Genesis Of The Daleks and Inferno confirmed on DVD

[ashleybroomhall]

Inferno
New third Doctor DVD details announced.

2entertain have revealed that May's classic Doctor Who DVD release will be Jon Pertwee adventure Inferno.

As he battles to halt work of an obsessed scientist and his dangerous experiment to tap the power of the Earth's core, the Doctor finds himself trapped in a parallel dimension and facing deadly primeval creatures.

The two-disc set will include the following special features:


Commentary with script editor Terrance Dicks, producer/director Barry Letts, Nicholas Courtney (The Brigadier) and John Levene (Sgt. Benton)
Can You Hear the Earth Scream? - a 35 minute making of documentary, featuring interviews with Barry Letts, Terrance Dicks, actors Caroline John, Nicholas Courtney, John Levene, Ian Fairbairn and actor/stunt arranger Derek Ware
The UNIT Family (Part One) - a 36 minute documentary looking at the first half of the 'UNIT family' that characterised the Third Doctor's Earth-bound stories. Featuring interviews with
Barry Letts, Terrance Dicks, UNIT creator Derrick Sherwin, and actors Nicholas Courtney, John Levene, Caroline John and actor/stunt arranger Derek Ware
Visual Effects Promo Film - an excerpt from an early attempt to 'sell' the experience and facilities of the BBC Visual Effects Department to new clients. Featuring model effects filming from Inferno and The Ambassadors of Death
The Pertwee Years Intro - a short introduction to the story's final episode from Jon Pertwee, originally presented as part of
BBC Video's The Pertwee Years VHS release
Deleted scene - John Pertwee radio announcement
The 1971 Doctor Who Annual as a PDF
Radio Times billings
Photo Gallery
Subtitled Production Notes

Inferno is released on 29 May 2006.

Genesis Of The Daleks
Details of latest DVD release announced.

2entertain have confirmed that their next classic Doctor Who DVD release will be Genesis of the Daleks.

Starring Tom Baker and voted number one in a poll by Doctor Who Magazine, Genesis of the Daleks sees the Fourth Doctor and his companions transported back in time by the Time Lords to the planet Skaro.

Their mission is to put a halt to mad scientist Davros' plan to mutate aliens into a breed of killing machines - later to be known as Daleks - and in doing so alter the course of history!

The two- disc set contains over two hours of special features including:


Commentary with Tom Baker, Elisabeth Sladen, Peter Miles (Nyder) and director David Maloney
Genesis of a Classic - cast and crew recall working on the story in this specially shot documentary
The Dalek Tapes - new documentary narrated by Terry Molloy (who plays Davros in other Doctor Who stories), that tells the story of the Doctor's most iconic villain, including rare footage from programmes such as Blue Peter
Blue Peter - a March 1975 item looking at a collection of Doctor Who models
Doctor Who 1976 Annual as a PDF
Radio Times Billings
Continuity Compilation
Photo Gallery
Subtitle production notes

Genesis Of The Daleks is released on 10 April 2006.

Happy days are here again
All infomation taken from BBC Doctor who home page
ashley

[Ice Warrior]

If I had all the money in the world I would purchase them, as I plan to own every Dalek Story released on DVD, but also will have to wait till they release those DVDs in Australia!

[Dominic Smith]

It's nice to see these two titles confirmed on DVD. They really are classics and the Commentaries sound like excellent listening. I thought the DVD cover for 'Genesis of the Daleks' was a bit of a clunker, not the best we've seen so far but then again certainly not the worst.

[davisonera]

Good choices. I haven't seen Genesis for years.

P.S. I hear that Survival is poised to be released after Inferno.

[davisonera]

Survival and Revenge Of The Cybermen will be out later this year. Plus one as yet unnamed Peter Davison story.
P.S. Davison story maybe Jan 2007.

[The Thinker]

When I heard 'Genesis' was being released I celebrated and this April I got it for my birthday. Now I'm looking forward to Christmas to get 'Inferno'! I wonder if they'll put 'Terror of the Zygons' on DVD soon?

