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Post by Dominic Smith on Sept 19, 2006 13:18:39 GMT -5
The BBC has released a full list of extras that will appear on the set, due to appear early next year. The Keeper of Traken
- Commentary from actors Anthony Ainley, Matthew Waterhouse and Sarah Sutton, plus writer Johnny Byrne.
- Being Nice to Each Other (dur. 30' 04") - a new documentary looking at the making of this story through the eyes of the cast and crew. Featuring actors Sarah Sutton, Sheila Ruskin, Geoffrey Beevers, director John Black, writer Johnny Byrne and script editor Christopher H. Bidmead. Narrated by George Williams.
- The Return of the Master (dur. 08' 40") - Geoffrey Beevers, Christopher H. Bidmead and John Black talk about how they realised the return of the Doctor's arch-adversary.
- Sarah Sutton on Swap Shop (dur. 11' 14") - Noel Edmonds interviews Sarah Sutton, with questions phoned in from young viewers.
Logopolis
- Commentary from actors Tom Baker and Janet Fielding, plus writer Christopher H. Bidmead.
- A New Body at Last (dur. 50' 20") - a new documentary covering the transition from Tom Baker to Peter Davison. Featuring actors Tom Baker, Peter Davison, Matthew Waterhouse, Sarah Sutton and Adrian Gibbs, script editor Christopher H. Bidmead, directors Peter Moffatt and John Black. Narrated by Denis Lawson.
- Nationwide - Tom Baker (dur. 4' 30") - an interview with Tom Baker from the BBC news magazine show.
- Nationwide - Peter Davison (dur. 3' 40") - an interview with Peter Davison on his forthcoming role as the Doctor.
- Pebble Mill at One - Peter Davison (dur. 12' 00") - Peter Davison interviewed on the long-running BBC lunchtime show.
- News Items (dur. 1' 55") - a selection of BBC News items, including reports on Tom Baker and Lalla Ward's wedding, the announcement of Tom Baker's departure and Peter Davison's arrival.
Castrovalva
- Commentary from actors Peter Davison and Janet Fielding, plus director Fiona Cumming and writer Christopher H. Bidmead.
- Being Doctor Who (dur. 13' 29") - Peter Davison discusses his casting and time as the Fifth Doctor.
- Directing Castrovalva (dur. 11' 19") - Fiona Cumming talks about directing Peter Davison's debut story.
- The Crowded TARDIS (dur. 11' 25") - by the end of Tom Baker's tenure, the TARDIS crew had grown from the usual one companion to three. This featurette examines the reasons behind this change of direction. Featuring actors Tom Baker, Peter Davison and Sarah Sutton, director John Black and script editor Christopher H. Bidmead. Narrated by George Williams.
- Blue Peter - Peter Davison (dur. 9' 15") - Peter Davison interviewed on the popular children's magazine show.
- Swap Shop - Peter Davison (dur. 20' 40" ) - Noel Edmonds interviews Peter Davison, with questions phoned in from young viewers.
- Deleted Scenes (dur. 1' 34") - two deleted scenes from the story.
- Theme Music Video (dur. 3' 34") - a brand new remix of Peter Howell's version of the theme music for the series, exclusively remixed from the original multitrack master. Option to listen to the music in either stereo (default) or Dolby Digital 5.1 surround versions.
Each story will also feature Programme Subtitles, Subtitle Production Notes, TV trails and continuity announcements, Photo Galleries, isolated synchronous music, PDF Material - the 1980 Doctor Who Annual, Radio Times listings and the BBC Enterprises Season 18/19 sales literature as Adobe pdf files for viewing on PC or Mac.Sounds like a good release to me, lots of interesting extras and a chance to hear Anthony Ainley's one and only commentary. |
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Post by The Thinker on Sept 19, 2006 14:43:26 GMT -5
Sounds interesting. Also I'm glad that Tom Baker is doing a commentary for 'Logopolis'. It should be interesting to hear Anthony Ainley's commentary for 'The Keeper of Traken' too.  |
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Post by Dominic Smith on Nov 27, 2006 11:07:58 GMT -5
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Post by matthewsee on Apr 29, 2007 1:58:17 GMT -5
I recently read the DVD notes on Part 1 of The Keeper of Traken. An interesting info that caught my attention was that for the character Kassia there was a shortlist of 12 actresses. Without mentioning any names it says that it included two Avengers girls, a future member of Parliament and two future Dames.
The Avengers girls were Honor Blackman, Diana Rigg, Linda Thorson and Joanna Lumley. It will be interesting if the two on the shortlist happened to be Honor and Joanna who although neither got the part of Kassia did however had Doctor Who roles later on. Honor was in the third segment of The Trial of A Time Lord story Terror of the Vervoids and Joanna became the 13th Doctor in The Curse of the Fatal Death.
