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Darksmith Legacy - Book 8: The Pictures of Emptiness
BBC Children's Books / Penguin Books
By Jacqueline Rayner
10th Doctor
RRP: £4.99
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£4.99
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£4.99
Released:
30th July 2009
The Doctor finds himself on trial before the Shadow Proclamation where the
Crystal is legally returned to Gisella.
The Doctor is ready to continue his mission until Gisella betrays him, staying
with the Darksmiths. But she accidentally reveals where the Darksmiths are
meeting their client.
The Doctor arrives on the chosen planet, and becomes involved in an adventure
involving missing eyes and souls.
Will the Doctor solve this mystery and stop the hand over of the Crystal?
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War Games
BBC DVD / 2|entertain
2nd Doctor
RRP: £24.99
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WHOSTORE Price:
£19.99
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Amazon Price:
£13.48
Released:
6th July 2009
When the Doctor, Jamie and Zoe arrive on Earth they find
themselves in the midst of a terrifying battle. At the centre of the mystery
stand aliens who have kidnapped soldiers from different periods of Earth's
history and brainwashed them in to fighting each other. Their aim is to form an
invincible army from the survivors and use this to take over the galaxy.
When the Doctor learns the terrible purpose of the War Games he has one chance
to defeat the aliens and end the Games... but to take it means risking recapture
by his own people, the all-powerful Time Lords who are waiting to bring him to
trial and who are capable of ending his very existence.
Disc 1
· Commentary With contributions from actors Frazer Hines, Wendy Padbury, Philip
Madoc, Jane Sherwin and Graham Weston, co-writer Terrance Dicks and script
editor Derrick Sherwin.
· Programme Subtitles
· Subtitle Production Notes
Disc 2
· Commentary With contributions from actors Frazer Hines, Wendy Padbury, Philip
Madoc, Jane Sherwin and Graham Weston, co-writer Terrance Dicks and script
editor Derrick Sherwin.
· Programme Subtitles
· Subtitle Production Notes
Disc 3
· War Zone - cast and crew recall the making of Patrick Troughton's epic
swansong.
· Shades of Grey - just how did the technical and artistic constraints of
monochrome television conspire to effect the unique look and feel of early
productions?
· Now and Then - the ongoing series visits the locations of 'The War Games'
forty years on…
· The Doctor's Composer - prolific composer Dudley Simpson looks back at his
first five years of work on Doctor Who.
· Sylvia James - In Conversation - make-up designer Sylvia James talks about her
work on Patrick Troughton's Doctor Who stories.
· Talking About Regeneration - the concept of regenerating a show's main
character into an entirely new physical form proved to be both a lifesaver for
the show and an increasingly important part of its mythos. This feature explores
the ideas involved and takes a closer look at each of the Doctor's
regenerations.
· Time Zones - historians discuss the reality behind the various time zones
featured in 'The War Games'. With political historian Dr. Martin Farr, military
historian Crispin Swayne, Newcastle University's Lindsay Allison-Jones and
author Prof. Susan-Mary Grant.
· Stripped for Action - The Second Doctor - the continuing series of features
focussing on the Doctor's comic strip adventures looks at the Second Doctor.
· On Target - Malcolm Hulke - the first in a series of features on the Target
range of TV story novelizations looks at the work of writer Malcolm Hulke.
· Devious - for over a decade, a group of friends on England's south coast met
on weekends to shoot an amateur Doctor Who film - 'Devious' - which takes place
between the events of Patrick Troughton's swansong 'The War Games' and Jon
Pertwee's introduction in 'Spearhead from Space', and features their own
previously unknown incarnation of the Doctor. To segue back into 'Spearhead',
the team decided to put up the money to employ Jon Pertwee for a day… in what
was to become his last ever appearance as the Third Doctor. This feature also
has a commentary from the production team.
· Photo Gallery
· Coming Soon Trailer
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Remembrance
of the Daleks: Special Edition
BBC DVD / 2|entertain
7th Doctor
RRP: £19.99
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WHOSTORE Price:
£15.99
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Amazon Price:
£18.29
Released: 20th July 2009
The Doctor and Ace arrive in
the swinging sixties to tackle some unfinished business. Once again, unusual
events are unfolding at Coal Hill School and Totters Lane junkyard. The Doctor
discovers that his oldest foes, the Daleks, are on the trail of hidden Time Lord
technology - technology that he himself left behind on Earth all those years
ago.
The Daleks are planning to perfect their own time-travel capability in order to
unleash themselves across all of time and space. Can the Doctor, even with the
help of the local military, stop the Daleks from stealing Gallifreyan secrets?
Special Features:
· Audio Commentary - with Sylvester McCoy and Sophie Aldred.
· Remembrances - Cast and crew talk about the influences and references to other
Doctor Who adventures that are spread throughout the story.
· Back to School - Cast and crew talk about the making of the story accompanied
by rare behind-the-scenes material.
