 It's been a month since we broke the news about the March 28th release in North America (Region 1) of Doctor Who - The Beginning. Since then we've been waiting for word of the extras, but distributor Warner Home Video hasn't passed along any yet. However, one of our readers and Home Theater Forum member Tony J. Case has posted at the HTF the same supplement info we're looking for! Oh, he got it from the Region 2 (European) specs, and of course you all know we don't normally relay Region 2 info here because it is so apt to change. But we tend to make exceptions just for Doctor Who, because the BBC has mandated for a while now that the releases in both regions *must* be identical (so that there are no complaints from fans on either shore that they are missing out on something that someone else got...other studios could take a lesson from that, methinks!).
As you can see if you visit the HTF post at the link above, Tony thought we were taking the holidays off here at TVShowsOnDVD, which is why he didn't send us the info straight off. How silly of him; we never sleep or rest here! So without further delay, here is Tony's info quoted exactly (and if something changes when Warner and the BBC make the official announcement of the enhanced content, we'll let you know):
Disc 1 contents
Episodes
- Pilot Episode - 25 mins, a previously untransmitted recording
- An Unearthly Child - 4 x 25 mins, produced by Verity Lambert and Directed by Waris Hussein
- Episode 1: Commentary with Verity Lambert, Carole Ann Ford, William Russell, Gary Russell
- Episode 4: Commentary with Waris Hussein, Carole Ann Ford, William Russell, Gary Russell.
Extras
- Pilot Episode Studio Recording (dur. 35' 37") - unedited recording of the entire studio session for the Pilot Episode. Commentary with Verity Lambert, Waris Hussein and Gary Russell
- Theme Music Video (dur. 2' 36") - allows the viewer to hear the original full-length theme music, with original 1963 title sequence visual elements, in three different versions
- Comedy Sketches (dur. 14' 23") - four short comedy sketches - The Pitch of Fear (dur. 3' 41"), The Corridor Sketch (dur. 6' 53"), The Web of Caves (dur. 3' 49") and 'The Kidnappers (dur. 3' 40) - mostly themed around the early years of Doctor Who.
- Photo Gallery
- Programme Subtitles
- Subtitle Production Notes
DISC 2 contents
Episode
- The Daleks - 7 x 25 minutes, produced by Verity Lambert and directed by Christopher Barry (eps 1,2,4,5) and Richard Martin (eps 3,6,7)
- Episode 2: Commentary with Christopher Barry, Verity Lambert, Gary Russell
- Episode 4: Commentary with Christopher Barry, William Russell, Carole Ann Ford, Gary Russell
- Episode 7: Commentary with Richard Martin, William Russell, Carole Ann Ford, Gary Russell
Extras
- Creation of the Daleks (dur. 17' 11") - new featurette looking at the origins of these iconic villains.
- Photo Gallery
- Programme Subtitles
- Subtitle Production Notes
DISC 3 contents
Episode
- The Edge of Destruction - 2 x 25 mins, produced by Verity Lambert and directed by Richard Martin (ep 1) and Frank Cox (ep 2)
- Episode 2: Arabic Soundtrack
Extras
- Doctor Who: Origins (dur. 53' 50") - an in-depth look at the creation of Doctor Who, including rare interviews with the programme's creator, the late Sydney Newman, and new interviews with other members of the cast and production team.
- Over the Edge (dur. 29' 22") - a new featurette exploring 'The Edge of Destruction'
- Inside the Spaceship (dur 10' 14") - members of the original cast and crew talk about the Doctor's unique time and space ship, the TARDIS.
- Masters of Sound (dur. 13' 22) - A look inside the BBC Radiophonic Workshop through interviews with the musicians and technicians who brought composer Ron Grainer's Doctor Who theme to life using electronic music
- Marco Polo (dur. 31' 24") - a condensed version of the fourth Doctor Who story, a seven-part historical adventure that is missing from the BBC's archives. It uses parts of an off-air recording of the soundtrack along with off-screen stills and production photographs to re-tell the story of the Doctor's adventure with Marco Polo and Kublai Kahn.
- Photo Gallery - includes photographs from both 'The Edge of Destruction' and 'Marco Polo'.
- PDF documents - Radio Times billings and script for 'An Unearthly Child' '
- Programme Subtitles
- Subtitle Production Notes
  
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