Doctor Who: Remembrance of the Daleks (Special Edition) (Story 152)
	Release Date: 2010-03-02
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Review by: B. Williams
Rating:
Extra Features ROCK!!!
I could summarize my feelings about this Doctor Who episode, but I'm not going to because it is the Doctor vs. the Daleks. You either like this good vs. evil or you don't. What I do like are the extras on this DVD, the awesome 40+min. feature on Davros is worth the extra money alone to have this version of Remembrance of the Daleks over the vanilla one that is $10 cheaper. But then there is more special features on top of that so why not...anyway that is why I made this purchase.

Review by: DJ PHILLY B?, Palm Bch. Gardens Fl.
Rating:
A FAQ: Why have they re-released Remembrance of the Daleks like this?
The answer is a bit complicated. <br /> <br />In 2007, 2entertain in the UK decided to release a Davros Box Set in their market. It would contain all five of the classic series stories that featured Davros. Four of them had been released before, however, with only Destiny of the Daleks being new to the DVD market. With that in mind, they decided to try and soup up the box set a bit. <br /> <br />They had been unhappy with the original UK edition of Remembrance of the Daleks. It had faults in the restoration that meant some special effects had gone missing, and one of the featurettes didn't work as intended. (Both of these problems had been repaired for the later North American edition that's been on our market since 2002.) <br />They decided one way to improve the Davros Box Set would be to make a Special Edition, with those faults fixed and some new special features added. <br /> <br />They also decided to make special arrangements with Big Finish Productions, the licensed makers of audio dramas of Doctor Who and its related characters that have been producing new stories regularly since 1999. <br />These arrangements were to include all of the titles they had made to that point that featured Davros on a DVD/Audio Disc, plus one new story with Davros exclusive to this box set. And to tie the audios and the TV stories together, they made a further featurette, Davros Connections, and gave it its own disc. <br /> <br />BBC Worldwide Americas soon announced plans to release this set in North America as well, however they soon had to retract these plans and were only able to release a single title, Destiny of the Daleks, the one we hadn't had in our market yet. The retraction occurred because the price point they wanted to sell it at, $100 for the whole set, would have undercut the UK's price point by about 50%. 2entertain were concerned that this would cause UK consumers to simply import the North American edition and not buy the UK one, and told them they had to increase the North American price to match theirs if they wanted to release it. BBC WA felt they couldn't sell it at that price and chose not to try. The UK price was inflated on this occasion due to the inclusion of the Big Finish audios, which at the time sold from Big Finish for $25 per title. It was a big discount to a consumer to buy all 8 of them as this DVD-Audio, but was still a back breaker price wise for the North American market. <br /> <br />BBC WA did try (and in fact did announce this) to release the Remembrance of the Daleks: Special Edition on its own at that time, but 2entertain prohibited that as well as it wasn't yet available on its own in the UK market. In the summer of 2009, however, it was finally released on its own there packaged along with the Davros Connections <br />featurette disc, and this March 2010 North American release is effectively the North American mirror of that UK summer 2009 release. <br /> <br />If you buy this title and become interested in the audio drams you hear clips of in the Davros Connections disc, where you can buy them in either CD form or as a direct mp3 download (for about half the price). The stories are the four part "I, Davros" miniseries (which do not feature the Doctor), and the three Doctor Who audio drama <br />stories: "Davros" starring Colin Baker, "The Juggernauts" starring Colin Baker and Bonnie Langford, and "Terror Firma" starring Paul McGann, India Fisher, and Conrad Westmaas. They all also star Terry Molloy as Davros (who also played him in the three 1980s TV stories). (The story that was exclusive to the UK Davros Box Set was called "The Davros Mission", and it is not available from Big Finish, as again, it was exclusive to the UK Davros Box Set.)

Review by: Michael Kennedy, Greensboro
Rating:
Two Stars ONLY because it is a great story
As I stated in a comment on an earlier review, since I do not pick cash off a tree in my back yard, I cannot buy sets over and over again because 'mistakes' have been corrected. If the BBC wants to refund the purchase price of the 'flawed' sets or exchange the new sets for them, that would be great. Why should fans have to 'double-dip' in our own pockets for production mistakes? <br /> <br />If you do NOT already own this release, by all means, but the 'corrected' version, because the story is excellent. I cannot condone RE=PURCHASE, however. If the BBC were really smart, they would purposely 'flaw' every set and then make double their profits by 'correcting' them every 3-4 years and re-selling them!

