67-632: The Eight Doctors is a BBC Books original novel written by Terrance Dicks and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who . It was the first of the Eighth Doctor Adventures range (it was preceded by a novelisation of the 1996 film , but the BBC chose not to consider it to be part of the range) and features the Eighth Doctor and introduces his new companion , Sam Jones . The novel takes place immediately after
134-509: A Colonel (in The Web of Fear ). Deborah Watling was unable to make the recording dates but Frazer Hines was able to free himself up for a day's shooting, so Jamie was written in instead. John Levene was invited back as Sergeant Benton but objected to the script requiring Benton to not recognise the Second Doctor. Levene felt this was unfaithful to his character, who he felt would not forget
201-407: A cliff. This was what was originally intended in the script, but for budgetary reasons the sequence was changed. Location filming took place at Cwm Bychan, Llanbedr . The Yeti costume used in the serial was last used in The Web of Fear in 1968. It had decayed badly in 15 years of storage, requiring dim lighting and selective camera angles during filming. The story was prepared in two formats:
268-466: A collection of set pieces without a great deal of substance. This is Terrance Dicks' loving tribute to a series that he helped to mould and, as such, contains everything that it should." In The Television Companion (1998), David J. Howe and Stephen James Walker stated that "The Five Doctors" "is not as bad as it could have been ... [but] the story fairly groans at the seams with the inclusion of so many 'old favourites'." Still, they felt that it worked as
335-651: A hardback gift guide, revisiting all the mysteries solved throughout the TV series. The Five Doctors The Five Doctors is a special feature-length episode of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who , produced in celebration of the programme's 20th anniversary. It had its world premiere in the United States, on the Chicago PBS station WTTW and various other PBS member stations on 23 November 1983,
402-659: A majority shareholding in BBC Books. In 2011, BBC Books launched a publishing programme around BAFTA-winning TV series, Sherlock , which was inspired by the adventures of Arthur Conan Doyle's Victorian detective Sherlock Holmes. The titles will each feature the show's branding and introductions by key members of the Sherlock team, including co-founders Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss. The first title, Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock: A Study in Scarlet , with an introduction by Steven Moffat
469-471: A one-off fun celebration. In 2012, Patrick Mulkern of Radio Times found the serial fun and made with a lot of love, though he noted the Third Doctor and Sarah Jane fared less well than some of the others. He also called it "Anthony Ainley's most effective outing" and praised the efficient scripting and other aspects of production aside from Moffatt's "sedate" direction. DVD Talk 's Stuart Galbraith gave
536-836: A secret room with Borusa at the controls of the Time Scoop. Borusa reveals he seeks to be the President Eternal of Gallifrey and needed the Doctors to disable the force field over the Tomb in order to gain immortality from Rassilon's Ring and rule forever. Borusa uses his headgear, the Coronet of Rassilon, to compel the Doctor to do his bidding. Meanwhile, the Master meets the First Doctor and Tegan and rids himself of
603-579: A short-lived line of Doctor Who -related short story collections called Short Trips ; Big Finish Productions later obtained the rights to publish the Short Trips books and that series continues as of 2010. In 2005, BBC Books began to phase out the EDA and PDA lines as it launched a new series of books (informally dubbed the New Series Adventures ) based upon the newly revived television series. Featuring
670-692: Is BBC Studios , the commercial subsidiary of the British Broadcasting Corporation . The imprint has been active since the 1980s. BBC Books publishes a range of books connected to BBC radio and television programming, including cookery, natural history, lifestyle, and behind the scenes "making-of" books. There are also some non-programme related biographies and autobiographies of various well-known personalities in its list. Amongst BBC Books' best known titles are cookery books by former TV cook Delia Smith , wildlife titles by Sir David Attenborough and gardening titles by Alan Titchmarsh . In
737-595: Is transmatted to the Zone. The Master encounters the Third Doctor, who dismisses him and accuses him of making the seal himself, before finding the Fifth just as they are surrounded by Cybermen. The Master is knocked out by a Cyberman's gun firing, and the Doctor finds and uses the recall device to return to the Citadel. When the Master awakes, he makes a pact with the Cybermen to lead them to