[matthewsee]

I am going to comment on the DVD notes for Part One of Genesis of the Daleks which I have finished reading:
I was quite surprised to read that John Franklyn-Robbins (Time Lord) had appeared in Star Trek: The Next Generation. I checked that the episode he appeared in was Preemptive Strike which was actually TNG's penultimate episode as the character Macias. It is been a long time since I seen Preemptive Strike so I can't register in my mind of him in that episode.

It also mentioned that Guy Siner (Ravon) had appeared on Enterprise. Now I definitely know about this as he played Stuart Reed, Malcolm's father. It also says that he had appeared in Babylon 5. Just checked to see that it was in the episode Rumors, Bargains and Lies as Religious #1. As with Franklyn-Robbins in TNG, I have seen the B5 episode such a long time ago that I don't remember Siner being there.

What is interesting about the aforementioned Enterprise episode is that the woman who played Mary Reed, Stuart's wife and Malcolm's mother was Jane Carr. She too had appeared on B5 as one of Londo's wives in Soul Mates. In fact she has done a Who but not on television as she was the voice of the computer in the 1985 radio story Slipback.

One final thing to say about the Part One notes is that it says it was shown on March 8 1975 from 5:30pm -5:35pm!!! This is the longest five minutes I have ever saw.

[matthewsee]

I recently heard the commentary for Part 3 in which director David Maloney mentioned that he went on to do produced Blake's 7 created by Genesis of the Daleks writer & Dalek creator Terry Nation. Maloney said that the stories in Blake's 7 were similar to Genesis. I thought it was interesting that he mentioned it during this episode because this had the Doctor approaching two guards saying he was a spy. This dialogue was similar to the one in the Blake's 7 episode Seek-Locate-Destroy also written by Nation when Vila spoke to two guards saying that he is an escaped prisoner.

[The Thinker]

Interesting piece of trivia that.

[matthewsee]

Finished with the Genesis of the Daleks DVD. Tom was pretty good in the commentary. The special features were very good especially The Dalek Tapes and the 1976 Annual was very very enjoyable read.

[The Thinker]

Genesis of the Daleks


David Maloney's last commentary that was. At least it was a good one.

[matthewsee]

On reading the DVD notes for Inferno Episode 2, I read that Olaf Pooley (Professor Stahlman) had appeared in an episode of Star Trek: Voyager. I looked up the IMDb (because it has been a long time since I have seen Voyager) and the episode he was in was in season 1's Blink of An Eye playing Cleric.

Also another thing about the DVD notes is that it overlooked an obvious goof as I will now do a Fact of Fiction-type analysis on this:
When Liz left the hut she asked the Doctor to open the door which he does by using the sonic screwdriver. Later on when Liz came back to the hut with the Brigadier she opened the door by using the sonic screwdriver herself. Question is how did she have the sonic screwdriver since the Doctor still had it when she left. If it was her own sonic screwdriver why did she had to ask the Doctor to open it in the first place?

Uncle Terrance for one must have noticed this because he wrote in the novelisation that "the Brigadier and Liz ran up to the open door of the hut". However he did not actually write whether the Doctor left the door open or that Liz had opened the door herself.

[matthewsee]

I recently finished watching Can You Hear The Earth Scream? on the Inferno DVD and it showed clips of the other season 7 stories along with Inferno and when the clip of Spearhead From Space came on I was shocked that the on-screen caption said that it was written by Malcolm Hulke! Wonder how Bob Holmes and Hulke would have reacted if they were still alive to see this?

[The Thinker]

matthewsee said:

I recently finished watching Can You Hear The Earth Scream? on the Inferno DVD and it showed clips of the other season 7 stories along with Inferno and when the clip of Spearhead From Space came on I was shocked that the on-screen caption said that it was written by Malcolm Hulke! Wonder how Bob Holmes and Hulke would have reacted if they were still alive to see this?

That's strange, considering that when I looked at the "Spearhead from Space" page on the BBC website, it said it was written by Robert Holmes, not Malcolm Hulke.
Well, I'll just have to see for myself. Are you sure that the writer of the caption wasn't mistaken, seeing as Bob Holmes is officially the creator of the Autons and whatnot?