E-Space In January

The cover and information for a new DVD next year has been released. It is the E-Space trilogy, and contains all three stories from the set, which are “Full Circle”, “Sate of Decay” and “Warriors Gate”. They all feature the fourth Doctor, played by Tom Baker, with companions Romana, K9 and Adric. The original broadcast of the episodes was from October 1980 and January 1981. Adric came in this trilogy, as he originally lived in E-Space, and Romana, along with K9, sadly left the programme, with a new life in E-Space. You can view the complete information on the special features below. The full cover can be seen here.

Disc 1 - Full Circle

• Commentary – with actor Matthew Waterhouse, writer Andrew Smith and script editor Christopher H. Bidmead.
  
• All Aboard the Starliner – cast and crew look back at the making of this story.
  
• K-9 in E-Space – a look at the robot dog's role in the E-Space arc. With actors Lalla Ward, John Leeson, script editor Christopher H Bidmead, writers Andrew Smith and Terrance Dicks.
  
• Swap Shop – Noel Edmonds chats to Matthew Waterhouse and takes calls from viewers of the Saturday morning entertainment show after Waterhouse's first appearance as Adric.
  
• E-Space – Fact or Fiction? - Could E-Space really exist? A look at the science behind the concept of Exo-Space featuring script editor Christopher H Bidmead, visual effects designer (and Fellow of the British Interplanetary Society) Mat Irvine, authors Stephen Baxter and Paul Parsons, planetary scientist Dr Andrew Ball and astronomer and television presenter Sir Patrick Moore.
  
• Continuity – BBC continuity announcements from the original transmission.
  
• Photo Gallery
  
• Isolated Score
  
• Coming Soon
  
• PDF Material
  
• Programme Subtitles
  
• Subtitle Production Notes
  

Disc 2 - State of Decay

• Commentary with actor Matthew Waterhouse, director Peter Moffatt and writer Terrance Dicks.
  
• The Vampire Lovers – cast and crew look back at the making of this story.
  
• Film Trims – mute 35mm film trims from the model effects filming for the story, featuring alternative takes of the Tower and the scout ship staking the Great Vampire.
  
• Leaves of Blood – a history of Vampires in literary fiction featuring authors Ramsey Campbell, Stephen Gallagher, Kim Newman, Pete Crowther, Simon Clark, Alison L R Davies, Chris Fowler and vampire specialist Dr Tina Rath.
  
• The Blood Show – a fascinating insight into the use and meaning of blood in society and culture.
  
• The Frayling Reading – cultural historian Sir Christopher Frayling looks at State of Decay with reference to the vampire stories of film and literature.
  
• Continuity – BBC continuity announcements from the original transmission.
  
• Photo Gallery
  
• Isolated Score
  
• Coming Soon
  
• PDF Material
  
• Programme Subtitles
  
• Subtitle Production Notes
  

Disc 3 - Warriors' Gate

• Commentary with actors Lalla Ward and John Leeson, director Paul Joyce, script editor Christopher H Bidmead and visual effects designer Mat Irvine.
  
• The Dreaming – cast and crew look back at the troubled making of this story.
  
• The Boy with the Golden Star – actor Matthew Waterhouse looks back on his time on the show.
  
• Lalla's Wardrobe – a trip through Romana's time on the show via the medium of the many costumes actress Lalla Ward wore along the way. It’s a one-off Frockumentary like you’ve never seen before.
  
• Extended and Deleted Scenes – missing scenes from an earlier edit of ep. two.
  
• Continuity – BBC1 continuity announcements from the original transmission.
  
• Photo Gallery
  
• Isolated Score
  
• Easter Egg – Mat Irvine talks about the Gundan axes and his own on-screen role in Warriors' Gate.
  
• Coming Soon
  
• PDF Material
  
• Programme Subtitles
  
• Subtitle
  
• Production Notes
  

The E-Space Trilogy will be released on 26th January 2009, at the RRP price of £34.99.
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4 New CDs Are Released

Four new audio CDs have been released today. They are two new Sarah Jane Adventures audiobooks, exclusive from the series, and The Time Warrior and The Krotons from the Classic Series. 

• The Sarah Jane CDs follow the two ones released last year, that were called 'The Thirteenth Stone' and 'The Glittering Storm'. These two new ones have the intriguing titles of 'Ghost House' and 'Time Capsule'. The stories feature the four main characters, Sarah Jane, Luke Clyde, with Rani this time, instead of Maria. You can view the covers above, along with the Classic Series covers Ghost House is written by Steven Cole, and Time Capsule, Peter Anghelides. Both stories are read by Elizabeth Sladen, who plays Sarah Jane Smith in the show. The items are on sale at the RRP price of £5.99 each.
  
