[Susan Foreman]

#10: Carnival Of Monsters

Release date - July 2002



Back cover info:
"It is 1926, and the Doctor and Jo arrive on board the SS Bernice, a small cargo ship peacefully crossing the Indian Ocean.

Millions of miles away from Earth, on the planet Inter Minor, a travelling showman named Vorg and his assistant, Shirna, arrive to entertain the populous [sic]. With them is an amazing machine — an intergalactic peepshow called the Scope. As Vorg's show begins, alien worlds and strange creatures are conjured up from the Scope for the watching officials of Inter Minor..."

Special features:

• Commentary with Katy Manning (Jo Grant) and Barry Letts (Director)
• Subtitle Production Notes
• Extended and Deleted Scenes (dur. 3.53)
• Directors Amended Ending (dur. 1.18)
• Trailers: The Five Faces Of Doctor Who (dur. 4.11)
• Delaware Opening Titles (dur. 1.24)
• Behind the Scenes (dur. 1.44)
• TARDIS Cam #2 (dur. 0.47)
• Using CSO (dur. 3.09)
• Photo Gallery

Easter Eggs
1 - Special Features - Highlight 'Delaware Opening Titles' - Press 'Left' for logo - Enter for Clean Titles
2 - Special Features - Highlight 'Audio Options' - Press 'Left' for logo - Enter for Clapperboard Slide

A 2-disc Special Edition of this story was later released as part of the 'Revisitations 2' box set.



Release date March 2011



Back cover info:
"Freed from his exile on Earth, the Doctor takes Jo on a test flight in the TARDIS, landing aboard SS Bernice, a cargo ship crossing the Indian Ocean in 1926.

As events take a dangerous and unexpected twist, it seems that their fate lies in the hands of a traveling showman named Vorg and his assistant Shirna, who have just arrived on the distant planet of Inter Minor with an amazing intergalactic peepshow called the Miniscope."

Special features:
Disc 1

• Original release commentary with Katy Manning (Jo Grant) and Barry Letts (director)
• Newly recorded Commentary with Peter Halliday (Pletrac), Cheryl Hall (Shima), Jenny McCracken (Clare) and Brian Hodgson (special sound effect designer). Moderated by Toby Hadoke.
• Episode Two – Early Edit (dur. 29.4) – a longer early edit of the second episode, featuring the subsequently rejected ‘Delaware’ version of the theme music
• Behind the Scenes (dur 1.48) – on the studio floor and inside the gallery during production of the story, courtesy of a film crew from the BBC’s ‘Looking In’ documentary
• Visual Effects Models (dur. 8.41)
• Trailer: The Five Faces of Doctor Who (dur. 4.10) – a trail for the 1981’s repeat season, which saw many of Doctor Who’s classic stories (including 'Carnival of Monsters') repeated for the first time in many years.
• Director’s Amended Ending (dur. 1.18) – for the ‘Five Faces’ repeat of the story, director Barry Lett’s took the opportunity to re-edit the ending to remove a shot of a very obvious ‘bald cap’ which he had always felt spoiled the show!
• CSO Demo (dur. 3.07) – BBC training film, featuring Barry Letts demonstrating CSO for his fellow directors
• TARDIS Cam #2 (dur. 0.45) – a CGI model vignette created for the BBC’s Doctor Who website

Disc 2

• Destroy All Monsters! (dur. 23.11) – cast and crew look back at the making of the story
• On Target with Ian Marter (dur. 16.08) – actor Ian Marter played Andrews in this story before more famously playing companion Harry Sullivan in Tom Baker’s first stories. He was also a writer and novelised many previous Doctor Who adventures for the Target book range
• The A-Z of Gadgets and Gizmos (dur. 11.22) – a look at gadgets and gizmos in Doctor Who over the years
• Mary Celeste (dur. 18.01) – A trio of maritime experts - Prof. Roger Luckhurst from the University of London, Ian Murphy from the Merseyside Maritime Museum and John McAleer from the National Maritime Museum - discuss some of the mysteriously disappearing ships, including perhaps the most famous maritime mystery of all time, the strange case of the Mary Celeste
• Photo Gallery (dur. 2.56)