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Welcome to the Release Guide
Archive for March 2010, 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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Code
of the Krillitanes
BBC Books / Random House
By Justin Richards
10th Doctor (Quick Reads)
RRP: £1.99 -
Amazon:
£1.99 -
Play.com: £1.99 -
The Hut: £1.99
Released:
4th March 2010
“I blame those new Brainy Crisps. Since he started eating them, he’s been too
clever by half.”
Can eating a bag of crisps really make you more clever? The company that makes
the crisps says so, and they seem to be right. But the Doctor is worried. Who
would want to make people more brainy? And why?
With just his sonic screwdriver and a supermarket trolley full of crisps, the
Doctor sets out to find the truth. The answer is scary – the Krillitanes are
back on Earth, and everyone is at risk!
Last time they took over a school. This time they have hijacked the internet.
Whatever they are up to, it’s big and it’s nasty.
Only the Doctor can stop them – if he isn’t already too late...
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Chicks
Dig Time Lords
Mad Norwegian Press
Edited By Lynne M. Thomas & Tara O'Shea
Non-Fiction
RRP: £9.55 -
Amazon: £8.39
Released: 15th March 2010
In Chicks Dig Time Lords: A
Celebration of Doctor Who by the Women Who Love It, a host of award-winning
female novelists, academics and actresses come together to celebrate the
phenomenon that is Doctor Who, discuss their rather inventive involvement with
the show’s fandom, and examine why they adore this series so much.
All told, this essay collection is designed to inform and delight male and
female readers alike, and to examine some of the more extraordinary aspects of
being a female Doctor Who enthusiast. Essay topics include Carole Barrowman
(Anything Goes) discussing what it was like to grow up with her brother John
(including the fact that he’s still afraid of shop-window dummies), longtime
columnist Jackie Jenkins providing a memoir of her work on "Doctor Who
Magazine," novelist Lloyd Rose (Camera Obscura) analyzing the changes in Rose
between the ninth and tenth Doctors, and much more.
Other contributors to this essay collection include Elizabeth Bear (the Jenny
Casey trilogy), Lisa Bowerman (star of the Bernice Summerfield audios), Mary
Robinette Kowal (Shades of Milk and Honey), Seanan McGuire (Rosemary and Rue),
Jody Lynn Nye (the Mythology series), Kate Orman (Seeing I), Catherynne M.
Valente (The Orphan's Tales), and more.
Also featured: a comic from Tammy Garrison and Katy Shuttleworth (Torchwood
Babiez), plus interviews with India Fisher (Charley in the Doctor Who audios)
and Sophie Aldred (Ace on Doctor Who, 1987-1989).
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The
Space Museum & The Chase - Box-set
BBC DVD / 2|Entertain
1st Doctor
RRP: £29.99 -
Amazon:
£17.85 -
Play.com: £17.99 -
The Hut: £17.85
Released:
1st March 2010
The Space Museum
Featuring: William Hartnell as The 1st Doctor
The TARDIS jumps a time track and the travellers arrive on the
planet Xeros. There they discover their own future selves displayed as exhibits
in a museum established as a monument to the Galactic conquests of the warlike
Morok invaders who now rule the planet. When time shifts back to normal, they
realise that they must do everything they can to try to avert this potential
future.
Special Features:
• Commentary - with actors Maureen O'Brien and William Russell, writer Glyn
Jones. Moderated by Peter Purves.
• Defending the Museum - writer Robert Shearman provides a personal and robust
defence of this somewhat forgotten story.
• My Grandfather, the Doctor - Jessica Carney talks about the career of her
grandfather, William Hartnell.
• A Holiday for the Doctor - spoof comedy recollections of sixties Doctor Who
starring Christopher Green as actress Ida Barr
• Photo Galley - production and publicity photos from the story.
• Coming Soon - a trail for a forthcoming DVD release.
• PDF Material - Radio Times listings in Adobe PDF format for viewing on PC or
Mac.
• Programme Subtitles
• Subtitle Production Notes
The Chase
Featuring: William Hartnell as The 1st Doctor
The travellers are forced to flee in the TARDIS when they learn from the
Time/Space Visualiser taken from the Moroks' museum that a group of Daleks
equipped with their own time machine are on their trail with orders to
exterminate them.
