A well done story with a couple interesting side notes such as a young Jeremy Bulloch a decade before his turn as an archer in The Time Warrior and as Boba Fett in Star Wars. However, with its slave traders, poisonings, assassination attempts etc, a touch of the real world cruelty of 64 AD creeps into proceedings. s Note: It must be given credit that The Abominable Snowmen did handle this by ‘recasting’ the looks of the non-white characters with new faces as opposed to those of the original actors… but even then, it is still a divisive approach for a variety of reasons. I think from episode one and three you get a good idea as to what these episodes might have looked like and although many criticise this set for not having animated episodes I do feel that the fans have made a rod for their own back in complaining about the standard of animation efforts in the past. A very Twilight Zone feel to it, with the crew trying to change their own future to prevent becoming exhibits in the titular location.

Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item. In some ways, the terrible picture quality then helped in that you couldn't see how cobbled together the sets and costumes were. Such wizardry gives us such good detail, you can often see the seams and wrinkles in some background “skies” and the like — and I relish it. Everyone who has watched any of the episodes has been impressed and no one has commented on the sound being pitched wrong, demonstrating that these discs have been pitch corrected (as I read elsewhere before I bought it).Despite the fact that these episodes were created on a shoestring budget, churned out fairly quickly and shot almost as live television, many aspects of them are just as attention grabbing and fun as they were almost 60 years ago. I’m glad that Dennis Spooner would step in and do most of the heavy lifting the next time the Daleks showed up.

The back of the J-card features a description of the season, a list of new special features and technical specifications.Panopticon Archive - DWASocial V interview panel featuring Jacqueline Hill (Barbara), Carole Ann Ford, Adrienne Hill (Katarina) and Michael Craze (Ben Jackson), recorded 6 April 1985. I have to wonder if Nation were running out of gas at this point regarding what to do with the Daleks. For season 18, the disc for Logopolis erroneously contains the rehearsal scripts for Earthshock instead of the scripts for this story.

Behind the Sofa: new episodes with companions Maureen O’Brien, Peter Purves, Carole Ann Ford, Janet Fielding (Tegan), Wendy Padbury (Zoe), Sarah Sutton (Nyssa), Bonnie Langford (Mel) and Sophie Aldred (Ace). However, this viewer is still enchanted (despite himself) by the sincere attempt to create a completely alien environment and a world, light years away from the mundane.

The Crusade has two episodes that are reimagined with stills from the story as they are missing from the archives.