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As nobody round here has mentioned it yet:
The Three Doctors - 13 January 2003
The Seeds of Death - 17 February 2003
Lots of extras on 3 Docs, and Seeds will be VidFIRED.
Couple of medium quality titles there although I’ll not be happy until The Daemons is released.
Chap with the wings - Five rounds, rapid fire.
So many other Baker classics that have the edge over Seeds such as Talons of Weng Chiang and the brilliant Pyramids of Mars. As for Pertwee I’d rather see The Sea Devils or The Green Death than 3 Docs but at least they’re concentrating on the earlier Doctors rather than the average to chronic Davison/Baker/McCoy triumvirate.
Originally posted by jonathan.e
Couple of medium quality titles there although I’ll not be happy until The Daemons is released.
Chap with the wings - Five rounds, rapid fire.
So many other Baker classics that have the edge over Seeds such as Talons of Weng Chiang and the brilliant Pyramids of Mars. As for Pertwee I’d rather see The Sea Devils or The Green Death than 3 Docs but at least they’re concentrating on the earlier Doctors rather than the average to chronic Davison/Baker/McCoy triumvirate.
[ Geek ]
Um, Seeds of Death is a Troughton story - I think you have it confused with Seeds of Doom...one of my favourites, actually.
[ /Geek ]
I guess they've gone with the Three Doctors because next year is the 40th anniversary.
Originally posted by jonathan.e
Chap with the wings - Five rounds, rapid fire.
Gotta love it when the Brigadier gets wound up. :)
So many other Baker classics that have the edge over Seeds such as Talons of Weng Chiang and the brilliant Pyramids of Mars.
Love 'em both, and I'm crossing my fingers that the (irresponsible) rumours about Weng-Chiang in 2003 are true...
:smokin:
And it would seem it will be quite some time before we get Genesis because of alleged overexposure in recent years...not here it hasn't been! (sulks)
Originally posted by jonathan.e
Couple of medium quality titles there although I’ll not be happy until The Daemons is released.
and the brilliant Pyramids of Mars. As for Pertwee I’d rather see The Sea Devils
I'd love to see The Daemons out on DVD so I could replace my VHS copy, and am quite suprised that it hasen't had a release yet, seeing as the BBc made a lot of fuss about it being restored 10 years ago or so.
I go along with the last two suggestions as they are both good stories and The Sea Devils is my favorite story of all and also the first one I remember seeing when I was younger
Shame it's not "Seeds of Doom" - second best Tom Baker story after the peerless "City Of Death".
The Daemons needs to be restored from scratch for DVD. The old remaster is quite dodgy by current standards and would look awful on DVD.
Originally posted by feverpitch96
Love 'em both, and I'm crossing my fingers that the (irresponsible) rumours about Weng-Chiang in 2003 are true...
:smokin:
And here's hoping they resubmit it to the BBFC. Apart from the TV movie, it's the only one that has been cut by the censor (others are edited due to music rights problems). Under the new guidelines the BBFC should pass it uncut: the problems are due to the use of nunchaku during the fight in Episode 1. UK Gold showed this scene complete last time I saw it.
I grew up watching Dr Who, starting with <i>Claws of Axos</i> at the age of six. <i>Weng-Chiang</i> was the last story that Philip Hinchcliffe produced. I watched the show for a few years afterwards but it wasn't the same - due to being played more for laughs following Mary Whitehouse protests. I'm not really interested in DVDs from that period or later. Hartnell and Troughton stories I would buy as most of them I haven't seen before.
<i>Pyramids of Mars</i> is a personal favourite of mine too - if that came out on DVD I'd buy it like a shot!
Originally posted by Gary Couzens
Under the new guidelines the BBFC should pass it uncut: the problems are due to the use of nunchaku during the fight in Episode 1. UK Gold showed this scene complete last time I saw it.
Didn't they originally trim the (dodgy) giant rat grabbing Leela's leg bit too, and reinstate it on later TV screenings and VHS releases?
I grew up watching Dr Who, starting with <i>Claws of Axos</i> at the age of six. <i>Weng-Chiang</i> was the last story that Philip Hinchcliffe produced. I watched the show for a few years afterwards but it wasn't the same - due to being played more for laughs following Mary Whitehouse protests.
Yeah, I thought we were in trouble as soon as I first saw that bizarre "walking in zero gravity in that chamber thingy" bit in trailers for The Leisure Hive...it seemed quite odd and unusually comical even then.
:rolleyes:
We demand Morbius!!!
I'm afraid I'm old enough to have seen the very first episode of Dr. Who and was hooked - albeit for some of the time behind the sofa - from there on.
