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No. 78,921
1. If jury instructions fairly and properly state the law applicable to the case, they do not constitute reversible error although they may be in some small way erroneous.
2. Under the facts of this case, it was not multiplicitous to charge defendant with contributing to a child's misconduct in addition to conspiring with the child to sell marijuana and aiding and abetting the child in selling marijuana, where the conspiracy and sales were the illegal acts generating the contributing to a child's misconduct charge.
Appeal from Sumner District Court; R. SCOTT MCQUIN, judge. Opinion filed September 25, 1998. Affirmed.
Elizabeth Seale Cateforis, assistant appellate defender, and Jessica R. Kunen, chief appellate defender, for the appellant.
Kerwin L. Spencer, special prosecutor, and Carla J. Stovall, attorney general, for the appellee.
Before LEWIS, P.J., PIERRON, J., and REBECCA L. PILSHAW, District Judge, assigned.
PIERRON: Deanne J. Buhr appeals her conviction of one count of conspiracy to sell marijuana, a severity level 3 drug felony, in violation of K.S.A. 21-3302 and K.S.A. 1995 Supp. 65-4163; two counts of the sale of marijuana, severity level 3 drug felonies, in violation of K.S.A. 1995 Supp. 65-4163; and one count of contributing to a child's misconduct, a level 7 person felony, in violation of K.S.A. 21-3612. Buhr argues the jury instructions were improper. She also contends her conviction for contributing to a child's misconduct is multiplicitous with her convictions for aiding and abetting the sale of marijuana and conspiracy to sell marijuana. We affirm.
In exchange for a reduction of drug charges, Shawna Plummer agreed to work as a confidential informant for the police. On February 15, 1996, she went to the Sav-A-Trip in Mulvane and asked T.J. if he knew the whereabouts of a certain person (the target of an undercover drug operation). T.J. told Plummer he did not, but he offered to sell her marijuana for $110 an ounce. T.J. is Buhr's 16-year-old son. He lived with Buhr and Buhr's cousin, Treasa Linthicum.
The next day Plummer met T.J. at the Sav-A-Trip to purchase marijuana. A car arrived with Linthicum driving, Buhr in the front passenger seat, and T.J. in the back seat. Plummer asked who to give the money to, and Buhr replied, "Give it to T.J. because I don't deal drugs no more, I just smoke it." Plummer gave $110 to T.J. He told Plummer he would page her when she could pick up the marijuana and the three left.
That evening, T.J. paged Plummer and they arranged to meet. T.J. and Linthicum, without Buhr, met Plummer and told her to go to their house. At T.J.'s house, Plummer was met at the front door by T.J. and Linthicum. She left the house with a bag of marijuana.
On February 21, 1996, Plummer called T.J. at his house to purchase some more marijuana. She told T.J. she would call him back to see if he could get the drugs. Plummer went to the Sav-A-Trip where she met Buhr and Linthicum. Plummer told Linthicum she had spoken to T.J. about buying some marijuana and Linthicum replied they could get some since Buhr had to tutor their supplier's children in Wichita. Although Buhr was around, Plummer was unclear of her location during the conversation. Plummer took the money to T.J.'s house. Linthicum and Buhr were also at the house. T.J. again told Plummer he would page her for the delivery.
After not receiving a page by midnight, Plummer went to T.J.'s house. T.J. gave her a bag of marijuana. Buhr told Plummer to come back to her bedroom to see some kittens. While in the bedroom, Linthicum told Plummer that if the marijuana was not good enough, they would get her better stuff. Plummer said Buhr agreed with Linthicum that they could get her some more marijuana.
Buhr denied making the statement on February 16, 1996, that she did not deal drugs but only smoked them. She also said she was talking to a friend and did not hear the conversation between Plummer and T.J. Buhr also testified she was at school all day on February 21, 1996, and not at the Sav-A-Trip with Linthicum. She said she tutored her friend's children in Wichita that evening and Linthicum and T.J. were with her. Buhr denied seeing or hearing Plummer when they returned from Wichita, and as far as she knew, Plummer had not come to their house that night.
Buhr was charged with conspiring with Linthicum and T.J. to sell marijuana, contributing to T.J.'s misconduct by encouraging him to sell marijuana, and two counts of the sale of marijuana to Plummer. The jury found Buhr guilty on all counts. The trial court sentenced Buhr to 15 months' incarceration on each of the charges of the sale of marijuana, 9 months' incarceration on the conspiracy charge, and 12 months incarceration for contributing to a minor's misconduct. All sentences were ordered to run concurrently.
Buhr first argues the trial court erred in modifying the elements in the sale of marijuana instructions to include aiding and abetting instead of including a separate aiding and abetting instruction.
"Jury instructions are to be considered together and read as a whole without isolating any one instruction. If the instructions properly and fairly state the law as applied to the facts in the case and the jury could not reasonably have been misled by them, then the instructions do not constitute reversible error although they may be in some small way erroneous." State v. Walker, 252 Kan. 279, 295, 895 P.2d 1 (1993).
Jury instructions 5 and 6 are identical except for the date of the offenses. Jury instruction 5 lists the elements of the crime of the sale of marijuana as follows:
"1. That the defendant aided and abetted in the sale or delivery of an hallucinogenic drug known as marijuana.
"2. That the defendant did so intentionally; and
"3. That the defendant did so on or about the 16th day of February, 1996, in Sumner County, Kansas."
During the instructions conference, Buhr objected to instructions 5 and 6 as including aiding and abetting language instead of simply stating that the defendant sold or delivered the drugs. Buhr argued jury instruction 10, which explained aiding and abetting, was adequate for the State's theory that she had aided and abetted in the sale of marijuana. The State responded that the instructions were correct because they emphasized that it was unnecessary for the jury to find Buhr actually took the money or delivered the drugs for her to be guilty of the sale of marijuana. The court ruled that the instructions would lead the jury to both the instruction concerning aiding and abetting and the instruction regarding sale. The court found instructions 5 and 6, as stated, clarified the State's theory that Buhr aided and abetted in the commission of the crime.
Buhr contends the trial court should adhere to the PIK instructions unless a modification is necessary. See State v. Moncla, 262 Kan. 58, 71, 936 P.2d 727 (1997). She argues the sentencing court did not follow the PIK instructions when a modification was unnecessary. She claims the error should not be held to be harmless error.
"The use of PIK instructions is not mandatory but is strongly recommended. The pattern instructions have been developed by a knowledgeable committee to bring accuracy, clarity, and uniformity to jury instructions. They should be the starting point in the preparation of any set of jury instructions. If the particular facts in a given case require modification of the applicable pattern instruction, or the addition of some instruction not included in PIK, the trial court should not hesitate to make such modification or addition. However, absent such need, PIK instructions and recommendations should be followed." 262 Kan. 58, Syl. ¶ 5.
Buhr does not argue that the jury instructions do not properly and fairly state the law as applied to the facts of her case. Additionally, she does not contest that the jury instructions correctly set forth the State's theory that she aided and abetted in the crime of the sale of marijuana. The fact that the trial court altered the instructions explaining the elements of the crime of the sale of marijuana to reflect the State's theory of the case and to assist the jury in examining the State's case was harmless error, if error at all. If the instructions fairly and properly state the law applicable to the case, "then the instructions do not constitute reversible error although they may be in some small way erroneous." State v. Aikins, 261 Kan. 346, Syl. ¶ 25, 932 P.2d 408 (1997).
Buhr also argues her conviction for contributing to a child's misconduct should be reversed because it is multiplicitous with her convictions for aiding and abetting the sale of marijuana and conspiracy to sell marijuana.
Whether convictions are multiplicitous is a question of law. Our standard of review on questions of law is unlimited. Multiplicity is a question of law that may be raised for the first time on appeal if necessary to serve the ends of justice or prevent the denial of fundamental rights. State v. Eastridge, 20 Kan. App. 2d 973, 975, 894 P.2d 243 (1995).
