Doctor Who: Myths and Legends DVD boxset

A collection of classic Doctor Who episodes featuring Tom Baker and Jon Pertwee in the role of the Doctor. In the four-parter ‘The Horns of Nimon’, the Skonnon ships have returned to the skies of Aneth, demanding tribute. But as the final consignment is being taken to Skonnos, an accident forces the ship off course. In the six-parter ‘The Time Monster’, a new invention to transport matter through time creates a number of disturbing distortions in the temporal fabric. The Doctor (Jon Pertwee) investigates, and soon finds himself up against his nemesis, The Master, in a battle to control a powerful sacred crystal. In the four-parter ‘Underworld’, the TARDIS lands the Doctor (Tom Baker) in a Minyan spaceship that is on a quest to find the Minyan race banks stored in a missing ship known as the P7E. They eventually find what they are looking for in a cave system at the centre of a newly-formed planet. But the P7E’s computer has ideas of its own, and doesn’t look kindly upon its new visitors.

Special Features

The Time Monster

• Commentary  with actors John Levene and Susan Penhaligon, producer Barry Letts, production assistant Marion McDougall, modern British television writers Graham Duff, Phil Ford, Joe Lidster and James Moran, moderated by Toby Hadoke.
• Between Now and Now!  Professor Jim Al Khalili looks at the science behind The Time Monster. With producer Barry Letts, actors Katy Manning and Richard Franklin.
• Restoration Comparison a brief before and after comparison of the picture restoration process
• Photo Gallery
• Coming Soon
• PDF Material
• Programme Subtitles
• Subtitle Production Notes

Cover signed by Katy Manning

Underworld

• Commentary – with actors Tom Baker and Louise Jameson, co-writer Bob Baker.
• Into the Unknown – a look at the complex production of this story, with particular emphasis on the reasons for, and difficulties in achieving, the blue screen virtual studio sets. With script editor Anthony Read, writers Bob Baker and Dave Martin, actors Jonathan Newth and Norman Tipton, designer Dick Coles and video effects designer AJ “Mitch” Mitchell, with rare convention footage of producer Graham Williams.
• Underworld – In Studio – using timecoded Shibaden and U-matic video recordings, we are given a rare glimpse inside the studio during the recording of this story, much of which involved the use of blue screen virtual studio techniques.
• Photo Gallery
• Coming Soon
• PDF Material
• Programme Subtitles
• Subtitle Production Notes

The Horns of Nimon

• Commentary – with actors Lalla Ward, Janet Ellis and Graham Crowden and writer Anthony Read.
• Who Peter – Partners in Time – since the birth of Doctor Who in the sixties, it has shared an almost symbiotic relationship with the long-running BBC children’s magazine show “Blue Peter”. In this special documentary, some of those involved look back over the history of that relationship.
• Read the Writer – Anthony Read, writer of”The Horns of Nimon”, looks back at the production of the story.
• Peter Howell Music Demos in 1980, incoming producer John Nathan-Turner asked Radiophonic Workshop composers for demos of their music over the beginning of episode two of “The Horns of Nimon”. Only Peter Howell’s demo is known to exist and is presented here.
• Photo Gallery
• Coming Soon
• PDF Material
• Programme Subtitles
• Subtitle Production Notes