As we edge closer to the March 28th release date of
Doctor Who - The Beginning, fans are already getting excited about what's next for the original Time Lord series. Many of you have already heard about the overseas plans for the next two titles, and now Warner Home Video is preparing to announce them for Region 1 (North America) release as well!
June 6th will see the release of
Doctor Who - Story #078: Genesis of the Daleks and
Doctor Who - Story #143: Revelation of the Daleks. Each digitally remastered release will sell for $34.98 SRP. Here are some basics:
Doctor Who - Story #078: Genesis of the Daleks stars Tom Baker as the 4th Doctor. This 6-part storyline from 1975 comes on 2 DVDs runs over four and a half hours. The Terry Nation-written story has the Time Lords interrupting the transmat travel of The Doctor, Sarah Jane and Harry, and instruct them to go far back in the past to Skaro and stop the origins of the Daleks. Along the way they encounter both native races of the planet, the Thals and the Kaleds, as they approach the end of The Thousand Year War. They also meet a disfigured Kaled scientist named Davros! Extras include Commentary by Tom Baker and others, the "Genesis of a Classic" featurette with interviews of a large number of cast and crew, the "Dalek Tapes" featurette which covers the various appearances of the Daleks in the original
Doctor Who program, a "Blue Peter" look at the models and model sets, Photo Gallery, Subtitle Production Text Commentary, and more!
Doctor Who - Story #143: Revelation of the Daleks stars Colin Baker as the 6th Doctor. This is a 2-part story from 1985 which comes on a single DVD running just under three hours. John Nathan-Turner produced these episodes which feature The Doctor and Peri who arrive on the planet Necros, the home of a center called Tranquil Repose, where terminally ill patients go to be put in suspended animation until a cure for their illness is found. Look out, though! The "Great Healer" of Tranquil Repose turns out to be none other than Davros, who is using these patients to try to start a brand new race of Daleks! The Doctor's dilemma is that the only power in the universe which might stop Davros' evil plans are...the original Daleks?!?! Bonus material includes Commentary, a "Revelation Exhumed" featurette that takes you behind the scenes of this production, a short "In Studio" featurette that takes a look at a recording session, 3 Deleted Scenes, Replacement Effects, Photo Gallery, Subtitle Production Text Commentary, an Easter Egg, and more!
Note that there is a musical replacement on the
Revelation of the Daleks release: The
Doctor Who Restoration Team reports that "
Rights could not be obtained to use the Jimi Hendrix track, 'Fire', which plays over one of the DJ sequences...Mark (Ayres) re-dubbed this section from scratch, replacing the music with something hopefully more appropriate than what was used on the VHS, and carefully matching the original ambience and equalisation."
We'll let you know when we have large-size cover art for both of these. In the meantime, enjoy the super-small thumbnail of
Genesis of the Daleks shown above. Stay tuned!