"The Supreme Court has stated that multiplicity is 'the charging of a single offense in several counts of a complaint or information.' [Citation omitted.] The primary concern with multiplicity is that it creates the potential for multiple punishments for a single offense, which is prohibited by the double jeopardy clause of the Fifth Amendment of the United States Constitution and section 10 of the Kansas Constitution Bill of Rights. [Citation omitted.]" 20 Kan. App. 2d at 975.
To determine whether convictions are multiplicitous, we start with State v. Fike, 243 Kan. 365, 757 P.2d 724 (1988), where the court set forth a two-pronged analysis to examine lesser included offenses. The Fike test and its relationship to multiplicitous charges was discussed in State v. Warren, 252 Kan. 169, 175-82, 843 P.2d 224 (1992). The first step is to determine whether all of the statutory elements of the lesser crime are among the statutory elements required to prove the greater crime. If so, then the lesser crime is a lesser included offense of the greater crime. Buhr does not argue multiplicity based on the first prong of Fike.
Under the second prong of Fike, if the factual allegations of the charging document and the evidence required to be adduced at trial to prove these allegations would also necessarily prove the lesser crime, then there is multiplicity. Buhr argues the factual allegations regarding the conspiracy and the sale offenses in the amended information, and the evidence required to prove those charges, necessarily proved the charge of contributing to a child's misconduct.
Buhr suggests that "[a]iding, abetting, advising, hiring, counseling, or procuring" encompass the same conduct as "encouraging or causing" and was proven by the State's evidence. She argues that to prove all these elements, the State presented evidence that she directed Plummer to give the money to T.J., that she drove T.J. to Wichita knowing he was going to buy marijuana, and that she agreed with Linthicum that they could obtain other marijuana. Buhr contends the conspiracy conviction encompasses the same conduct as contributing to a child's misconduct.
The State argues that in order to establish Buhr's conspiracy and sale of marijuana convictions, it demonstrated that Buhr aided and abetted T.J. in committing the crimes. This was done by showing that Buhr told Plummer to give the money to T.J. on the first sale, and that Buhr indicated control during the second sale by agreeing with Linthicum that if Plummer was not satisfied with the quality of the marijuana they could get more. The State contends it was not required to prove, among other things, that T.J was under 18 years of age.
Buhr's arguments under the second prong of Fike are not persuasive. In proving the crime of contributing to a child's misconduct, the State would be required to prove that the child was under the age of 18. This is not an allegation in the amended information under the charges of sale and conspiracy to sell marijuana, nor would this fact necessarily be proven in the State's case for sale and conspiracy to sell marijuana.
The crimes at issue here concern two different criminal and legislative aims. cf. Eastridge, 20 Kan. App. 2d at 974-78 (multiplicity concerning charges of arson and conspiracy to commit arson). The crime of selling drugs involves crimes against society and public health. Contributing to a child's misconduct is a crime affecting the child.
The State contends that the essence of the charge of contributing to a child's misconduct is corrupting the morals of the minor, which is easily distinguishable from the essence of the charge of selling or conspiring to sell marijuana. The point is that Buhr involved a child in the crime. The State correctly argues that if her analysis is accepted, it would make no difference whether Buhr's co-conspirator/co-defendant was an adult or a child. The legislature set out a separate and independent crime of contributing to a child's misconduct. By involving her minor son in the crime or making him the primary actor, Buhr has invoked the essence of the crime of contributing to a child's misconduct in addition to the substantive drug crime.
Although multiplicity was not raised in State v. Johnson, 258 Kan. 61, 899 P.2d 1050 (1995), the case is an example of how a child's involvement permits a charge of contributing to the misconduct of a child. There, the defendant hired a juvenile hitman to kill another man's wife. The defendant was convicted of, inter alia, first-degree murder, conspiracy to commit first-degree murder, and contributing to a child's misconduct. Without any mention of multiplicity, the defendant's convictions were affirmed on appeal.
Buhr's claims of multiplicity fail.


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My room is clean. It's coated with dust though. Lol.
Winter Is Coming.
Just to clarify again...
I was in bed sick, I do usually clean my own room. Over time, things had built up and I was going to clean it again. My mother, being my mother and all, decided to get all the bottles and cans she could find and arrange them as shown, it was then my job to clean the room. Which I have done, subsequently
I wish I had a .38 to end this shit
I can be a bit lazy when it comes to cleaning my room. In my old room (where i barely had any walking room as is due to bed/desk taking up 3/4ths of the room) i'd have cans/bottle stack up to the point where you couldn't see my floor at which point I was essentially forced to clean it so i had room to walk.
I still only clean my current one once a month (or when my desk runs out of room to put empty bottles on)
every year my paper works get checked by the prof and returned to me. i place them on the desk or hide some inside a drawer. or when i have an empty pen i just leave it lying on the desk (i throw it away sometimes though ). then when spring cleaning comes my mum gets so worked up about it because i dont clean my room. she goes, "every girl should learn how to clean"
I'm really busy and always tired so y'all gotta wait to be replied to :v
PrincessLunza wrote:
Just to clarify again...
I was in bed sick, I do usually clean my own room. Over time, things had built up and I was going to clean it again. My mother, being my mother and all, decided to get all the bottles and cans she could find and arrange them as shown, it was then my job to clean the room. Which I have done, subsequently :)
Oh! Well that's just adorable then. (:
You all disgust me. (:
When I was younger I tried to tell my mom that it was pointless to clean my room since the Second Law of Thermodynamics showed that my room would inevitably become more chaotic as time went on. She neither knew nor cared about the Second Law of Thermodynamics though, so I cleaned my room.
I clean my room every once in awhile.
I will look for you, I will find you, and I will raid your fridge.
When I was a teenager I was very messy and let bottles and clothes pile up in my room all the time like you. My parents were horrified when they came to visit my dorm room during finals week at college one year as i'd been too busy studying/sleeping to clean at all. I'm 22 now and now that I have my own apartment I'm actually becoming a bit of a neat freak. I get on my roommate abour not leaveing bottles and plates lying around and leaving crap on the floor so I guess I'm maturing .
Still my definiton of clean is not the same as my OCD clean freak mom or my incredibly messy father's. Having had one parent from each end of the spectrum has taught me the value of moderation and the pitfalls of being too clean(it drives you crazy unless you live alone) and being too messy(embarrassing, hard to get around, and not good for peace of mind).
I clean my own room everyday... I hate being messy because I always lose important stuff. Not to mention I'm sharing rooms with a sibling... Who is apparently older than me and can't seem to clean up her own mess, so I end up doing twice the work to make OUR room clean as possible.
Only him ❤
I like to organize things, but only things that are going to stay organized. If I find it's a futile battle, I will eventually retire. I found out that even if I spend two whole days tidying my room top to bottom, it'll look as bad as ever in a week. And I can't find most of my stuff for months after. So I mostly give up.
My truce is that the rest of the house has to be tidy. I'll keep the kitchen, living room, dining room organized to a pin. I just consider my bedroom to be my "nest", and as such it can be as messy as I want it.
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I just shove my stuff in my closet because no one goes in there. I can also find stuff easier because I know if I need something its in the closet. Now if someone was to open that closet....
You better check yourself before you Shrek yourself
I usually organize but I don't like people touching things that are mine.
I hate Crunchyroll.
My only Advice, throw away anything that had food or liquid in it. Mold can grow and you can get really sick. no joke
Know how you feel. However, though, my room is still cluttered with empty Mountain Dew 12 oz. cans, 16 oz. cans, 20 oz. bottles, and 24 oz. cans. Talk about a drinking problem, lol.

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This might be the wrong time for the Fire to take a break.
The Fire turned in a dominating performance in Saturday night's 2-0 victory over Kansas City and head into a two-week Major League Soccer All-Star break with three wins and a tie in its last five games.
But coach Dave Sarachan isn't worried that time off will adversely effect his group.