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#1733084576465804-509: Is in bursts and starts to damage the timeline. The Eighth Doctor then leaves. The TARDIS then lands during the events of The War Games , where he helps his second incarnation , Jamie McCrimmon and Zoe Heriot with their important mission to contact the Time Lords . Having regained his second life's memories, he leaves happily. He next meets the Third Doctor , who himself has just fought
871-492: Is officially a co-production with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation , although the production team were not aware of this during production and the agreement in effect amounted to little more than a pre-production purchase pact. Nathan-Turner's first choice of director for the story was Waris Hussein , who had directed the first-ever Doctor Who serial, An Unearthly Child , in 1963. However, Hussein
938-776: Is then caught and transmatted to the Death Zone by guards in the Capitol in the hopes that it will take care of the other horrors there. Soon he arrives in the middle of his second trial by the Time Lords ; which his Sixth self seems to be losing (especially as the insidious Valeyard has just accused him of a mass genocide attack against the Vervoids ). After giving him advice and encouragement- as well as helping to begin an investigation into his past self's trial on Gallifrey-, he leaves, his memories almost completely intact. He finally arrives on
1005-497: The 1996 Doctor Who telemovie published in the spring of 1996. Then, in 1997, BBC Books launched two concurrent series of books, the Eighth Doctor Adventures (EDA) (featuring the then-current incarnation of the Doctor ), and the Past Doctor Adventures (PDA), featuring the seven previous incarnations. Between 1997 and 2005 approximately 150 original novels were published for both lines, combined. BBC Books also launched
1072-744: The Ninth Doctor , the new books were published in hardback (as opposed to the EDA, PDA and Short Trips lines that were exclusively paperback releases). The Eighth Doctor line was discontinued during the summer of 2005, followed by the final Past Doctor Adventure in November. Beginning in 2006, BBC Books continued the New Series Adventures, now featuring the Tenth Doctor , with no word (as of September 2009) whether any more Past Doctor Adventures are planned. The books continue to be published in hardback, with
1139-579: The Second and Third Doctors, respectively. Richard Hurndall portrayed the First Doctor , as the character's original actor, William Hartnell , had died since his last appearance on the show ten years previously. Since Tom Baker decided not to appear in the special, footage from the unfinished serial Shada was used to portray the Fourth Doctor . An unknown entity uses the Time Scoop to bring several of
1206-486: The TARDIS ", which immediately lands. He lands at a scrapyard at 76 Totters Lane , London in 1997. There, he encounters Sam Jones , a young lady that is being accused by local drug dealers, led by Baz Bailey, of "grassing" them over to the police. The dealers intend to force Sam into taking drugs to get her addicted, but the Doctor saves her and falls foul of the local police who promptly charge him with possession and selling
1273-462: The Third Doctor with Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart and the Second Doctor with Jamie McCrimmon . When Frazer Hines , Jamie's actor, proved unavailable for more than a cameo appearance the script had to be altered, pairing the Second Doctor with Victoria Waterfield . This was revised again when Deborah Watling , Victoria's actress, became unavailable and Baker decided not to appear, resulting in
1340-773: The Virgin New Adventures and Virgin Missing Adventures , such as the freedom of Borusa from Rassilon's imprisonment (Borusa having been freed in Blood Harvest , itself written by Dicks), the identity of the President of Gallifrey (Flavia in this novel), and Romana in the subjectively later Virgin New Adventures , and the circumstances (albeit described only in brief) of the First Doctor 's departure from Gallifrey. The BBC novels were not initially intended to be part of
1407-459: The cocaine he has confiscated from the thugs. Sam tells her two teachers, who have noticed her lateness, and takes them back to the junkyard to verify the story. In the confusion of Bailey's desperate attack on the local police station , the Doctor escapes and runs back into the TARDIS and it dematerialises – taking the cocaine with him to dispose of it safely. This leaves Sam alone, defenceless against
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#17330845764651474-526: The previous incarnations of the Doctor ; his former companions Susan Foreman , Sarah Jane Smith , and Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart ; and his enemies the Daleks , the Cybermen , a Raston Warrior Robot and a Yeti , from their respective time streams into the Death Zone on Gallifrey . The entity's attempt to grab the Fourth Doctor and Romana ends up trapping the two in the time vortex. The Fifth Doctor senses