Special Features - Disc One:
• Commentary - stereo. With actors Maureen O'Brien, William Russell and Peter
Purves, director Richard Martin.
• Cusick in Cardiff - Raymond Cusick, the designer of the Daleks, visits the new
series production studios in Cardiff to be shown around the TARDIS set and meet
the newest version of his design. With Raymond Cusick, production designer
Edward Thomas and designer Peter McKinstry.
• Coming Soon - a trail for a forthcoming DVD release.
• PDF Material - Radio Times listings in Adobe PDF format for viewing on PC or
Mac.
• Programme Subtitles
• Subtitle Production Notes
Special Features - Disc Two:
• The Thrill of The Chase - director Richard Martin looks back at the making of
the story.
• Last Stop White City - School teachers Barbara Wright and Ian Chesterton were
the first people from Earth to travel with the Doctor and his granddaughter
Susan in their time and space vehicle, the TARDIS. From their first step into
the TARDIS in 'An Unearthly Child' to their departure at the end of 'The Chase',
the duo were involved in sixteen thrilling adventures that captured the
imagination of a generation. This documentary tells their story. With actors
William Russell, director Richard Martin, studio vision mixer Clive Doig and
writer Simon Guerrier.
• Daleks Conquer and Destroy - since they first appeared on our television
screens in 1963, the Daleks have been a source of enduring fascination for
followers of Doctor Who. But just what was their appeal? With producer Verity
Lambert, Dalek designer Raymond Cusick, director Richard Martin, actress Carole
Ann Ford, writer Robert Shearman, designer Matthew Savage, model unit supervisor
Mike Tucker and new series Dalek voice artiste Nicholas Briggs.
• Daleks Beyond the Screen - from the outset, the merchandising opportunities
presented by the popularity of the Daleks was quickly realised and continues
right through to the present day. With producer Verity Lambert, Dalek designer
Raymond Cusick, director Richard Martin, new series Dalek voice artiste Nicholas
Briggs, designer Matthew Savage, writer Robert Shearman, Doctor Who merchandise
collector Mick Hall, model unit supervisor Mike Tucker, Private Eye journalist
Adam MacQueen, BBC Worldwide's Kate Walsh and Dave Turbitt.
• Shawcraft - The Original Monster Makers - this documentary looks at the work
of Uxbridge-based Shawcraft Models, who during the sixties provided many of the
props and models for Doctor Who. With BBC designers Raymond Cusick, Spencer
Chapman, John Wood and Barry Newbery, and Annette Basford, the daughter of
Shawcraft owner, Bill Roberts.
• Follow that Dalek - an amateur 8mm cine film from 1967 looking around the
premises of Shawcraft Models. The film features numerous props and models from
Doctor Who, many seem for the first time in colour.
• Give-a-Show Slides - sixteen stories presented on seven slides each, as
featured in the Doctor Who Give-a-Show Slide Projector toy from the sixties.
• Photo Gallery - production and publicity photos from the story.
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Myths
And Legends - Box-set
BBC DVD / 2|Entertain
3rd & 4th Doctors
RRP: £49.99 -
Amazon:
£33.47 -
Play.com: £33.99 -
The Hut: £33.85
Released:
29th March 2010
The Time Monster
Featuring: Jon Pertwee as The 3rd Doctor
The Master, in the guise of Professor Thascales, has constructed
at the Newton Institute in Wootton a device known as TOMTIT - Transmission Of
Matter Through Interstitial Time - with which to gain control over Kronos, a
creature from outside time.
Special Features:
• Commentary – with actors John Levene and Susan Penhaligon, producer Barry
Letts, production assistant Marion McDougall, modern British television writers
Graham Duff, Phil Ford, Joe Lidster and James Moran, moderated by Toby Hadoke.
• Between Now... and Now! – Professor Jim Al Khalili looks at the science behind
‘The Time Monster’. With producer Barry Letts, actors Katy Manning and Richard
Franklin.
• Restoration Comparison – a brief ‘before and after’ comparison of the picture
restoration process
• Photo Gallery
• Coming Soon
• PDF Material - Radio Times in Adobe pdf format for viewing on PC or Mac.
