"Myself, chiefly" is one of my favourite lines from this story, I hadn't noticed they cut it out of the 1995 version (but then I'd never done a side-by-side comparison!)
Thanks for that Pip, brilliant as always 👍 Having recorded it off TV in Australia back in the 80’s, it wasn’t until I borrowed a friend’s official copy that I saw the opening scene with Terry Walsh that had been censored out of Part One. I always knew something was missing because it used to jump from the Part One credits to Pertwee from “do like to be beside the seaside” because the “oh I..” was missing. The close up of Bellal from the end of Part Two was also censored, but they did that quite well as I never noticed it until years later Sorry for the long post :)
I just found your channel and am enjoying these comparisons videos. In fact after the series finished in 1989 this story was the first Doctor Who vhs I owned as a birthday present the same year.
I remember a few years ago watching a omnibus version of Death to The Daleks on the Horror channel(now called Legend). For the end of each part, they would use the cliffhanger moments to transition to the ad breaks
Being a generation lower (I'm not talking about tape to tape), I hadn't actually realised till later that the infamous patterned floor cliffhanger was just that. Because I think the edited full-length actually stands up rather well. It used to be quite good viewing on a middling Sunday with little else going on.
I had the 1987 VHS! And it was so well watched it has video drop out lines and audio drop out from frequent watches. I never bought the 1995 VHS release, so it wasn’t until the DVD that I got to see it complete with cliffhangers. It still seems weird watching it with the cliffhangers / individual parts. In my mind it’s just one lone story.
When I bought this on release day in 1987 I got it home and immediately noticed the lower quality of episode one and the sudden jump in quality into episode 2. I took it back to WH Smith telling them it was faulty.
1:29 I kind of feel that changing things like the colour grade is a step too far. The recent re-release of The Chase, with the daylight scenes changed to night as on the DVD is similar but more egregious in my opinion!
The trouble is there isn't an easy clear line between creative choice and limited technology. For example, I wouldn't want them to wash all the colour out of the scenes that survive on their original film. But that is how they looked in the 70s and 80s after they'd been through a dodgy analog film to tape transfer. I agree there's some scenes where I think the restoration choice was too far. But there isn't an objective standard of how to do it right
@@ImmenseProfundities very true. And there’s plenty I don’t know about the process : ) I just feel that when they change something to enhance the original, like fixing incorrectly lined up CSO elements, or as mentioned, trying to change the daytime shots in The Chase to match the nighttime shots, or in this case significantly changing the colour grade to match the studio shots, it’s just a little too far. They didn’t go back to scan the original prints of The Chase for the blu-ray, so we’re left with the up-scaled DVD release, and from a preservation angle I’m worried that that will be the version that endures the test of time, rather than a best-case representation of the original. Perhaps a little alarmist, but I’d be sceptical about a corporations commitment to preserving these things on the very long term. : )
I can't wait to see this hit blu ray. The restoration team has done a marvelous job and it would be cool to see what further improvements they will make this time around.
Unfortunately without the original location film material (all junked long ago) there's not a great deal to be done for DTTD other than improved compression/upscaling. And I suspect a large portion of the restoration budget will go towards colourising Invasion Of The Dinosaurs part one.
Something's wrong here. I clearly remember renting this several times from a VHS rental shop in Telford - My dad was really hacked off that I kept on taking it out instead of other 'better' recently released movies! However, we moved from Telford to Gloucestershire over Easter 1987 and I started my last term of my first year at Secondary School in Cirencester in April 1987. So - was this available to rent BEFORE it became available on sell-thru, or is the date of release wrong?
This is an excellent video Pip and full of the details we know now and appreciate you for 👍Incidentally this was my first ever Doctor Who BBC Video VHS I saw! Having previously only seen the 1990's repeats on BBC2; Resistance Is Useless, The Time Meddler, The Mind Robber & The Sea Devils and then this! It was brilliant viewing 😉
This is, quite frankly, a phenomenal piece of work. This was my first ever Doctor Who VHS purchase made in WHS in Bury St. Edmunds back in 1987. As this is the first ever story that I bought, it holds a magical soft spot for me and would imagine I’ve watched it over a ridiculous amount of times I can’t remember the exact number 😊. Such such a talent putting this together. Just wonderful. Thank you Pip!! 🫶.