"In some ways, you want to keep this thing going," he said. "But I really do feel that we're at a midway point where we can now relax a little bit. ... In any profession you need to recharge the batteries, and I think now's a good time to do it."
Evan Whitfield and Justin Mapp each scored as the Fire outshot the Wizards 25-8 before 11,877 fans in Naperville. Goalkeeper Zach Thornton, meanwhile, earned his 40th career shutout and fourth of the season as the Fire maintained a perfect all-time home mark (8-0) against the Wizards.
Whitfield started things off with an open-net tally in the game's 12th minute, his first score since September 2000. After a feed from defender Jim Curtin, Whitfield chipped the ball past defender Nick Garcia and goalkeeper Tony Meola, who came 10 yards out of the goal box to head off the shot.
The Fire defender then raced ahead and aimed for the middle of the empty net.
The Fire could have had at least three more goals in the opening half. The most spectacular near miss came from forward Damani Ralph. With his back to the net, Ralph took a feed from Chris Armas, turned around and worked the ball through three defenders and was denied a goal only when Garcia alertly moved to the goal line to intercept his shot.
Mapp connected in the 53rd minute when he blasted a left-footed shot from the 20-yard line through Meola's hands.


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June 12, 2010
Mactweets Mac Attack 8 Challenge! - Black & White Sesame Macarons
This month's theme is "Take A Walk on The Wild Side", macarons inspired by Africa and the safari. The first thing that sprung to my mind when I thought about the theme was zebras. Don't ask me why but somehow that's the first animal that popped up in my head :) And since this month the World Cup kicks off in South Africa, I thought I'd make black & white macarons, inspired by both zebras and footballs! Other than the colours, I picked sesame as a flavour as it comes both in black and white variations and I love black sesame anything.
I made the shells using the tried and trusted recipe adapted from Cannelle et Vanille's basic recipe,
colouring half the shells with black colouring (though it didn't really come out very black) and left the other half au naturel. While they were drying, I sprinkled some black sesame seeds on the white shells and white sesame seeds on the dark shells. As for the filling, I whipped up a creme chantilly and flavoured it with black sesame paste (see recipe below).
Macaron Shells (makes about 50-54 shells)
recipe adapted from Cannelle & Vanille
100g egg whites, aged
3g egg white powder
130g almond flour (blitz in food processor to get a finer texture)
160g icing sugar
55g castor sugar
black gel food colouring (according to how dark you want it, I put about 1/4 tsp)
1 tsp black sesame seeds
1 tsp white sesame seeds
Sift icing sugar and processed almond flour together in a bowl. Set aside.
Mix egg whites with egg white powder and whisk in electric mixer until soft peaks on medium high speed.
Lower speed on electric mixer and add in castor sugar slowly while still whisking until fully incorporated. Continue whisking on medium high speed until your egg white meringue mixture reaches stiff peak stage.
Fold in 1/3 of dry ingredients (icing sugar + almond flour) into meringue with a spatula gently. Add in 1/3 more and fold again before mixing in the last 1/3 of the dry ingredients. Make sure all dry ingredients are incorporated into the meringue and start folding mixture more vigorously to form a shiny batter with the consistency of flowing magma or drips down like ribbons when you lift the batter up and let it drip down, and it should slowly disappear into itself without leaving a peak. Be careful not to over mix. If you are adding colour, add it just after all dry ingredients have been incorporated and before working the mixture into a shiny mass.
Line 2 baking trays with non-stick parchment paper (or silpat). You can stick it down with bits of batter in the four corners.
Fill a piping bag fitted with a 1cm round tip with the batter, and pipe even rounds of batter, about 3cm across, onto the tray. If you've mixed the batter properly, it should not spread flatly out too much (overmixed) or leave a peak (undermixed). Sprinkle sesame seeds on top of shells.
Let the batter dry for about 30 minutes. Preheat oven to 170 deg C (convection oven or 180 dec C if conventional oven).
When batter is dry to touch (it forms a slight crust), turn the oven down to 140 deg C (or 150 deg C for conventional oven) and bake shells for 14-15 min, turning the trays halfway through baking.
After baking, lift parchment onto wire rack to let shells cool and gently unmould when cool.
Black Sesame Cream Filling
200ml whipping cream
20g icing sugar
20g black sesame paste (available from japanese grocery stores)
Whisk whipping cream in electric mixer on medium high speed until almost stiff, taking care not to overwhip.
Sift icing sugar over whipped cream and continue whisking to incorporate, until cream is stiff.
Fold in black sesame paste with a spatula until evenly incorporated.
Fill cream into piping bag fitted with 1cm round tip.
Match pairs of shells of even size.
Pipe a small mound of cream filling onto one half of each pair of shells.
Top with the other shell.
So there you go, my entry for Mac Attack 8!
Also wanted to share some other pictures I took the other day when the girls came over for a girly sleepover. I was very inspired by the flowers I saw on my way home, and spent wayyyy too much than my usual flower budget on many different types of flowers. Arranged them into several different designs and decorated the house with them. We also went to Borough Market and bought saucisson, cheese and fruits for a pre-dinner snack, accompanied by some lovely Gewurztraminer. I do miss doing flowers, really need to practice more often, though it's not a cheap hobby!
18 comments:
- Bonnie said...
Your macarons are beautiful in their simplicity. I have never tasted black sesame paste. I will have to try it. I am also anxious to try Canelle et Vanille's macaron recipe. It's new to me to.
- June 12, 2010 at 2:06 AM
- TeenieCakes said...
Your macs turned out beautifully and very nice delicate colors. Lovely photography!
- June 12, 2010 at 3:23 AM
- Françoise @ Chocoparis said...
These are beautiful! The sesame seeds are lovely finishing touch and the black sesame cream sounds wonderful!
- June 12, 2010 at 4:03 AM
- Lora said...
I think your macarons are chic. Lovely job.
- June 12, 2010 at 8:56 AM
- Gemma said...
Beautiful! I have never tried to make macarons. One day...
- June 12, 2010 at 11:18 AM
I made macarons recently with Canelle et Vanille's recipe too, but oh gosh, they are nowhere as pretty as yours. *kowtow*
and the floral arrangements are sooooo beautiful! you've really got great talent. keep it up!
- June 12, 2010 at 11:21 AM
- Deeba PAB said...
What an absolutely gorgeous post ... feet that exist only in my whimsical dreams! Your styling is beautiful too! Thank you for brining your talent and creativity to MacTweets!
- June 12, 2010 at 2:41 PM
- saa said...
- June 13, 2010 at 3:16 AM
- Cristie said...
Your macarons are beautiful. I love the two tone colors. Your pictures of flowers and mac's are stunning!
- June 13, 2010 at 7:33 PM
- Sarah, Maison Cupcake said...
Such a pretty post, these pictures and your blog look so delicate. I'm not sure we managed to talk at FBC last weekend but I'm very glad to be have been introducted to your blog because of it.
- June 14, 2010 at 10:45 AM
- Ms McGarves said...
Hi Eunice - I love your attachment to 'all things floral' - such a nice hobby, and when I read your words I really get a feel for how much flowers make you swoon!! Loving the Macarons as well - Ive been too scared to try making them... but you've made it sound so easy I'm going to give it a bash!! Will report back with results!!
- June 14, 2010 at 10:16 PM
- heavenwildfleur said...
thanks for the encouragement and lovely comments! i'm thrilled to know that some of you will attempt macarons too! let me know if you need any help, more than willing to share my trials and tribulations :) lovely to meet the FBC-ers here too!
- June 15, 2010 at 12:49 PM
- Jamie said...
Gorgeous! And wow they are so stunning and perfect! And I am so intrigued by the black sesame flavors. Could I try one? I am so glad I pushed you to join us again because boy do you make us proud! But seeing how perfect your macs are they must be so easy for you which alleviates my guilt about pushing you to bake them! Fabulous fabulous meeting you in person at FBC and can't wait for your post about it!
