Kill Me Vira - its' The Ark in Space *special edition*

[SiHart]

Glimpse of the cover...

DOCTOR WHO - THE ARK IN SPACE - DVD EXTRAS
69m 48s DOCTOR WHO - THE ARK IN SPACE [Movie Version]
00:29:51:23 A NEW FRONTIER - MAKING THE ARK IN SPACE
00:07:04:00 THE ARK IN SPACE - PHOTO GALLERY
00:01:03:17 (THE ARK IN SPACE - CGI SEQUENCE A)
00:00:22:22 (THE ARK IN SPACE - CGI SEQUENCE B )
00:00:18:12 (THE ARK IN SPACE - CGI SEQUENCE C)
00:00:16:03 (THE ARK IN SPACE - CGI SEQUENCE D)
00:00:16:21 (THE ARK IN SPACE - CGI SEQUENCE E)
00:00:07:11 (THE ARK IN SPACE - CGI SEQUENCE F)
00:27:34:20 DR. FOREVER! - NOT AS SEEN ON BBC TV - LOVE AND WAR
00:07:33:05 (SCENE AROUND SIX)
00:00:34:14 (EASTER EGG)
00:01:08:23 (ROBOT 8MM LOCATION FILM)

[Anthony Williams]

Movie version? Interesting...

[SiHart]

It's a BBC repeat version from the 70s, like the Planet of the Spiders one.

[Simon R]

Is that what was released on VHS in the 80s?

[Logo Polish]

No, that was around 90 - 95 minutes.

[shada pavlova]

Love and War?

Didn't Big Finish beat them to the punch on that one?

[SiHart]

And here is a big cover

[Dirk Gently]

I like that. Simple but effective.

[Antony Cox]

Yay - my fave story getting the release it deserves at last!

[Ian Lethbridge-Stewart]

Yay - my fave story getting the release it deserves at last!

I really like this story too.

However, I wish they wouldn't keep re-releasing stories that are already out there. I'm not made of money and wouldn't normally want to buy a story more than once. Of course now that the new release is no doubt going to be much better than the initial one I will feel as though I'm missing out if I don't buy it.

I guess they hadn't thought of doing these movie version special releases in the early days - I wish they had!

Don't get me wrong the DVD itself looks great; if I hadn't already got a DVD copy of the story on my shelf I would be very excited about this. Instead I've got the dillema of whether to buy it again (and perhaps try and sell the original one) or do I just keep the one I have?

Oh well, I guess we will all have to buy the entire set again in a few years when they come out in holographic format or something!

[Dirk Gently]

I can't recall off the top of my head but did Fenric come out before the original Ark in Space DVD?

Because the Fenric DVD has both episodic & movie versions on, and it works rather well as a movie, IMO.

[Logo Polish]

I can't recall off the top of my head but did Fenric come out before the original Ark in Space DVD?

After. Ark was in 2002 and Fenric in 2003.

[Larry]

looking forward to this one along with Robots of Death, Ark in Space was the only other revisted dvd I wanted.

[Simon R]

I can't wait for this. Feels like one we haven't watched in years.

[Stephen Morgan]

I've pre-ordered this from Play.com who gave a release date of 18th Feb. Just got an e-mail to say it's been put back a week to the 25th. Amazon however say it's not coming till 8th April. Has something else been shoehorned in I wonder?

[Rob McCow]

00:07:33:05 (SCENE AROUND SIX)

For something with such an innocuous title, this extra was an absolute gem. There's around 10 minutes of footage of Tom Baker visiting Belfast, greeting children, going to schools and donning the mayor with his famous scarf and hat. There's no narration, but the film quality is superb and the delight on Tom's face as the crowds greet him is simply wonderful.

The 'Love and War' feature on the wilderness years books was brilliant as well, with pundits as happy to praise the New Adventures as they were to bury them. Gary Russell, RTD, Paul Cornell and others give some nice insights into both the BBC Books and the NAs range. And Spiral Scratch warrants a mention too! Oh and Mark Gatiss needs to do a talking book version of Nightshade.

[Richard Brinck-Johnsen]

I really liked the Love and War feature but felt they could've spent a little longer on the BBC books range considering they ran for 9 years as opposed to Virgin's 7 years.