Humble Bundle deal on IDW Comics

Wednesday, 14 May 2014 - Reported by Chuck Foster
Humble Bundle Inc. - an initiative to sell digital collections on a limited timescale at a price the purchasher wishes to pay - is currently running a bundle of Doctor Who comics from IDW Publishing:

Over 60 brilliant issues. The Humble Doctor Who Comic Bundle features 14 collections of graphic novel storytelling, allowing you to travel with The Doctor as he adventures through all of space and time. Name your price for Fugitive, Tesseract, and Final Sacrifice featuring the 10th Doctor, David Tennant, alongside Doctor Who: Series 2 Vols. 1-4, featuring the 11th Doctor, Matt Smith. As an added bonus, we’re throwing in the Android-based puzzle game Doctor Who: Legacy, which includes 10 pre-unlocked Doctors! Grab your sonic screwdriver and fight alongside quite a few recognizable companions as you battle Cybermen, Daleks, and more on episode-based levels!

Need even more wibbly wobbly, timey wimey...stuff? Beat the average and you will receive four more volumes! From Series 3, this collection includes The Hypothetical Gentleman, The Eye of Ashaya, Sky Jacks!, and Dead Man’s Hand, giving you even more of the fishstick and custard eating 11th Doctor.

This bundle is definitely bigger on the inside. Pay $15 or more and you’ll also receive the 3 volume series The Prisoners of Time. Released in 2013 to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Doctor Who, this 12-issue story features all 11 past Doctors, from William Hartnell to Matt Smith, and culminates in a multi-doctor issue! Wrapping up the bundle (much like a bowtie): the 50th anniversary celebration issue and 2014 Hugo Award-nominee, The Girl Who Loved Doctor Who - a meta-story in which the 11th Doctor travels to the present day to discover an actor, Matt Smith, playing him in a TV show!

Fugitive (Series 1 Vol 1) (Credit: IDW) The Ripper (Series 2 Vol 1) (Credit: IDW) Hypothetical Gentleman (Series 3 Vol 1) (Credit: IDW) Prisoners of Time (Vol 1) (Credit: IDW) The Girl Who Loved Doctor Who (Credit: IDW)

Pay what you want. Purchased separately, these comic books would cost more than $70, but we’re letting you set the price.

DRM-free. Compatible with computers and mobile devices. These comics are available in multiple formats including MOBI, PDF, PDF (HD) and EPUB, so they work on your computer, eBook readers, and a wide array of mobile devices! Instructions and a list of recommended reading programs can be found here.

Support charity. You can choose exactly how you want your purchase to be divided: to Doctors Without Borders or The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. You may also thank IDW Publishing or even us with a few coins in the tip jar.

The offer is available until the 28th May; full details are available from their website.




FILTER: - Comics - Online - Special Offers

Big Finish: Doctor Who adventures range sale

Monday, 6 January 2014 - Reported by Chuck Foster
To finish off their 2012/13 festive offers, Big Finish are offering adventures 51 to 75 of their regular Doctor Who range at a special price until the 13th January for both CD and download.



For full details and to order any of the adventures, visit the Big Finish website.




FILTER: - Special Offers - Big Finish

The Ninth Day of Big Finish-mas

Thursday, 2 January 2014 - Reported by Chuck Foster
The Nicholas Courtney Memoirs - A Soldier in Time (Credit: Big Finish)The ninth day in Big Finish's special offers for Christmas is for The Nicholas Courtney Memoirs, which is available to purchase for download at a special price for the next couple of days only.

Nicholas Courtney, aka Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart, looks back over his time working with multiple Doctors on many eras of Doctor Who.

The offers continue tomorrow with a puzzling case for the first Doctor ...




FILTER: - Special Offers - Big Finish

12 Days of Big Finish-mas

Thursday, 26 December 2013 - Reported by Chuck Foster
Big Finish are running a number of special offers over the twelve days of Christmas as part of the festive celebrations, selected from a many of their range of series.

Today's offering is the The Butcher of Brisbane, a Fifth Doctor tale that acts as a "prequel" to The Talons of Weng-Chiang, and is available to download from the Big Finish website at a special price for the next couple of days.

The Butcher of Brisbane (Credit: Big Finish)The Butcher of Brisbane
Starring Peter Davison as The Doctor, Janet Fielding as Tegan, Mark Strickson as Turlough, Sarah Sutton as Nyssa, and Angus Wright as Magnus Greel

Adopting the alias of Weng-Chiang, the 51st century war criminal Magnus Greel will one day arrive in Victorian London by Time Cabinet – only to meet his doom, his plans undone by the Time Lord known as the Doctor.

The Doctor never believed he'd meet Greel again. But when a TARDIS trip to companion Tegan's home town goes wrong, the Doctor ends up in the younger Greel's heyday – in a world on the brink of all-out war.

With the Doctor at the mercy of Greel's alien associate Findecker and his army of mutations, Tegan is about to learn just why they called Greel 'The Butcher of Brisbane'...