I grew up with Hartnell, Troughton, Pertwee and Baker (Cybermen, Daleks, Yeti and all), but we parted company after that. Caught a bit of Baker again at the weekend on UK Gold; shakey sets or not it was still damn well done.
I was lucky enough to meet Jon Pertwee once - he was playing Worzel Gummidge at our village fete (and very good he was too). We were chatting in the interval when he spotted a familiar face in the crowd. He excused himself and took the chap aside for several minutes. Turns out it was a friendly Dr Who stalker for whom Pertwee 'became' the Time Lord while they reminisced. A kindly act from a real gentleman.
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So many films, so little time...
Originally posted by John Hodson
I was lucky enough to meet Jon Pertwee once - he was playing Worzel Gummidge at our village fete (and very good he was too). We were chatting in the interval when he spotted a familiar face in the crowd. He excused himself and took the chap aside for several minutes. Turns out it was a friendly Dr Who stalker for whom Pertwee 'became' the Time Lord while they reminisced. A kindly act from a real gentleman.
By all accounts, Pertwee dealt with that kind of thing much better than Baker ever did! Anyone over 15 who behaved like that around Doctor #4 usually got a very distant and puzzled (if not outright hostile?) response...
:sad:
Not in my experience. I used to be in the convention circuit, organising a series of events around the south coast. In none of my dealings with Tom Baker was he ever anything but courteous to fans (okay, he was a little wider-eyed than usual in some cases but he was at least polite).
Having said that, Pertwee was a true gentlemen and one of the nicest people connected with the show that I've met.
BTW - the convention footage that's included on the 3 Doctors disc should be interesting. I was working on that convention and at one point Katy Manning says "shut up, Andy" to someone offstage. That was me :) - I'm hoping they leave that bit in.
Originally posted by carryonline
Not in my experience. I used to be in the convention circuit, organising a series of events around the south coast. In none of my dealings with Tom Baker was he ever anything but courteous to fans (okay, he was a little wider-eyed than usual in some cases but he was at least polite).
Ah. Okay. :)
Clearly he was a little less kind to himself in his autobiography than he could have been, then. :) But I still remember an interview with him in an Australian fanzine in 1979 where he was reported as giving short shrift to anyone beyond their mid-teens, and in which he referred to university students as "bloody irredeemable"...perhaps he's mellowed!
:p
Originally posted by Gary Couzens
And here's hoping they resubmit it to the BBFC. Apart from the TV movie, it's the only one that has been cut by the censor (others are edited due to music rights problems).
i read a couple of days ago that another dr who dvd release forthcoming has been cut by the BBFC for language - an uncut 12 was offered but rejected in favour of a sales friendly u certificate.
presumably this must be to audio commentary/documentry footage and not to the actual episodes themselves?
Yep, it was IIRC on one of the supplemental interviews for The Aztecs release
According to the Restoration team they've already sussed out the BBFC position on Talons and it wouldn't now have to be cut. Whether that means they're working on it I don't know...
expect 'Terror of the Autons' to turn up on dvd.
as Jo Manning, Barry Letts and Nicolas Courtney recorded a dvd commentary for it back last November.
Originally posted by essexboyuk68
i read a couple of days ago that another dr who dvd release forthcoming has been cut by the BBFC for language - an uncut 12 was offered but rejected in favour of a sales friendly u certificate.
presumably this must be to audio commentary/documentry footage and not to the actual episodes themselves?
That's The Aztecs.
The episodes have NOT been cut in any way.
But in the interview with Ian Cullen two instances of the F-word have been bleeped. That's all.
Also, if you check out R1 releases, the tom baker story "Key to Time" all parts are to be released at the end of this Year. No mention of it on the Restoration site, so it doesnt look like its being remastered. Could be a R1 only release.
Key to Time (http://www.playserver4.com/play247.asp?page=title&r=R1&title=103456)
I wanna see 'Curse of Fenric', 'Earthshock', and the fantastic 'Revelation of the Daleks'. Some of the older fans may diss the latterday Docs, but there are still plenty of us whippersnappers who don't remember Pertwee or Tom Baker and grew up with this stuff! These were the best stories from the eighties that haven't been released yet. Hopefully with next year being the anniversary Auntie will ramp up their DVD output to one a month, thus easily covering all the Doctors (well, except for Paul Mcgann of course!):)
Yep, it's rumoured there will be 7 releases next year. So far a Pertwee (well, give or take 2 guest docs;) ) and a Troughton. Fenric will likely be the McCoy one if rumour is to be believed. Take rumours with a pinch of salt though.
