Info: Doctor Who fans... Preservation opportunities...

All of Classic Who 1963-1989 & 1996, the stories which still have accompanying video, will still be released in 2011-2013. No, this thread is more about the titles which have very little chance to appear onto DVD officially.

I am a Region 1 local but I’ve been importing Doctor Who from Region 2 UK obviously.

This is more about the releases such as Shada and the “Years” series of VHS. There were older torrents but those are dead and gone now. DVD covers already exist for the “Years” though. There sould be alot of others including random documentaries which have been released onto VHS.

Any future suggestions are welcome.

Perhaps maybe a new VHS to DVD transfer? I wouldn’t even use any softening filters whatsoever. It would matter if these are the original PAL.

Please peruse the following links below.

The Hartnell Years

The Troughton Years

The Pertwee Years

Daleks: The Early Years

Cybermen: The Early Years

The Tom Baker Years

The Colin Baker Years

Shada

Silver Nemesis: Extended Version (Note this extended cut won’t be released onto DVD.)

More Than 30 Years in the TARDIS

There should be more.

I'd like to see a proper edit of the TV movie that removes any half-human references.

Hell, I might give that a stab after the new DVD comes out later this year ...

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ChainsawAsh said:

I'd like to see a proper edit of the TV movie that removes any half-human references.

Hell, I might give that a stab after the new DVD comes out later this year ...

Possibly as a longer version like some of the other releases have had? Also gonna get Revisitations 1?

How about if these do get made into covers I'd like a stipulation they'd only use the Region 2 2|E DVD releases style. I've found a couple for the Years ones. No thanks for the Region 1 WB style. What about disc labels?

I'm sure Making of Silver Nemesis might be on the DVD release.

EDIT: What about preserving the entiretly of the Doctor Who Confidential episodes as originally aired?

ChainsawAsh said:

I'd like to see a proper edit of the TV movie that removes any half-human references.

Hell, I might give that a stab after the new DVD comes out later this year ...

I wish I kept my audio edit of the Master's trial (real Daleks, the Dalek control room noise and mix of Delgado and Ainley defiant to the end).

Might give it another go once I get a chance.

Bingowings said:

ChainsawAsh said:

I'd like to see a proper edit of the TV movie that removes any half-human references.

Hell, I might give that a stab after the new DVD comes out later this year ...

I wish I kept my audio edit of the Master's trial (real Daleks, the Dalek control room noise and mix of Delgado and Ainley defiant to the end).

Might give it another go once I get a chance.

Stand-alone or precluding narrative? I hope you used alot of Delgado.

Moth3r said:

I also remember reading that the DVD of the 1996 movie was a botched IVTC, with blended fields all over the place. Is this true? (I know I could always Google it, but I can't be bothered right now). If this is the case, then a Custom DVD with the film frames reconstructed (Avisynth SRestore?) would be a useful first step before attempting any edits.

Yes this is true but I have yet to find a useful combination of filters to automatically correct it, there are many blended fields but also a few dropped fields.

I think some of the problem come from it being shot as 24fps and edited after pulldown at 30fps, then all effects shots were native 30fps, so the IVTC screws them up.

I once started correcting it manually (via AviSynth) and got about 20 min done, but I got quite bored and haven't gone back to it in a while.

ChainsawAsh said:

I'd like to see a proper edit of the TV movie that removes any half-human references.

Hell, I might give that a stab after the new DVD comes out later this year ...

I hadn't heard about the new dvd ...(quick look at wikipedia and Galifrey base) ... looks like there will be more special features but a new / fixed transfer seems unlikely.

Max_Rebo said:

Moth3r said:

I also remember reading that the DVD of the 1996 movie was a botched IVTC, with blended fields all over the place. Is this true? (I know I could always Google it, but I can't be bothered right now). If this is the case, then a Custom DVD with the film frames reconstructed (Avisynth SRestore?) would be a useful first step before attempting any edits.

Yes this is true but I have yet to find a useful combination of filters to automatically correct it, there are many blended fields but also a few dropped fields.

I think some of the problem come from it being shot as 24fps and edited after pulldown at 30fps, then all effects shots were native 30fps, so the IVTC screws them up.

I once started correcting it manually (via AviSynth) and got about 20 min done, but I got quite bored and haven't gone back to it in a while.

ChainsawAsh said:

I'd like to see a proper edit of the TV movie that removes any half-human references.

Hell, I might give that a stab after the new DVD comes out later this year ...

I hadn't heard about the new dvd ...(quick look at wikipedia and Galifrey base) ... looks like there will be more special features but a new / fixed transfer seems unlikely.

It might be a new re-encoding. I have no clue for certain.

So I hope the proposed fan-edit for TVM will remain in the original PAL? Wait, it was originally mastered in NTSC? No bother, I'm more worried about the other titles on the list.

Perhaps a custom Disc 2 label art for Silver Nemesis to match up with the upcoming/soon-to-be released R2 UK one? It'd be DL for the extended one and the documentary.

The new DVD of the movie is being released in the first "Revisitations" box set, along with rereleases of The Talons of Weng-Chiang and The Caves of Androzani.

I don't know about R1 releases of the other two, but the TV movie is almost certainly going to be R2-only (all those rights issues), and it will only be available in the box set.

Moth3r said:

After further digging, it seems the TV movie was also released on DVD in Japan, presumably in its native NTSC format. Needless to say, this DVD seems impossible to find on sale anywhere, but it would be interesting to know if it is an option for video without the IVTC issues that the UK PAL release had.

I've read there's also a release of the TVM in Hong Kong. Which IVTC issues are those by the way?

Here's the links to my forum about the torrents for... (All are original format PAL DVD.) It includes custom cover art which I didn't make. Credit goes towards those who made the covers.

Cybermen: The Early Years

Daleks: The Early Years

The Pertwee Years

Have a problem with PAL? Sorry but that's how Doctor Who was filmed/shot/broadcasted in.

Sorry, no disc label art as of yet.