FILTER: - Audio - Special Offers - Fifth Doctor - Big Finish

Big Finish: special one-day 10% sale

Wednesday, 1 May 2013 - Reported by Chuck Foster
Big Finish have announced a special 10% discount across all of their ranges for one day only:

Doctor Who, Blake's 7, Stargate, Dark Shadows, Sherlock Holmes, Highlander, Vienna, Bernice Summerfield, The Confessions of Dorian Gray, Drama Showcase, Graceless, Sapphire & Steel, 2000AD - everything! And that includes all subscriptions and bundle offers too! Please note that this is the only time all subscriptions will be discounted!

Simply choose your items, head to the checkout, type in discount code mayday and your order will be reduced by 10%. Don't miss this amazing offer - today only (1st May), midnight to midnight UK time.




FILTER: - Special Offers - Big Finish

The Ice Warriors: DVD details announced / Big Finish weekend offer

Friday, 12 April 2013 - Reported by Chuck Foster
BBC Worldwide have announced details for the forthcoming release of The Ice Warriors on DVD. The two-disc set has been provisionally scheduled for release on 26th August 2013 for R2 and 28th August for R4 (a R1 date has yet to be confirmed).

The Ice Warriors
Release date: 26 Aug 2013 UK

The Ice Warriors - Cover (R2) (Credit: BBC Worldwide)Starring Patrick Troughton as Doctor Who, Frazer Hines as Jamie, and Deborah Watling as Victoria
Written by Brian Hayles
Directed by Derek Martinus

Broadcast: Sat 11 Nov - Sat 16 Dec 1967

In the distant future, Earth faces a new Ice Age. While a dedicated team of scientists battle to hold the approaching glaciers at bay, a startling discovery is made deep within the ice… an alien warrior, frozen for millennia. When the Doctor, Jamie and Victoria arrive they soon discover Earth is under threat from the Ice Warriors – fearsome Martians intent on conquering our planet for themselves…
 
 

Special Features: Disc One
Special Features: Disc One
  • Cold Fusion (dur. 24’31”) – Cast and crew look back at the making of the story. With actors Frazer Hines, Deborah Watling and Sonny Caldinez, designer Jeremy Davies, and James Bresslaw (son of the late actor Bernard Bresslaw)
  • Beneath the Ice (dur. 10’31”) - A look behind the scenes of the animated Ice Warrior episodes. Producers Chris Chapman and Niel Bushnell, together with animation director Chris Chatterton from Qurios lift the lid on the process used to bring Varga and his Warriors back to life
  • VHS Links (dur. 19’19”) – the introduction to the story and linking material covering the two missing episodes, as used on the VHS release of the story in 1998. Includes the BBC Video “Adjust your tracking control” caption for a true sense of nostalgia!
  • Blue Peter Design-a-Monster (dur. 10’04”) – the competition launch and subsequent winners of the 1967 Design-a-Monster competition, which ran during the transmission of The Ice Warriors
  • Doctor Who Stories – Frazer Hines part two (dur. 13’ 48”) - the second part of this interview with Frazer Hines shot in 2004 for The Story of Doctor Who looks at his later appearances in the series
  • Photo Gallery (dur. 3’53”) - production, design and publicity photos from the story
  • Coming Soon (dur. 1 min approx) - a trailer for a forthcoming DVD release
  • Radio Times Listings in Adobe PDF format
  • Programme subtitles
A number of new stills from the animated episodes have also been published, including a recent tweet by producer Chris Chapman comparing the animation with an existing telesnap:
The Ice Warriors - animation/image comparison (Credit: Chris Chapman/BBC Worldwide)

BBC Worldwide have also released a brief video excerpt to demonstrate the animation via their YouTube channel.

Big Finish: Ice Warriors special offer

Saturday has yet more Ice Warrior excitement, as the Martians return to television in Cold War. To celebrate their appearance Big Finish are running a special offer on their adventures in audio/download over the weekend:

Ice Warrior (Credit: Big Finish)The Ice Warriors are back! This weekend sees the return of everyone's favourite Martian menace to TV screens in Doctor Who's latest episode Cold War. And what better way to celebrate than to enjoy some top Ice Warrior action on CD or download audiobook, on offer until Monday morning individually or as a bundle of all ten stories!

The complete list of titles on offer are as follows:

Doctor Who: Red Dawn
Doctor Who: Frozen Time
Doctor Who: The Bride of Peladon
Doctor Who: The Judgement of Isskar
Doctor Who - The Lost Stories: Mission to Magnus
Doctor Who - The Lost Stories: Thin Ice
Doctor Who - The Companion Chronicles: The Prisoner of Peladon
Doctor Who - The Eighth Doctor Adventures: Deimos
Doctor Who - The Eighth Doctor Adventures: The Resurrection of Mars
Bernice Summerfield: Dance of the Dead

To order a bundle, just click the 'bundles' button on one of the product pages. Please note that as Bernice Summerfield: Dance of the Dead is not available for download, purchasers of the download bundle will be sent a CD of this title.




