E-Space Trilogy DVD boxed set...

[Lonemagpie]

Comes out in January, guys...

The "next on DVD" trailer for it has been certified as part of the extras for November's release of Battlefield, which makes it January's release as there is never a DW DVD release in December.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

It's about time!

And I didn't know that Battlefield was coming out soon. That's also very good news.

 

[Blamo]

I have mixed feelings about getting the E-Space Trilogy. On the one hand it has the awesome Romana, but on the other hand it also has Adric.

 

[Peacemaker]

This is squeeworthy news....SQUEE!

Let's hope the Black Guardian Trilogy is out soon too.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

I have mixed feelings about getting the E-Space Trilogy. On the one hand it has the awesome Romana, but on the other hand it also has Adric.

It's worth getting for Warriors' Gate if for no other reason. One of my all time favorite serials.

 

[WHF]

It's worth getting for Warriors' Gate if for no other reason. One of my all time favorite serials.

Warrior's Gate was the very first Who I ever saw.

 

[Winterwind]

I have mixed feelings about getting the E-Space Trilogy. On the one hand it has the awesome Romana, but on the other hand it also has Adric.

It's worth getting for Warriors' Gate if for no other reason. One of my all time favorite serials.

How would you rate it as a trilogy overall? Because after getting The Invisible Enemy... I'm going to be much more selective in what I add to my collection.

 

[diankra]

This is squeeworthy news....SQUEE!

Let's hope the Black Guardian Trilogy is out soon too.

Not in 2009, at a guess.
On the one hand, Davison releases are always at the top of the pile, as they sell well (probably an age thing as much as anything else).
On the other... there's not many Davisons left to go. If you assume that the Guardian trilogy is a box set, and Kinda/Snakedance are another, then that only leaves four other Davison stories to release: King's Demons, Awakening, Frontios & Planet of Fire (compare that with 15 Pertwees still to go). Six releases in total. Or five if they pair Frontois and Awakening.
And on the second other hand: the pattern seems to be that the January release is a triple disc trilogy. If it's e-space for Jan 2009, then Jan 2010 is the first available slot for the Guardians... but I wouldn't be surprised if a single Davison and a Mara double-pack turned up sometime in 2009.

(But... I thought the 2008 McCoy would be a 20th anniversary Silver Nemesis rather than Batlefield, so what do I know?)

 

[diankra]

I have mixed feelings about getting the E-Space Trilogy. On the one hand it has the awesome Romana, but on the other hand it also has Adric.

It's worth getting for Warriors' Gate if for no other reason. One of my all time favorite serials.

How would you rate it as a trilogy overall? Because after getting The Invisible Enemy... I'm going to be much more selective in what I add to my collection.

Three very very different stories, all very good of their kind.
Full Circle is almost as close to traditional literary science fiction that seriously thought out the ecology of another planet as the series ever got. But with some effective direction and generally effective monsters.
State of Decay is full-on Gothic vampire parody.
Warriors Gate is a slightly messy mixture of cutting edge science fiction (as of 1980s - early Gibson, etc) and an attempt to direct Doctor Who as an art house movie.

None are perfect, but one's a great reminder of what you think Doctor Who is about if you've watched a lot of early 4th Doctor stories; one's an effective fusion of normal Doctor Who and serious SF that leaves you thinking 'That reminds me of early Star Trek, though it wouldn't have worked in it'; and one leaves you thinking... "You could not have even tried to make that in Star Trek, let alone anything non-SF".
And if doing all that in 12 week isn't a mission statement for Who, then what is?

 

[The Borgified Corpse]

On the one hand, Davison releases are always at the top of the pile, as they sell well (probably an age thing as much as anything else).
On the other... there's not many Davisons left to go. If you assume that the Guardian trilogy is a box set, and Kinda/Snakedance are another, then that only leaves four other Davison stories to release: King's Demons, Awakening, Frontios & Planet of Fire (compare that with 15 Pertwees still to go). Six releases in total.

There's certainly a disparity in the attention that the different Doctors get. As you say, there are very few Davison stories left to go. And after they release the "Trial of a Time Lord" box set later this year, I believe there's only 2 Colin Baker stories left to go.

On the other hand, my personal favorite Doctor of the classic 7 is Sylvester McCoy, and the vast majority of his stuff has still gone unreleased. Right now, the only ones out here in R1 are "Remembrence of the Daleks," "The Curse of Fenric," "Ghost Light," & "Survival." (I own all of them except for "The Curse of Fenric." I was supposed to get a cheap used copy at work but the assistant manager got to it first, stashed it in his office for 3 months, then decided he didn't want it and put it out on the sales floor, where it sold within 5 hours before I could snatch it. Right bastard of him!)

 

[diankra]

On the one hand, Davison releases are always at the top of the pile, as they sell well (probably an age thing as much as anything else).
On the other... there's not many Davisons left to go. If you assume that the Guardian trilogy is a box set, and Kinda/Snakedance are another, then that only leaves four other Davison stories to release: King's Demons, Awakening, Frontios & Planet of Fire (compare that with 15 Pertwees still to go). Six releases in total.

There's certainly a disparity in the attention that the different Doctors get. As you say, there are very few Davison stories left to go. And after they release the "Trial of a Time Lord" box set later this year, I believe there's only 2 Colin Baker stories left to go.