I am guessing the future MP to be Glenda Jackson. This is because I remember reading somewhere that Tom and Glenda had a chat about her appearing in Doctor Who (which she never did).
I can only make a guess, but by no means certain, that one of the future Dames on that list was Judi Dench. She is the only one that I can think of.
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Post by horg on Apr 29, 2007 15:41:46 GMT -5
it was a bit slow to start with but logopolis blew me away
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Post by matthewsee on May 8, 2007 1:10:47 GMT -5
Update with my reading of the DVD notes for Keeper of Traken:
The notes in Part 2 says that Keeper of Traken has similarities with Traken writer Johnny Byrne's Space 1999 episode The Metamorph including that the father and daughter characters in that episode were essentially the basis for the father and daughter characters of Tremas and Nyssa in Traken. However the notes said that the Space 1999 characters were key non-regular characters. That is only half correct, the daughter character Maya was set out as a regular character especially since Catherine Schell who played her was credited from that episode, the season 2 opener in the opening title sequence along with the leading actors, the husband and wife team Martin Landau and Barbara Bain.
Perhaps there was a confusion between Maya and Nyssa since Nyssa was the one who was originally intended for a one-off appearance before formally becoming a regular in Doctor Who.
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Post by matthewsee on Nov 11, 2007 21:31:22 GMT -5
Recently finished the first episode of Castrovalva on the DVD. In the DVD notes for the episode it said that the Head of Security (played by Dallas Cavell) was originally going to be a woman played by the star of a BBC police series but she was not available. The notes does not mention the name of the actress nor the show but I am guessing that the actress is Stephanie Turner and the show Juliet Bravo. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juliet_Bravo Interestingly the Doctor Who Unbound Big Finish audio Deadline written by Rob Shearman, claimed that in a world in which Doctor Who the TV series never existed, people who are Doctor Who fans in our world, became Juliet Bravo fans in that alternative world. In the commentary for the episode, when the subject of spoilers came up, writer Christopher H Bidmead said to his fellow commentators that they shouldn't worry about spoilers on the assumption that the viewer would already have seen the whole story before listening to the commentary. Not meaning to slight Bidmead but the way I view the classic episodes on DVD is to watch an episode, then listen to the commentary on the episode, then I watch the next episode, then listen to the commentary on that episode and so on. It is as Uncle Terrance said for the commentary for The Green Death, that an entire serial was not meant to be seen all in one viewing as there were gaps in time between broadcasts of the individual episodes. What I am saying about DVD viewing of the classic series is that there are people who have a gap in time between viewing episodes rather than see the whole story all in one go. |
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Post by matthewsee on Nov 22, 2007 20:14:21 GMT -5
Update on my reading of the Castrovalva DVD notes:
In the part 2 notes it says that Peter Davison and producer John Nathan-Turner had disagreements on how Davison should play the Doctor. one idea that Davison came up with but vetoed by Nathan-Turner was for the Doctor to fix any problems with everyday objects he happened to have in his pockets. This makes the Doctor sounds like MacGyver some three years before that show came on.
Also it mentioned that director Fiona Cumming had directed two episodes of Blake's 7 [Rumours of Death & Sarchophagus] and it described it as being Doctor Who's science fiction "rival". Although the word "rival" was in inverted commas, I definitely do not think of Blake's 7 as being a rival but more of an ally. Another thing is that Blake's 7 like Doctor Who was shown on the BBC. Had Blake's 7 been shown on ITV, then I could accept it being described as Doctor Who's "rival".
Of the two Blake's 7 episodes that Cumming directed it was Sarchophagus which got her the commission for Castrovalva. The notes says that she was so impressed with Sarchophagus that she sent Nathan-Turner the tape of the episode hoping that he will get its writer Tanith Lee to write for Doctor Who. He didn't, opting to have Cumming to direct on Doctor Who instead.
Tanith Lee is a science fiction/fantasy/horror novelist and I had suggested twice in the past that she should write for Doctor Who. The first was some years ago that she should write a Big Finish audio at a time before anyone knew that Doctor Who would return on television.
The second time was for her to write on the current television series.
As for as I am aware opportunites to write for Who has not yet arrived on Ms Lee's door. Hopefully this will happen in future whether it be for Doctor Who itself or a spin-off in whatever form whether it be for television, audio or book.
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Post by Dominic Smith on Apr 13, 2008 7:23:06 GMT -5
Could this thread be retitled New Beginnings? I wondered what this new boxset I'd missed was, only to find out its one I know already. Will do |
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