The Three Doctors - 13 January 2003
The Seeds of Death - 17 February 2003
Lots of extras on 3 Docs, and Seeds will be VidFIRED.
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Couple of medium quality titles there although I’ll not be happy until The Daemons is released.
Chap with the wings - Five rounds, rapid fire.
So many other Baker classics that have the edge over Seeds such as Talons of Weng Chiang and the brilliant Pyramids of Mars. As for Pertwee I’d rather see The Sea Devils or The Green Death than 3 Docs but at least they’re concentrating on the earlier Doctors rather than the average to chronic Davison/Baker/McCoy triumvirate.
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Originally posted by jonathan.e
Couple of medium quality titles there although I’ll not be happy until The Daemons is released.
Chap with the wings - Five rounds, rapid fire.
So many other Baker classics that have the edge over Seeds such as Talons of Weng Chiang and the brilliant Pyramids of Mars. As for Pertwee I’d rather see The Sea Devils or The Green Death than 3 Docs but at least they’re concentrating on the earlier Doctors rather than the average to chronic Davison/Baker/McCoy triumvirate.
[ Geek ]
Um, Seeds of Death is a Troughton story - I think you have it confused with Seeds of Doom...one of my favourites, actually.
[ /Geek ]
I guess they've gone with the Three Doctors because next year is the 40th anniversary.
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Originally posted by jonathan.e
Chap with the wings - Five rounds, rapid fire.
Gotta love it when the Brigadier gets wound up. :)
So many other Baker classics that have the edge over Seeds such as Talons of Weng Chiang and the brilliant Pyramids of Mars.
Love 'em both, and I'm crossing my fingers that the (irresponsible) rumours about Weng-Chiang in 2003 are true...
:smokin:
And it would seem it will be quite some time before we get Genesis because of alleged overexposure in recent years...not here it hasn't been! (sulks)
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Originally posted by jonathan.e
Couple of medium quality titles there although I’ll not be happy until The Daemons is released.
and the brilliant Pyramids of Mars. As for Pertwee I’d rather see The Sea Devils
I'd love to see The Daemons out on DVD so I could replace my VHS copy, and am quite suprised that it hasen't had a release yet, seeing as the BBc made a lot of fuss about it being restored 10 years ago or so.
I go along with the last two suggestions as they are both good stories and The Sea Devils is my favorite story of all and also the first one I remember seeing when I was younger
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Shame it's not "Seeds of Doom" - second best Tom Baker story after the peerless "City Of Death".
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The Daemons needs to be restored from scratch for DVD. The old remaster is quite dodgy by current standards and would look awful on DVD.
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Originally posted by feverpitch96
Love 'em both, and I'm crossing my fingers that the (irresponsible) rumours about Weng-Chiang in 2003 are true...
:smokin:
And here's hoping they resubmit it to the BBFC. Apart from the TV movie, it's the only one that has been cut by the censor (others are edited due to music rights problems). Under the new guidelines the BBFC should pass it uncut: the problems are due to the use of nunchaku during the fight in Episode 1. UK Gold showed this scene complete last time I saw it.
I grew up watching Dr Who, starting with <i>Claws of Axos</i> at the age of six. <i>Weng-Chiang</i> was the last story that Philip Hinchcliffe produced. I watched the show for a few years afterwards but it wasn't the same - due to being played more for laughs following Mary Whitehouse protests. I'm not really interested in DVDs from that period or later. Hartnell and Troughton stories I would buy as most of them I haven't seen before.
<i>Pyramids of Mars</i> is a personal favourite of mine too - if that came out on DVD I'd buy it like a shot!
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Originally posted by Gary Couzens
Under the new guidelines the BBFC should pass it uncut: the problems are due to the use of nunchaku during the fight in Episode 1. UK Gold showed this scene complete last time I saw it.
Didn't they originally trim the (dodgy) giant rat grabbing Leela's leg bit too, and reinstate it on later TV screenings and VHS releases?
I grew up watching Dr Who, starting with <i>Claws of Axos</i> at the age of six. <i>Weng-Chiang</i> was the last story that Philip Hinchcliffe produced. I watched the show for a few years afterwards but it wasn't the same - due to being played more for laughs following Mary Whitehouse protests.
Yeah, I thought we were in trouble as soon as I first saw that bizarre "walking in zero gravity in that chamber thingy" bit in trailers for The Leisure Hive...it seemed quite odd and unusually comical even then.
:rolleyes:
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We demand Morbius!!!
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I'm afraid I'm old enough to have seen the very first episode of Dr. Who and was hooked - albeit for some of the time behind the sofa - from there on.