1541-496: The 1996 television movie. Immediately after the events of the TV film, the Eighth Doctor finishes reading The Time Machine (a book written by his old friend H. G. Wells ). After checking the Eye of Harmony in his TARDIS , he falls prey to a final trap set by his old enemy, the Master ; which erases all of his memory. The only fact he knows for certain is that his name is "the Doctor" – but Doctor who? His instincts tell him to "trust
1608-482: The Autons (1971). After being dropped into the Death Zone, Sarah would have been attacked by a group of them before being rescued by the Third Doctor. However, due to budgetary restrictions, the scene was dropped and replaced in the finished version. Just before she meets the Third Doctor, Sarah falls a few feet down what fans have generally considered a rather unconvincing slope. In the novelisation, Sarah actually steps off
1675-509: The BBC Publishing days, it turned down The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy , a book which has now sold over 14,000,000 copies worldwide. Since 1996, BBC Books has also produced a range of tie-in novels connected to the television science-fiction series Doctor Who , the only full-length fiction to be printed by the company. Their first release related to the series was a novelisation of
1742-532: The Citadel on Gallifrey, the High Council of Time Lords have also detected the disturbance in the Doctor's timeline and the power drain from the Time Scoop, and Lord President Borusa has the Master summoned, to help rescue the Doctor, offering him a new set of regenerations and a pardon if he succeeds. The Master accepts, and is given a recall device by the Castellan and a copy of the High Council's seal before he
1809-509: The Cybermen by letting them fall victim to the Death Zone's traps, before killing the Cyberleader with one of his subordinates' guns. As Borusa expected, the other three Doctors and their companions have made it to the tomb chamber, bypassing the Yeti and Raston Warrior Robot, as well as phantoms of the Doctor's former companions Jamie McCrimmon , Zoe Heriot , Liz Shaw and Mike Yates . They ponder
1876-636: The Doctor be executed: the resulting paradoxes could be irreversible. Flavia denies this. Ryoth alerts the Celestial Intervention Agency to the situation, and the Agency give him access to the fabled Timescoop technology, perfectly preserved since the Death Zone incident . He uses it to send a Raston Warrior Robot to the Fifth Doctor and his companions, Tegan Jovanka and Vislor Turlough . Luckily,
1943-480: The Eighth Doctor gives the Fourth Doctor an emergency blood transfusion after his younger self is attacked and nearly fatally drained by another group of vampires, and leaves with yet more memories (to the astonishment of companion Romana ). Meanwhile, back on Gallifrey , Lady President Flavia has noticed the Doctor crossing his timelines and demands that he be carefully watched. A Time Lord called Ryoth demands
2010-523: The Eighth Doctor then arrives at the aftermath of "The Five Doctors", where he saves his fifth incarnation and his companions from the Raston Warrior Robot and a passing platoon of Sontarans by tricking the two into fighting each other. The Doctors create a feedback system, so when Ryoth sends a Drashig to kill them, it instead materialises in the same room as Ryoth and eats him and the Timescoop. It
2077-570: The Fifth Doctor with Tegan and Turlough. Chancellor Flavia arrives via transmat, with the Chancellery Guard, and, after learning of Borusa's fate, declares that the Doctor is now Lord President, a position he cannot refuse. The Doctor tells Flavia to return to the Citadel, as he will follow shortly, then quickly departs with his companions, as he has no intention of returning to Gallifrey any time soon. Tegan asks if he's planning to jet off across
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2144-476: The Master and the Sea Devils ; and has saved humanity by blowing up a Sea Devil base. He, blaming his Eighth self for his exile to Earth and for the Master's concurrent escape, threatens him with the Master's Tissue Compression Eliminator . But he tosses the weapon to him instead. The Master has again escaped to fight another day, and the Eighth Doctor leaves. Having landed during the events of State of Decay ,
2211-497: The Second Doctor, and he declined to participate. The scene was filmed with actor Ray Float portraying an unnamed UNIT Sergeant. In April 2013, Carole Ann Ford revealed the producer had initially insisted that Susan not refer to the Doctor as her grandfather: "You will not believe why. They said, 'We don't really want people to perceive him as having had sex with someone, to father a child.' I just screamed with hysterical laughter and said, 'In that case, I'm not doing it.'" The script