FILTER: - Second Doctor - Classic Series - Special Offers - Blu-ray/DVD - Big Finish

Big Finish: Easter offer

Friday, 29 March 2013 - Reported by Chuck Foster
This weekend sees Big Finish celebrate the return of Doctor Who with a special offer on a number of their recent releases.
They're back! This weekend as a special Easter treat, we're rolling back the prices of the Doctor Who special releases to their pre-order states!
  • Doctor Who: Love and War - an audio adaptation of the classic New Adventures novel, featuring the Seventh Doctor and Ace's first encounter with Bernice Summerfield.
  • Doctor Who: Dark Eyes - an epic adventure across many worlds and times with an Eighth Doctor wounded from recent losses, a fearless new companion and the ever-present threat of the Daleks.
  • Doctor Who - UNIT: Dominion - The Seventh Doctor and Raine trip across dimensions while another incarnation of the Doctor teams up with UNIT to fight extra-dimensional incursions. But what's really going on?
  • Doctor Who: Voyage to Venus/Voyage to the New World: The Sixth Doctor takes his old friends Jago & Litefoot sight-seeing around the cosmos, leading to an ill-fated landing which leads neatly into the new Jago & Litefoot fifth series box set.
Available since the end of last year, the Special Releases are some of our most acclaimed audios.
The offer runs until Tuesday.


There is still time to enter our Scorchies competition - see here for more details (closing date 31st March).




FILTER: - Merchandise - Audio - Special Offers - Big Finish

Big Finish: weekend offer / competition

Saturday, 23 March 2013 - Reported by Chuck Foster
Big Finish are running another of their special offer weekends, with ten titles available at a discounted price:

SPECIAL OFFER: 10 of the Best
This weekend, we're offering special deals on 10 superb Doctor Who (or Who-related) stories, as chosen by the Big Finish team! All the titles will be available for the weekend on CD and download.

The Cradle of the SnakeThe CondemnedA Death in the FamilyThe Elite
The Eternal SummerThe Girl Who Never WasThe Judgement of IsskarSon of the Dragon
Peri and the Piscon ParadoxJago & Litefoot: Series One Box Set

Featuring incident, imagination, horrors, joys and silliness, they're a collection of stories which showcase the very best of Big Finish. And you've got until Monday morning to grab them!

The complete list can be found at the Big Finish website.

Competition

The Companion Chronicles: The Scorchies (Credit: Big Finish)Thanks to Big Finish we have five copies of the latest Companion Chronicle, The Scorchies, up for grabs. To be in with the chance to win, please answer the following question:
As well as Jo Grant, Katy Manning is best known in the Big Finish range for bringing another eccentric character to life - what was that character's name?
Send you answer to this email address with the subject "Catch 22", along with your name and address. The competition is open worldwide, and the closing date is 31st March 2013.




FILTER: - Merchandise - Audio - Competitions - Special Offers - Big Finish

Big Finish: special offer on Zoe's Memory

Friday, 8 March 2013 - Reported by Chuck Foster
Big Finish are running a special offer on the "Memory" Trilogy of Companion Chronicles, which feature Wendy Padbury reprising her role as Zoe Herriot. Echoes of Grey, The Memory Cheats and The Uncertainty Principle are all available at discounted prices for this weekend only. For full details see the Big Finish website.

The Companion Chronicles: Echoes of Grey (Credit: Big Finish) The Companion Chronicles: The Memory Cheats (Credit: Big Finish) The Companion Chronicles: The Uncertainty Principle (Credit: Big Finish)




FILTER: - Merchandise - Audio - Special Offers - Big Finish

Big Finish: Eighth Doctor Adventures promotion

Sunday, 17 February 2013 - Reported by Chuck Foster
The Eighth Doctor AdventuresBig Finish are running a promotion on The Eighth Doctor Adventures, with stories from all four series starring Paul McGann available at a discount until the 2nd March.

Producer David Richardson says:
Starring Paul McGann as the Eighth Doctor and Sheridan Smith as Lucie Miller, it finds the pair thrust together by the Time Lords and, as they get to know and rely on each other, taking part in a series of wild and wonderful adventures fighting Cybermen, Ice Warriors, Zygons, Krynoids, Wirrn, the Giant Spiders, fallen Time Lord Morbius and, of course, the dreaded Daleks - at their most evil and terrifying ever!

Add to that killer robots, horrific beasts and a range of psychopathic villains, and you've got a recipe for epic, fast-paced adventures. For a taster of those adventures, we're also offering the chance to download the first half of series two tale Max Warp - guest starring Graeme Garden, James Fleet and Duncan 'from Blue' James - absolutely free as a podcast. Just pop over to the podcast page and download or stream it now!




FILTER: - Merchandise - Audio - Eighth Doctor - Special Offers - Big Finish