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Series 3 confirmed for a steelbook release in March 26 ☺
http://merchandise.thedoctorwhosite.co.uk/doctor-who-series-3-blu-ray-steelbook/

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It amuses me that the cheapo, Doctor-light episode of the season merits the entire back cover. That's the power of the Angels, I guess.
 

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Yes, I totally forgot to mention that, but that serial had an awful lot of shots of characters standing in front of what looked like really obvious photos. Which was weird, because it's not like they were elaborate backgrounds, they were shots of like phone booths or office rooms.

It was television when that meant tight budgets, so the beauty of Colour Separation Overlay was that if you could get a photographer on your payroll to spend an afternoon making a really good blowup of the scene you wanted, you'd just turned an obscenely expensive location shoot into something that you could do at the tiny Lime Grove studio with normal television cameras and lighting and a box of tricks to do the magic. No wonder the BBC went mad for it in the seventies. They were able to make programmes that would otherwise have been very costly, and nobody had to leave Shepherd's Bush or get their feet wet.

[Outside the UK, Colour Separation Overlay is also called Chroma Key.]
 
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I'm super excited for Jodie. She seems like she has the talent to do the role well, and I love the look they've given her. I'm just a bit apprehensive about everything else because Chibbers is at the helm. I know he can run a show, but his Who related track record is less than stellar to say the least.

Expecting the worst (which is "good Doctor, bad stories"), hoping for the best.
 

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apparently confirmed for release in the US on March 30. no idea about everywhere else. Its season 12, so at least two bonafide classics in Ark in Space and Genesis of the Daleks, but all of them are quite entertaining, even the slightly dull Cyberman story at the tail end (see if you can spot the voice of Monkey in that last one)
http://thedigitalbits.com/columns/my-two-cents/021418-1500
Seemingly pushed back to October to coincide with the new season. Official announcement of the release will be next week, from what I've seen online.
 

Paradox

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Totally missing the point of the tweet, but that plain black version of the logo is nice. That 'H' must be a pain to centre, though.
 

Blader

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Speaking Roger Delgado...

The Mind of Evil
Kind of a baffling story, when you lay it all out. The Master invents a machine (that turns out to be an alien in a machine, so what did he invent?) that feeds on the evil in people's minds, and he chooses a prison as its test site. But the machine doesn't just turn bad people good (it actually only does this to exactly one person), it shows people their fears until they die of fright. The Master is using this to recruit the entire prison population as his army (how?!) to abduct a chemical weapon missile to launch at a global peace conference. And he's also brainwashing one of the conference delegates' aides with that machine (remotely, somehow, even though the machine doesn't brainwash in the first place!) to assassinate other delegates, though I don't know why since the missile will just kill them all anyway.

It doesn't really make any sense, and the first few episodes are a real drag, but the last 1-2 episodes get pretty exciting as the Brigadier leads a trojan horse raid on the prison. Always cool to see the Brigadier take charge and get shit done, which leads to a funny retort from Pertwee: "For once Brigadier, do you think you could possibly arrive before the nick of time?"
 

mclem

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Just noticed - it may have been the case for a while - that the complete Sarah Jane Adventures is currently available on iPlayer. Of note for upcoming Who, might be worth taking a look at The Day Of The Clown (Episodes 3 and 4 of series 2) for a chance to see Bradley Walsh's previous appearance in the Whoniverse.
 
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A Blu-Ray boxset of season 12 (Tom Baker's first series) has been announced.
This set contains:
  • Robot (4 episodes)
  • The Ark in Space (4 episodes)
  • The Sontaran Experiment (2 episodes)
  • Genesis of the Daleks (6 episodes)
  • Revenge of the Cybermen (4 episodes)
This is also interesting because it looks like they might be giving up on having different branding for modern and classic Who as they have throughout modern Who's existence, and are sticking the new logo on everything from here on out.
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JonathanEx

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Oh that is interesting! Bit weird text layout but hey.

