Following yesterdays televised episode ("Cold War"), details about the upcoming DVD of 'The Ice Warriors' have been released:
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Disc 1
- 6x 25 mins approx monochrome episodes with mono audio.
- Commentary - Episodes 1, 4, 5, 6 with actors Frazer Hines, Deborah Watling and Sonny Caldinez, designer Jeremy Davies and grams operator Pat Heigham, moderated by Toby Hadoke.
- Commentary - Episode 2 commentary made up of original archive recordings or readings of text written by Brian Hayles, Derek Martinus, Martin Baugh, Bernard Bresslaw, Peter Barkworth, Wendy Gifford and Sylvia James.
- Commentary - Episode 3 commentary by Patrick Troughton’s son, Michael.
- Programme subtitles.
- Subtitle Production Notes.
Disc 2
- Cold Fusion (dur. 24’ 31”) – Cast and crew look back at the making of the story. With actors Frazer Hines, Deborah Watling and Sonny Caldinez, designer Jeremy Davies and James Bresslaw, son of the late actor Bernard Bresslaw.
- Beneath the Ice (dur. 10’ 31” ) - A look behind the scenes of the animated Ice Warrior episodes. Producers Chris Chapman and Niel Bushnell, together with animation director Chris Chatterton from Qurios lift the lid on the process used to bring Varga and his Warriors back to life.
- VHS Links (dur. 19’ 19” ) – the introduction to the story and linking material covering the two missing episodes, as used on the VHS release of the story in 1998. Includes the BBC Video “Adjust your tracking control” caption for a true sense of nostalgia!
- Blue Peter Design-a-Monster (dur. 10’ 04”) – the competition launch and subsequent winners of the 1967 Design-a-Monster competition, which ran during the transmission of The Ice Warriors.
- Doctor Who Stories – Frazer Hines part two (dur. 13’ 48”) - the second part of this interview with Frazer Hines shot in 2004 for The Story of Doctor Who looks at his later appearances in the series.
- Photo Gallery (dur. 3’ 53”) - production, design and publicity photos from the story.
- Coming Soon (dur. 1 min approx.) - a trailer for a forthcoming DVD release.
- Radio Times Listings in Adobe PDF format.
- Programme subtitles.
Region 2 release date - August 26th
At time of writing (and subject to change), the current table of DVD release dates (region 2) looks like this:
May 6th - 'The Visitation' - Special Edition
May 27th - 'Inferno' - Special Edition
June 3rd - 'The Mind of Evil'
July 15th - 'Spearhead from Space' - Blu-Ray
August 5th - 'The Green Death' - Special Edition
September 16th - 'Scream of the Shalka' ["
a 6-part animated serial which was produced for the 40th Anniversary of the show in 2003. The story featured Richard E. Grant as an alternative version of the ninth doctor. When the show returned in 2005, this story was no longer considered part of the BBC's canon. It was aired exclusivley on BBCi's website and later through the BBC's red button service"]
June 24th OR September 30th - 'Terror of the Zygons' [
It seems that September 30th is the more likely date. Apparently, "It will feature a 'director's cut' version of episode one with a previously unseen and newly restored 1 min 40 s opening scene featuring The Doctor, Sarah and Harry arriving in Scotland which has been colourised by Stuart Humphryes"]
Late 2013 - 'The Tenth Planet' [
the missing 4th episode is due to be animated by Big Finish and Theta Sigma]
In addition to those, it seems that the mysterious 'Regenerations' box set, due for release on June 10th will consist of 'The Tenth Planet,' 'The War Games', 'Planet of the Spiders', 'Logopolis', 'The Caves of Androzani', 'Time and the Rani', 'The TV Movie', 'Bad Wolf'/'Parting Ways' and 'The End of Time'. Apparently these will be vanilla releases (presumably explaining why 'The Tenth Planet' is being released here, but the 'official' version is not available until later in the year)