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28th Jan 2011, 2:10 PM #1
The Sun Makers: Everyone runs from this DVD
...is now coming to DVD on its own, with no Amabassadors of DEATH to snuggle up with.
Here's a thread for The Sun Makers release.
Si xx
I've just got my handcuffs and my truncheon and that's enough.
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28th Jan 2011, 2:10 PM #2
Extras:
The Sun Makers:
* TX trail
* Running from the Tax Men - Making of... documentary
* Doctor's Composer - Dudley Simpson
Si xx
I've just got my handcuffs and my truncheon and that's enough.
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28th Jan 2011, 2:44 PM #3
Scant extras. Is this a story nobody loves?
I have to say my first impressions of it were extremely favourable, and I'm still quite fond of it. It has several overlooked larger than life performances, there's some nice location work, Leela is in it and I've always found the script very clever. Lots of people seem to take an unusually dim view of it - "oh poor Robert Holmes, has to pay tax". I just see it as a writer using his imagination to parody something that people can relate to. This is very much Doctor Who that both adults and kids can enjoy.
Are these really all the extras? I have to say it seems odd at a time when they are re-issuing some DVD's to add more extra features, meanwhile some new ones are coming out with hardly any VAM on.
Si.
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28th Jan 2011, 2:48 PM #4
It looks very cheap, like bad Blake's 7. The opening shot with the face appearing through a hole in the set is awful.
I know it's supposed to be funny, but it isn't hilarious. Like a great deal of Season 15, it's just OK. Average, nothing special. Easy to admire, difficult to love.
Si xx
I've just got my handcuffs and my truncheon and that's enough.
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28th Jan 2011, 7:24 PM #5
Maybe they could bring it out with The Face of Evil like the Star Classics double novel.
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28th Jan 2011, 8:10 PM #6
I hope it's as good as I remember from 1978. I have caught bits and pieces of it on UK Gold since, but I've not sat down and watched it since it was aired. My memories mainly revolve around the cliffhangers to parts 1 & 3, and (a very vivid memory this) the climax, where the Usurian goes green and shrinks into his chair.
I'm looking forward to seeing it again anyway, whether the Memory Cheats or not.
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31st Jan 2011, 9:00 AM #7
I remember seeing a whole bunch of out-takes from this story, but I can't remember where from.
Pity. I have no understanding of the word. It is not registered in my vocabulary bank. EXTERMINATE!
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31st Jan 2011, 9:43 AM #8
They were on the BBC Christmas tapes.
Si xx
I've just got my handcuffs and my truncheon and that's enough.
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26th Apr 2011, 8:32 AM #9
Cover:
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26th Apr 2011, 3:42 PM #10
And some extras passed by the BBFC:
00:00:39:14 DR WHO - NEXT SATURADY 6.05
00:24:47:15 RUNNING FROM THE TAX MAN - THE MAKING OF THE SUN MAKERS
00:04:03:11 THE SUN MAKERS - PHOTO GALLERY
00:18:02:18 THE DOCTOR'S COMPOSER - DUDLEY SIMPSON - PART TWO 1970 -79
00:00:31:03 UNTITLED (OUTTAKES)
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1st May 2011, 12:04 AM #11
What's up with the photoshopping around Tom's hair? It looks like he's been cut out by a blind idiot using the 'lassoo' tool on Paint.
Si.
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3rd May 2011, 10:18 PM #12
Otherwise, that's a pretty good cover - I think the first time I've been impressed by an original R1 version.
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22nd Jul 2011, 7:43 PM #13
The Sun Makers has possibly the best DVD commentary I've ever heard... on anything, ever. Tom is wonderfully bonkers. Worth getting just to hear him bellow: "DARLING, I'M COMING, I'M COMING!"
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22nd Jul 2011, 7:44 PM #14
Oh my!
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23rd Jul 2011, 4:12 PM #15
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Man of his age...!
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27th Jul 2011, 8:09 AM #16
HMV have posted this one out to me. I had no idea this was due already!
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27th Jul 2011, 3:09 PM #17
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Shush! or they'll all want one!
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27th Jul 2011, 5:15 PM #18
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28th Jul 2011, 9:23 AM #19
Colony In Space, The Sunmakers and Paradise Towers would have made a nice 'Colony Worlds' box set. Those stories have far more in common than The Awakening and The Gunfighters!
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31st Jul 2011, 3:44 PM #20
this arrived yesterday and a quick cursory listen to the commentary would suggest its gonna be great fun
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3rd Aug 2011, 10:23 AM #21
We've polished this DVD off now!
This commentary was excellent. This is Louise Jameson's favourite story, so for once we've got someone being hugely enthusiastic all the way through. Tom is on good form too, at once point turning into a manic, elderly version of the Doctor and declaring that he'll see off that 'bald midget!' Pennant Roberts adds further value, mentioning Blake's 7 (Tom: What's that?) and while it's nice to have Michael Keating, he doesn't have a huge amount to say.
The production notes got desparate pretty quickly. 'Look out. Here comes a boom mic. Here it comes. Keep your eyes peeled. There it is! Boom mics were used to record sound in episodes of Doctor Who. Those aren't licquorice allsorts. Why are they talking about Raspberry Leaf tea? It may be an in-joke.'
New facts: I never heard that they planned to kill off Leela in The Sunmakers! Who were they going to replace her with? What about the scripts for the rest of the season? It all seems a bit unlikely.
Apparently this is the first colour story without any monsters. I'm not sure if that's entirely true, but it's certainly lacking in aliens of any form.
I liked the documentary style for the main feature, the little bits of extra machine text were interesting.
Overall, this story has gone up considerably in my estimation following this DVD!
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3rd Aug 2011, 10:40 AM #22Apparently this is the first colour story without any monsters. I'm not sure if that's entirely true, but it's certainly lacking in aliens of any form
Si.
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3rd Aug 2011, 2:50 PM #23
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Ethel.
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3rd Aug 2011, 3:00 PM #24
Yes?
Si.
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3rd Aug 2011, 3:12 PM #25
I'm just reporting what the production notes said! Don't blame me if they don't count the brief appearance of a CSO cloth on screen as a monster! I thought it was a pretty dubious claim myself.
Black Orchid, that doesn't really have a monster in it. Neither does Logopolis or Castrovalva.
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