2278-588: The TV series itself, are aimed at an older audience. In May 2008, BBC Books issued its first original made-for-audio Doctor Who adventure, Pest Control , which was released as part of the Tenth Doctor Adventures line and read by David Tennant . The Audiobook of the Year 2010 was a Tenth Doctor adventure called Dead Air by James Goss and read by David Tennant . In 2010, a series of three Being Human novels were published by BBC Books. These novels describe
2345-484: The Tower. As the other Doctors and companions converge on the Tower, the Fifth Doctor discovers the recall device given to the Master included a tracking signal to lead the Cybermen to him. The Castellan is found to possess the forbidden Black Scrolls of Rassilon, and dies while attempting to escape an invasive mind probe. When the Doctor returns to the High Council's chamber to report, he finds Borusa missing, and soon discovers
2412-567: The US airing. A four-part-serial version of the story was shown on BBC1, nightly between 14 August and 17 August 1984 at 6:15 p.m., achieving viewing figures of 4.7, 4.5, 3.7 and 4.8 million, respectively. Paul Cornell , Martin Day and Keith Topping wrote of the special in The Discontinuity Guide (1995), "A fine anniversary tale, although don't analyse the plot too closely as it's largely
2479-551: The adventures of the three main characters Annie Sawyer , George Sands and John Mitchell of the BBC Three television series Being Human and are written by Simon Guerrier , Mark Michalowski and James Goss . All novels were also released as audiobooks. The Road was read by Lenora Crichlow , Chasers by Russell Tovey and Bad Blood by Lucy Gaskell . In 2006, the Ebury Publishing division of Random House acquired
2546-735: The alias of "Sam Jones" in the spin-off series Torchwood . The story has an inconsistency to Tegan knowing her Doctors as she mistakenly believed the Eighth Doctor to be the Fourth even though she had met the Fourth Doctor in Logopolis when he regenerated into the Fifth Doctor. BBC Books BBC Books (also formerly known as BBC Consumer Publishing and BBC Publishing ) is an imprint majority-owned and managed by Penguin Random House through its Ebury Publishing division. The minority shareholder
2613-480: The anniversary date. It was transmitted on BBC1 in the United Kingdom two days later. The Five Doctors was written by Terrance Dicks , who had been the script editor for the entirety of the Third Doctor 's era and had written for the series since the 1960s. The episode aired after the conclusion of the 20th season to celebrate the 20th anniversary. Patrick Troughton and Jon Pertwee reprised their roles as
2680-407: The classic series of Doctor Who for which all recorded and filmed material, including alternative and unused takes, fluffed scenes and so forth, still exists in broadcast-quality format. This allowed for the creation of a Special Edition of the story in 1995. "The Five Doctors" was recorded in four-channel stereo, but broadcast in mono. The later DVD releases had a Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack. In
2747-402: The disruption of his own timeline, and with his own companions Tegan and Turlough , travels to Gallifrey via his TARDIS , also ending up in the Death Zone, unable to travel farther with the TARDIS due to a force field projected by the Tomb of Rassilon , the tower at the centre of the Death Zone. The various Doctors lead their companions towards the Tower while avoiding the hostile forces. In
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2814-464: The episode (originally called the Collector's Edition ), with updated special effects, surround-sound compatibility and an alternate editing of the raw material was released on VHS in 1995 in a box set with the video of The King's Demons and a limited-edition postcard album. This version also features a special BBC video ident, showing said ident being whisked away by the Time Scoop. The Special Edition
2881-668: The exception of four novellas , I Am a Dalek , Made of Steel , Revenge of the Judoon and Code of the Krillitanes , which are paperback releases under a series called Quick Reads . The 4th novella still featured the tenth doctor David Tennant , even though the eleventh has made his TV appearance. In January 2007, BBC Books launched a new line of original novels based upon the Doctor Who spin-off series, Torchwood . These books are also being published exclusively in hardcover and, like
2948-469: The galaxy in an old spaceship running from his people. With a grin, he replies that of course he is, as that's how his adventure started in the first place. The working title for this story was "The Six Doctors". It would have been written by former script editor Robert Holmes and would have featured the Cybermen and their kidnapping of the five incarnations of the Doctor; in their attempt to extract Time Lord DNA to turn themselves into "Cyberlords",
3015-409: The knife-wielding druggies. The TARDIS lands in the year 100,000 BC , and he meets his first incarnation in the jungle and they psychically link (giving the Eighth Doctor his memories up to that point in his life). The Eighth Doctor stops his other self from killing a caveman who was slowing their party down. The First Doctor explains that he must get away before the "time bubble" his Eighth self
