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Post by The Valeyard on Nov 20, 2007 0:08:45 GMT -5
The Davros Boxed Set is set to be released on March 4, 2008 in Region 1. You can purchase the Boxed Set, the Remembrance SE or the Destiny of the Daleks DVDs seperately. I believe the Boxed set will contain all the Doctor's adventures with Davros along with some new material: The Remembrance Special Edition with some new extras and a new Destiny of the Daleks DVD. All are presently available for pre-order on Amazon.
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Post by matthewsee on Mar 3, 2010 2:20:46 GMT -5
The Davros Boxed Set is set to be released on March 4, 2008 in Region 1. You can purchase the Boxed Set, the Remembrance SE or the Destiny of the Daleks DVDs seperately. I believe the Boxed set will contain all the Doctor's adventures with Davros along with some new material: The Remembrance Special Edition with some new extras and a new Destiny of the Daleks DVD. All are presently available for pre-order on Amazon. Anyone who have bought Destiny and/or Remembrance seperately instead of buying this whole release because they have the other Davros TV stories would have missed out on the Big Finish Davros audios that is included here especially since one of them The Davros Mission was released exclusively on this set. On the Davros Collection, noticed from watching Genesis of the Daleks this time around that the notes for Part 2 says that the music for this episode was recorded on March 3 1975 dubbed on March 7 and transmitted the following day on March 8. The last part is not correct as Part 2 was aired on March 15, obviously a confusion with the serial's start date of March 8 the previous week. In fact the notes contradicts itself about the Part 2 airdate as the March 15 fact is mentioned at the beginning of the end credits. The problem with re-presenting the same information from the individual Genesis release some years before is that it not take into consideration about correcting any mistakes made with the aforementioned earlier release. |
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Post by matthewsee on Nov 14, 2010 18:50:07 GMT -5
The Revelation of the Daleks disc on The Davros Collection released in 2007 is a straight copy of the story’s single release in 2005. This means the content of the disc is exactly the same including the info text with no effort made to update and correct mistakes made from the single release.
This meant for director Graeme Harper’s profile it presents the outdated information that Revelation of the Daleks was his last Doctor Who story even though he made his Doctor Who return in 2006.
A mistake the info text made was with Tony Starr. It again presents the information that Tony Starr was previously a Dalek operator in Resurrection of the Daleks in 1994, ten stories after that story was actually broadcast.
The info text states that Bridget Lynch-Blosse (Natasha) later appeared in the Graeme Harper-directed Star Cops episode Little Green Men and Other Martians. For the information text on Graeme Harper’s previously directed story Caves of Androzani it says that Roy Holder (Krelper) was in the same Star Cops episode.
So when it comes to doing research on Graeme Harper directing his Doctor Who cast members in other productions, the writer of the notes Richard Molesworth wasn’t thorough enough.
The info text of Revelation of the Daleks once again failed to mention that Harper had directed Colin Spaull (Lilt) and Hugh Walters (Vogel) in some episodes of The House of Elliot. The House of Elliot is not a sci fi show like Doctor Who & Star Cops so perhaps Molesworth didn’t watch that show because of that. Then again why would any Doctor Who fan not watch The House of Elliot a show that was co-created by the lovely Who alum Jean Marsh.
If the notes had been updated it would easily mention that Harper had directed Spaull in another Doctor Who story that of Rise of the Cybermen/Age of Steel.
The notes once again states that an influence for Revelation of the Daleks was Soylent Green even though writer/script editor Eric Saward said in the commentary that he did not see Soylent Green when he wrote this story.
Therefore Molesworth is contradicting Saward on the influence of Soylent Green to the story and I would have thought that Saward knows better how the story came about than Molesworth does.
The Davros Collection was released before Graeme Harper directed Davros’ return story The Stolen Earth/Journey’s End.
If the Davros Collection had been released after The Stolen Earth/Journey’s End and if I had written the update for the info text for Revelation of the Daleks I would have said that with The Stolen Earth/Journey’s End, Harper became the only director to direct more than one Davros story. Since Terry Molloy is the only actor to play Davros in more than one story it is quite ironic that Harper did not get to direct Molloy again as Davros for The Stolen Earth/Journey’s End instead having to direct a new actor Julian Bleach in the role.
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Post by matthewsee on Jan 25, 2011 20:25:45 GMT -5
Remembrance of the Daleks:
In part 2 and taking place in 1963, Group Captain Gilmore mentioned about the current state of the (British) government. The episode did not go into specifics about what Gilmore was referring to was it left up to the DVD info text to explain. The DVD info text said that in 1963 that War Minister John Profumo had resigned due to the scandal involving call girl Christine Keeler. The info text however got Profumo’s ministerial title wrong as the correct ministerial title was War Secretary not War Minister.
