The War Machines DVD (25th August)

[Perry Vale]

What no PS thread on The War Machines? Don't we love a bit of black & white?

Extras now cleared at the BBFC....

00:04:11:00 PHOTO GALLERY
00:16:13:17 BLUE PETER - 11.10.65
BLUE PETER 20.6.66
BLUE PETER 27.6.66 (CLIPS FROM BLUE PETER)
00:07:35:22 (ONE FOOT IN THE PAST) (FEATURETTE)
00:06:38:21 THE WAR MACHINES - NOW & THEN (FEATURETTE)
00:09:13:04 WOTAN ASSEMBLY (FEATURETTE)
00:01:01:24 (EASTER EGG) (DELETED SCENE - NO AUDIO)

And interestingly, Biggers has this to say about the "missing" segments of it....

The episodes now run to their full original broadcast running time.

Richard

[SiHart]

Have they found the footage? Surely Biggers wouldn't keep something like that from us... oh.

It's probably as packed as you'd expect really. I'm looking forward to seeing it look all restored and extra groovy! I dig the fab extras, etc

Si xx

[Si Hunt]

What's the silent deleted scene then?

Si.

[SiHart]

It's the stuff at the end of the video I'd imagine with the outtake.

Si xx

[Dirk Gently]

I'm quite looking forward to this. I was going to watch it again soon. But once again I'll wait for the DVD otherwise I won't watch the DVD if I've seen the story too recently.

[Pip Madeley]

Have they found the footage? Surely Biggers wouldn't keep something like that from us... oh.

Is this the surprise he was on about then?

[Dirk Gently]

Very possibly. He'll only say after it's out no doubt, or after the R.T are cleared to talk about it.

[Antony Cox]

Is this the surprise he was on about then?

If that's the case then TBH it's not really 'all that' is it? The way he was hyping it I assumed it was something a bit more interesting...

[Pip Madeley]

Well it's fairly interesting - one minute's worth of recovered footage from a 60s story is worth a

[Dirk Gently]

Well yeah, but I'd rather it had been from a missing episode.

[Antony Cox]

I agree with you both!

[Si Hunt]

Be interesting to know where he got it from. Maybe there was other stuff with it?

Or perhaps they've CGI'd the missing minute or something. He only says the length is the same as originally.

Si.

[SiHart]

Perhaps they're just going to fade the screen to black and have the audio!

Si xx

[Perry Vale]

Is this the surprise he was on about then?

I don't think so, didn't Steve Roberts state that it was not episode material that was "found".

[Antony Cox]

That's what I thought - I assumed it was some more cine film or summink.....

[Phillip Culley]

Is this the surprise he was on about then?

He's said on Roobarbs it wasn't.

And where did the hyping up came from? He made the original comment about finding something as an aside on another forum (IIRC someone else was talking about new footage never turning up, and he said how he had located something interesting recently), which some OG spod picked up and announced to the world, blowing it out of proportion!

[Si Hunt]

Do you we know which story this surprise is from? I'll be dissapointed if it isn't a complete episode of "Marco Polo". In fact I'll be dissapointed if it isn't Episode 1.

Si.

[Phillip Culley]

Unfortunately I have just as little idea as anyone else, however I would be tempted to say it's some 8mm location footage; possibly that of The War Games

[Perry Vale]

That'd be my guess too.

[Dirk Gently]

There's a chance it could be in colour then.

[Rob McCow]

The episodes now run to their full original broadcast running time.

Richard

Perhaps they're running the episodes 1.5% slower?

[Andrew Curnow]

Perhaps the authoring house have ballsed up and put some scenes in twice...

[Jon Masters]

Perhaps we're getting the scene cut from original transmission by the censors, where Ben and Dodo get jiggerty in the alley at the back of the Inferno

[Pip Madeley]

Doctor Who: The War Machines (DVD) - 29th October 2008

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Commentary news too:

> Commentary with Anneke Wills and Director Michael Ferguson.
> Now & Then - featurette
> Blue Peter - A compilation of related articles from the popular children's magazine show.
> One Foot in the Past - Politician and ex-Postmaster General Tony Benn investigates the history of the Post Office Tower
> WOTAN Assembly - featurette explaining how the DVD was created from disparate sources, after the original series fell victim to overseas censorship in the sixties.
> Coming Soon Trailer
> War Machine Design Plan
> Photo Gallery

[Andrew Curnow]

Is the Tony Benn item culled from another programme, do we know, or has he filmed it especially?

I also feel the need to single out the phrase "get jiggerty" from Jon's post, as I've not heard that particular expression before. Like General Melchett, I shall now want to use that in conversation wherever possible!