u think this will be the last 5th doctor DVD release?
celestial toymaker
February 20th, 2013 - 11:31amprobably not i hope for an earthshock se
McGann is the Doctor
February 20th, 2013 - 12:50pmNot to mention Arc of Infinity getting a rerelease, and maybe give Castrovalva a CGI rerelease ? 😯
celestial toymaker
February 27th, 2013 - 2:58pmcastrovalva definitely wont be cgi i can tell you that now
kiwi63
February 20th, 2013 - 8:56amwow, this DVD cover makes me want to do something I’ve never done before… want to watch the story
drjakeyoung
February 19th, 2013 - 8:57pmyou know, because this is the last year of the classic series DVDs (bar SE’s, animations etc etc)i am going to buy all of them that come out this year including the 2 dalek movies being re- released as special editions and on blue ray, scream of the shalka, and similar to the dalek movies, spearhead from space blue ray.
drjakeyoung
February 19th, 2013 - 8:52pmthat cover really is very good!
Lachlan
February 19th, 2013 - 8:34pmAwesome! glad l didn’t buy The Visitation a few months back or i would probably have regretted it, this release looks great! i think it’s wise that there sorta trying to release something from every doctor in a way 🙂
drwhobob
February 21st, 2013 - 11:33amI GET BOTH ORIGINAL AND SPECIAL EDITION FOR THE FEATURES
eddy
February 19th, 2013 - 8:23pmi really love this episode, but i don’t really see the point of releasing another one, but do like the cover
gordon
February 19th, 2013 - 8:29pmBetter picture quality and better extras
eddy
February 19th, 2013 - 8:50pmoh ok, thanks may buy it, not sure
Fezmeister
February 19th, 2013 - 8:15pmThe cover is very nice indeed. There’s something really appealing about it.
Connor
February 19th, 2013 - 8:11pmGreat cover! I so want to get this story it will be amazing! This cover art though is better then original relase though I wish it showed the robot in the grim reaper suit and the city behind it, but still a great cover! Does anyone know the special features yet? This story is one of the best Peter Davison story’s and it’s got the awesome villains the tetraps with there brilliant costumes and the setting in the Black Plague and the fire of London is great! This relase is coming out in May so thats very close. Have they released a trailer yet?
matparks08
February 19th, 2013 - 8:20pmThe special features are listed under the picture of the cover
Blake
February 20th, 2013 - 3:01amIt’s weird cause us region 4 people are getting it first in April.
Janet fielding must have done it lol
Connor
February 20th, 2013 - 4:59amYea that must be true! Lol
gordon
February 20th, 2013 - 9:13amWouldn’t surprise me if the dates got changed. Can’t see it being released in Australia 2 weeks beforethe UK and the USA date is pretty much always been the 2nd Tuesday of the month
celestial toymaker
February 20th, 2013 - 11:34amno they will not have released a trailer yet
celestial toymaker
February 20th, 2013 - 11:36amlol janet fielding doesn’t even work for the bbc good joke tho
gordon
March 5th, 2013 - 11:15amThere is a few australian websites listing it as due 15th may. Just as I suspected the 24th April release date was mistake
Scott the Raptor
May 6th, 2013 - 5:28pmThe tetraps were in Time and the Rani. The terileptils are the villains in this episode.
gordon
February 19th, 2013 - 7:44pmLOVE THAT COVER
Some bloke
February 19th, 2013 - 7:54pmit’s great, lee binding always does an amazing job!!
gordon
February 19th, 2013 - 8:28pmYeah. He is normally very good but he does do the occasional poor cover. Looking forward to see his inferno mind and zygons covers.
Some bloke
February 19th, 2013 - 9:03pmI know what you mean by the occasional poor one, i didnt really like his ‘greatest show… one’. Looked a little like an a piece of early 90’s vhs cover artwork, but oh well, its grown on me! cant wait for those, three, they’ll look amazing!! (I hope)
Ben Roberts
February 20th, 2013 - 12:19amI often tweet Lee Binding about his artwork. He himself described Inferno as ‘sexy’ 😀
celestial toymaker
February 20th, 2013 - 11:38amyeah and me
So it started like this
January 26th, 2014 - 10:43amYa gotta love Raymond though
TheMysteryLiker
February 19th, 2013 - 7:42pmAn interesting choice for a special edition. Never got this first time around so I may buy this. Grim Tales sounds great!
Some bloke
February 19th, 2013 - 7:31pmlove the cover! and the story isn’t that bad, I quite like it
josh smith
February 19th, 2013 - 7:07pmyay since i never got the original release ill be buying this 🙂
matparks08
February 19th, 2013 - 6:59pmAlways exciting to see a new cover – and seems an age since we’ve seen a Davison one. Not a fan of this story though.
Adipose333
February 19th, 2013 - 6:41pmLove the cover