- June 15, 2010 at 1:32 PM
- The Cooking Ninja said...
Wonderful to have met you at FBC. Who knows we need to cross the sea to meet each other when we are both from the little red dot. LOL! Your photos are fabulous. Wish I can take pics like u.
- June 15, 2010 at 4:39 PM
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- June 16, 2010 at 2:22 PM
- Jeanne said...
Oh, I LOVE those macs! Not to mention the platter with the figs... Drooling now :)
- June 22, 2010 at 6:06 PM
- heavenwildfleur said...
Thanks for the lovely comments! I'm looking forward to the next challenge.. still thinking what I should make!
- June 26, 2010 at 2:42 AM
- sunita said...
What gorgeous macs, love the sesame touch; I've added sesame to my macs once, but in the batter itself.
Your styling is beautiful.
- June 29, 2010 at 1:15 PM


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Top Shelf: Old East rivalries get renewed life
Philadelphia, PA – With this sprint of a season nearing its conclusion, there will be no shortage of important games appearing on the NHL landscape.
Come Saturday evening, however, all eyes should be on a pair of Eastern Conference rivalries that have returned to prominence after years of being pushed to the margins.
First and foremost is a clash between the Montreal Canadiens and Toronto Maple Leafs, who make up one of most storied rivalries in all of professional sports, even if neither club has experienced much success in recent years.
In fact, the last time the Habs and Leafs made the playoffs in the same season was nine years ago in the spring of 2004, which also was the last postseason appearance for Toronto.
This season, however, sees Montreal sitting fourth in the East with 55 points and the Leafs six points back in fifth place. Of course, that means if the season ended today, the clubs would meet in the opening round of the playoffs, marking the first postseason encounter between the Habs and Leafs since the 1978-79 campaign.
Whether or not Toronto and Montreal get a chance to renew their postseason rivalry this spring after 30-plus years of waiting, Saturday's meeting in Toronto is sure to have a playoff atmosphere. After all, Maple Leafs fans have been forced to sit through the longest postseason drought in team history in recent years and they're likely to let it all hang out for the biggest game this rivalry has seen in years.
The self-proclaimed "Centre of the Hockey Universe," Toronto has some time to whip itself into a frenzy for Saturday's showdown. The Leafs have two full days off in between Wednesday's meeting with the New York Rangers and the marquee matchup at Air Canada Centre.
Montreal, meanwhile, is visiting Buffalo on Thursday before it can shift its focus to this weekend's big game.
Even during the lean years, though, the Habs-Leafs matchup still has had way more juice than the Rangers-Islanders rivalry. That's why Montreal and Toronto still play most of their games against each other in prime time and usually do so on Saturday nights, where they continue to produce huge TV ratings in Canada. The Leafs and Habs also played each other on opening night in 2013 and the clubs will close the season in Toronto on April 27.
The New York clubs will get their chance in the spotlight on Saturday night, however, as they face off in the most important game at Nassau Coliseum in quite some time.
Entering Thursday's action, the Rangers, Islanders and Ottawa Senators are all tied at 44 points for the East's final three playoff seeds. With a little over two weeks of games left in the regular season, Saturday's battle on Long Island -- the final scheduled meeting between the clubs -- could loom large over the conference's playoff race.
The playoff picture adds some serious clout to a rivalry that had seen better days heading into this season. The New York teams have rarely been good at the same time over the last few decades and they haven't faced each other in the playoffs since 1994, when the Rangers swept the Isles in the opening round en route to the franchise's last Stanley Cup title.
Of course, the Isles are mostly to blame for the lack of recent postseason encounters between these clubs. The Long Island residents have missed the playoffs in each of the past five springs and they have qualified for the postseason just four times in 17 seasons following the encounter in 1994.
Saturday's clash at the Coliseum could lay the groundwork for a revitalized rivalry between the clubs and it comes a few years before the Isles are set to move their home into the Rangers' backyard. The Isles are winding down their time at the building derisively called "The Mausoleum" and will begin calling Brooklyn's Barclays Center home beginning with the 2015-16 season.
With John Tavares, the Islanders' superstar in the making, signed with the club through 2017-18 and the Rangers usually near the top of the NHL's payroll list, this could be the start of an exciting new era for a rivalry that had gone stagnant.
There's always some top-notch rivalry games with playoff implications down the stretch of any NHL season, but Saturday's slate could breath new life into two of the league's most important matchups. Better catch them while you can because if recent history is any indicator, who knows the next time these rivalries will mean this much.


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Minnesota Drops South Dakota State From 2015 Football Schedule
One year before a self-imposed Big Ten ban on scheduling FCS schools, Minnesota has decided to drop South Dakota State from the 2015 schedule, replacing the Jackrabbits with TCU.
The Gophers made the announcement in a press release Tuesday:
Minnesota will visit TCU in Fort Worth, Texas, on Sept. 13, 2014, before hosting the Horned Frogs on Sept. 3, 2015.
The 2014 game fills an empty date on Minnesota's schedule, while the 2015 contest replaces a previously scheduled home game that the Gophers had against South Dakota State.
According to the Argus Leader, Minnesota has transferred the SDSU contract to TCU, and the Horned Frogs expect to play the Jacks in 2015 or pay a $400,000 buyout.
SDSU has scheduled games with FBS opponents in four of the next six seasons: Nebraska in 2013, Missouri in 2014, TCU in 2015, and Iowa State in 2018.


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DIY Easter Egg Ideas
Try out these creative DIY Easter egg decorating ideas. They'll make you think twice before buying the standard drugstore dye kit.
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Robin's Nest
Go back to the basics with this adorable nest; it's easy to create and makes a great centerpiece for your Easter brunch or dinner party.
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Spring Flowers
Pastel paint creates the perfect canvas for these pretty paper flower cutouts. Cover the whole egg with the flowers to create a fanciful design.
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Class in Session
Simply brush on some chalkboard paint and let the fun begin! This twist on a schoolroom classic would be a perfect gift for a favorite teacher.
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Be Dazzled
Simple and sweet, this metallic and vinyl design makes a precious and festive Easter party decoration and is easy for little ones to help make.
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Egg Décor
This craft is way easier than it looks, and sure to impress. Follow the directions to drain the eggs, have fun painting the shells and then hang them around the house. And no need to let the egg filling go to waste—just scramble it up for breakfast!
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Bunny Bling
Don't feel like taking the time to boil eggs? Use your old plastic ones and quickly liven them up with some paint and glitter for a sparkling finish.
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Tissue Paper Easter Egg
Who loves Mod Podge? We do! Mimic mosaic- and stained glass-inspired designs using different colored tissue paper strips.
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Au Naturel
Find the ingredients for this one-of-a-kind craft in your kitchen cabinets. Use rice, lentils, beans, orzo, popcorn kernels, even pumpkin seeds to create pretty designs and textures.
Easter Eggs with Seeds, Beans, and Grains from Petite Planet
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Read All About It
…After you cover your eggs with the day's headlines. This craft can make a great keepsake for years to come by reminding you of what happened each year on the day you made this unique Easter craft.
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Use crayons to color on hard-boiled eggs while they're still hot (but not too hot) from the pan; the wax will melt and adhere artfully and easily onto the shells.
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Pastel Silhouettes
Classic and festive, these Easter eggs are even easier to admire than they are to eat!
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Pick some leaves and flowers from your yard to create garden-inspired designs that kick traditional dyeing techniques up a notch.
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Natural Dye
Want to avoid the chemicals in artificial dyeing packages? Check out these simple ways to make all-natural dyes for your eggs with ingredients found in your fridge, garden, and spice rack.
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This unique idea is a great favor for kids and adults if you're throwing an Easter-inspired bash. The creative spin on an Easter piñata is fun to make and break!


