Fifth Doctor Box Set - Mara Tales

[Peri-Peri]

A new box set has been announced for 2011 and will feature Snakedance and Kinda. Not much has been revealed about it yet except for some of the extras.

Snakedance Bonus Features

• SNAKE CHARMER - THE MAKING OF 'SNAKEDANCE'
• DELETED SCENE
• IN STUDIO
• PHOTO GALLERY
• IN CONVERSATION CHRIS BAILEY & ROB SHEARMAN
• SATURDAY SUPERSTORE

Kinda Bonus Features

• DREAM TIME - THE MAKING OF 'KINDA'
• KINDA - PHOTO GALLERY
• PETER GRIMWADE - DIRECTING WITH ATTITUDE...
• DOCTOR WHO - KINDA - DELETED & EXTENDED SCENES
• EPISODE FOUR CGI SEQUENCE
• CGI EFFECTS COMPARISON
• TRAILS & CONTINUITY

[Nyki]

I have both of these on video, and they're good stories, apart from some effects and the rather lame excuse for giving Sarah Sutton a holiday for Kinda.  They'll go on my list.

[TheDoctorDonna]

Im a fan of both of these also. I dont have a list like Nyki, but if I did they would be on it

[Dame Roger]

Haven't seen these (at least not since they were originally broadcast and I a bit too young to remember much then) but I've heard they're pretty good so this'll be going on my shopping list.

Isn't one of these the one with Martin Clunes in a toga?

[TheDoctorDonna]

That would be Snakedance

[Nyki]

Looking very louche 

[Sandiwich11]

Reg Hollis from The Bill is in Kinda too as the guy in Tegan's weird dream.  Kinda esp freaked me out as a child, I can clearly remember sitting under the kitchen table in absolute terror in places, wishing I had a sofa to hide behind XD

[Exterminate]

I love Kinda, but off the top of my head I dont think I have seen Snakedance. I would get this for Kinda alone though

[Nyki]

I think I marginally prefer Snakedance, but they're both great.

[Vampyros Adric]

Kinda made a huge impression on me when I first watched it. I loved the fact that it felt a bit weird. The cast was truly amazing. At the time I remembered being deeply impressed with the bloke from the Dambusters and a Liver Bird being in Doctor Who and still getting overshadowed by Tegan. Snakedance, I remember a little less fondly but still loved the 'mad' side of Janet Fielding.

As always with these DVDs it is the Production Notes that I really look forward to

[Exterminate]

I always love the production notes too (assuming you mean the subtitle type thingies)

[Vampyros Adric]

I always love the production notes too (assuming you mean the subtitle type thingies)

Thats the fellas the little information subtitles that tell you about the actors and the little script changes and the viewing figures. They stir my inner geek

[The Doc]

I absolutely love the production notes and I drive everyone who watched with me potty because I insist on having them on even if I have already read them. I prefer the ones from the very beginning because the newer stuff is more well known, but its still all great and the facts on there that you can pick up are brilliant

[Peri-Peri]

There is a cover for this now. I'm on my phone at the moment but I'll upload it later

[The Doc]

This has been given a release date of March 7th

[Peri-Peri]

This is the trailer for the set. I was sure I uploaded it once already but I guess not

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAlBmXmnIVc&feature=player_embedded

[Peri-Peri]

This is the cover btw.

And here is an extended list of extras:

Kinda - Special Features:

• 4 x 25 mins approx colour episodes with mono audio.

• Commentary - stereo. With actors Peter Davison, Janet Fielding, Matthew Waterhouse and Nerys Hughes.

• Dream Time (dur. 34’ 05”) – cast and crew look back at the making of the story. With actors Janet Fielding, Nerys Hughes, Simon Rouse and Adrian Mills, director Peter Grimwade, writer Christopher Bailey, script editors Christopher H. Bidmead, Eric Saward and Antony Root, designer Malcolm Thornton, new series writer Robert Shearman.

• Peter Grimwade - Directing with Attitude (dur. 22’ 57”) – a look at the Doctor Who career of writer and director Peter Grimwade. With Peter Grimwade, actors Janet Fielding and Nerys Hughes, writer Christopher Bailey, script editor Eric Saward, production assistant Margot Hayhoe, designer Malcolm Thornton, production secretary Jane Judge, script consultant Ian Levine, and Target Books editor Nigel Robinson. Presented by Mark Strickson.

• Deleted and Extended Scenes (dur. 14’ 36”) – a fascinating collection of deleted sequences taken from timecoded domestic videotape copies of the story’s early edits.

• Optional CGI Effects Sequence – option to view episode four with the original giant puppet snake replaced by a CGI snake.

• CGI Effects Comparison (dur. 1’ 34”) – a side by side comparison of the original puppet and new CGI snake shots.

• Trails & Continuity (dur. 4’ 13”) – BBC trails and continuity announcements from the story’s original transmission.

• Photo Gallery (dur. 4’ 42”) - production, design and publicity photos from the story.

• Isolated Music – option to watch the story with the isolated music score.

• Coming Soon (dur. 1 min approx.) - a trailer for a forthcoming DVD release.

Snakedance - Special Features:

• 4 x 25 mins approx colour episodes with mono audio.

• Commentary - stereo. With actors Peter Davison, Janet Fielding and Sarah Sutton.

• Snake Charmer (dur. 24’ 37”) – cast and crew look back at the making of the story. With actors Peter Davison and Janet Fielding, director Fiona Cumming, writer Christopher Bailey, script editor Eric Saward, designer Jan Spoczynski, and new series writer Robert Shearman.

• Deleted Scenes (dur. 3’ 05”) – scenes from the original ending of episode four, courtesy of a timecoded recording kept by producer J ohn Nathan-Turner.

• In Studio (dur. 6’ 12”) – a rare glimpse inside the studio during recording of effects sequences for the story, including the infamous ‘farting Mara’!

• Saturday Superstore (dur. 14’ 16”) – Peter Davison guests on the Saturday morning children’s show, where he plays cricket with Mike Read and John Craven and takes questions from callers.

• Photo Gallery (dur. 5’ 21”) - production, design and publicity photos from the story.

• Isolated Music – option to watch the story with the isolated music score.

• Coming Soon (dur. 1 min approx.) - a trailer for a forthcoming DVD release.

• Radio Times Listings in Adobe PDF format

It's released in March 7th

[Peri-Peri]

Here is a picture from the updated FX on the Mara Tales stories. You can see the before and after in the pictures below and how much different its going to look.

[Aneurin]

Wow thats quite a difference. It looks good though

[Nyki]

I'm not normally a fan of updated FX, but this was a significant blight on a great story, so I'll make an exception.