Name: Doctor Who - Nightmare of Eden
Brand: BBC3
SKU: BBCDVD3378
Availability: OutOfStock
Rating: 3.00 (1 reviews)

Doctor Who - Nightmare of Eden (Bob Baker)

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Picture of BBCDVD 3378 Doctor Who - Nightmare of Eden by artist Bob Baker from the BBC records and Tapes library

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Picture of BBCDVD 3378 Doctor Who - Nightmare of Eden by artist Bob Baker from the BBC records and Tapes library

BBC records label code
Label
BBC3 label

Release details

Detail			Value
Catalogue number			BBCDVD 3378
Title			Doctor Who - Nightmare of Eden
Artist(s)			Bob Baker
Cover condition			Near mint
Record condition			Near mint
BBC records label code			-
Item deleted?			No
Released			1979
Distributed / printed by			2 entertain
Country of origin			UK
Media type			Primary
Media genre			Dramas - Sci-fi View all other tracks listed as Dramas - Sci-fi.
Run-off codes / Shop bar codes			A0101932883-B911 03 IFPI L556 Sony DADC
My rating			*****
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Number have			1
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Front cover
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Back cover

Label

Side & track	Track and Artist	Length
Tracks Below is a list of tracks for this release.
A1	Part 1	24.17
A2	Part 2	22.44
A3	Part 3	24.06
A4	Part 4	24.31
A5	The nightmare of Television Centre	13.24
A6	Going solo - Writer Bob Baker talks about Nightmare of Eden	7.45
A7	The Doctor's strange love - Josie Long, Joe Lister and Simon Guerrier	15.44
A8	Ask Aspel - Lala Ward	11.03
A9	Coming soon - The Ace box	2.00
A10	Photo gallery	5.50
A11	Radio Times billings [PDF]
Total length of media 2:31:24.

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Extra notes on cover, middle (gatefold sleeve) and any inserts
Tom Baker (Fourth Doctor) Lalla Ward (Romana) David Brierley (Voice of K-9 Mk. II) Lewis Fiander - Professor Tryst Jennifer Lonsdale - Della Geoffrey Bateman - Dymond David Daker - Captain Rigg Stephen Jenn - Secker Barry Andrews - Stott Geoffrey Hinsliff - Officer Fisk Peter Craze - Officer Costa Richard Barnes, Sebastian Stride, Eden Phillips Crewmen Annet Peters, Lionel Sansby, Peter Roberts, Maggie Petersen - Passengers Written by Bob Baker Produced by Graham Williams Directed by Alan Bromly Synopsis Two spacecraft fuse in a hyperspace collision. Fortunately the Doctor, Romana and K-9 arrive to help. But when a crewmember is found clawed by a ferocious animal, it seems there's something even more frightening stalking the corridors. The answers lie with zoologist, Professor Tryst, his CET projection machine, and a planet called Eden - the home to the ferocious Mandrels ... Background Though Bob Baker and Dave Martin had decided to stop writing together after their series sixteen story, The Armageddon Factor, Baker had continued to develop proposals for Doctor Who. One of these, Nightmare of Eden, had impressed Script Editor, Douglas Adams, with its originality and relevance. As well as the central drug abuse theme, Baker took his influence from disaster movies of the Seventies such as The Poseidon Adventure, Airport and The Towering Inferno. Unfortunately, the humour and pleasure of the finished story did not extend behind the scenes. The semi-retired Alan Bromly was hired to direct, having previously helmed The Time Warrior. Tom Baker was critical of his uncompromising, old-school methods, having clear ideas about how he should perform. This resulted in a very strained production, finally leading to Bromly quitting and leaving Graham Williams to finish the story. Happily, Williams shows an aptitude for pace, mood and tension, despite the production's growing faults. However, no one could gloss over the Mandrels. Scripted as swamp beasts dripping with mud, they were another case of the programme's budget limiting the realisation, with critics labelling them "cute rejects from The Muppet Show". Nightmare of Eden is a witty, mature story slightly undermined by its overplaying into pantomime. Though it has its defects, it displays them unashamedly and remains clever, bold and dramatic, with an unusually serious anti-drug moral. Yet it still manages to marry beautifully with the Adams-style humour of series seventeen. And that's quite a feat.
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