· Extended and deleted scenes
· Multi Angle Scenes
· Davros Connections
· Trailers
· Photo Gallery
· Production Notes
· Radio Times listings
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Torchwood:
Children of Earth
BBC DVD / 2|entertain
Torchwood
RRP: £24.99
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WHOSTORE Price:
£19.99
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Amazon Price:
£15.98
Released:
13th July 2009
An ordinary day soon segues into terror when every one of Earth's children
suddenly stops. This inexplicable phenomenon is soon followed by a message to
each of the world's governments: 'We're Coming'.
Captain Jack finds himself in a vulnerable position when it becomes apparent
that the events of his past threaten to reveal an unspeakable truth. Torchwood
is forced underground, as the powers that be take brutal action. With the
members of the Torchwood team being hunted down, the country itself risks
becoming a rogue state, with the shadowy 456 edging closer and Armageddon with
it.
Can Captain Jack, Ianto and Gwen overcome these insurmountable odds in order to
save the day?
Special Features:
· Torchwood Declassified: An exclusive look behind-the-scenes, featuring Cast
and Crew.
· Torchwood In the Shadows: Audio Clip read by Eve Myles.
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Torchwood:
Children of Earth - (Blu-ray)
BBC DVD / 2|entertain
Torchwood
RRP: £29.99
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WHOSTORE Price:
£24.99
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Amazon Price:
£17.99
Released:
13th July 2009
An ordinary day soon segues into terror when every one of Earth's children
suddenly stops. This inexplicable phenomenon is soon followed by a message to
each of the world's governments: 'We're Coming'.
Captain Jack finds himself in a vulnerable position when it becomes apparent
that the events of his past threaten to reveal an unspeakable truth. Torchwood
is forced underground, as the powers that be take brutal action. With the
members of the Torchwood team being hunted down, the country itself risks
becoming a rogue state, with the shadowy 456 edging closer and Armageddon with
it.
Can Captain Jack, Ianto and Gwen overcome these insurmountable odds in order to
save the day?
Special Features:
· Torchwood Declassified: An exclusive look behind-the-scenes, featuring Cast
and Crew.
· Torchwood In the Shadows: Audio Clip read by Eve Myles.
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 The
Rising Night
BBC Audio
10th Doctor
RRP: £9.99
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WHOSTORE Price:
£9.99
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Amazon Price:
£5.86
Released:
2nd July 2009
The TARDIS arrives in an 18th
Century village in the Yorkshire Moors, where livestock has been vanishing from
the farmland and strange lights have been seen in the skies.
Something is very wrong here, and he soon becomes involved in a nightmarish
adventure, in which he is helped by a young local woman named Charity. Who is
feeding on the blood of the locals, and where will the carnage stop...?
This story has been written by Scott Handcock exclusively for "BBC Audiobooks".
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Prisoner
of the Daleks
BBC Audio
10th Doctor
RRP: £9.99
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Amazon Price:
£12.72
Released:
2nd July 2009
This is an abridged reading of
a "BBC Books" novel featuring the Doctor, as played by David Tennant in the hit
"BBC One" television series. It is read by a member of the TV cast.
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The
Slitheen Excursion
BBC Audio
10th Doctor
RRP: £9.99
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Amazon Price:
£12.72
Released:
2nd July 2009
This is an abridged reading of
a "BBC Books" novel featuring the Doctor, as played by David Tennant in the hit
"BBC One" television series. It is read by a member of the TV cast.
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Judgement
of the Judoon
BBC Audio
10th Doctor
RRP: £9.99
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Amazon Price:
£7.82
Released:
2nd July 2009
This is an abridged reading of
a "BBC Books" novel featuring the Doctor, as played by David Tennant in the hit
"BBC One" television series. It is read by a member of the TV cast.
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Doctor
Who and... The Dalek Invasion of Earth
BBC Audio
1st Doctor
RRP: £17.99
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WHOSTORE Price:
£14.99
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Amazon Price:
£9.68
Released:
2nd July 2009
The Tardis lands in a London of future times - a city of fear,
devastation and holocaust...a city now ruled by Daleks.
The Doctor and his companions meet a team of underground resistance workers,
among the few survivors, but after an unsuccessful attack on the Dalek
spaceship, they are all forced to flee the capital.
A perilous journey through England finally brings them to the secret centre of
Dalek operations...and the mysterious reason for the Dalek invasion of Earth!
This is an exciting unabridged reading, with music and sound effects.
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The
Happiness Patrol
BBC Audio
7th Doctor
RRP: £17.99
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Amazon Price:
£9.68
Released:
2nd July 2009
"I would
also like to take this opportunity to squash the persistent rumours about
mysterious 'disappearances' and emphasize that rural and urban areas are now
enjoying a life of harmony and peace. I'm sure you're glad to hear this. And I'm
happy you're glad. Helen A, ruler of colony Terra Alpha, is determined that
happiness will prevail. And if any kill-joys insist on being miserable, the fun
guns of the Happiness Patrol will remove them; or they will vanish into the
Kandy Kitchen, where the Kandy Man will deal with them."
