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"The Curse of Fenric" Ref: DVDWHO711
The TARDIS materialises at a secret naval base off the coast of Northumberland toward the end of the Second World War. Dr Judson, a scientist there, has created the Ultima Machine, an early computer designed to break German codes. The base's Commander Millington plans to let a Russian commando unit led by Captain Sorin steal the Machine's core, which he has booby-trapped with deadly toxin.

Judson uses the Machine to translate some ancient runes from the crypt of the nearby St Judes church and this leads to the release of Fenric, an evil entity from the dawn of time whom the Doctor trapped seventeen centuries earlier in a Chinese flask by defeating it at chess. The flask was later stolen and buried at the church by Vikings. The base and church are attacked by Haemovores. These are humans who have been transformed into a hideous vampiric creatures by the Ancient Haemovore - the last survivor of a pollution-ravaged future Earth, who has been brought back in time by Fenric. Fenric takes over Judson's body to challenge the Doctor to a rematch at chess, and Ace unwittingly helps it to win.

Fenric, now in Sorin's body, reveals that Ace. Judson, Millington, Sorin and Wainwright, the vicar of St Judes, are all "Wolves of Fenric" - pawns in its battle against the Doctor. It now plans to release the deadly toxin but the Doctor succeeds in turning the Ancient Haemovore against it and its host body is killed by the gas. The baby daughter of a young woman whom Ace helped to escape from the Haemovores is revealed to be her future mother. Disc One: Commentary by Sylvester McCoy, Sophie Aldred and Nicholas Parsons. Music only option. Photo gallery. Nebula 90 footage. Behind the scenes with the children's show 'Take Two'. 'Modelling The Dead' - how to make a Haemovore mask. 'Claws And Effects' - production recce and visual effects tests. Clean title sequences 1987-1989 version.

Extras include:- Disc Two: Version of the film with new footage, new CGI effects and remixed soundtrack. 'Shattering The Chains' interview with author Ian Briggs. Costume design. 'Recutting The Runes' behind the scenes of this DVD

Price: £19.99



"Ghost Light" Ref: DVDWHO710
The Doctor brings Ace to Gabriel Chase, an old house that she once burnt down in her home town of Perivale. The year is 1883 and the house is presided over by Josiah Samuel Smith, who turns out to be the evolved form of an alien brought to Earth in a stone spaceship that is now in the basement. Others present include the explorer Redvers Fenn-Cooper, who has been driven mad by what he has seen there, and Nimrod, Smith's Neanderthal manservant. Smith intends to use Fenn-Cooper's unwitting help in a plot to kill Queen Victoria and restore the British Empire to its former glory. His Plans are hampered by Control, a female alien whose life-cycle is in balance with his own. Ace inadvertently causes the release of the Spaceship's true owner - a powerful alien being known as Light. Light originally came to Earth to compile a catalogue of its species but, on discovering that his catalogue has now been made obsolete by evolution, he decides to destroy all life on the planet. He disintegrates when the Doctor convinces him that evolution is irresistable and that he himself is constantly changing. Control has meanwhile evolved into a lady and Smith has reverted to an earlier, primitive form. They leave in the spaceship, along with Nimrod and Fenn-Cooper, heading for new adventures.

Extras include:- Dolby Digital 5.1 surround mix; Isolated Music; Commentary with actress Sophie Aldred, writer Marc Platt, script editor Andrew Cartmel and composer Mark Ayres; Light in Dark Places featurette - cast and crew talk about working on the story; deleted & dxtended Scenes - unused scenes package; Shooting Ghosts featurette - a unique look at the story during the studio sessions taken from a VHS recording made during the last studio block; Writer's Question Time featurette - writer Marc Platt answers question from the audience at the PanoptiCon Doctor Who convention in 1990; Photo Gallery plus two Easter Eggs and Production Notes

Price: £19.99



"Remembrance of the Daleks" Ref: DVDWHO705
London 1963. The first Doctor is forced to leave Earth, after two teachers from his granddaughter's school discover the TARDIS, disguised as a police box, sitting in a junkyard...

London 1963. The seventh Doctor returns - with new companion Ace in tow and with unfinished business.

Not for the first time, unusual events are unfolding at Coal Hill School and at Totters Lane junkyard. The Doctor discovers that his oldest foes - the Daleks - are on the trail of hidden Time Lord technology. Technology that he himself left behind on Earth all those years ago. The Daleks are planning to perfect their own time-travel capability, in order to unleash themselves across all of time and space. Can the Doctor - with help of the local military - stop the Daleks stealing the Gallifreyan secrets? Or are things much more complicated than that?

Extras include:- A commentary by Sylvester McCoy & Sophie Aldred, deleted scenes, out-takes, on screen production notes, multi-angle scenes, the original trailers and a photo gallery

Price: £19.99



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