I wonder how much of this comes from BBC Studios merging with BBC Worldwide, so some of that thinking can be joined up again. I also wonder how long until they revert to type and the branding becomes a mess, or what things for consistency with past things get left behind, or do a new twist on the classic series logo, etc.
 

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I had a discussion with a friend so I want to ask people who had better context...

Is early Doctor Who ....educational?

Because she said she heard it in lots of places (including Adventures in time and space) and I seen lots of 1st and 2nd doctors stories and ... they don't look not even a little bit educational to me. But then again I grew up with 90's brazilian educational shows that were pretty awesome to compensate the 80's ones that were... weird
 

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I had a discussion with a friend so I want to ask people who had better context...

Is early Doctor Who ....educational?

Because she said she heard it in lots of places (including Adventures in time and space) and I seen lots of 1st and 2nd doctors stories and ... they don't look not even a little bit educational to me. But then again I grew up with 90's brazilian educational shows that were pretty awesome to compensate the 80's ones that were... weird
I think the original intention was for the show to be educational but all of that got dropped very quickly. There are moral lessons conveyed in some episodes however.
 
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The new DWM has the new logo on the cover too.
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Wonder how long it'll be before Big Finish has to start using it?

I had a discussion with a friend so I want to ask people who had better context...

Is early Doctor Who ....educational?

Because she said she heard it in lots of places (including Adventures in time and space) and I seen lots of 1st and 2nd doctors stories and ... they don't look not even a little bit educational to me. But then again I grew up with 90's brazilian educational shows that were pretty awesome to compensate the 80's ones that were... weird

The original concept was for Doctor Who to be a programme which could teach kids about history and science as much as it was an adventure show. As such, it would have episodes in the early days which were set during historical events without any alien interference. However, these episodes were never the most popular- what the kids actually wanted to see was the Daleks.

Syndey Newman, the show's original creator, had a strong policy against including bug-eyed monsters in the show- it took Verity Lambert taking a stand on behalf of the Daleks to get them on screen at all.
 

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If that first Baker season blu-ray set comes out three months before the US release, I think I'll have to import it. I don't want to wait that long. I do like the cover design. Is the "Omnibus" version of Genesis of the Daleks the same one sold to overseas markets? I wish they'd have included those for each story.
 

EvilRedEye

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£40 seems reasonable for the Baker set given that apart from Genesis I won't be double-dipping from DVD. Using the new logo will likely end up being a bad idea - this range is almost certainly going to outlast the logo.
 

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One wonders about that new DWM cover - the TARDIS image in particular. The windows have a golden glow again, which more resembles the glow we got through the windows from the Series 1-4 and Series 5 TARDIS, so I wonder if they're going to back to those earthy colors on the interior?
 

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Was struck by a sudden thought - don't know if it's me reading too much into it but The Collection as a title for the new Blu-ray range is pretty open-ended. I wonder if they've considered including new series content in this range as well. On the one hand there's no major need for new Blu-rays (although there have been some technical complaints about the S1-4 upscales) but it would be interesting to have some non-contemporary releases for the RTD era with special features looking back in retrospect as with the classic stuff.
 
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£40 seems reasonable for the Baker set given that apart from Genesis I won't be double-dipping from DVD. Using the new logo will likely end up being a bad idea - this range is almost certainly going to outlast the logo.

The DVD range outlasted the McGann-era logo by years, and no one complained.

If this is an attempt to unify the brand and the range under a single logo, I'd rather have this than the uninspired dullness of the McGann logo. That's had way too much time in the sun.

Was struck by a sudden thought - don't know if it's me reading too much into it but The Collection as a title for the new Blu-ray range is pretty open-ended. I wonder if they've considered including new series content in this range as well. On the one hand there's no major need for new Blu-rays (although there have been some technical complaints about the S1-4 upscales) but it would be interesting to have some non-contemporary releases for the RTD era with special features looking back in retrospect as with the classic stuff.
I'd kill for the Restoration Team to be set loose on modern Who, and to make the special features. The New Series releases have never stacked up to the quality of the Classic ones in that regard.
 