• The Time Warrior is written by Terrance Dicks and read by Jeremy Bulloch. It was the first Sontaran story, and featured the Third Doctor and Sarah Jane. The Krotons is written by Robert Holmes and is a soundtrack from the story, but includes a bonus interview with Frazer Hines. It features the Second Doctor, Jamie and Zoe and their encounter with the Krotons. You can view the synopses for both CDs here! The Time Warrior costs £17.99 and The Krotons at £13.99.

Do you think you'll buy any of these CDs?

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Battlefield On DVD

The BBC have now revealed that a DVD of the 1989 story, Battlefield is set for release. The story, featuring seventh Doctor, Sylvester McCoy, was broadcast back in September 1989, and also included UNIT. You can see the full cover here of the upcoming release here, thanks to Doctor Who Online, and below you can read the synopsis for the story;

The Doctor and Ace receive a mysterious distress signal and land in the Earth village of Carbury, where a nuclear convoy has halted. The Doctor's concern is heightened when knights from another dimension begin to land in the area. Nearby is Lake Voortigen, the mythical resting-place of Excalibur, King Arthur's mystical sword...
But the lake holds a more sinister secret. A spaceship from the same alien dimension lurks under the lake - but does it really contain Arthur's corpse? And what is it that the Witch Queen, Morgaine, is really after?

The disc also has a bunch of special features, which you can see listed below;

• Watertank
  
• From Kingdom to Queen - Jean Marsh In Doctor Who
  
• Past And Future King - Writing 'Battlefield'
  
• Storm Over Avallion - Making 'Battlefield'
  
• Photo Gallery
  
• Studio Recording - 1st June 1989
  
• Trails and Continuity
  

The DVD will be released on 29th December 2008, at the RRP price of £19.99.

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The Krotons and The Time Warrior - Audios

Two new audio CDs have been set for release. You can see both covers of them above, and the two classic series stories are 'The Time Warrior' and 'The Krotons'. 

The Time Warrior is written by Terrance Dicks and read by Jeremy Bulloch. It was the first Sontaran story, and featured the Third Doctor and Sarah Jane. You can view the synopsis for it below;

Patrick Troughton stars as the Doctor in the soundtrack of this classic TV story from 1968, in which he finds the humanoid Gonds enslaved by the monstrous, crystalline Krotons. Along with his companions, Jamie and Zoe, the Doctor befriends the Gonds and enters the lair of their enemies. Can he halt the years of tyrrany and also escape with his life?

The Krotons is written by Robert Holmes and is a soundtrack from the story, but includes a bonus interview with Frazer Hines. It features the Second Doctor, Jamie and Zoe and their encounter with the Krotons. You can view the synopsis for it below;

His spaceship crippled in an inter-stellar battle, the Sontaran warrior, Linx, is forced to crash land on Earth. He arrives in the Middle Ages, a time too primitive to provide the technology he needs to repair his ship. Allaying himself with the local robber chief, Linx uses his powers to 'borrow' scientists and equipment from twentieth-century Earth. The Doctor tracks down the missing scientists and journeys into the past to save them. But can he defeat the ruthless Linx and his savage human allies before the course of human history is changed forever?

The Time Warrior will be on sale on 13th November 2008 and will cost £17.99. The Krotons should be released at about the same time, but at the RRP price of £13.99.

In other news, the seventeenth issue of Mad Doctor Who Magazine was released today and you can view the whole issue here!

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2009 DVD Releases

A few new titles have been revealed for release early next year, by the BBFC (British Board of Film Classification). There are four new titles from the first, fourth and sixth Doctor eras. Here are the new titles;

- Attack of the Cybermen
- The Twin Dilemma
- The Rescue / The Romans
- The E~Space Trilogy

The Rescue and The Romans is features the first Doctor, William Hartnell, and will be released as a double set. These stories were both shown in 1965. From the Sixth Doctor's era there is The Twin Dilemma which was Colin Baker's first, debut story, shown in 1984 and Attack of the Cybermen, first shown in 1985. The E~Space Trilogy features the fourth Doctor, Tom Baker. With these new sixth Doctor stories, that means that every story from his era has now been released.

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