Circuit Breaker - The Black Archive Files: What's the deal?

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I often talk about how much care and attention to detail goes into the Classic Series releases to convince us fans to shell out on something a lot of us have already bought at least two or three times. Then comes along a random release out of the blue that makes you ask who does this appeal to? But some unexpected new bonus material alongside some unusual and rare episode variants perhaps gives enough value to justify buying.    Circuit Breaker is the latest multi-platform event from BBC Studios, following on from Time Lord Victorious (2020) and Doom’s Day (2023). This time focusing on the mysterious Fugitive Doctor as played by Jo Martin, who has refreshingly been heavily involved with the entire range. I’ve personally not been following the story that closely, but the premise involves the Doctor teaming up with Osgood who is now working in the Black Archive as objects from the Doctor’s personal timeline have gone missing. This new Blu-ray release features 10 Doctor Who stori...
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The Power of the Daleks - Extras Update

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Doctor Who Magazine (Issue 551) contains a disc breakdown with further details about the extra.  I will post the extras below, but please do still support the magazine.   It’s an excellent read.

Disc 1
Audio Commentary from Anneke Wills (Polly), Edward Kelsey (Resno), Derek Dodd (Designer) and Michael Bryant (Floor Manager), Nicholas Hawtrey (Quinn), Alexandra Tynan (Costume Designer),  David Hankinson (Dalek Operator 2005-08), Nicholas Briggs (Dalek Voices 2005-Present), Robert Shearman (Writer Dalek), Adrian Salmon (Shader), Martin Geraghty (Line Art) and Charles Norton (Producer).   Ported over from the original release.

BBC Breakfast – Report on the animation (new)

2x Animation Trailers (new)

Animation Test Footage (Ported over from the original release)

Storyboard Extracts (new)

BBC Radio Spots – Reports on the animation (new)

Animation Photo Gallery (expanded I believe)

Disc 2

Tele-snap Reconstruction (a new reconstruction from Derek Handley)

1993 Audiobook, Narrated by Tom Baker (new)

1966 TV Trailer (Ported over from original release)

Surviving Footage (Updated with new material and restoration)

Original Title Sequence Film (Ported over from original release)

Dalek Session Recordings (Ported over from original release)

Raw Incidental Music (new)

Photogrammetry – Showing how the sets would have looked in 1966 (new)

HD Photo Gallery – Updated with new colour photographs that have only recently be found

Disc 3
From Script to Screen – a new documentary on the TV story

Behind the Scenes Featurette with Mike Tucker (new)

Servants and Masters – The Making of The Power of the Daleks (ported over from the original release)

Whicker's World - I Don't Like My Monsters to Have Oedipus Complexes (almost complete programme new and in HD)

Daleks: The Early Years (New)

Robin Hood: The Abbot of St Mary’s – the earliest surviving tv footage of Patrick Troughton (new)

BBC South Today Footage (New)

Blue Peter Extract (currently unknown which episode this is)

2016 Newsnight Feature (New)

PDF Files of BBC Paperwork related to The Power of the Daleks

In the Doctor Who Magazine article there is no mention of Easter Eggs that was in the press release or The Highlanders that was included in the retailer listings.  However, Derek Handley clarified on Gallifrey Base that The Highlanders extra (which was just going to be just the audio) has been dropped due to a lack of free disc space and that it was left on the press release by accident.

Stand down everyone.

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