![]() Also watching are Bonnie Langford and Sophie Aldred with everyone largely positive and thoroughly enjoying the experience. Offering alternative opinions are Janet Fielding, Wendy Padbury and Sarah Sutton, who have a wonderful dynamic together. Appropriately, we have Carol Ann Ford, Maureen O’Brien and Peter Purves telling their stories and providing opinions on stories that they were not involved in. Once again there are number of Doctor Who companions watching the episodes of Season 2. However it is Verity Lambert who rightly receives the most praise as a key influencer on the season. ![]() William Hartnell remained a constant and the stories of him come to the fore. The central cast changes so much over the nine stories but things were also moving behind the scenes with Dennis Spooner joining for instance. It really is a rollercoaster and should be the first thing you watch! Another new documentary provides an overview of Season 2. I was caught off guard by how emotional I became watching and huge praise to Hadoke, Simon Guerrier and all involved. This documentary presented by the eternally fabulous Toby Hadoke tries to uncover a key contributor to the early success of Doctor Who David Whitaker. Perhaps the most emotional piece is Looking for David. Doctor Who: The Collection – Season 2 (c) Bedwyr Gullidge As usual these interviews are wonderfully broad and yet detailed. Then she’s tasked with appeasing Hartnell. Not initially keen to join the show, content with her stage roles. O’Brien‘s tale is particularly fascinating. Both are excellent and provide wonderful detail into the experiences of two companions of the early days of Doctor Who. There are two brand new In Conversation interviews with Matthew Sweet alongside William Russell and Maureen O’Brien. Given so many contributors to Season 2, be they in front of or behind the camera, are sadly no longer with us you’d be forgiven for pondering if there would be a limited amount of material. The introduction of Peter Butterworth as The Monk is a sublime bit of casting within an excellent story. Finally, with new companion Steven Taylor in tow, Season 2 finishes on a real high note with The Time Meddler. Our second Dalek story of the Season The Chase is also not particularly strong but is thoroughly entertaining. By contrast The Space Museum is only wonderful for the first episode. Written and performed largely as a play, it features some wonderful performances from Julian Glover, Jean Marsh and Bernard Kay. Similarly, I believe that The Crusade is a bit of a masterpiece. The Zarbi are wonderful and the shots of the Menoptera in flight are superb. I may be in the minority but I adore The Web Planet. Although I’m not sure how successful it is at delivering a comedy, instead it’s a little bit bonkers. The Romans is the first historical of the Season and is actually intended to be a comedy. It successfully introduces a new companion, features an impressive looking alien creature and delivers an unexpected twist. For my mind The Rescue is a near-perfect little story. ![]() Some of the imagery generated by this story is truly iconic before the departure of Susan is deeply emotional. Next up see a return for the Daleks in The Dalek Invasion Of Earth. Kicking off the season is Planet Of Giants which provides a strong idea which is well realised on screen. Season 2 has a wide variety of stories to enjoy. Although given the nature of the closeup violence, it’s no wonder the censors cut it! Maybe one day one or both of those episodes may turn up! There is however a clever reconstruction of the 12 missing seconds from the final episode of The Time Meddler. However, the telesnap reconstruction of the two missing episodes is perfectly good at conveying the story. Particularly as the last few minutes of The Knight of Jaffa is quite visual with little dialogue. It is a shame that the two missing episodes of The Crusades have not been animated. There is a wonderful and highly skilled team of people involved in bringing these discs to our shelves and our thanks have to go to all involved. The Lion is particularly stunning! Mark Ayres has also supervised the sound restoration, which I’m sure was also a challenge. Picture restoration has again been completed by Peter Crocker/ SVS and they have done a superb job especially in the context of the age of the material. As usual it is a beautiful item to hold with more stunning artwork from Lee Binding. Physically it has NINE discs stacked full of content to enjoy. But how good can black and white Doctor Who look in high definition?Īs it turns out, black and white Doctor Who is really good in HD! This boxset is big. Season 2 is an obvious choice given it’s near complete status. This is a big moment! The Collection box set releases venture into the 1960’s for the first time.
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