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Archive for June 2011, here at Doctor Who Online. This is the place where you can find
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Touched
by an Angel
BBC Books
By Jonathan Morris
11th Doctor
RRP: £6.99
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Released:
23rd June 2011
‘The past is like a
foreign country. Nice to visit, but you really wouldn’t want to live there.’
In 2003, Rebecca Whitaker died in a road accident. Her husband Mark is still
grieving. He receives a battered envelope, posted eight years ago, containing a
set of instructions with a simple message: “You can save her.”
As Mark is given the chance to save Rebecca, it’s up to the Doctor, Amy and Rory
to save the whole world. Because this time the Weeping Angels are using history
itself as a weapon.
A thrilling all-new adventure featuring the Doctor, Amy and Rory, as played by
Matt Smith, Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill in the spectacular hit series from
BBC Television.
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Paradox
Lost
BBC Books
By George Mann
11th Doctor
RRP: £6.99
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Released:
23rd June 2011
'The Squall
feed on psychic energy. They spread like a plague and if they are not stopped
they will strip the Earth clean...’
London 1910: an unsuspecting thief finds himself confronted by grey-skinned
creatures that are waiting to devour his mind. London 2789: the remains of an
ancient android are dredged from the Thames. When reactivated it has a warning
that can only be delivered to a man named ‘the Doctor’.
The Doctor and his friends must solve a mystery that has spanned over a thousand
years. If they fail, the deadly alien Squall will devour the world.
A thrilling all-new adventure featuring the Doctor, Amy and Rory, as played by
Matt Smith, Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill in the spectacular hit series from
BBC Television.
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Borrowed
Time
BBC Books
By Naomi A. Alderman
11th Doctor
RRP: £6.99
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Released:
23rd June 2011
‘You want more time
Mr Brown, of course you do. We all want more time. Let me make you an offer...’
Andrew Brown never has enough time. No time to call his sister, or to prepare
for that important presentation at the bank where he works. The train’s late,
the lift jams. If only he’d had just a little more time. And time is the
business of Mr Symington and Mr Blenkinsop. They’ll lend him some – at a very
reasonable rate of interest.
Detecting a problem, the Doctor, Amy and Rory go undercover at the bank. But
they have to move fast to stop Symington and Blenkinsop before they cash in
their investments.
A thrilling all-new adventure featuring the Doctor, Amy and Rory, as played by
Matt Smith, Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill in the spectacular hit series from
BBC Television.
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EarthStory
- Box-set
BBC DVD / 2|Entertain
1st & 5th Doctors
RRP: £30.63
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Released:
20th
June 2011
The Gunfighters
Take a trip to the Wild West in The Gunfighters, when the TARDIS arrives in
Tombstone, Arizona in 1881. The Doctor, suffering from toothache, seeks out the
local dentist - the notorious Doc Holliday.
Tensions are running high between the feuding Clanton family and Doc Holliday,
whilst the local lawman, Wyatt Earp, struggles to keep the peace. When legendary
gunman Johnny Ringo comes to town, events start to escalate.
Can the Doctor, Steven and Dodo do anything to stop the situation getting any
worse? Or will there be a gunfight at the OK Corral?
Special Features:
• Commentary - with actors Peter Purves, Shane
Rimmer, David Graham and Richard Beale, production assistant Tristan de Vere
Cole and moderator Toby Hadoke.
• The End of the Line – After two years on the screen, Doctor Who had become a
television phenomenon, regularly reaching an audience of ten million viewers.
But with a change of producer and script editor and the looming prospect of
losing the lead actor, the programme’s third year was the one that would make or
break it… With actors Maureen O’Brien, Anneke Wills and Peter Purves, script
editor Donald Tosh, new series writer Gareth Roberts and long time Doctor Who
viewer Ian Levine.
• Tomorrow’s Times – The First Doctor – looking at the newspaper coverage of
Doctor Who during the programme’s opening years. Presented by Mary Tamm.
• Photo Gallery - production, design and publicity photos from the story, set to
the entirety of ‘The Ballad of the Last Chance Saloon’.
• Coming Soon - a trailer for a forthcoming DVD release.
• Radio Times Listings in Adobe PDF format.
• Programme subtitles.
• Subtitle Production Notes.
The Awakening
The TARDIS has brought the Doctor, Tegan
and Turlough to the picture postcard English village of Little Hodcome. Tegan
has come to visit her grandfather - well known local historian Andrew Verny -
but he seems to be missing.
The residents of Little Hodcombe, led by the obsessive Sir George Hutchinson,
are playing a vicious war game - an exact recreation of a battle of the English
Civil War fought there in 1643.
As each of the TARDIS crew witnesses a terrifying apparition from the past, the
Doctor realises that he faces a far greater menace than the unstable Hutchinson.
An ancient and alien force for evil is at work - one which will glory in the
slaughter of them all...
Special Features:
• Commentary - with actor Michael Owen Morris
and script editor Eric Saward, moderated by Toby Hadoke.
