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DOCTOR WHO - BATTLEFIELD

BBC DVD / Region 4 / Released February 09

Featuring Sylvester McCoy, Sophie Aldred, Angela Bruce, Jean Marsh

One of the final stories from original era Who, Battlefield is an effects heavy slice of King Arthur mythology given an alternate dimensional twist.

As the 4 parter opens, the Doctor (played by Sylvester McCoy) and Ace (Sophie Aldred) land the TARDIS in the village of Carbury after locking on to a distress signal. It isn't too long before the Doctor realises that something is seriously amiss, especially when a bunch of UNIT troops get caught up in a battle with a group of knights who have arrived from another dimension. In fact so great is the trouble that the Doctor decides that Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart (played by Nicholas Courtney) needs to emerge out of his retirement. The Doctor discovers that the evil Queen Morgaine (Jean Marsh clearly relishing the role) and thinking that her evil henchmen - a demon known as The Destroyer is the one to achieve it.

This two disc set is as usual chocablock full of extras with disc two being taken up with a special edition feature length version of the serial complete with Dolby 5.1 surround sound. Other extras include an audio commentary featuring Sophie Aldred, Nicholas Courtney, Angela Bruce, writer Ben Aaronovitch and script editor Andrew Cartmel, a documentary about the making of the serial, there is also a look at the writing of the drama whilst Watertank takes a look at a near fatal accident on set that happened to Sophie Aldred. In From Kingdom to Queen Jean Marsh looks back over the three appearances she made in Who and there is also some excellent behind the scenes live studio output from the time of recording; There is also the usual radio times billings, photo galleries and production notes.

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