When the Doctor and Ace spend a night in the dark streets of Terra Alpha they
have to keep a smile on their faces - or else! - while making contact with the
native Pipe People and trying to convince the colonists that they can have too
much of a good thing - even sweets and happiness.
An exciting unabridged reading, with music and sound effects, this novelisation
of a classic Doctor Who adventure, was first published by "Target Books" in
1990.
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The
Company of Friends
Big Finish Productions
8th Doctor
RRP: £14.99
Released:
July 2009
1. BENNY'S STORY
by Lance Parkin
Deep in the mines of Epsilon Minima, Professor Bernice Summerfield is up to her
neck in it - as usual. The Countess Venhella has hired her to recover a lost
Time Lord artefact: A TARDIS key, it turns out. Guess whose?
2. FITZ'S STORY
by Stephen Cole
On the planet Entusso, the Doctor and Fitz Kreiner investigate Alien Defence
Incorporated - your one-stop shop for protection against extraterrestrial
invasion! But which is the greatest menace: the hideous Vermin Queens or ADI
itself?
3. IZZY'S STORY
by Alan Barnes
TARDIS travel opens one's eyes to a universe of possibilities, reckons the
Doctor. For geek girl Izzy, it's also a fantastic way to track down ultra-rare
back copies of 'Aggrotron!', the most dangerous comic in history...
4. MARY'S STORY
by Jonathan Morris
Switzerland, 1816: at the Villa Diodati, Lord Byron's house guests tell each
other tales to curdle the blood and quicken the beatings of the heart. With a
monster on the loose outside, young Mary Shelley isn't short of inspiration.
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Torchwood:
Children of Earth - Soundtrack
Silva Screen Records
Torchwood
RRP: £9.99
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WhoStore:
£9.99
Released:
27th July 2009
The soundtrack to TORCHWOOD - Children of Earth is an
highly emotive, adrenalin-fuelled contemporary epic score composed by Ben
Foster.
The album features music highlights from Torchwood series 3, the spin-off series
from Doctor Who writer Russell T Davies.
Ben Foster is best-known for his work as orchestrator and conductor on Doctor
Who and as composer for Torchwood. His work on Torchwood has earned him two
nominations for best soundtrack at the BAFTA Cymru Awards. Ben started his Film
& TV career with scoring over 30 short films for various European directors and
subsequently writing for a variety of television programmes. Most recently he
has worked on big budget films The Mummy 3 - Tomb of the Dragon Emperor,
Glorious 39, Is Anybody There? and Hoodwinked 2. In May 2009 he conducted the
London Soundtrack Orchestra in the first complete performance of Herrmann’s
score to Psycho live with the film. Ben was chairman of the judging panel for
BBC Young Musician of the Year 2008 and is a regular contributor to various
programmes including Blue Peter and Clash for CBBC.
Due to the popularity of the series, Torchwood has made a swift move from BBC
Three to BBC Two, with the new series, Torchwood - Children Of Earth, finding
itself on BBC One. Children of Earth, an epic story to be told over five nights,
promises to be Torchwood's greatest adventure yet.
Track List:
1. The First Sacrifice - 1:25
2. What's Occurring? - 2:10
3. Jack's Daughter - 1:28
4. Diplomatic Cars - 1:20
5. We Are Coming - 1:12
6. Thames House - 1:53
7. Double Crossed - 1:26
8. Countdown to Destruction - 1:52
9. The Crater - 1:00
10. Torchwood Hunted - 1:42
11. Gwen's Baby - 1:03
12. On the Run - 1:13
13. Jack in a Box - 1:34
14. Ianto Jones - 0:50
15. Tractor Attack - 2:21
16. Resurrection - 1:11
17. Clement MacDonald - 2:05
18. Something's Coming - 2:35
19. Eye Spy - 1:20
20. Trust Nobody - 1:46
21. The World Looks to the Skies - 2:10
22. Jack's Secret - 1:36
23. Clem Remembers - 1:34
24. Judgement Day - 4:05
25. Requiem for the Fallen - 1:23
26. The Ballad of Ianto Jones - 4:36
27. The Final Day - 0:40
28. Calm Before the Storm - 3:22
29. Phase Two Has Begun - 1:50
30. Requisition 31 - 2:38
31. Here Comes Torchwood - 2:24
32. He Was a Good Man - 1:40
33. The Children of the Earth - 3:27
34. Breaking the Connection - 2:25
35. Fighting Back - 2:02
36. Run for Your Lives - 1:13
37. Sacrifice and Salvation - 1:39
38. Redemption - 3:13
39. I Can Run Forever - 3:28
40. Next Time On Torchwood
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