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Classic Tom Baker Doctor Who comes to Bluray
Tom Baker’s first season as the Doctor is heading to Bluray. Doctor Who: The Collection – Season 12 will be released on Blu-Ray on 11th June 2018. For fans of Doctor […]
Tom Baker’s first season as the Doctor is heading to Bluray. Doctor Who: The Collection – Season 12 will be released on Blu-Ray on 11th June 2018.
For fans of Doctor Who and collectors of Classic Who seasons, the Blu-Ray has limited edition packaging with artwork by Lee Binding and has been restored and up-scaled to HD by Peter Crocker and Mark Ayres. The new release also has a wealth of new bonus content.
Russell Minton, Executive Producer at BBC Worldwide says : “We are doing our very best at BBC Worldwide to restore and bring as many Classic Who titles out on Collector’s Edition Blu-ray, and this starts with being able to confirm one of my favourites, Tom Baker’s first season. We will also endeavour to include additional archive material and exciting newly-shot features where possible.”
Season 12, Tom Baker’s first as the Doctor, features five stories over 20 episodes, including The Ark in Space and Genesis of the Daleks. The Doctor is accompanied in this season by Sarah Jane Smith (Elisabeth Sladen) and Harry Sullivan (Ian Marter) and was first broadcast between December 1974 and May 1975.
The new Blu-Ray release includes existing bonus material from the original DVDs as well as the brand new features below:
Ø TOM BAKER IN CONVERSATION
A candid new one-hour interview with the Fourth Doctor.
Ø BEHIND THE SOFA
Classic clips from Season 12, viewed by Tom Baker, Philip Hinchcliffe, Louise Jameson, Janet Fielding, Sarah Sutton and Elisabeth Sladen’s daughter, Sadie Miller
Ø NEW MAKING-OF DOCUMENTARIES
For The Sontaran Experiment and Revenge Of The Cybermen
Ø IMMERSIVE 5.1 SURROUND SOUND MIXES
For The Ark In Space and Genesis Of The Daleks
Ø OPTIONAL BRAND NEW UPDATED SPECIAL EFFECTS
For Revenge Of The Cybermen
Ø GENESIS OF THE DALEKS – OMNIBUS MOVIE VERSION
Unseen since broadcast in 1975
Ø THE TOM BAKER YEARS
The 1991 VHS release, on disc for the first time
Ø PRODUCTION ARCHIVE MATERIAL
PDF files from the BBC Archives
You can pre-order the Bluray from Amazon.co.uk here
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If they can remaster Dr Who from 1974 for a Blu Ray release. Why cant they do the same for Blakes 7, which aired in 1978 to 1981? I would really like a decent blu ray of Blakes 7. Of course, I will be buying the Tom Baker 1st season Blu Ray.
Because thousands of people will buy it. As opposed to the hundreds (I suspect at most) that would buy a B7 release.
Judging by the number of comments on the recent thread about a anniversary dvd release of Blakes 7. I suspect that more than hundreds would buy a decent blu ray of Blakes 7.
And what sort of cost do you think it would be for 52 50 minute episodes, bearing in mind that this Baker set is 20 x 25 and people are moaning about the cost?
There are only 13 episodes per season of Blakes 7. They would release them a season at a time. There’s nothing new about that style of dvd/blu ray release. They are selling Doctor Who new season 10 for around the £25 mark. I have the original dvd box sets of Blakes 7, and I can tell you that they originally cost more than £25 each. I dont know why people would complain about the £40 cost of the Tom Baker Blu Ray release. It’s a lot cheaper than if you bought the individual stories separately. The market is out there for a decent copy of Blakes 7.
Doctor Who season 10 doesn’t require the sort of major restoration work that Blake’s 7 would need to get it to Bluray quality. And we’ll have to agree to differ over whether the market is out there – I’m sure there are lots of people who’d like there to be a Bluray available. Whether that ever translated into actual sales is what I don’t believe would happen. BBC Worldwide is a commercial organisation – and on this one I’m pretty sure they’d have done their research before deciding simply to rerelease the DVD box sets.