Warner Brothers has announced today an official release date for the next two
Doctor Who DVDs from BBC America. Those releases (as we
reported back in February) are
The Dalek Invasion of Earth (Story #10, starring William Hartnell), and
The Talons of Weng-Chiang (Story #91, starring Tom Baker).
That date is October 7, 2003 (this is an official date from Warner Brothers; some Doctor Who fan sites are reporting dates a month earlier than that, but 10/7 is correct). Each release has a list price of $34.98. No other specs or details have been released yet.
Radiation nil, oxygen normal, pressure normal, yet London is deserted, with no sign of life and no sense of normality. Exploring the decaying city sometime after 2164AD, the Doctor and his companions soon learn that it is not as empty as it seems. The Daleks - far from having been destroyed on Skaro - have conquered the world. Nearly wiped out by storm and plague, the Earth's population has been commandeered by the Daleks into huge mining operations. Some humans have suffered the further indignity of being transformed into Robomen to serve the Daleks in their diabolical plans. Humanity's only hope for survival lies with a small band of resistance fighters who need all the help they can get.
The Doctor brings Leela to Victorian London to meet her ancestors (though Agincourt might have been more her style). The TARDIS materializes in the darkest heart of the city, where life - and death - is anything but dull. A hapless cabbie is slain by agents of a secret Chinese cult. Young women are disappearing at an alarming rate, and Li H'sen Chang, the Palace Theatre's celebrated magician, may know more about that than he admits. Li H'sen's ventriloquist dummy, Mr. Sin, appears to have a life of its own, and the rat problem in the sewers is bigger than anyone can imagine.
