The Web of Fear Blu-Ray
Number of Discs: 2
DVD Number: BBCDVD4459
Certification: PG
Release Date: 16 Aug. 2021
In order to escape an attack in space, the TARDIS makes an unscheduled landing and ends up deep inside the London Underground. Here the travellers soon find themselves engulfed in a thrilling battle with the Great Intelligence and the Yeti, a deadly enemy set to invade the Earth. But as events take a turn for the worse, it becomes clear that the golden prize is not just the Earth, but The Doctor’s mind too…
This release includes all 5 surviving episodes, plus a brand new fully animated reconstruction of the missing third episode created from the surviving audio-only recordings.
The Web of Fear is the partly missing fifth serial of the fifth season of Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in six weekly parts from February to March 1968. Starring Patrick Troughton as the Doctor, the story concerns an abandoned London and the return of the fearsome Yeti, patrolling the London Underground. It also marks the first appearance of the popular character Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart (before his promotion to Brigadier).
The six episodes (available in black and white and the newly constructed animation in colour and black and white).
Disc 1: Episodes
Animated Episode 3 (4:3 B&W Version)
Commentaries:
Episode 1: Ralph Watson (Captain Knight), Frazer Hines (Jamie), Tina Packer (Anne Travers) moderated by Toby Hadoke
Episode 1: Deborah Watling (Victoria) and Derrick Sherwin (story editor) moderated by Gary Russell (from the Lost in Time DVD Set)
Episode 2: Roger Bunce (cameraman) and Brian Hodgson (special sound designer) moderated by Toby Hadoke
Episode 3: Adam Boys (animation director) and David Devjak (head of studio production Shapeshifter) moderated by Toby Hadoke
Episode 4: Ralph Watson, John Levene (Yeti) and Derek Martin (stuntman, soldier) moderated by Toby Hadoke
Episode 5: Frazer Hines and Tina Packer moderated by Toby Hadoke
Episode 6: Frazer Hines, Sylvia James (make-up designer) and Tim Woolgar (son of Jack Woolgar) moderated by Toby Hadoke
Region B Blu-Ray Release
Region B Blu-ray SteelBook Release
Disc 2: Bonus Features
Animated Episode 3 (16:9 Colour Version) with Commentary from Disc 1
Reconstructed Episode 3
The Missing Years
Photo Gallery
Making-of Documentary: Going Underground
Shapeshifter Animation Process
Original Trailer (Animated)
The Many Voices of Jack Woolagar
PDF Archive
Original Scripts
Radio Times Billings
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