Doctor Who Online - Release Guide - Archive

Welcome to the Release Guide Archive for February 2011, here at Doctor Who Online. This is the place where you can find information on items that have been released previously.

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2 in 1 Books - Book #1: Death Riders / Heart of Stone

BBC Children's Books

11th Doctor

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Released: 3rd February 2011

Death Riders

The Galactic Fair has arrived on the mining planet of Stanalan and the Death Ride roller coaster is really drawing in the crowds.

But there’s something sinister going on behind all the fun of the fair. Join the Doctor, Amy and Rory as they investigate...

Heart of Stone

A monster made from moon rock is attacking an Earth farm in Heart of Stone. Everything it touches turns to stone – even people.

Can the Doctor, Amy and Rory find out what the creature wants before it’s too late?

Action-packed original fiction for younger Doctor Who fans, starring the Eleventh Doctor with his companions Amy Pond and Rory Williams.

Double-fronted books each contain two fast-paced, fun-filled adventures!

2 in 1 Books - Book #2: System Wipe / The Good, The Bad and The Alien

BBC Children's Books

11th Doctor

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Released: 3rd February 2011

System Wipe

The Doctor finds himself trapped in a virtual world. As he tries to save the characters of the virtual world from being destroyed by a deadly virus,

Amy and Rory must fight to keep the Doctor’s body in the real world safe from the mysterious entity known as Legacy…

The Good, the Bad and the Alien

Aliens have crash-landed in the Wild West and they’re ready for a showdown!

Can the Doctor, Rory and Amy work out which are the good guys and which are the bad?

Action-packed original fiction for younger Doctor Who fans, starring the Eleventh Doctor with his companions Amy Pond and Rory Williams.

Double-fronted books each contain two fast-paced, fun-filled adventures!

The Ark

BBC DVD / 2|Entertain

1st Doctor

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Released: 14th February 2011

The TARDIS arrives some ten million years in the future on a giant spaceship carrying all the Earth's surviving plant, animal and human life (much of it miniaturised and in suspended animation) on a 700 year voyage to a new home on the planet Refusis II. Dodo is suffering from a cold - an unknown affliction in this era - and as the human Guardians of the ship and their servant race the Monoids have no resistance, a plague breaks out.

Special Features:

• Commentary - stereo. With actor Peter Purves and director Michael Imison, moderated by Toby Hadoke.
• All’s Well’s That Ends Wells (dur. 13’ 14”) – just how much were ‘The Ark’ and many other of Doctor Who’s adventures through time and space inspired by the work of writer H.G. Wells? With writers and historians Matthew Sweet, and Dominic Sandbrook, author and critic Kim Newman, literary editor Graham Sleight and the Open University’s Dr. Anthony Keen.
• One Hit Wonder (dur. 4’ 33”) – the Monoids only appeared in one Doctor Who story, possibly with good reason. What gives certain monsters an enduring popularity, destined to return over and over, whilst others are doomed to appear only once? With author Jacqueline Rayner, writers and historians Dominic Sandbrook and Matthew Sweet, and author and critic Kim Newman.
• Riverside Story (dur. 20’ 17”) – Hammersmith’s Riverside Studios played host to the creation of many Doctor Who stories in the sixties. Matthew Sweet takes actor Peter Purves back to the studio that once also contained the Celestial Toyroom, the Plains of Troy and the planet Refusis to talk about the creation of ‘The Ark’. Also featuring director Michael Imison.
• Photo Gallery (dur. 3’ 26”) - production, design and publicity photos from the story.

The Mutants

Region 1 (USA / Canada)
BBC DVD / 2|Entertain

3rd Doctor

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Released: 8th February 2011

The Time Lords send the wizardly third Doctor (Jon Pertwee) and Jo to deliver a sealed message pod to a Skybase orbiting Solos, a planet ready to pay a very dangerous price to gain independence.

Special Features:

• Audio Commentary
• Mutt Mad
• Race Against Time
• Blue Peter
• Dressing Doctor Who
• PDF materials: Radio Times Listings
• Production Note Subtitles
• Digitally remastered picture and sound quality

The Movie: Special Edition

Region 1 (USA / Canada)
BBC DVD / 2|Entertain

7th & 8th Doctors

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Released: 8th February 2011

The Doctor is returning home to Gallifrey with the remains of his arch-nemesis, the Master.

Forced off course, the TARDIS arrives in San Francisco on New Year's Eve 1999, where the Doctor is critically wounded in a gangland gun battle.

At the local hospital, Dr Grace Holloway fights - and fails - to save his life.

Special Features:

• Audio Commentaries (2)
• The Seven Year Hitch
• The Doctor's Strange Love
• Photo Gallery
• Music Tracks
• PDF materials: Radio Times Listings
• Production Notes Subtitle Option
• VFX Tests June 1994
• VFX March 1996
• EPK
• Behind the Scenes
• Philip Segal's Tour of the TARDIS Set
• Alternate Takes
• BBC Trailers
• Who Peter 1989-2009
• The Wilderness Years
• Stripped for Action - The Eighth Doctor
• Tomorrow's Times - The Eighth Doctor
• Easter Eggs (2)

A Christmas Carol - [Blu-ray]

Region 1 (USA / Canada)
BBC Blu-ray / 2|Entertain

11th Doctor

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Released: 15th February 2011

This newly unwrapped Special offers a twisted mix of monsters and classic Holiday films.

