Doctor Who - The Collection - Season 8 - Limited Edition Packaging [Blu-ray] [2021]

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Including Australian interviews with Peter Davison and Janet Fielding shot during production of this season. Doctor Who Colony In Space". Roadshow Entertainment. Archived from the original on 3 December 2013 . Retrieved 28 November 2013. The season marks the first appearance of the Master who goes on to make further appearances through the season in every serial as the main antagonist who is finally captured at the end of the season. Colony in Space was the first serial set away from Earth since The War Games at the end of Season 6, and came about as a result of producer Barry Letts' feeling that the Earthbound stories of the Doctor's exile were too limiting in terms of potential plotting. This is a list of Bonus Features available on the original DVD releases but not ported over to this Blu-ray release. The Direct Route– Doctor Who directors Michael Briant, Graeme Harper and Tim Combe take an epic road trip to all the filming locations from Season 8 as they discuss directing the show in the early 1970s.

An additional promotional DVD was released in DWM 544 on 17 October 2019 as part of the magazine's 40th anniversary, though it is not part of the official 'The Collection' boxset run. Doctor Who - Story #056: The Mind of Evil". TVShowsOnDVD.com. Archived from the original on 3 December 2013 . Retrieved 29 November 2013. Roger Delgado makes his first appearance as The Master in Terror of the Autons and continues to make appearances in each of the five serials. New episodes with Sylvester McCoy, Sophie Aldred, plus companions Janet Fielding, Sarah Sutton, Anneke Wills and Jodie-Whittaker-era writers Pete McTighe & Joy Wilkinson.The Direct Route - Doctor Who directors Michael Briant, Graeme Harper and Tim Combe take an epic road trip to all the filming locations from Season 8 as they discuss directing the show in the early 1970s. Doctor Who: Claws Of Axos (DVD)". BBC Shop. Archived from the original on 20 October 2013 . Retrieved 19 October 2013. The Mind of Evil Episode One is from a hand-colourised B/W film telerecording, with the cliffhanger and remaining episodes colour-recovered using the chromadots. Several scenes from Episode Six are held on an offair NTSC VHS, which was used to create a bonus feature at the end of the original VHS release (the episodes themselves being in b/w), which has not been necessary since the advent of chromadot recovery.

Revised information text is available by Martin Wiggins ( Terror of the Autons, The Claws of Axos and The Dæmons), Stephen James Walker and Martin Wiggins ( The Mind of Evil) and David Brunt ( Colony in Space); in all cases they had written texts for the original DVDs. Disc Layout Also included on the box set is the specially shot Return of the Autons trailer to promote this box set starring Katy Manning and Stewart Bevan. Additionally there 5.1 Surround Sound is available for Terror of the Autons and The Dæmons. Over the whopping EIGHT discs there is a wealth of additional features; studio footage, treats from the archive including BBC production files, convention footage, photo galleries, scripts, costume designs and even more. Doctor Who: The Collection – Season 8 (c) Bedwyr Gullidge Overall Starring JON PERTWEE, KATY MANNING with NICHOLAS COURTNEY, ROGER DELGADO, RICHARD FRANKLIN and JOHN LEVENE Doctor Who - Story #058: Colony in Space". TVShowsOnDVD.com. Archived from the original on 3 December 2013 . Retrieved 30 November 2013. A specially shot announcement trailer has debuted on the Doctor Who YouTube channel, written by new series contributor Pete McTighe (Kerblam!) and featuring Katy Manning and Stewart Bevan in Return of the Autons

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The Direct Route – Doctor Who directors Michael Briant, Graeme Harper and Tim Combe take an epic road trip to all the filming locations from Season 8 as they discuss directing the show in the early 1970s. Doctor Who The Mind of Evil (DVD)". BBC Shop. Archived from the original on 20 October 2013 . Retrieved 19 October 2013. The original VHS releases of Terror of the Autons and The Dæmons were among the first to be colourised (along with The Silurians) by merging B/W film recordings with NTSC offair VHSs. Colony in Space was released in a collectible tin alongside The Time Monster. For more information and images see our VHS guide. The Claws of Axos Episode One and Episode Four, along with The Dæmons Episode Four were remastered from their original PAL VTs (with elements of Axos One from an original studio tape). As with the UK releases, disc replacements were made available for seasons 12 and 18, and reissues included the replacement discs.