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Post by matthewsee on Feb 5, 2011 17:33:20 GMT -5
Remembrance of the Daleks:
The DVD info text for Part 3 stated that the series never really shown what was inside a Dalek. The info text of the Special Edition of Remembrance of the Daleks included in the Davros Collection is a straight copy of the text from the story’s previous DVD release in 2001. The Davros Collection was released in late 2007 which meant that statement of the series never showing the inside of a Dalek is outdated as the inside of a Dalek was shown in the 2005 episode Dalek.
With the mention of Bernard Quatermass in this story the info text mentioned four Quatermass serials. If the info text had been updated for the Special Edition the writer would no doubt had mentioned the 2005 remake of The Quatermass Experiment and mentioned that included in its cast was David Tennant. The basis of David Tennant getting a mention in an updated version of the notes is due to the fact that at the beginning of the notes it did mentioned Remembrance of the Daleks director Andrew Morgan had directed Patrick Troughton and Colin Baker in non-Who related productions. Since Troughton and Baker got mentioned being in non-Who related productions because of Andrew Morgan then surely David Tennant could have gotten a mention because of a non-Who related production in Quatermass.
What differentiates the Special Edition from the previous version is due to newly made special features. If one was able to find time to make new materials for the Special Edition one has to wonder why no time at all was spent in updating the info text.
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Post by matthewsee on Feb 16, 2011 18:45:56 GMT -5
Remembrance of the Daleks:
The info text on Part 4 says that one of the recording days was on Easter Monday 1988, the 60th anniversary of the Easter Rebellion in Dublin according to Sylvester McCoy wrote the notes writer.
A historical fact is a historical fact but it would seem that the notes writer did not do any research on the Easter Rebellion himself and thought that citing Sylvester McCoy as the source of this information was good enough.
If the notes writer had researched the Easter Rebellion himself he would therefore had found out that it had taken place in 1916 which meant that it would not have been the 60th anniversary of this event in 1988 but the 72nd.
An incorrect information that has been presented twice upon the story’s Special Edition release and no one bothered to read the notes beforehand in order to correct this error.
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Post by matthewsee on Feb 18, 2011 21:07:17 GMT -5
Remembrance of the Daleks:
The special feature on The Special Edition includes Back To The School a feature which had some of the cast and crew remembering their time making the story.
Before I go on, there was an error with the subtitles. During this programme, Moray Laing, editor of Doctor Who Adventures talked about Stuart Brisdon who had done the special effects for Remembrance.
Laing had mentioned previous Doctor Who stories that he had worked on including Mawdryn Undead but subtitle correlated it as Modern Men Undead.
Instead of interpreting the name as Modern Men Undead, the subtitle writer, who clearly did not know the word Mawdryn, should have looked up the list of Doctor Who episodes to find out precisely the name of that Doctor Who story. The subtitle writer should not had trouble finding the name Mawdryn Undead since this is the only story that has Undead in the title.
Back to School, I felt did not present a complete story about the making of Remembrance of the Daleks.
For starters there was the absence of Pamela Salem and Jasmine Breaks. From what was shown here, the interviewees makes no mention of them at all. In regards Jasmine Breaks as The Girl, I would have thought she have gotten a consideration mention since the girl had a significant role in the plot of the story.
Other things that Back To School had overlooked was Davros’ brief appearance, the Quatermass reference and John Leeson’s role as the Dalek Battle Computer.
It is hard to believe that Sylvester McCoy had absolutely nothing to say about his one and only scene with Terry Molloy as Davros and the Doctor’s deleted line to Davros about being more than just a Time Lord.
With the Quatermass reference, I would have thought that either writer Ben Aaronovitch or script editor Andrew Cartmel would have said something about wanting to establish that Doctor Who and Quatermass were in the same universe.
With John Leeson, I would have thought comment would have been made about his return to Doctor Who as something other than K9. Like Pamela Salem and Jasmine Breaks, John Leeson is not among the interviewees for Back To School and was he even invited to appear in it.
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Post by matthewsee on Mar 30, 2011 18:47:20 GMT -5
Davros Connection:
Included in The Davros Collection DVD set was Davros Connections which was about the stories both on TV and in the Big Finish audio dramas featuring Davros.
Davros Connections was presented as the penultimate disc on the set with the final disc being the Davros audio stories.
As Davros Connections presented in detail all the aforementioned Davros stories including the audio ones, it meant that anyone who had decided to watch The Davros Collection by disc order would have been spoiled on what happened in the audio dramas before they even had the chance to listened to them on the final disc.
It has been said that with the old Doctor Who stories one should not be worried about mentioning plot details as everyone had seen it before a million times. However this argument cannot be applied with the audio stories as not everyone may have listened to them.
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