• Programme Subtitles
• Subtitle Production Notes
Underworld
Featuring: Tom Baker as The 4th Doctor
The TARDIS arrives on a Minyan space craft, the R1C, commanded by a man named
Jackson. Jackson and his crew are on a long quest to recover the Minyan race
banks from a ship called the P7E which left their planet centuries ago. The
Doctor helps to free the R1C after it becomes buried in a meteorite storm, but
it then crashes into another newly-formed planet.
Special Features:
• Commentary - with actors Tom Baker and Louise Jameson, co-writer Bob Baker.
• Into the Unknown – a look at the complex production of this story, with
particular emphasis on the reasons for, and difficulties in achieving, the
bluescreen virtual studio sets. With script editor Anthony Read, writers Bob
Baker and Dave Martin, actors Jonathan Newth and Norman Tipton, designer Dick
Coles and video effects designer AJ ‘Mitch’ Mitchell, with rare convention
footage of producer Graham Williams.
• Underworld - In Studio – using timecoded Shibaden and U-matic video
recordings, we are given a rare glimpse inside the studio during the recording
of this story, much of which involved the use of bluescreen virtual studio
techniques.
• Photo Gallery
• Coming Soon
• PDF Material - Radio Times listings in Adobe pdf format for viewing on PC or
Mac.
• Programme Subtitles
• Subtitle Production Notes
The Horns of Nimon
Featuring: Tom Baker as The 4th Doctor
The inhabitants of the planet Skonnos have been promised by an alien Nimon that
he will restore their empire to greatness if they in return provide young
sacrifices and radioactive hymetusite crystals, both of which they are obtaining
from the nearby planet Aneth. With the TARDIS immobilised for repairs, the
Doctor and Romana encounter the Skonnan spaceship transporting the latest
sacrificial consignment from Aneth.
Special Features:
• Commentary - with actors Lalla Ward, Janet Ellis and Graham Crowden and writer
Anthony Read.
• Who Peter – Partners in Time – since the birth of Doctor Who in the sixties,
it has shared an almost symbiotic relationship with the long-running BBC
children’s magazine show ‘Blue Peter’. In this special documentary, some of
those involved look back over the history of that relationship.
• Read the Writer – Anthony Read, writer of ‘The Horns of Nimon’, looks back at
the production of the story.
• Peter Howell Music Demos – in 1980, incoming producer John Nathan-Turner asked
Radiophonic Workshop composers for demos of their music over the beginning of
episode two of ‘The Horns of Nimon’. Only Peter Howell’s demo is known to exist
and is presented here.
• Photo Gallery
• Coming Soon
• PDF Material - Radio Times listings and studio floor plans in Adobe pdf format
• Programme Subtitles
• Subtitle Production Notes
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Dead
Air
BBC Audio
10th Doctor
RRP: £9.99
- Amazon: £4.49
Released:
4th March 2010
'Hello, I'm the Doctor. And, if you can hear
this, then one of us is going to die'.
At the bottom of the sea, in the wreck of a floating radio station, a lost
recording has been discovered. After careful restoration, it is played for the
first time - to reveal something incredible. It is the voice of the Doctor,
broadcasting from Radio Bravo in 1966.
He has travelled to Earth in search of the Hush - a terrible weapon that kills,
silences and devours anything that makes noise - and has tracked it to a boat
crewed by a team of pirate DJs. With the help of feisty Liverpudlian Layla and
some groovy pop music, he must trap the Hush and destroy it - before it can
escape and destroy the world...
Written specially for audio by James Goss and read by David Tennant, "Dead
Air" features the Doctor as played by David Tennant in the acclaimed hit series
from BBC Television.
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Castrovalva
BBC Audio
5th Doctor
RRP: £12.99
- Amazon: £9.09
Released:
4th March 2010
Still weak and confused after his fourth
regeneration, the Doctor retreats to Castrovalva to recuperate. But Castrovalva
is not the haven of peace and tranquility the Doctor and his companions are
seeking.
