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Date   : Fri Jun 26 04:41:00 1998
From   : ARTIMUS BROWN of fidonet#2:254/86
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Subject: 2 Who News 2/2

      Bernice and Nicholas Courtney (the Brigadier) as her cat Wolsey, music
      and sound effects. Gary Russell (former editor of DWM and writer of
      several novels) and Nick Briggs (producer/director on numerous spin-off
      videos) have teamed with Jason Haigh-Ellery (associate producer of the
      Shakedown video) of Big Finish Productions in this new venture; Russell
      and Briggs had previously worked together on the Audio Visuals series of
      fan Doctor Who audio tapes in the late Eighties and early Nineties.
      Production on the two plays will take place in June and July.
    * Also coming on cassette in September is a collection of three Eighth
      Doctor short stories read by Paul McGann. These are The People's Temple
      by Paul Leonard (from Short Trips), Bounty by Peter Anghelides
      (recounting the Doctor and Sam's first adventure after the events of The
      Eight Doctors), and Dead Time by Andrew Miller.
    * The Ark is a special release designed to ensure each of the first seven
      Doctors is represented on video in the programme's thirty-fifth
      anniversary year.
    * In November 1998, The Ice Warriors will be released as a two-tape pack.
      The missing episodes two and three will be replaced by short bridges
      making use of soundbites, narration, photos, telesnaps and graphics. The
      tape will be dovetailed by a 25-minute-long documentary on the junking of
      Sixties and Seventies episodes and the search now underway across the
      globe. This will feature virtually every existing clip from incomplete
      episodes which could possibly be incorporated, including the full six
      minutes extant from Galaxy 4: 3. As well, a number of interviews will be
      recorded for the video, including those responsible for the return of
      numerous episodes/clips such as Ian Levine, David Stead, Gordon Hendry
      and Damian Shanahan, and possibly Jan Vincent-Rudzki and BBC Archives'
      Sue Malden. A bonus episode at the end of the tape is now also currently
      planned (The Underwater Menace: 3 is the likely candidate), and a special
      collectors' edition incorporating an audio CD of the two missing episodes
      is also under consideration. Exact plans for the Ice Warriors release
      have yet to be firmed up, however.
    * A further (as yet unspecified) audio release is apparently scheduled for
      November, though this may in fact be referring to the Eighth Doctor audio
      tape not set for a September release.
    * The double pack release of Revenge Of The Cybermen and Terror Of The
      Zygons will mark with first time these stories will be available on video
      in their unedited, episodic form. Also undergoing a similar treatment
      will be an episodic release of The Talons Of Weng-Chiang, paired with the
      Whose Doctor Who documentary originally aired around the same time.

			   Doctor Who Comes To DVD

 (Apr. 26th, 1998) The requests of numerous fans will be answered in late
1998 or early 1999, as BBC Worldwide is planning a test release of one or
two Doctor Who titles on DVD. The sales of these releases will determine
whether the project will continue. Amongst the titles under consideration
for the first wave of releases is The Five Doctors Special Edition.

			 DWM Introduces Ninth Doctor

 (May 12th, 1998) In a move which may set Doctor Who Magazine's own Doctor
Who continuity still further at odds with that of the novels, DWM #265
(published May 1998) sees the Eighth Doctor regenerating into his ninth
incarnation at the conclusion of The Final Chapter. The new Doctor is
visually based upon Nick Briggs, who previously appeared as the Doctor
with companion Ria in DWM #173 (Party Animals, alongside the Seventh
Doctor) and who has portrayed the Time Lord in the Audio Visuals series of
fan-made audio adventures. There has been no indication of whether or not
this is a permanent change. DWM previously split with New Adventures
continuing by killing off Ace, despite having closely paralled the novels
in the mid-Nineties.

		      Obituaries: Jewell, Bevan, Elson

 (May 15th, 1998) The May 11th edition of Australia's Daily Mail reports
that Robert Jewell has passed away in that country. He was 78. Jewell was
inside the Dalek casing for their debut story in 1964, and returned to the
role several times thereafter.

 Also recently departed are two of the most prominent Doctor Who artists.
Phil Bevan's illustrations graced numerous publications, including Doctor
Who Magazine and In-Vision. Bevan died in early April. Meanwhile, Peter
Elson was the cover artist for numerous novels in Virgin's New Adventures
series, beginning with Time's Crucible in 1992. The Doctor Who News Page
extends its condolescences to the Jewell, Bevan and Elson families.

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