• Return to Little Hodcombe – Director
Michael Owen, actors Janet Fielding and Keith Jayne and script editor Eric
Saward return to the three villages that played host to the locations for ‘The
Awakening’, and along with locals they reminisce about a memorable shoot…
• Making the Malus – visual effects designer
Tony Harding and modelmaker Richard Gregory are reunited with the Malus prop
they built for the story. Current owner Paul Burrows is on hand to describe the
reality of living with a giant stone monster on the lounge wall…
• Now & Then – the latest in the ongoing
series visits the villages of Martin, Shapwick and Tarrant Monkton to compare
the locations used in the story with how they appear today.
• From the Cutting Room Floor – extended and
deleted scenes from a timecoded VHS of the original edit and unedited film
sequences, plus location action from the film rushes.
• The Golden Egg Awards – the inadvertent
destruction of a prop lychgate by a horse was the winner of The Late Late
Breakfast Show’s Golden Egg Award. Peter Davison is on hand to collect the
trophy from host Noel Edmonds.
• Photo Gallery - production, design and
publicity photos from the story.
• Isolated Music – option to view the story
with the isolated music score.
• Coming Soon - a trailer for a forthcoming
DVD release.
• Radio Times Listings in Adobe PDF format.
• Programme subtitles.
• Subtitle Production Notes.

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Frontios
Region 1 (USA / Canada)
BBC DVD / 2|Entertain
5th Doctor
RRP: $24.98 (USA) / RRP: $26.98 (Canada)
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Released:
14th
June 2011
An
irresistible force draws the TARDIS to the barren surface of Frontios, where in
the far future the last surviving humans cower amongst the ruins of their
wrecked spacecraft.
Under constant threat from lethal meteorite bombardments, few of the doomed
colony members realize that the ground of Frontios itself opens up and devours
the unwary.
Not permitted to assist, the Doctor attempts to leave, but is thwarted when the
unimaginable occurs: the TARDIS is utterly destroyed.
Special Features:
• Audio Commentary
• Driven to Distractation
• Deleted and Extended Scenes
• Photo Gallery
• PDF materials: Radio Times Listings
• Production Notes Subtitle Option
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Time
and the Rani
Region 1 (USA / Canada)
BBC DVD / 2|Entertain
7th Doctor
RRP: $24.98 (USA) / RRP: $26.98 (Canada)
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Released:
14th
June 2011
Violently wrenched out of time, the TARDIS is brought crashing down onto the
planet Lakertya by the villainous Rani. Caught within the maelstrom, the Doctor
is forced to regenerate.
Special Features:
• Audio Commentary
• Photo Gallery
• PDF materials: Radio Times Listings
• Production Note Subtitles
• Digitally remastered picture and sound quality
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Ghost
Light
BBC Audio / AudioGO
7th Doctor
RRP: £13.27
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Released:
2nd June 2011
A column of smoke
rises from the blazing ruins of a forgotten, decaying mansion. Perivale, 1883.
In the sleepy village of Greenford Parva, Gabriel Chase is by far the most
imposing edifice.
The villagers shun the grim house, but the owner, the reclusive and
controversial naturalist Josiah Samuel Smith, receives occasional visitors. The
Reverend Ernest Matthews, for instance, Dean of Mortarhouse College, has
travelled from Oxford to refute Smith's blasphemous theories of evolution. And
in a deserted room upstairs, the Doctor and Ace venture from the TARDIS to
explore the decaying mansion...
Who - or what - is Josiah Smith? What terrible secret does his house conceal?
And why does Ace find everything so frighteningly familiar?
Ian Hogg, who played Josiah Smith in the original "Doctor Who" TV serial, reads
Marc Platt's complete and unabridged novelisation, first published by Target.
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- Rat Trap
Big Finish Productions
5th Doctor
RRP: £14.99
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Released:
30th June 2011
1983: as the country goes to the polls, two ‘Urban Explorers’, together
with a freelance journalist, break into the long-defunct Cadogan Tunnels, once a
secret wartime facility… and later, so rumour has it, the site of an
experimental laboratory with a nasty sideline in vivisection.
What they find, in its twisting underground corridors, is something the most
cynical conspiracy theorist could never have imagined: a highly-evolved society
of questing, intelligent creatures, living right under humanity’s nose for
decades.
But there’s no way out of the tunnels – as the Doctor, Nyssa, Tegan and Turlough
are about to discover when the TARDIS brings them, too, into the complex. It’s a
rat trap – and they’ve all been caught!
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5.12
- The Companion Chronicles - Cold Equations
Big Finish Productions
Steven Taylor
RRP: £8.99
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Released:
30th June 2011
In the remnant of a shattered satellite, far above the ruined planet Earth,
Steven Taylor and Oliver Harper are dying. As time runs out, they face their
pasts… and a secret long kept is revealed.
The borrowed time is elapsing, and they realize they are facing an enemy that
cannot be defeated. The cold, hard facts of science.
This adventure takes place between The Daleks' Masterplan and The Massacre.
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