Doctor Who - More info about 'Missing Adventures' Releases

Thanks to Rich Kirkpatrick, who sent us this link to Sci-Fi-Online.co.uk, who has this to say about upcoming plans for Doctor Who DVDs - including American plans - in their exclusive story:

Surprise for Who DVD fans

The BBC has put back the planned release of the Doctor Who: Beginnings DVD box set and replaced it with something far more interesting - a collection of orphaned episodes and clips from the show's first six seasons, sci-fi-online.co.uk can exclusively reveal.

BBC America recently slated two special releases for later in the year - The Missing Adventures: The William Hartnell Years and The Missing Adventures: The Patrick Troughton Years - which suggests that the US version may arrive in two parts.

Missing from the release will be The Ice Warriors, The Invasion and The Reign of Terror, presumably as all three titles could justify a release in their own right despite them being incomplete.

The box set will therefore include two episodes of The Crusade, three episodes of The Tenth Planet, one each of The Evil of the Daleks', The Space Pirates, The Underwater Menace, The Web of Fear and The Abominable Snowmen, and two episodes each of The Wheel in Space and The Moonbase. Also included will be two episodes of The Faceless Ones, and one each of The Celestrial Toymaker and The Enemy of the World.

However, the real attraction of the release will be all three surviving parts of The Daleks' Master Plan including the recently recovered part 2.

All the material will of course be fully restored and most likely linked by newly shot documentary footage explaining why episodes were junked in the first place. A large photo archive is available as is a large number of short clips from lost adventures, principally the Australian censor footage.

Expect a lavish three disc production - just in time for the programme's return to our screens.

Fascinating plans! Stay tuned, and we'll try to find out more, and pass it on to you just as soon as possible. Our thanks to Rich for the heads-up, and to the folks at that website for all the details. Please head over there to see the illustrations that accompanied their article.