Review by: Black Omne, Wyoming
Rating:
Isn't this Story 152
I thought this was story 152 not 148. 148 is time and the rani.Doctor Who: Time and The Rani [VHS]

Review by: Nathan Redmond, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Rating:
A worthy upgrade
Okay, folks. Before you go writing a one star review about how "BBC Video has double-dipped again and they don't even have half the series out yet!", let me provide some backstory on the trials and tribulations that led to this release. I'm not going to discuss the actual episode (aside from the music), as I haven't seen it yet, and many others have said more interesting things about it anyway. <br /> <br />When Remembrance of the Daleks was first released on DVD in the UK, a number of mistakes were made in the restoration process that led to some video effects being eliminated (eg. a Dalek ray gun was removed from a scene where a soldier gets exterminated, although his skeleton still shows through). Corrections were made for the subsequent North American and Australian releases, but UK viewers had to put up with it for a while. In 2007, the Restoration Team decided to go back and remaster the episode from scratch, with a new set of bonus features and the missing effects reinstated. It was included in a boxset release of the five Davros serials there. As you may recall, there were originally plans to release the Davros set and a standalone version of Remembrance in North America in March 2008, but thanks to complications over the inclusion of Big Finish audio dramas in the boxset, both releases got canned. In July 2009, the Special Edition was released in the UK in a standalone version, which is now coming to North America, eight months later. <br /> <br />So now that that's out of the way, is this worth buying if you have the original? Well, considering how the UK release of the Key to Time season blew the original North American set out of the water, it can be easily assumed that the BBC has given us a worthy double-dip for this release. <br /> <br />Aside from the brand new remastering job, the special edition boasts these special features: <br /> <br />Dolby Digital 5.1 re-mix by Mark Ayres. <br /> <br />The original commentary with actors Sylvester McCoy and Sophie Aldred from 2000 is re-used. <br /> <br />Steve Broster has produced two new documentaries for this version: <br /> <br />Back to School (dur. 32' 38") - cast and crew talk about the making of the story accompanied by rare behind-the-scenes material. With actors Sylvester McCoy, Sophie Aldred, Simon Williams and Karen Gledhill, writer Ben Aaronovitch, script editor Andrew Cartmel, director Andrew Morgan and journalists Moray Laing and Paul Lang. <br /> <br />Remembrances (dur. 15' 14") - cast and crew talk about the influences and references to other Doctor Who adventures that are spread throughout the story. <br /> <br />The original Extended and Deleted Scenes package (dur. 12' 24") has been supplemented by brand-new introductions to each scene from Sylvester McCoy and Sophie Aldred. <br /> <br />Outtakes (dur. 4' 12") - bloopers and gaffs from the recording of the story. <br /> <br />Multi-Angle Sequences (dur. 1' 03" and 0' 47") - allows the viewer to watch Ace's escape from the Chemistry lab and the Daleks blowing up the large gates from one of two camera angles. Via a menu, the viewer should be allowed to choose which angle of each scene to start on, but should be free to use the 'Angle' button on their remote to change the view at will during play. This is a feature that was never implemented as intended on the 2000 release. <br /> <br />Trails and Continuity (dur. 4' 58") - BBC1 trails and continuity announcements from the story's transmission, in this extended package. <br /> <br />Photo Gallery (dur. 8' 36") - production, design and publicity photos from the story, heavily expanded and packaged into our now standard video sequence format. <br /> <br />Isolated Music - gives the viewer the option to watch the story with the clean music track. <br /> <br />Radio Times Listings in Adobe PDF format for viewing on PC or Mac. Programme subtitles. Subtitle Production Notes. <br /> <br />Also included is the documentary Davros Connections (dur. 43' 15"), which was originally exclusive to the Davros Boxset, but is now being included in this re-release. This is an in-depth look at the history of the Daleks' creator, Davros, as portrayed in both the TV stories from the BBC and in audio adventures from official licensee Big Finish. With actors Terry Molloy, David Gooderson and Peter Miles, producer / director Gary Russell, director Ken Grieve, writers Eric Saward, Ben Aaronovitch, Gary Hopkins and Joseph Lidster. Narrated by Terry Molloy. <br /> <br />Oh, and one final note: parts one and three each originally featured a song by The Beatles in scenes set in the cafe. While the UK version of this DVD includes the songs (thanks to blanket licensing agreements), they are obviously impossible to clear outside of the UK, so some replacement music has been used. It shouldn't really affect the viewing, as no actual footage has been cut. <br /> <br />For those of you still on the fence because of the double dip, consider this: the only reason Remembrance is getting re-released is because the Restoration Team screwed up the remastering process the first time around, and wanted the opportunity to go back and fix it. And whatever DVDs come out in the UK first, usually make it to North America next. Since this new DVD has improved picture and sound quality, and much more bonus features, I would definitely recommend getting this even if you have the original, on the basis of the new special features and the 5.1 sound.