A double helping from the ‘Doctor Who’ archives. Never aired on television due to a strike in 1979, the uncompleted six-part adventure ‘Shada’ traces the chase to recover a powerful book, ‘The Artifacts of Gallifrey’, stolen from retired timelord Professor Chronotis (Denis Carey). Skagra (Christopher Neame) is the evil despot responsible for this foul jiggery-pokery.
Original footage from this episode was used as the Fourth Doctor's involvement in ‘The Five Doctors’, before it was reassembled, with an older and portlier Tom Baker narrating the missing gaps. Also included is the BBC-produced documentary ‘More Than Thirty Years in the Tardis’, a compilation of clips spanning the first thirty years of the Doctor, including some previously unseen footage, plus interviews with the many stars, writers, producers and designers.
Special Features
- Interactive Menus
- Other Documentary: ‘Taken Out of Time’, ‘Now and Then’, ‘Strike! Strike! Strike!’, ‘The Lambert Tapes – Part 1’, ‘Remembering Nicholas Courtney’, ‘Doctor Who Stories – Peter Purves’, ‘Being a Girl – Women in Doctor Who’, ‘Those Deadly Divas’
Note: This is an imported product that has been officially rated by the Film and Video Labelling Body of New Zealand. As this is sourced from overseas, the discs may not play on standard DVD players.