Stars the eleventh Doctor (Matt Smith), his companion Amy (Karen Gillen), plus special guests Michael Gambon (Harry Potter) and Welsh singing sensation Katherine Jenkins.

Extras include Doctor Who at the Proms-a concert performance of music from Doctor Who recorded live at Royal Albert Hall.

Special Features:

• Doctor Who Confidential - An inside look at the 2010 Doctor Who Christmas Special
• Doctor Who at the Proms 2010 - Concert performance of music from Doctor Who hosted by Doctor Who stars Matt Smith and Karen Gillan, recorded live at the Royal Albert Hall during the BBC's annual Proms concerts

A Christmas Carol

Region 1 (USA / Canada)
BBC DVD / 2|Entertain

11th Doctor

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Released: 15th February 2011

Doctor Who And... The War Games

BBC Audio / AudioGO

2nd Doctor

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Released: 3rd February 2011

Mud, barbed wire, the smell of death...

The year is 1917 and the TARDIS has materialised on the Western Front during the First World War. Or has it? For very soon the Doctor finds himself pursued by the soldiers of Ancient Rome; and, then he and his companions are reliving the American Civil War of 1863. And is this really Earth, or just a mock-up created by the War Lords?

As Doctor Who solves the mystery, he has to admit he is faced with an evil of such magnitude that he cannot combat it on his own - he has to call for the help of his own people, the Time Lords.

So, for the first time, it is revealed who is Doctor Who - a maverick Time Lord who 'borrowed' the TARDIS without permission. By appealing to the Time Lords he gives away his position in Time and Space. Thus comes about the Trial of Doctor Who...

David Troughton reads Malcolm Hulke's complete and unabridged novelisation, first published by Target Books in 1979.

Genesis of the Daleks

BBC Audio / AudioGO

4th Doctor

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Released: 3rd February 2011

Starring Tom Baker as the Doctor and Elisabeth Sladen as Sarah Jane, this digitally-remastered edition of the classic "Doctor Who" TV episodes features a special vinyl-look CD and original LP sleeve notes.

Doctor Who, with his travelling companions, Sarah and Harry, has landed on a desolate planet called Skaro. As he surveys the barren landscape, a Time Lord appears and tells him he has been brought there to try and avert the creation of the Daleks, and thus prevent them from being the dominant creature in the Universe...

With linking narration by Tom Baker, this condensed version of the original TV episodes includes one of the most memorable and dramatic moments in the history of "Doctor Who": the Doctor's moral dilemma about whether he has the right to destroy the Daleks forever.

"Vintage Beeb": classic albums first available as BBC LPs, now reissued on CD.

Doctor Who: The Lost TV Episodes Collection 2 (1965-1966)

BBC Audio / AudioGO

1st Doctor

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Released: 3rd February 2011

Dozens of Doctor Who TV episodes are lost as visual film recordings - but they survive as audio soundtracks, digitally remastered with additional linking narration by members of the original cast.

This handsome box set collects together four adventures which are either wholly or partially lost from the TV archives, but which can be enjoyed in their entirety on audio.

Presented in chronological order of transmission, the stories in this collection are 'The Daleks' Master Plan', 'The Massacre', 'The Savages' and 'The Celestial Toymaker'.

4.09 - Lucie Miller

Big Finish Productions

8th Doctor

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Released: 28th February 2011

'Hello! Doctor, it's me. Lucie. Lucie Miller…'

Lucie Miller needs the Doctor's help. The whole planet Earth needs his help. But he is nowhere to be seen.

While Lucie struggles to survive a terrible sickness, an even greater threat to the human race is about to be unleashed.

And this will be the second Dalek invasion of Earth the Doctor's grand-daughter has had to endure.

'You must accept the reality of your situation. You have been defeated.'

144 - The Feast of Axos

Big Finish Productions

6th Doctor

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Released: 28th February 2011

“Axos calling Earth. Fuel system exhausted. Request immediate assistance.”

Many years ago, the vast space parasite Axos attempted to suck the planet Earth of its energy. Now it’s all but forgotten – a dried-up husk, marooned in orbit, still stuck in the time loop it was placed in by Earth’s defender, the Doctor.

Forgotten, that is, except by space tourism billionaire Campbell Irons – who’s hatched a plan to solve the world’s energy crisis by reviving Axos, and transmitting its power back to Earth. But the crew of the spaceship Windermere aren’t alone aboard the parasite. The Doctor has returned, to correct an error of decades past...

5.08 - The Companion Chronicles - The Pepetual Bond

Big Finish Productions

Steven Taylor
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Released: 28th February 2011

When the TARDIS materializes in a familiar junkyard in the 1960s, the Doctor and Steven are soon embroiled in a mystery in the City of London. Who are the mysterious bowler-hatted businessmen with their deadly umbrellas? And what secret is young Oliver Harper desperately trying to conceal?

Contracts have been signed. A deal is in place. And the Doctor discovers that perhaps not even he can stop a terrible business...