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Having just completed an extensive analysis of Rock Band 2's Expert vocal campaign, I was eager to test out Guitar Hero World Tour's vocal capabilities. It'll be easy to grasp for anyone who's played Rock Band or Karaoke Revolution: Lyrics scroll across the screen, and you try to match your voice up with a line reflecting the pitch of the melody. Lyrics are divided up into phrases, and if you sing well enough, you get a perfect rating and your score multiplier goes up.
The biggest difference between GHWT's vocals and other recent games is that there's no immediate feedback on how you're doing within a phrase, no little pie or meter to fill up. You can see if your vocals are matching up with the song's pitch, but it can sometimes be hard to tell where you're missing if you're only off by a little. There are some other tweaks with regard to Star Power and freestyle sections: if you have Star Power built up, you can activate at any time using the controller (instead of waiting for a special trigger sections), and you can also just mumble and scat during empty sections to rack up some extra points (we've not seen anything resembling Rock Band's percussions sections).
We also found that the game grades vocals pretty harshly. Even on songs where we only missed three or four phrases, we'd end up with scores in the 80% range, leaving us to believe the game grades on words or even pieces of words, regardless of whether you get a full rating for a phrase. On the plus side, there are plenty of stats in GHWT. After every song, there's a full stats breakdown for every instrument and phrase, something we've missed in Rock Band.
The last instrument we tested out, of course, was bass. For our first attempt, we picked one of the more challenging bass songs, Muse's "Assassin." On Expert, we were quickly introduced to GHWT's biggest bass tweak, open notes. Represented by a solid purple bar across the entire note chart (similar to the drum's bass pedal note), this is effectively a sixth note played by strumming without holding down any fret buttons. It turned out to be a lot harder to get the hang of that we'd initially thought. You're so used to closing your hand to hold down a fret button while strumming that it's a little awkward strumming while not pressing anything.
This really only scratched the surface of all the gameplay in Guitar Hero World Tour. There's the band interface, the setlist, the progression through all the different songs, and a lot more. Over the next week, we'll be presenting a great deal more info on these aspects of the game as well as further impressions of the new instruments, so check back regularly as we sink ever deeper into this entertaining world of plastic guitars.


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|2006-09-19, 21:57
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That's pretty interesting. Western animation uses prescoring/prerecording but there've been few cases of it happening in Japanese animation, I think. Was it Akira or something, there was one famous example which I've forgotten.
Well I do like the character designs, but the trailer also showed jerky animation - I guess it's a case where the designs are so detailed that it becomes too difficult to move (especially with the shitty Korean in-betweeners that Gonzo outsources its animation to!)
Thanks for the summary anyway. It sounds like it has potential.
|2006-09-30, 11:28
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I feel sorry about the reports of spotty animation, but, oh well. I did finish watching Speed Grapher (and even enjoyed it). Let's see how it goes.
|2006-09-30, 12:21
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Join Date: Dec 2005
TV Asahi has an internal policy stating that late night anime running for 2 cours (seasons) is subject to a broadcasting cap of 24 episodes. This policy does not apply to the station's network affiliates.
That is why the episode count for all recent TV Asahi late night anime that spans two seasons has a maximum of 24 episodes and not 26, for example:
Solty Rey
Speed Grapher
Tenjou Tenge
The problem arises when the production count exceeds 24 episodes, where unaired stories come into play.
IGPX had a total run of 26 episodes, but the station only aired the first 24.
Garasu no Kantai has 26 episodes as well (including 2 flashbacks), but they aired only 23, and were not able to show the final episode.
However, this becomes a moot point in the case of RED GARDEN, as it is slated for 24 episodes from the beginning. By the way, as of today, they have already recorded up to episode 13, which is unthinkable if it were not done by prescoring. Evidence that a good storyboard and script alone is sufficient to do a good acting job, but won't necessarily make up for a good anime.
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Thanks for the explanation. That was very useful to know.
|2006-09-30, 17:26
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Heard rumors floating around about it i like the idea behind it. Unfortunetly Gonzo got a hold of it and i have been so disappointed with them as of late. I hope they dont ruin it
|2006-10-02, 01:28
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So that's what happened with Glass Fleet What a shame
Same thoughts and concerns as some others - I like the character designs too and it does seem interesting but Gonzo... lol Well it will be airing shortly so I'll see then
Thanks for that information eggplant
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|2006-10-03, 02:46
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Zetsubo-sensei daaaaaa !!
Join Date: Dec 2005
Usually Gonzo series give me creeps because if they are very good animators, Gonzo staff can not write a story... except on Gankutsuou Basilisk and Last Exile. But this one looks pretty original for a Gonzo production. And most of the main staff worked on Rozen Maiden-Gankutsuou-Simoun so... I will watch at least 6 eps of it.
|2006-10-04, 02:29
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Twice as ambitious as anything yet except Death Note. Actual emotion. A complex story and strong characters. Some things that required effort to accept, like the noses. Lots of esthetic imagination. Detailed animation. Maybe even a bit too realistic. I'm not a big fan of realistic animation. Live actors do that better. But the most interesting show of the season yet, for me.
We'll see how the plot goes. I didn't like every aspect of it. But the director of Rozen Maiden and writers from Gankutsuou, ARIA/Simoun, and Rozen Maiden. Besides the second writer, Okada Mari, one other slight connection with Simoun: Fukuen Misato (Liz) is going to voice one of the two new sibyllas in the game.
|2006-10-04, 06:57
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Location: France
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Just saw the RAW of episode 1, and as I expected, it turned out to be quite pleasant.
The OP animation is great - the originality reminds me of Honey & Clover, except it's more colorful. Not a bad song either (as opposed to the ED that I don't like).
Animation seemed quite good to me, it's well detailed and all (and again, the colors are nice, but that's also party thanks to the good RAW quality). Surprisingly the noses don't seem all that weird when the characters are animated, so people turned off by the design may want to check for themselves.
And yet another promising show, what a season this fall is...
|2006-10-04, 08:12
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Just watched teh first episode. It was better than I expected - the animation was actually better than that of the trailer. And the direction/writing seemed quite good. The first episode kept you hanging but not in a really forced way: you just found things out as the characters did. An interesting premise, but I wonder where it'll go from here. Let's hope it doesn't just stay pretty - which it was by the way, the characters all had distinctive and different styles and the colour scheme was good. I loved the aesthetic of the OP, it was very stylish (I have a weak spot for OPs in that style). The unusual sound of the instrumentation went well with it too (well, I haven't heard that kind of bass or whatever much in songs used for anime.)
And the noses are generally quite OK. So are thel ips. Actually, they're less distracting than the ones in, say, Escaflowne...
|2006-10-04, 17:50
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The Commissar Vanishes
The "noses and lips" issue is not a question of style. If you look at XIX centure Japanese prints of foreigners, you'll notices many similarities with this "style". 8)
The one thing that put me off was the "defeat the monster" storyline. I am guessing that since the show uses such an unfamiliar setting and no usual anime archetypes, that they needed some familiar hook to make viewers more comfortable with watching Red Garden. Other than that, I found the episode quite perfectly attuned to my expectations and emotions.
It goes without saying that I will be following it. First of all, it's stunningly beautiful in it's disregard of ideal symmetry that is commonly pervasive of anime. Think of it as the most aesthetically pleasing superflat anime ever. The ultimate Anti-Gloss, despite all of those Parakiss vibes.
Second... well... no seconds yet, we'll see where the tale takes us. 8)
|2006-10-04, 18:35
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Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Philippines
Yeah, I loved the Parakiss style, the American OEL-like character designs, and superflat yet colorful palette. Animation's OK.
Except for the
this could be the animated drama that a U.S. animation studio could have done. But no, they opted to keep churning out kids shows or sarcastic sitcoms.
Gonzo from otaku / moe anime to Red Garden. Way to go, Gonzo! Just don't mess it up, better yet, make this another Monster.
|2006-10-04, 19:01
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Actually, this is one of my most anticipated show. I guess I am a sucker for mysterious/unique plot.
Episode 1 basically meets my expectation. The premise seems intriguing enough. I hope it won't turn into a monster-of-a-week show though.
