The next title in the Reeltime Pictures series of DVDs will be MONSTERS! More information later, but it will feature the documentary I WAS A DOCTOR WHO MONSTER! plus FIVE associated MYTH MAKERS interviews (with monster men and women from the programme. Release date 5th March 2018.
To celebrate the release of Shada the BBC speaks with Tom Baker about his memories of the story, why he thinks the Fourth Doctor is so popular and why he has come back to the show.
Once this year’s Doctor Who Christmas special, Twice Upon A Time, is done and dusted, it’ll bring down the curtain on Peter Capaldi’s era as the much-loved Time Lord. Since his first appearance – briefly – in Day Of The Doctor, he’s recorded three series as the Doctor. And those adventures are now set to be collected together in a special Blu-ray release. It’s only been announced in the US so far, but there’s a listing now on Amazon US for a 16-disc boxset entitled…
In an incredibly busy release schedule this year, Reeltime Pictures announce that 131st MYTH MAKERS featuring the man behind (well inside) the monsters in DOCTOR WHO is out on Monday. In what will be Volume One of a two set MYTH MAKERS, JON DAVEY talks about working alongside both DAVID TENNANT and MATT SMITH. He also regails us with stories of fun and laughter as he appeared in monsters ranging from Cybermen to Hath! A monsterous story you can’t possibly miss!
Tom Baker has made a surprise appearance on camera as Doctor Who, donning his trademark stripy scarf in a newly-released episode. The 83-year-old actor has returned to complete the unfinished story Shada, filmed in Cambridge, 38 years after it was abandoned. The parts not filmed in 1979 will be completed with animation and Baker’s voice, but he has also filmed a scene. It will be his first return to the role since a brief Children in Need cameo. Baker, the…
Throughout Doctor Who history many episodes of the sci-fi series have been lost, but few have inspired fans and creators quite as much as Douglas Adams’ Shada, a Tom Baker-starring serial intended to air on the BBC in 1979-80 before strike action halfway through filming meant it was never fully completed. Since then, attempts at finally completing Shada have been plentiful, from a direct-to-video release using linking narration by Baker, a Big Finish audio play (starring Paul McGann’s Doctor instead…
We’re still over a month away from seeing upcoming Doctor Who Christmas special Twice Upon a Time on our screens, but already a few more details are trickling out about what we might expect from Peter Capaldi’s final episode – and the conflicts that arise within it. Speaking in a special Doctor Who behind-the-scenes documentary called The Finale Falls (a DVD extra on the complete Doctor Who series 10 collection based around series 10 finale The Doctor Falls), episode writer…
As announced last month, the incomplete 1979 Doctor Who story Shada is to be finally completed for fans to enjoy on digital download, DVD and bluray. We have further details to share on the DVD extras and the exclusive disc included with the limited edition bluray steelbook. The digital download will be available from Nov 24 whilst the DVD and bluray editions will be released from Dec 4, 2017. The original footage shot for Shada will be combined with…
OLIVE HAWTHORNE AND THE DAEMONS OF DEVIL’S END Written by Suzanne Barbieri, Debbie Bennett, Raven Dane, Jan Edwards, David J Howe and Sam Stone, and edited by Sam Stone. Olive Hawthorne is the sole guardian of the sleepy village of Devil’s End. She protects the world from the incursion of demons, vampires, aliens and all manner of otherworldly creatures. But she is getting old … and they keep coming … This is the story of Olive’s life. From her earliest…
Australia’s Doctor Who fans are in for a treat, because newly-completed 1979 story Shada is heading Down Under to the big screen. The adventure, penned by Hitchhiker’s Guide author Douglas Adams, has become legendary among fans in the 38 years since it was abandoned. Starring Tom Baker’s Fourth Doctor, it was intended to be the finale to the 17th series – then disaster struck: industrial action at the BBC meant filming was never completed and it had to be abandoned….