I think I read that they were, but are the original DVD re-made special effects also included?
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I think I read that they were, but are the original DVD re-made special effects also included?
Village Roadshow in Australia offered a fan a glimpse at their future DW release schedule. After Seasons 12 and 19 is Season 10 (not 09 as I previously believed), which is still Three/Jo and will allow One and Two their first Blu-Ray appearance.
Following that later next year, apparently, is a DVD release of The Wheel in Space - which the BBC still insists is the telesnap reconstruction only.
Following that later next year, apparently, is a DVD release of The Wheel in Space - which the BBC still insists is the telesnap reconstruction only.
Yeah, I missed the chance too, and it's now going for a minimum of £199 on ebay used, new sealed copies from £279 up to £750!!
I'll be waiting to see if they do a re-release, and not bother with any limited editions.
Series Ten of the Classic era will be released on blu-ray sometime in 2019
I'm not bothered about exclusive, limited packaging so I can stand waiting for a few years before I choose whether to upgrade to the Blu-ray discs. Perhaps some streaming site or other will acquire the rights so that's another possibility.
Until the streaming site stops offering what you want, assuming they even offer it, that's the downer. Never mind that one the needs to sign up for more streaming services than the top tier cable package... and people thought cable prices were "streaming" of a different sort.
I think that method would have been their best bet for appealing to casual fans who have held off on buying the individual DVDs because they wanted to do a proper sequential binge watch. My suggestion would have been to just go in order with all of Tom Baker's seasons, then finish off the 1980s with Davison, C. Baker, & McCoy, then go back and do Pertwee, and then complete the set with whatever Hartnell & Troughton material they still have or can be bothered to reconstruct. (Kinda similar to what Dark Shadows did with their DVD sets. They started when Barnabas Collins was introduced to the show and then, after finishing his run, released several volumes of early pre-Barnabas episodes under the title "The Beginning.")
Meanwhile, I'm surprised that Tom Baker's first season got a Blu Ray release here in the U.S. but we still never got the Blu Ray upconversion of the Paul McGann movie. And the only way to get David Tennant's 3 seasons on Blu Ray was with the 2013 gift set that included everything from the first 7 seasons of the new series. They released Eccleston's season on Blu Ray but I guess it didn't sell well since they canceled the individual releases for Seasons 2-4.
I just wish that those Complete Doctor sets for Tennant, Smith, & Capaldi would be released in more shelf-friendly packaging. I'd be especially amenable to getting the complete Smith years on Blu Ray in that format since it's also the only way in the U.S. to get a physical copy of "The Five-ish Doctors." (I love that movie. It's got that guy from The Hobbit!
)So... the polarity needs to be reversed? Simple fix. Any of the commercially released Sonic Screwdrivers should do the trick, though I prefer using the Jon Pertwee model since it gets a better grip on the neutron flow.
Yeah. I remember once seeing someone make a Doctor Who anime and my main thought was, "Oh, great! A way to make Doctor Who even more obscure & expensive. Just what we needed!"
Season 18 confirmed for February release. They're not wasting any time...
Blu-ray trailer for season 18 with Tom baker announcing it
Bah, it should've been season 14 aka the best season of Doctor Who ever (fight me!).
Still, that's an awesome trailer. Complete with 80's music and graphics.
Still, that's an awesome trailer. Complete with 80's music and graphics.
That's a great season! For me, it's season 12, particularly when you consider Terror of the Zygons was filmed as a part of that season.Bah, it should've been season 14 aka the best season of Doctor Who ever (fight me!).
Still, that's an awesome trailer. Complete with 80's music and graphics.
Season 14 is nearly as good. If I considered Talons to be a classic like most, that might bump it to the top spot. But, for whatever reason, I can't get into it as much as most. However, it does have Robots of Death which is very near the best episode of DW for me--probably #2.
Yeah, season 12 is terrific, too (and I certainly count Terror of the Zygons as part of it) but it does have one stinker of a serial: Revenge of the Cybermen. Season 14 doesn't have one, although The Hand of Time is a bit bombastic. That said, it does feature a transgender villain and introduces the idea of a Time Lord can change change genders (I actually forgot the latter part until I caught that episode during the Twitch marathon).
Of course, series 13 had "The Pyramids of Mars", one of my favorites. Gabriel Woolf is the joy of that adventure. Consider the challenge of exuding such menace through nothing but his voice, restrained as the character is to a chair and behind a nearly featureless mask. Reads a bit like Davros, right? But unlike Wisher's character, Woolf's voice was not augmented beyond a slight echo and rarely did he raise his tone above a menacing whisper. That's thespian talent!
I actually prefer Revenge of the Cybermen over Hand of Fear, although neither are great. And, for whatever reason, I have a hard time staying awake for Talons! But, those three seasons (12-14) are right at the top!
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