Attack of the Cybermen!

[shada pavlova]

Yup, it's official. And it's not part of a boxset.

March 16th is the date to look out for.

Or not, if you prefer.

[Andrew Curnow]

That is, possibly, excellent!

I'm still hoping for a mockumentary, "Who Wrote Attack of the Cybermen?" extra, but I can't see it somehow...

[SiHart]

They can't be doing that, because then I'd be forced to admit I wrte it back in 1984, when I was 9.

Oh come on, you didn't think any adults wrote it, did you?

Si xx

[Andrew Curnow]

I assumed it was made up as they went along by pulling suggestions out of a hat. "Now, I want Lytton to play this scene as a goodie..."

[WhiteCrow]

I like Attack of the Cybermen - it's one of Colins better stories.

[Pip Madeley]

Will we get a Season 22 box set soon then?

[shada pavlova]

Probably not. The Two Doctors has already been re-released once, Revelation of the Daleks twice. To do so a third time would just be silly.

[Pip Madeley]

Silly perhaps, but if it makes money, 2|e won't give a monkeys.

[Andrew Curnow]

Season 26 would be the first for a season-al reissue I'd think.

[shada pavlova]

Silly perhaps, but if it makes money, 2|e won't give a monkeys.

If they did, I'd send them a disgruntled letter.

[Pip Madeley]

Why? You're not under any obligation to buy it.

[shada pavlova]

Does that ever stop anyone sending people disgruntled letters?

[shada pavlova]

Actually, I am under obligation.

A self-imposed obligation.

[Andrew Curnow]

I don't think you can blame 2entertain for that!

[shada pavlova]

I can try!

[Andrew Curnow]

Careful, you'll end up on the 'Absurdity' thread at this rate!

[Larry]

Season 26 would be the first for a season-al reissue I'd think.

I seem to recall in an interview in DWM, 2 entertatain, have not ruld out the possibility of rereleasing stories in a season box set once all the complete stories have been released.

[Dirk Gently]

I like Attack of the Cybermen - it's one of Colins better stories.

In my opinion it is the best story of Colin's era.

[SiHart]

Here are the extras, just as a reminder:

00:22:48:18 THE CYBER STORY (FEATURETTE)
00:01:03:17 THE CYBERNETIC AUTONOMOUS DALEK (EASTER EGG)
00:08:06:21 HUMAN CYBORG - THE CYBERNETIC EXPERIMENTS (FEATURETTE)
00:08:09:03 ATTACK OF THE CYBERMEN - PHOTO GALLERY
00:07:47:22 THE CYBER-GENERATIONS (PHOTO GALLERY)
00:03:08:22 DOCTOR WHO (TRAILS & CONTINUITY)
00:27:25:05 THE COLD WAR (FEATURETTE)

Si xx

[Si Hunt]

Is there not Saturday Superstore clips and promotional gubbins included? As a seasoner opener at the time when Doctor Who was possibly at its highest profile since the '60's, I remember there being loads of publicity at the time.

Si.

[SiHart]

Actually that's a good point. The Superstore bits and pieces were on the video, weren't they?
Maybe it's not an exhaustive list?

Si xx

[shada pavlova]

More easter eggs perhaps?

[Rob McCow]

It is coming out near Easter. ing

[Larry]

In my opinion it is the best story of Colin's era.

sadly that wouldn't be to hard...considering how poor most of his stories were

[Pip Madeley]

Steve Roberts has started writing the usual RT article for this release:

Attack of the Cybermen' was produced in studio on 1" videotape and on location on 16mm. It has always had a reputation as being a very noisy / grainy story, and in fact the recording report forms in the tape boxes include a reminder that a noise reducer must be used on transmission. Yet when we came to remaster this story for DVD, it became obvious that the whole of the video was 'sat-up' by about 15% above black level - ie there were no true blacks, just a very noisy and murky dark grey. Once the grading controls had been set to produce the correct black level, most of the picture noise simply vanished and the remainder was managed using the DVNR-1000 noise reducer as per every other story we have worked on. Jonathan Wood's grade pulled out a richness of colour previously unseen - indeed some of the London location film had to be desaturated to match the studio video as it was extremely colourful. Attention was paid to the special 'look' that the director had deliberately applied to the exterior shots on the planet Telos and the grade was sympathetic to the original, maintaining the cold blue and desaturated visuals.

Aside from these points, restoration was fairly straightforward. The episodes were graded by Jonathan, with manual picture cleanup by SVS and audio restoration by Mark Ayres.

(DVD extras to be confirmed at a later date.)