About the pointy noses, I don't think it's too distracting. The artwork is nice, but the animation is a little bit jerky at times. I just hope GONZO can keep up the quality.
|2006-10-04, 19:28
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The Commissar Vanishes
Did anyone else have a feeling that Rose looks a lot like what Mirai Yashima (from the First Gundam) would have looked, if she were drawn by Nobuteru Yuri?
Oh, and the two detectives made me constantly think about "Law and Order". Old white guy, young black guy... I guess it's a stereotype of its own now. 8)
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The USDA's March Planting Intentions report, which is based on grower surveys, is an early indicator of acreage trends that may have an impact on commodity markets. This year's hay report, released on March 31, indicates that hay acreage in California will show a 3 percent increase. That translates to 50,000 more acres of hay in 2005.
The 50,000-acre increase, however, is for "all hay" grown in California and doesn't break out alfalfa. That report is released in late June when the USDA issues its Harvest Intentions report and separates alfalfa from other types of hay. In a recent CAFA News article by Seth Hoyt of the Agricultural Statistics Service, Hoyt noted that the guessing game centers around how much of the projected 50,000-acre increase will be alfalfa.
The consensus among industry observers appears to be that most of the acreage increase will be alfalfa. But they believe that it's unlikely that an increase of around 5 percent more acres would negatively impact the alfalfa hay market in 2005. They predict that it would likely take at least a 10 percent increase in acreage to put a damper on the alfalfa hay market. Among reasons cited is the low inventory of hay stocks, as evidenced by record shipments into California, and record high prices earlier in the year.
Three percent increases expected
Of the seven western states, Nevada, Arizona and Utah join California in the plus column for increased hay acreage in 2005. All four states are showing a forecast for a 3 percent increase. That puts California at 1.6 million acres of all hay in 2005. While that figure is 50,000 acres higher than 2004, it's 20,000 acres less than 2003.
Not surprisingly, the forecast for Oregon, Washington and Idaho is a 2 percent decline in acreage. All three states have had below normal rainfall and irrigation water will be tight.
As mentioned in an earlier CAFA column, Idaho is a state that bears watching when it comes to alfalfa acreage due to tight supplies of irrigation water. An agreement was struck with growers in early April to idle 100,000 acres of cropland to cope with Idaho's drought conditions, Hoyt reported. The question is whether hay buyers there will become more aggressive in Nevada and Utah in order to meet the demands of Idaho's rapidly growing dairy industry? Last year's alfalfa acreage was 1,180,000, or 130,000 acres higher than in California. In terms of total production, however, California's seven-ton per acre yield is three tons higher than Idaho's yield average.
It's not clear if alfalfa will be the crop that takes a major hit in Idaho. However, there's speculation that potatoes and sugar beets will bear the brunt of the reduced acreage.
The USDA's March 31 Planting Intentions report is available on the Web at, www.nass.usda.gov.


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Doctor Who: Day of the Daleks (UK - DVD R2)
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The early-to-mid 1960s saw the meteoric rise of Dalekmania, a phenomenon that catapulted the first alien adversaries on Doctor Who into the public consciousness, not to mention a tidal wave of consumer cack that flooded the shops across the land. Even if Terry Nation's Nazi analogies hadn't managed to conquer Earth, then at least their invasion of Britain had been successful. Sadly, as with most crazes with the word "mania" suffixed to it, the long-term sustainability of it was always questionable and by the time that Patrick Troughton had stepped into his comfortable hush-puppies, Dalekmania was pretty much over and with Troughton's seven-part story, Evil of the Daleks, the creative forces behind Doctor Who wanted to rest the Daleks permanently in what was to have been their "final end" - fortunately (or unfortunately for some), this only lasted for five years before Skaro's most infamous residents returned.
Earth is teetering on the brink of a third world war - Sir Reginald Styles (Wilfred Carter) is desperately trying to avert a global conflict by organising a peace conference, but his efforts are interrupted by a ghost-like apparition. UNIT, along with The Doctor (Jon Pertwee) and Jo Grant (Katy Manning) are called in, but Styles initially denies ever seeing any sort of spectral manifestation. Things are far more complicated than they initially seem when a group of guerrillas from the future are hell-bent on executing Styles and what's more, the Daleks are somehow involved in this whole scheme.
Doctor Who has a long history of great ideas that should be executed on a grand scale, only to be restricted by BBC budgets; the Target novelisations were favoured by many, as they allowed readers to create things in their minds that the purse-holders at the Beeb would not allow the show to include. Day of the Daleks seemed to suffer more than most in this respect as what should have been a grand return to Doctor Who - the first time they had been seen in colour on the show - was tempered by having an attempted invasion of Earth consisting of a paltry three Daleks and a handful of Ogrons.
There is a nice scene during episode two, when The Doctor and Jo are tied up and left in the well-stocked cellar of Auderly House, and they are both trying to make sense of the seemingly senseless series of events; The Doctor starts asking questions and Jo tries to answer them, with the two characters effectively switching roles - this was done consciously and it's a fun little moment that sees The Doctor on the back-foot for once.
Jon Pertwee really seems to shine in this story, the scene mentioned above is just one of the reasons why his performance in Day of the Daleks seems to stand out; most actors to play The Doctor always came off well when up against authority figures, but Pertwee seems to relish doing this more than most of the others and he gets to do this during this particular story. Pertwee also deploys a bit of charm, especially when helping himself to the contents of Sir Reginald Styles' larder, showing for the first time that our heroic Timelord could certainly appreciate fine food and drink - scenes like these demonstrate that the appearance of charm in a character is only partially achieved through the script, with most of it coming from the actor himself. Pertwee was a good actor, but there is a palpable sense of insecurity to the man for him to go pestering the writers to give him "a bit of charm".
Katy Manning is wonderful in this story, and although she is required to go through the standard motions required of the female companion, she proves herself to be more resourceful than the "air-headed bint" she was painted as being during her first few stories. Manning really injects Jo Grant with a winning mix of vulnerability and inquisitiveness, which combined with the obvious chemistry between her and Pertwee makes Jo one of the quintessential companions. For those Jo Grant obsessives, there are several peek-a-boo shots up her miniskirt that reveal that her undercrackers match her red scarf.
Nicholas Courtney is always great, and this story sees his relationship with The Doctor summed up in one scene that ends with him wryly smiling to himself, even though The Doctor has just humiliated and done him up like the proverbial kipper; the push/pull dynamic between the Third Doctor and the Brig was always the most interesting out of all of the Doctor actors to have worked alongside Courtney, as the Brig's military pomposity and the Third Doctor's anti-establishmentarianism, combined with his own vain sense of pomposity allowed them to butt heads in a very amusing manner.
The Ogrons are an interesting creation; they seem to purely act as muscle for superior malevolent life-forms who need a bit of welly behind them when it comes to galactic conquest. The slow, lumbering nature of the Ogrons provide a healthy dose of menace, even if their restrictive mental capacity and (usually) slow vocal delivery occasionally bring Monty Python's Gumbys to mind - it makes you wonder just how the Ogrons would look wearing string vests and knotted hankies on their heads...
If there is one main criticism that we have about the story is that the audience rarely feels that the planet stands on the precipice of World War III - the sense of tension would have been augmented with a few stock shots of the military forces of various countries being deployed - you can say what you like about the filmmaking merits of Edward D Wood Jr., but he certainly knew how to effectively employ stock footage of the military.
The concept of sending paramilitary types back in time to the latter half of the 20th century in order to thwart Earth being ravaged in a global catastrophe is certainly one that has plenty of mileage - the basic idea would be reused more a decade later to form the basis of James Cameron's The Terminator, although if Cameron had also decided to stick to the parameters of this particular time-travel device, then the Blinovitch Limitation Effect would have prevented the Terminator sequels.
