The Mutants - Un-Out on Un-DVD Un-Together!

[Si Hunt]

I like Stubbs.

Where-as I think bigger is better.

Si.

[shada pavlova]

Guess I walked into that one.

[P-Bal]

Am I imagining that it's Manning/Dicks/Hodgeson/Barry on the commentary?

I have seen this but once!

[Phillip Culley]

Also Bob Baker (I think - I can't remember which of the Bristol Boys has died...)

[SiHart]

Bob's still alive, so it'd probably be him.

Si xx

[Larry]

I've just recently read the Trget novel of The Mutants, so i'm actually pleased this is going to be releasd.

[SiHart]

From Nick Pegg's Twitter:

To answer some queries: yes, I recently moderated the DVD commentary for The Mutants. No fewer than 7 contributors. Huge fun!

Manning, Barry, Dicks, Hodgson, Baker...So there's another two to be announced! Garrick Hagon maybe? That other guy who was one of the guards perhaps?

Si xx

[SiHart]

Being released in feb 2011 accroding to DW Online.

Si xx

[brandynigma]

He died a few times when he was in "Doctor Who".

Interesting choice of Noel Clarke to make this one. It can't be because he's a minority actor, as arguably that situation doesn't exist anymore. Perhaps it's that they think by getting a black actor to make it, they can't be accused of any actual racism in the feature itself?

Si.

Martha was touted as DOCTOR WHO'S FIRST EVAR BLACK COMPANION OMG WTF BBQ. Constantly and repeatedly. It's still a thing.

Meanwhile- James Freaking Acheson! The Oscar Award winning costume designer! The man who designer the Fourth Doctor AND Spiderman!

WOO frocks!

[Logo Polish]

From Nick Pegg's Twitter:


Manning, Barry, Dicks, Hodgson, Baker...So there's another two to be announced! Garrick Hagon maybe? That other guy who was one of the guards perhaps?

Si xx

According to Nicholas Pegg, they're Katy Manning, Terrance Dicks, Bob Baker, Christopher Barry, Garrick Hagon, Jeremy Bear (set designer), and Brian Hodgson (sound designer).

[Antony Cox]

Is it wrong to think that Brian Hodgson was quite a dish when he was younger?

[SiHart]

Draft cover:



Si xx

[Si Hunt]

Is that some clever photoshop creation of Ky in the middle? I don't remember him being humanoid but with insecty eyes in the story.

I bet it's very red.

Si.

[SiHart]

I think Pertwee's head might be photoshopped too, looking at that pic.

Si xx

[Si Hunt]

Yes. That looks pretty terrible.

Why? It's not like there arn't any photos in existence of Pertwee with his head on his correct body.

Si.

[SiHart]

Perhaps there aren't that many of him in that particular version of his costume.

Si xx

[Si Hunt]

It's a funny old world. If this had come out in the early days of video, they'd have just stuck a picture of him from "The Five Doctors" or something on it. Now they remove his head to get the costume right.

Si.

[Dirk Gently]

His hands look wrong as well. May be it'll look better in colour.

[SiHart]

The Time Lords send the Doctor and Jo on a mission to deliver a sealed message pod to an unknown party aboard a Skybase orbiting the planet Solos in the 30th century.

Solos is due to gain independence from Earth's empire but its Marshal is determined to prevent this. He arranges the murder of the Earth Administrator and, with his chief scientist Jaeger, plans to transform Solo's atmosphere into one more suited to humans.

Ky, a young Solonian leader, is falsely accused of the murder and flees to the planet, taking Jo with him. The Doctor follows and joins them in an old thaesium mine. Ky turns out to be the intended recipient of the message pod, which opens automatically for him. Inside are stone tablets carved with ancient inscriptions...

Special Features:

Disc 1- Episodes

• 6 x 25 mins approx colour episodes with mono audio.

• Commentary - stereo. With actors Katy Manning and Garrick Hagon, director Christopher Barry, script editor Terrance Dicks, co-writer Bob Baker, special sounds supervisor Brian Hodgson and designer Jeremy Bear. Moderated by Nicholas Pegg.

• Coming Soon (dur. Approx 1’) - a trailer for a forthcoming DVD release.

• Programme subtitles.

• Subtitle Production Notes.

Disc 2 – DVD Extras

• Mutt Mad (dur. 20’ 43”) – cast and crew look back at the making of the story. With actor Garrick Hagon, producer Barry Letts, director Christopher Barry, co-writer Bob Baker, script editor Terrance Dicks and designer Jeremy Bear.

• Race Against Time (dur. 37’ 38”) - Noel Clarke narrates a documentary looking at the representation of black actors in Doctor Who and on British TV as a whole. With writer and critic Bidisha, writer Stephen Bourne, actor Fraser James, and Doctor Who Magazine’s assistant editor Peter Ware. Narrated by Noel Clarke.

• Dressing Doctor Who (dur. 27’ 04”) – three-times Academy Award winning costume designer James Acheson takes an affectionate look back over his earlier work on Doctor Who from his home in New Zealand. Narrated by Simon Ockendon.

• Blue Peter (dur. 1’ 35”) – Peter Purves takes a look at a collection of Doctor Who monsters prior to the opening of an exhibition of visual effects.

• Photo Gallery (dur. 2’ 56”) - production, design and publicity photos from the story.

• Radio Times Listings in Adobe PDF format.

Si xx

[Si Hunt]

It's a nice cover but enough with the dodgy photoshop jobs. That just doesn't convince! There are plenty of nice proper pictures of Pertwee about.

Si.

[Larry]

nice cover .

[Rob McCow]

Surely they could have squeezed in Jo, the Marshall, Sondegaard, the all-important black football of the Time Lords, Rick James....

[SiHart]

Si xx

[SiHart]

HMV have apparently dispatched the DVD this morning. It only seems like the other day Meglos was on the way.

Si xx

[Paul Monk]

I think Pertwee's head might be photoshopped too, looking at that pic

Maybe its a geeky homage to Worzel Gummidge.

I think I might get this one. I've been feeling like some Pertwee and this is one of the few stories that I have NEVER seen!