Doctor Who The Collection Season 8 [Blu-ray]

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The Mind of Evil is an interesting thriller concerning the Master’s plot to start World War III using an alien mind parasite, whilst The Claws of Axos puts a neat spin on the show’s alien invasion format by introducing the Axons, golden aliens who come to Earth bearing a gift for humanity. A major colour drop towards the end of Episode Three was fixed by looping a short section of colour.

In comes Katy Manning as Jo Grant, a more traditional companion than the outgoing Liz Shaw, and the Brigadier’s vague roster of UNIT troops is narrowed down to Captain Mike Yates (Richard Franklin) who wasn’t in the previous year and Sergeant Benton (John Levene) who appeared as far back as The Invasion, but only as a sort of glorified extra. Almost despite this, it managed to produce three stories that are justifiably regarded as classics – but the show needed cohesion, it needed a sense of continuity from story to story and Season 8 was where that would come about. I was only 1 year old when Season 8 was broadcast, so I have no memory of this, or almost any of the Pertwee era, whatsoever. The first is an interview with Katy Manning which delves into her life in a way I would never have imagined. That aside I am very happy with this release as I am big Pertwee era fan despite McCoy having been my Doctor.PDF Written Archive - A treasure trove of previously unreleased material including production paperwork, scripts for all four episodes, Ken Trew's costume designs and Radio Times cuttings. Once again we start with the Time Lords, in the blue and silver colour scheme that would reoccur in the Pertwee era, temporarily breaking the Doctor’s exile on Earth to send him on a mission to another planet. This is pretty much Barry Letts’ statement of intent for the series, with a strong core team of characters orbiting around a fascinating story – and it works like a charm. It’s a well-meaning story with some great acting from Pertwee, Manning and Delgado, but it trundles along at such a stately pace that it’s difficult to actually love.

I’m sure they will add the other VHS years clips on the other boxsets just like their already doing with the pertwee years clips on the daemons disk and frontier in space disk. As always, there’s another of Matthew Sweet’s fantastic in-depth conversations, this time with the eternally vivacious Katy Manning; and Toby Hadoke follows up his Weekend with Waterhouse with the equally alliterative Living with Levene.As a result, these versions also appear, in SD, as bonus alternate versions ( Axos from its first release in 2005, as the 2012 SE used the same restoration technique as the Blu-Ray). Coming Soon: Shada/More Than Thirty Years in the TARDIS removed, not on season 17 but perhaps The Wilderness Years. The Direct Route: Doctor Who directors Michael Briant, Graeme Harper and Tim Combe take an epic road trip to all the filming locations from Season 8 as they discuss directing the show in the early 1970s.

I wonder where the mistake take place, cause on the promo materials there is different picture on the spine, clean and smaller. Richard Franklin was in hospital roughly the same time they made the extras so probably wouldn’t be available.

A Devils Weekend: Actors Katy Manning and John Levene take a very personal trip back to the picturesque village of Aldbourne, 50 years after they recorded the Doctor Who story The Daemons there. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. For those Coronation Street fans you will see a very young Helen Worth appear in Colony in Space before she became long suffering Gail Platt.

During the release of the season, several comics were published to tie in to the events of the season.The Claws of Axos received two DVD releases, as the first was early in the range and could be superceded with improved restoration techniques and bonuses. Well as much as part of me would like to see season 25 released after 24, simply to get the awful McCoy out of the way. It’s nice to see the Doctor and Jo out among the stars again (or for the first time in Jo’s case), but it’s just a pity that this particular planet looks like a disused clay pit. The result was a series of four stories of which three were unusually long and obviously padded and a lot of production design that varied from story to story. Matt firmly believes Jaws is the greatest film ever made and that people should be kinder to Spider-Man 3.