I grew up with Hartnell, Troughton, Pertwee and Baker (Cybermen, Daleks, Yeti and all), but we parted company after that. Caught a bit of Baker again at the weekend on UK Gold; shakey sets or not it was still damn well done.
I was lucky enough to meet Jon Pertwee once - he was playing Worzel Gummidge at our village fete (and very good he was too). We were chatting in the interval when he spotted a familiar face in the crowd. He excused himself and took the chap aside for several minutes. Turns out it was a friendly Dr Who stalker for whom Pertwee 'became' the Time Lord while they reminisced. A kindly act from a real gentleman.
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So many films, so little time...
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Originally posted by John Hodson
I was lucky enough to meet Jon Pertwee once - he was playing Worzel Gummidge at our village fete (and very good he was too). We were chatting in the interval when he spotted a familiar face in the crowd. He excused himself and took the chap aside for several minutes. Turns out it was a friendly Dr Who stalker for whom Pertwee 'became' the Time Lord while they reminisced. A kindly act from a real gentleman.
By all accounts, Pertwee dealt with that kind of thing much better than Baker ever did! Anyone over 15 who behaved like that around Doctor #4 usually got a very distant and puzzled (if not outright hostile?) response...
:sad:
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Not in my experience. I used to be in the convention circuit, organising a series of events around the south coast. In none of my dealings with Tom Baker was he ever anything but courteous to fans (okay, he was a little wider-eyed than usual in some cases but he was at least polite).
Having said that, Pertwee was a true gentlemen and one of the nicest people connected with the show that I've met.
BTW - the convention footage that's included on the 3 Doctors disc should be interesting. I was working on that convention and at one point Katy Manning says "shut up, Andy" to someone offstage. That was me :) - I'm hoping they leave that bit in.
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Originally posted by carryonline
Not in my experience. I used to be in the convention circuit, organising a series of events around the south coast. In none of my dealings with Tom Baker was he ever anything but courteous to fans (okay, he was a little wider-eyed than usual in some cases but he was at least polite).
Ah. Okay. :)
Clearly he was a little less kind to himself in his autobiography than he could have been, then. :) But I still remember an interview with him in an Australian fanzine in 1979 where he was reported as giving short shrift to anyone beyond their mid-teens, and in which he referred to university students as "bloody irredeemable"...perhaps he's mellowed!
:p
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Originally posted by Gary Couzens
And here's hoping they resubmit it to the BBFC. Apart from the TV movie, it's the only one that has been cut by the censor (others are edited due to music rights problems).
i read a couple of days ago that another dr who dvd release forthcoming has been cut by the BBFC for language - an uncut 12 was offered but rejected in favour of a sales friendly u certificate.
presumably this must be to audio commentary/documentry footage and not to the actual episodes themselves?
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Yep, it was IIRC on one of the supplemental interviews for The Aztecs release
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According to the Restoration team they've already sussed out the BBFC position on Talons and it wouldn't now have to be cut. Whether that means they're working on it I don't know...
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expect 'Terror of the Autons' to turn up on dvd.
as Jo Manning, Barry Letts and Nicolas Courtney recorded a dvd commentary for it back last November.
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Originally posted by essexboyuk68
i read a couple of days ago that another dr who dvd release forthcoming has been cut by the BBFC for language - an uncut 12 was offered but rejected in favour of a sales friendly u certificate.
presumably this must be to audio commentary/documentry footage and not to the actual episodes themselves?
That's The Aztecs.
The episodes have NOT been cut in any way.
But in the interview with Ian Cullen two instances of the F-word have been bleeped. That's all.
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Also, if you check out R1 releases, the tom baker story "Key to Time" all parts are to be released at the end of this Year. No mention of it on the Restoration site, so it doesnt look like its being remastered. Could be a R1 only release.
Key to Time (http://www.playserver4.com/play247.asp?page=title&r=R1&title=103456)
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I wanna see 'Curse of Fenric', 'Earthshock', and the fantastic 'Revelation of the Daleks'. Some of the older fans may diss the latterday Docs, but there are still plenty of us whippersnappers who don't remember Pertwee or Tom Baker and grew up with this stuff! These were the best stories from the eighties that haven't been released yet. Hopefully with next year being the anniversary Auntie will ramp up their DVD output to one a month, thus easily covering all the Doctors (well, except for Paul Mcgann of course!):)
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Yep, it's rumoured there will be 7 releases next year. So far a Pertwee (well, give or take 2 guest docs;) ) and a Troughton. Fenric will likely be the McCoy one if rumour is to be believed. Take rumours with a pinch of salt though.
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