What nearly threatens to detract from the suspension of disbelief is the appearance of Aubrey Woods as The Controller, whom several generations of kids will recognise as Bill The Candyman from the original film version of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, where his mid-Atlantic accent and ability to use a shop-counter to give an uppercut to the chin of a little girls made an indelible impression. Despite being closely associated with one particular role, Woods still turns in a solid - if rather stagey - performance as a Quisling-type character who is the human mouthpiece of the Daleks, being both charming and menacing. The grand, "too big for the screen" performance that Woods delivers is reminiscent of Edward Brayshaw's turn in The War Games, all and clear enunciation and deliberate, male-model-on-the-catwalk-type movement. At one point, he is sitting down with Jo and she is eating a (ahem) well-prepared meal - it's pretty difficult for us, at least, not to imagine him offering her a Scrumdiddlyumptious bar for dessert...
The time-travelling guerrillas are an interesting lot (it would be tempting to quote Patrick Troughton and say that we've "never seen such an incredible bunch", but we won't); Anat (Anna Barry) is the best of the lot, providing the necessary sense of toughness required to be the leader of a desperate band of paramilitary types. The casting of Barry wasn't exactly revolutionary (no pun intended) at the time, as there had been a number of strong women seen on television by this point, but Barry's Anat makes for a likeable character who has been pushed into a desperate situation.
Day of the Daleks is quite possibly the best Dalek story of the Pertwee era; it was a time when nobody was entirely sure what to do with them and the original story dealt with the Ogrons invading Earth instead of the Daleks, but it was decided that season nine needed to start with a bang so the story that was originally supposed to feature them, Daleks in London, was axed and the Barking Pepperpots were shoehorned into Louis Marks' script and the title was changed to reflect this; Terry Nation was appeased by getting a fee for each episode as well as being contracted to write the next Dalek story (season ten's Planet of the Daleks).
The Special Edition: This eagerly-awaited special edition of Day of the Daleks had been whispered of on Doctor Who websites and forums; now after what seemed to some to be an eternity, it is finally here. The big question surely has to be - is it any good?
The simple answer is - yes. It's bloody good. The subject of special editions of Doctor Who stories has always been a thorny issue, with some purists who think that altering any story in any manner is tantamount to cultural vandalism. Our opinion is that as long as the original version is included, then we'll be open to other interpretations.
The most appropriate term that can be applied to the work done in this special edition is respectful; pretty much everything that has been done merely augments what was already there, including more interesting time-travel and disintegration effects; the climactic battle at Auderly House has had new footage specially-shot (and it matches wonderfully, as they used 1970s film cameras), so now there are far more Daleks and Ogrons to make a decidedly more menacing invasion force. Some of the technical fluffs have also been removed, making for a more polished story and most importantly, the lousy Dalek voices have been removed and replaced with far better performances by "Mr Dalek" himself, Nick Briggs. Briggs is well on his way to being regarded as being the definitive voice of the Daleks, and the work he does here is far more in keeping with Daleks from classic Who, than New-Who.
There are a couple of newly-created establishing shots of the future Earth which help to establish the story geography (or should that be chronology?); these augment the feeling of a bleak dystopian environment in which humans are suppressed by the Daleks and there are big instructional boards that certainly give the feeling that Big Brother is watching.
Speaking of Big Brother watching, even the tedious and/or laughable short chase that involves Pertwee and Manning getting to grips with that most futuristic of vehicles, the trike, whilst trying to avoid being caught by the Ogrons, who are lumbering along in deliberately slow manner so as not to catch them prematurely. Whilst the action hasn't been refilmed with running Ogrons or a faster trike, the slow-motion action is broken up with clever re-uses of the footage, which includes seeing some of the action through surveillance cameras.
The opportunity to have another more definite nod to the show's past comes at the end of episode three when The Doctor is having his mind invaded and images of his former incarnations appear on the screen; in this special edition, some lovely clips have been used of Patrick Troughton and William Hartnell which will make most fans smile. The updating of monitors and the images they present is done fairly extensively throughout this special edition and it has been done with a phenomenal amount of love and attention to detail.
What will pacify the purists somewhat is the decision to keep the special edition of Day of the Daleks in episodic form, and not have great chunks hacked out of it in the way that Enlightenment and Planet of Fire had when they were re-cut by their director, Fiona Cumming. If we'd have wanted to watch a duff feature-length Dalek story, then we'd stick on Dr Who and the Daleks.
This is truly a mixed-bag - though Day of the Daleks exists in it's original PAL masters, the film elements (like most, if not all during the Pertwee era) vanished in the space/time continuum decades ago; for some reason, the film sequences look to be of poorer quality than usual, being very smudgy and lacking in image detail.
Still, it's not all bad news, as the studio footage looks wonderfully crisp, vibrant and colourful. The newly-filmed shots for the special edition are flawlessly integrated with the original footage and you'd be hard-pressed to spot the difference between old and new.
The mono soundtrack is perfectly fine, with no real problems to report. The special edition's audio was handled by Mark Ayres and he integrates the newly-recorded Daleks voices as flawlessly as possible (no mean feat considering that he had to carefully work around Dudley Simpson's score and all the other dialogue and sound effects) - the results are most pleasing and add yet another layer of polish to the story.
Disc One:
Audio Commentary: A fairly eclectic group has been rounded up to participate in this commentary track; the late producer Barry Letts, script editor Terrance Dicks, actors Anna Barry and Jim Winston, along with vision-mixer Mike Catherwood all chat happily about their experiences on Day of the Daleks. Dicks, or "Uncle Tewwy" as he's known in certain areas of fandom, comments upon Jon Pertwee's thespian abilities - "he wasn't much of an actor was Jon, bless him", when referring to his somewhat overused physical gestures; it's nice to have the couple of members of the guest cast featuring, as it's always good to listen to them giving their input from the perspective of outsiders, a world away from the fairly insular world of the production team.
Things get a bit drier and more technical for episode three's commentary, which has Letts and Catherwood talking more about the nuts and bolts of studio filming of Doctor Who, but there are still some interesting observations, particularly when Catherwood remarks that if you looked at the carpet up in the gallery, there is far more wear on the carpet under the vision-mixer's desk than under the producer's.
The more light-hearted tone returns for the final segment, when Barry Letts and the actors come back; the three Dalek invasion force gets a gentle ribbing (mainly from Dicks, naturally) and there are some references to New-Who, with Letts complaining about the incessant nature of the music score in the average story. Dicks also gives a very funny insight into the thought processes of an Ogron when being ordered about by his superiors - we've said this about Uncle Tewwy before, but treasure him whilst he's still around, as the world of Doctor Who will be much poorer when he's gone.
As audio commentaries go, it's not in the upper echelons of greatness, but it's certainly not down in the bowels of tedium (one of the worst Classic Who commentaries has got to be The Aztecs, which is almost boring beyond belief); Terrance Dicks can always be relied upon to do his Eric Morcambe alongside Barry Letts' Ernie Wise and they make for an amusing double-act.
Blasting the Past: This 30 minute documentary takes a look at the production of Day of the Daleks. There are numerous contributors, including Terrance Dicks, Barry Letts and Katy Manning, all of whom have some interesting anecdotes about the production, with Dicks letting rip with some very amusing observations. The issue of the similarities between Day of the Daleks and The Terminator (or, more specifically, an episode of The Outer Limits written by Harlan Ellison) are discussed, with Dicks theorising that James Cameron could have caught Day of the Daleks on PBS during the seventies.
A View from the Gallery: Spend 20 minutes in the company of producer Barry Letts and vision-mixer Mike Catherwood as they reminisce about the tense, frenetic days of editing on the fly; the tales related by Catherwood, especially about the fact that you have only a twenty-fifth of a second to get the editing point right during a live taping is particularly alarming and would certainly come as a baptism of fire to anyone schooled in modern single-camera filming. This featurette opens with Letts and Catherwood touring the Concrete Doughnut's studio galleries, and seeing all of the editing equipment that had replaced the machines that had been there when they were editing in the early seventies, despite the monitors and mixing desks being clearly from the mid-late eighties, there is still an antiquated, almost museum-like feeling that lightly slithers over you as you watch this footage.