Far from being able to rest quietly, the unsuspecting time-travellers are caught
up once again in the evil machinations of the Master. Only an act of supreme
self-sacrifice will enable them to escape the maniacal lunacy of the renegade
Time Lord.
Peter Davison reads Christopher H. Bidmead's complete and unabridged
novelisation, first published by Target Books in 1983.
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The
Architects of History
Big Finish Productions
7th Doctor
RRP: £14.99
- Amazon: £11.24
Released:
31st March 2010
The year is 2044. Earth is enjoying a Golden Age
of peace, prosperity and technological advancement… but somebody is plotting to
destroy all that. The Selachians, shark-like alien monsters, launch a crippling
attack on Earth’s Moonbase, using deadly weapons from the future.
Help is at hand. A police telephone box appears in a Moonbase hangar. A
time-travelling hero has returned in the hour of Earth’s greatest need. Now,
Elizabeth Klein must fight to save not only the Galactic Reich but Time itself
from the mysterious prisoner who has orchestrated these fateful events... the
Doctor.
This story takes place after Survival and the
Big Finish audio Survival of the Fittest.
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Doctor
Who: The Lost Stories - Paradise
5
Big Finish Productions
6th Doctor
RRP: £14.99
- Amazon: £12.75
Released:
31st March 2010
The Doctor and Peri visit the planet Targos
Delta to check in on old friend Professor Albrecht Thompson, only to discover
that he has vanished. He was last sighted taking a shuttle to the holiday resort
of Paradise 5, then never seen again.
The Doctor's curiosity is piqued. They must investigate, but they must do so
stealthily... Peri will go undercover on Paradise 5, while the Doctor hides in
the shadows. Because paradise holds a terrible secret beneath the white marble
and golden trimmings. The mute Cherubs have a story to tell. And the Elohim are
coming.
This story takes place after Revelation of the Daleks
and before The Trial of a Time Lord.
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Doctor
Who: The
Companion Chronicles - The Emperor of Eternity
Big Finish Productions
Victoria & Jamie
RRP: £8.99
- Amazon: £8.09
Released:
31st March 2010
After colliding with a meteor in space, the TARDIS is forced to make an
emergency landing on Earth. The place is China around 200 BC, during the reign
of the first emperor, Qin.
When the Doctor is taken away to the imperial city, it’s up to Victoria and
Jamie to save him. Their friend is now a prisoner of Qin, who intends to extract
the secret of eternal life, so that he may rule the world forever...
This story takes place between Fury from the Deep
and The Web of Fear.
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The
7th Doctor & Imperial White Dalek
Character Options / Forbidden Planet
Action Figures
RRP: £24.99
Released:
16th March 2010
** This is a Forbidden Planet Exclusive **
In this exclusive 7th Doctor Set is the 7th
Doctor action figure in the costume seen in Remembrance of the Daleks with cream
Jacket and umbrella accessory along with a white Imperial Dalek resplendent in
white and gold Imperial livery.
The 7th Doctor
Mercurial and highly moral, this Doctor would often despair at the cruelty and
wastefulness he encountered across the galaxies. On a trip to America in 1999,
he was accidentally gunned down by a street gang and taken to hospital, where
the procedures taken to try and save him did the reverse and he seemingly died,
only to regenerate within the hospital’s morgue…
Imperial White Dalek from 'Remembrance of the
Daleks'
The TARDIS arrives in London in November 1963, where the Doctor and Ace discover
that two rival factions of Daleks - one loyal to the Dalek Emperor and one to
the Dalek Supreme - are seeking the Hand of Omega, a powerful Time Lord device
that the first Doctor hid there during an earlier sojourn on Earth.
The Daleks are focusing their search around Coal Hill School – the school that
the Doctor's grand-daughter Susan attended - while a human military unit led by
Group Captain Gilmore is attempting to resist their incursions. The Imperial
Daleks eventually capture the device. The Dalek Emperor is revealed to be
Davros, now with only the last vestiges of his humanoid form remaining. The
Doctor begs him not to use the Hand but is ignored. However, this is just the
final ruse in a complex trap laid by the Doctor. The Hand of Omega utterly
destroys the Dalek home planet, Skaro, and then returns to destroy their forces
orbiting Earth.
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