On the other hand, my personal favorite Doctor of the classic 7 is Sylvester McCoy, and the vast majority of his stuff has still gone unreleased. Right now, the only ones out here in R1 are "Remembrence of the Daleks," "The Curse of Fenric," "Ghost Light," & "Survival." (I own all of them except for "The Curse of Fenric." I was supposed to get a cheap used copy at work but the assistant manager got to it first, stashed it in his office for 3 months, then decided he didn't want it and put it out on the sales floor, where it sold within 5 hours before I could snatch it. Right bastard of him!)

Assuming that the E-space stories are the January release, and that The War Games is sometime in 2009 (as it was said ages back that there were plans to put it out on its 40th anniversary), the figures on stories left for each Doctor are...
Hartnell: 9 (+ two part complete stories).
Troughton: 2 (+ one part complete story).
Pertwee: 15
Tom Baker: 14 (+ Shada)
Davison: 9
Colin Baker: 2
McCoy: 7

 

[Jim Steele]

Awe inspiring!

Might have a good wank about that tonight.

 

[Rarewolf]

Comes out in January, guys...

The "next on DVD" trailer for it has been certified as part of the extras for November's release of Battlefield, which makes it January's release as there is never a DW DVD release in December.

Battlefield is coming out at the end of December last I heard

 

[Demonland]

Yay! Can't wait for this! Oh and Battlefield too!

 

[Timofnine]

Never seen the E-Space trilogy before. Can't wait.

 

[ClayinCA]

Comes out in January, guys...

The "next on DVD" trailer for it has been certified as part of the extras for November's release of Battlefield, which makes it January's release as there is never a DW DVD release in December.

Battlefield is coming out at the end of December last I heard

I wish it would come out in America. I actually really like that story, though I'll certainly stipulate to its flaws...

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Comes out in January, guys...

The "next on DVD" trailer for it has been certified as part of the extras for November's release of Battlefield, which makes it January's release as there is never a DW DVD release in December.

Battlefield is coming out at the end of December last I heard

I wish it would come out in America. I actually really like that story, though I'll certainly stipulate to its flaws...

Oh, it'll come out in America, we just have to wait longer.

 

[The Borgified Corpse]

Assuming that the E-space stories are the January release, and that The War Games is sometime in 2009 (as it was said ages back that there were plans to put it out on its 40th anniversary), the figures on stories left for each Doctor are...
Hartnell: 9 (+ two part complete stories).
Troughton: 2 (+ one part complete story).
Pertwee: 15
Tom Baker: 14 (+ Shada)
Davison: 9
Colin Baker: 2
McCoy: 7

Wow. I guess things aren't quite so dire for this McCoy fan as he thought. But why so many Pertwee's left unreleased (particularly compared to the controversial at best Colin Baker)?

 

[Turbo]

Well, since this is the requisite 2009 January trilogy, that means we'll probably get the Black Guardian Trilogy in 2010. Ah, well, waiting two years for The War Games has taught me patience, if nothing else.

Or not. I want it now!

 

[diankra]

Assuming that the E-space stories are the January release, and that The War Games is sometime in 2009 (as it was said ages back that there were plans to put it out on its 40th anniversary), the figures on stories left for each Doctor are...
Hartnell: 9 (+ two part complete stories).
Troughton: 2 (+ one part complete story).
Pertwee: 15
Tom Baker: 14 (+ Shada)
Davison: 9
Colin Baker: 2
McCoy: 7

Wow. I guess things aren't quite so dire for this McCoy fan as he thought. But why so many Pertwee's left unreleased (particularly compared to the controversial at best Colin Baker)?

There seem to be two reasons for the relative lack of Pertwee releases:

One is that more than half of his era is six parters, and in the early days, when all releases were single disc, there was a reluctance to try and cram 6 episodes and some extras onto a single disc;

The other is that an awful lot of the Pertwee stories need extensive restoration work before release, but are restorable, and might get more so as restoration tech improves (whereas some of the Troughton and Hartnell prints are grotty, but are never going to get any better, so no harm in releasing them now).
Also, for budget (and time) reasons, there has to be a balance of relatively 'easy' releases, where the source material is already in a pretty good state (like the Colin Baker era), and more complex ones that need a lot of work. I think I'm right in saying that of the unreleased Pertwees, only three of them exist as their original 625-line PAL recordings (Day of the Daleks, Monster of Peladon* and Planet of the Spiders) - whereas five of the nine Pertwees released so far exist in their original form.
Another six are a mix of PAL and NTSC tapes (needing reverse standards conversion before release). And the others are either black and white (in whole or part), or only exist in colour as the 're-colourised' versions (like Silurians), which the Restoration Team would like to redo before release (they were originally reconstructed 15 years ago, and technology's moved on a lot since then).

* And Monster of Peladon's probably on the back burner, as the logical thing would be to put the Peladon stories out as a box set, but as someone posted on here recently, the tapes for The Curse of Peladon are in such a dreadful state that it needs more work than any other story around, and will probably be one of the last stories released.

Edit: Thinking about it, I think there's now a complete PAL copy of Death to the Daleks back in the archives as well - in any case, the existing copy of episode one was only missing two brief sequences which were cut from the Australian PAL copy, and exist on NTSC.