UK DVD schedule confirmed to September
Thursday, 7 February 2013 - Reported by Chuck Foster
BBC Worldwide have announced the Doctor Who stories that will be released on DVD in the United Kingdom up to September this year. As well as the titles known previously, the list confirms the inclusion of the colourised Third Doctor adventure The Mind of Evil, the incomplete Second Doctor tale The Ice Warriors, and also the animated 2003 story Scream of the Shalka - which starred Richard E Grant as the (very) short-lived online 'Ninth' Doctor.
The complete list of dates are as follows:
Unlike last month's release of The Reign of Terror, there has been no word on whether August's The Ice Warriors will also feature animated episodes, with only the condensed reconstruction of episodes two and three that accompanied its original VHS release in 1998 confirmed so far. No new information on features to accompany other releases in the list have been revealed since our previous updates.
As yet there has been no indication of how the final four existing episodes - The Tenth Planet(1-3) and The Underwater Menace(2) - are to be presented.
The Visitation:
In addition to above, the BBFC have now classified the features that will be presented on the second disc of The Visitation Special Edition, due in May:
The complete list of dates are as follows:
25th February: | The Ark in Space: Special Edition |
11th March: | The Aztecs: Special Edition (plus Galaxy 4 reconstruction) |
6th May: | The Visitation: Special Edition |
27th May: | Inferno: Special Edition |
3rd June: | The Mind of Evil |
24th June: | Terror of the Zygons |
15th July: | Spearhead from Space Blu-Ray |
5th August: | The Green Death: Special Edition |
26th August: | The Ice Warriors |
16th September: | Scream of the Shalka |
Unlike last month's release of The Reign of Terror, there has been no word on whether August's The Ice Warriors will also feature animated episodes, with only the condensed reconstruction of episodes two and three that accompanied its original VHS release in 1998 confirmed so far. No new information on features to accompany other releases in the list have been revealed since our previous updates.
As yet there has been no indication of how the final four existing episodes - The Tenth Planet(1-3) and The Underwater Menace(2) - are to be presented.
The Visitation:
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