3082-534: The meaning of writing in the tomb: "to lose is to win and he who wins shall lose". The Master arrives in the Tomb, but the Doctors' companions tie him up, with the Brigadier knocking him out for good measure. The Doctors disable the force field to summon the TARDIS, but this action allows Borusa and the Fifth Doctor to arrive via transmat. Borusa uses the Coronet to prevent the Doctors' companions from interfering while he speaks to Rassilon. An image of Rassilon appears above
3149-475: The ninety-minute version and a four-part version, the latter designed for international distribution or repeat broadcasting in the ordinary series run. The episode breaks were, respectively, Sarah falling down the slope, the Cybermen placing their bomb outside the TARDIS while Susan and Turlough watch, and the Master appearing behind the First Doctor and Tegan while in the Dark Tower. This is the only programme from
3216-449: The opening credits music was also used, which ended in a brief coda phrase that was never used in any other serial. The First Doctor was played by Richard Hurndall , replacing William Hartnell , who died in 1975. Hartnell does make an appearance, however, in a pre-titles clip taken from the end of The Dalek Invasion of Earth (1964). After initially agreeing to take part, Tom Baker declined to return so soon after his departure from
3283-476: The other stories from Season 20 in the Doctor Who - The Collection Box Set . This release featured the original 1983 version, updated with new special effects. The only change retained from the 1995 version was Rassilon's voice. There are many differences between the original 1983 version of the episode and the 1995 special-edition version. Many of these changes were not carried over to the 2023 version. The complete original and special edition scores, as well as
3350-528: The pairings of the First Doctor with Susan, the Second with the Brigadier, the Third with Sarah Jane Smith, and the Fifth with Tegan and Turlough. Instead of meeting phantoms of Jamie and Zoe ( Wendy Padbury ), the Second Doctor and the Brigadier were originally scripted to meet Zoe and Victoria. The Doctor would have realised the truth about them when Victoria called Lethbridge-Stewart "Brigadier", when she only knew him as
3417-487: The planet Metebelis Three , where the alone and depressed Seventh Doctor is trapped by a giant spider. After rescuing his former self (by killing the arachnid with the TCE), he remembers leaving Sam, and immediately dashes back into the TARDIS to her rescue. Once saved by the Doctor, Sam decides to join him on his travels. Terrance Dicks wrote this book not only to begin this ongoing book series, but also as an attempt to rectify
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#17330845764653484-445: The range certain contradictory elements still exist. When Sam tells the Doctor that her surname is Jones, and the Doctor tells her that his is "Smith", she says that they were made for each other. It also foreshadows the revelations that would eventually be made about Sam's origins. A similar pun shows up in the title of the 2007 series episode " Smith and Jones ", with the Tenth Doctor and new companion Martha Jones . Martha also uses
3551-600: The same continuity as the earlier Virgins, although BBC novelists restored some continuity between the two ranges, for example by reinstating Romana as president in The Shadows of Avalon . Some issues at least may be explained away by assuming that, from the point of view of the Time Lords, the Eighth Doctor's role in The Eight Doctors actually occurs prior to the seventh Doctor's role in Blood Harvest . However, throughout
3618-438: The series two years before, saying in 2014, "I didn't want to play 20 per cent of the part. I didn't fancy being a feed for other Doctors—in fact, it filled me with horror." His appearance was pieced together with footage from the unaired serial Shada . In early drafts of the script, some of the Doctor and companion combinations were different. Originally, the Fourth Doctor would have been paired with Sarah Jane Smith ,
3685-403: The story four out of five stars, finding Hurndall's performance as the First Doctor "the show's biggest, most delightful surprise". Writing for io9 , Alasdair Wilkins said that the special was "far from perfect" and "a big, silly adventure", but worked "much better if you can selectively switch your brain off". Digital Spy 's Morgan Jeffery gave the story three out of five stars, writing that it
3752-576: The technology firm Rok Player. The story was re-released as a 25th anniversary edition DVD on 3 March 2008. This release contains both the original broadcast version and the special edition. The special was a free gift in issue 4 of Doctor Who DVD Files . On 28 August 2015, "The Five Doctors" was released in Germany—with the German title Die Fünf Doktoren . In September 2023, the story was released again in an upgraded format for Blu-ray, being included with