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The interesting thing about unleashing the restoration team on the new series, or at least the first five series of it, is that there's oodles of Doctor Who Confidential interviews that have huge unused chunks in the actual shows that are presumably archived somewhere. There's also stuff like the website podcast commentaries, some of which are absolute gold mines, that're now sort of lost (they can be dug out of the website, but not easily) so there's a lot of stuff that can be republished easily enough.
 

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Saying that, I don't think the original uncut Confidentials have ever been released on disc, although you'd be looking at doubling the disc count for that.
 

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Saying that, I don't think the original uncut Confidentials have ever been released on disc, although you'd be looking at doubling the disc count for that.

I don't really mean the actual shows, since the cut footage from the shows was mostly just music video montage rubbish - I just mean that say every time they sat down with RTD they would've shot 15 minutes of talking then only used 3 to 5 minutes of it in the episode they were talking about, and the same for all other interviewees. My point is so long as it hasn't been trashed there's a lot of lovely unused behind-the-scenes and interview footage about for that era.
 

EvilRedEye

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Oh sure, I was just thinking in terms of an ideal fantasy RTD boxset range. I feel like Confidential is somehow 'core' enough that the new series equivalent of the classic DVD range should incorporate the full Confidentials somehow.
 

JonathanEx

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Oh sure, I was just thinking in terms of an ideal fantasy RTD boxset range. I feel like Confidential is somehow 'core' enough that the new series equivalent of the classic DVD range should incorporate the full Confidentials somehow.
Music rights will probably be a good chunk of why they re-edit. And not worth saving particularly.
 

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To awkwardly segue to something more serious in the style of The One Show, Gallifrey One held an all-female panel that turned into a #MeToo moment. A summary is here and then Rachel Talalay shared her thoughts with Den of Geek here.
 

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Confidential was my favorite part of RTD's showrunner tenure tbh. My favorite was the one they did for Blink - which had absolutely nothing to do with Blink at all, and was just 40 mins of RTD, Moffat, and Tennant reminiscing about their childhood Who memories.

And now, another Pertwee review:

Day of the Daleks
For the vast majority of Doctor Who episodes (pre-Moffat episodes at least), time travel is just a vehicle for whatever story the writing is telling. Not too often is the story actually about time travel. This one is, and I think it might actually be the first Doctor Who story ever to tackle time travel as part of its plot (at least of the bunch of classic Whos I've seen so far). The Daleks are back, but they are kind of immaterial to the story, other than blowing shit up in the finale. The story itself feels plodding to me, but admittedly I am beyond tired of these future Earth rebels vs. Daleks plots, which feel like the premise for 99 percent of classic Who Dalek episodes. However, the ending has an interesting twist, even if the set up for it is delivered awfully late in the game. Also, is it me, or did they never address again how/why the Doctor and Jo ended up overlapping on their own timeline? The first episode makes a big deal about Jo and the Doctor being visited by future versions of themselves, but then that never comes up again!
 
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An exciting bit of casting just leaked out.

According to the man himself on this podcast, Alan Cumming is playing James I in Series 11.
 
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mclem

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I've only just discovered this, so it's awfully short notice, but a coalition of Doctor Who podcasters are raising money against gun violence in the US, and is releasing a full commentary on The War Games. The lineup's pretty good:

Doctor Who writers including Paul Cornell (Human Nature, Father's Day), Jamie Mathieson (Oxygen, Flatline) Andrew Smith (Full Circle) and Peter Harness (The Zygon Invasion, Kill The Moon) will be joining comic artists Rachael Stott (Doctor Who: The Thirteenth Doctor) and Simon Fraser (Doctor Who: The Eleventh Doctor) along with representatives of the popular Doctor Who podcasts Radio Free Skaro, Verity!, Reality Bomb, Coal Hill AV Club, Mutter's Spiral, Gallifrey Public Radio, TARBIS, Web of Queer, Who and Company, bloggers and fans.

...there's also a bonus episode 1 commentary with Philip Hinchcliffe, and a bonus episode 10 one with Steven Moffat.

It's a good cause anyway, and I think the commentaries sound worth it; I'll be donating.