3819-545: The theme music, which began with Delia Derbyshire 's original 1960s arrangement and then segued into the Peter Howell arrangement being used by the series at the time (the former being played at a slightly higher speed to match the tempo and pitch of the latter). This arrangement was only used on this one occasion and was the last time that the Derbyshire version was heard during the show's original run. A unique arrangement of
3886-575: The tomb and offers Borusa his ring as the key to immortality. Borusa dons the Ring, but then shortly disappears, becoming living stone that is part of Rassilon's tomb. The First Doctor realised what fate the tomb's writing foretold: immortality, but at a cost of perpetual incarceration. Rassilon frees the Fourth Doctor and Romana from the time vortex and returns the Master to his own time; the Doctors immediately refuse his offer for immortality. The First, Second and Third Doctors collect their respective companions and return to their time streams as well, leaving
3953-470: The twist being that the First Doctor and Susan would actually be android impostors (the former being the "Sixth Doctor" of the title) and the Second Doctor would have saved the day. However, Holmes dropped out at an early stage and another former script editor, Terrance Dicks, was brought in instead. Some elements of this plotline would be reused in Holmes' own The Two Doctors (1985) and in Chris Chibnall 's " The Timeless Children " (2020). The programme
4020-400: The various continuity problems that had emerged from the 1996 film; he made no secret of the fact he hated the 1996 television film, making the Doctor look back over the preceding adventure as though it was the most confusing, nonsensical time of his life (as Dicks pointed out in a 2005 edition of Doctor Who Magazine ). This story appears to contradict some of the continuity set in place by
4087-423: The various publicity photos of the five Doctors from this story, a waxwork model of Tom Baker from a 1980 Doctor Who Exhibition in Madame Tussauds was used. According to producer John Nathan-Turner, Baker had agreed to do the photocall for the 20th anniversary but, suspecting that he might not turn up, Nathan-Turner arranged for the waxwork to be on location. The end credits featured a specially-mixed version of
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#17330845764654154-444: Was "not the show's finest hour" but adding that it was "fun if enjoyed in the right frame of mind." A novelisation of this serial, written by Terrance Dicks , was published by Target Books in November 1983; it was the only Target novelisation to be published before its story was aired. The novelisation features numerous deleted scenes that subsequently turned up on the special-edition DVD release of this story. "The Five Doctors"
4221-431: Was changed to include mentions of the characters' relationship. "The Five Doctors" was first broadcast in the United States on the actual date of the programme's 20th anniversary. The broadcast in the United Kingdom was delayed two days so it could coincide with the BBC's Children in Need charity night, with an outro in character by Peter Davison. There were a few segments in the BBC broadcast that had not been shown in
4288-401: Was first released on VHS and Betamax in September 1985, using a unique to home video edit trimmed by 97s to allow the release to use a 90m cassette. This is distinct from shorter version sold to the USA, with different cuts. In 1990, the story was re-released, on VHS only, using the original UK broadcast edit. This version was also released on US LaserDisc in 1994. A Special Edition of
4355-414: Was in America at the time and was unable to accept the offer. Nathan-Turner then asked another veteran director, Douglas Camfield , to direct but he also declined. Camfield was also very ill with heart disease and this may have affected his decision not to direct the production. He died of a heart attack early in 1984. The original script featured an appearance by the Autons , last seen in Terror of
4422-498: Was released on 15 September 2011. Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes , with an introduction by Mark Gatiss , followed on 27 October 2011. Three books Sherlock: Sign of Four , Sherlock: The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes and Sherlock: The Hound of the Baskervilles with introductions by Martin Freeman , Steve Thompson and Benedict Cumberbatch were released on 29 March 2012. In autumn 2012, BBC Books has published Sherlock: The Casebook as
4489-422: Was the first Doctor Who story to be released on DVD, on 1 November 1999. The Region 1 version has a commentary track by Peter Davison and writer Terrance Dicks . This would later be carried over to the 2008 re-release in Region 2. On 22 August 2005 it was announced that "The Five Doctors" would be the first Doctor Who story to be made available to download to mobile phones, in a deal between BBC Worldwide and
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