Nationwide: This a short trip into nostalgia as everyone's favourite seventies magazine programme follows cameras into a primary school for the delivery of a Dalek that was won by the pupils after entering a Radio Times competition. There are the usual assortment of kids, but they mainly seem to consist of "nice" children (just think the younger members of Absolutely's Nice Family) who are well-spoken and the sort of class that that Auntie Beeb embraced passionately at the time. The kiddies are asked about The Doctor's most fearsome adversaries and why they make such an impression on them, with some surprisingly honest answers before the great moment arrives and the Dalek is delivered...
...only it's not a full-size Dalek, it's more of a half-sized replica; the kids seem pretty pleased with it, but it's possibly because they had been taught to just look gratful when they're seriously disgruntled inside; if that Dalek had been delivered to a comprehensive school, then the poor bloody Dalek wouldn't have stood a change - it would have been pelted with bricks and kicked to pieces shortly afterwards. If the Daleks ever tried to invade seventies inner-city London again, then The Doctor should call upon comprehensive school pupils to join in the frey, as they'd make short work of them. Getting back on topic, this an interesting little extra that shows the power of the Daleks (ahem) even after they had been away from screens for what was (at least in kiddie terms) a very long time.
Blue Peter: Carrying on the length of time in kiddie terms, this excerpt from the BBC's flagship (ahem, again) children's show has presenter Peter Purves addressing the large amount of letters from viewers asking about his time on Doctor Who; the venerable Purves (who has gone on to be quite the ambassador of the show), doesn't say much about his experiences as Steven Taylor, but what is most significant about this is that it features a reasonably lengthy clip from episode three of The Daleks Master Plan, which is why this footage remains in existence and fans should certainly be thankful for this (although The Traitors - another episode from the Dalek epic - was loaned to Blue Peter in 1973 and never returned). This segment is rounded off by the end credits of Blue Peter as Daleks invade the studio and encircle Peter, Val, Noaksie and Shep - wonderful, nostalgic fun for those over a certain age...
Photo Gallery: Another interesting assortment of publicity and behind-the-scenes images are set to appropriate music and sound effects from the story. You know the drill: it's perfectly put together, and so atmospheric that you'll be almost running to watch the show again.
Production Subtitles: These tracks can always be relied upon to detail relevant parallels to history within the various stories, and it really helps the uninitiated - or the ignorant - to find out that the guerrillas from the 22nd century share themes with the Castro/Che Guevara revolutionaries so infamous at the time. These days, such freedom-fighters are more associated with the Middle-East, much less than the type in Day of the Daleks, but we suspect that the depressingly easy way to key Generation X in on who Che Guevara is, you just tell them it's the one on the Rage Against the Machine T-shirt they have on. Or even the one sporting a beret-wearing chimp from Planet of the Apes. Jesus.
Fascinatingly, there is more than idle speculation that when The Doctor and Jo are liberated from the clutches of The Controller, they had hoped to show the dying creature inside a Dalek they had just blasted. Freshman effects designer Ian Scoones voted that they use the same rubber-glove-in-slime technique seen in The Quatermass Experiment, but we all know that it was not to be. However, Scoones swears blind that he shot it as a video-insert, but there is no documentation to back up his claims.
We've become almost arrogant in expecting the production subtitles to come up with a bumper harvest of material which differs from what was broadcast, and we have maintained the right to be blasé once again, as there is a wealth of changes all carefully catalogued. Considerable detail is provided at how the story originally concluded, which most will realise that it was supposed to have a sequence which neatly book-ended with the opening scene. Liberal chunks of dialogue are quoted to show exactly what was missed, and is a real shame, as it explains the concept of alternate timelines and the responsibilities when changing the past. Not to mention The Brigadier looking rather dismayed when confronted by two Doctors.
Also there is another alteration from the script during filing, this being when Pertwee and Manning are tied up in the wine cellar, a deleted line from the script brought out a rather unkind element to the character, when The Doctor notes that Jo is "much nicer" when gagged, a little more sour than what made in into the final version. There are numerous other scintillating details, one of our favourites being the publicity Dalek tour concocted to herald the return of the motorised dustbins, including a stopover at Strathclyde University to help with a lecture, and hooking up with Barry Letts and Pertwee for an Observer-sponsored educational event at the London Planetarium!
If you walk away from this excellent trivia-track already knowing everything it has to offer, then you either need more sunlight or should try and make some money out of such knowledge. The level of research ploughed into it is just amazing, and presented with the customary balance of authority, humour and reverence. The amount of Doctor Who titles unreleased on DVD is growing steadily smaller, so take advantage of these tracks whilst they still have material to run with. We never grow tired of typing this, so here we go again: another sterling piece of work, and one which enriches the whole experience of classic Doctor Who.
Coming Soon: Oh dear god! It's the story that we consider to be the bottom of the barrel in terms of the Pertwee era (or Doctor Who in general for that matter) - it's Colony in Space!
PDF Materials: As per usual, the Radio Times listings for each episode can be accessed via the miracle of Adobe; what makes this even more of a pleasure is that not only is the front cover of the RT included (which - above the Frank Bellamy artwork - proclaims "The Daleks are back!", but there is also a reproduction with a nice interview with Katy Manning thrown in, too, complete with rather fetching picture of Ms M. If that wasn't enough, there is also a page of the RT that had a "write your own Doctor Who adventure" competition (which was apparently judged by no less than Terry Nation!). These PDF materials made for a lovely little addition to an already fabulous array of extras.
Disc Two:
Then and Now: It's always pleasing to have continuity with special features on Doctor Who releases, and as such, we were pleased to see another in the series looking at just how much locations used have changed over the years, once again narrated by Toby Hadoke.
It's short and sweet, covering the main areas used during filming, with the first stop-off in Bucks, where Dropmore Park was the location for the invasion. In spite of surviving two fires and subsequent renovation between then and now, the place has hardly changed, with various pieces from the show easy to pick out on the split-screen comparisons.
It must have been quite a comedown for the crew to move on to Brentwood after such palatial luxury, setting up cameras on the Green Dragon estate, using the high-rise blocks to represent the Daleks HQ. This was in much the same way that George Romero used the Monroeville mall in Dawn of the Dead, the ultra-modern design giving it a futuristic look, but blocks of flats are slowly being phased out, whereas you can't say the same thing about shopping malls. Paradise Towers was certainly right in its concept…
What use would a look at the locations used in Day of the Daleks be without taking a gander at the famous bridge? Well, a trip to Bulls Bridge, near Hayes, Middlesex, soon shows that although it isn't as easily accessible, it is certainly still there, and looking rather similar to its one shot at immortality. The scrubland which was torn up by Pertwee on a quad-bike still just as under-developed, and you might even see tyre-tracks if you look hard enough, presumably with traces of hairspray in them.
Coming complete with historical information about the locations, not to mention the smooth, smooth sounds of light jazz, this is another little gem which fights off any accusations of being masturbation for the fans. The boy Hadoke has become rock-solid in his style, with a lightly humorous touch making for a very pleasant experience. It's short, but definitely worth your time.
The Cheating Memory: Being so crushed when his memories of rampaging Daleks from his childhood were debunked by a screening of it as an adult, Day of the Daleks DVD producer Steve Broster not only put his efforts into bringing the Pertwee tale right up to date, but made time to ponder the nature of memory in this most intriguing piece.
The rather nice Sarita Robinson (School of Psychology, University of Central Lancashire, looker) goes into the why and wherefores of just why some things seemed much better as a kid, aside from the obvious notion that kids are wrapped in a warm blanket of ignorance, unable to understand such cynical concepts as budgets and lack-of-time. She cites how watching Daleks: Invasion Earth 2150AD recently disappointed her when she saw only a single Dalek come out of the water, as opposed to the hoards from her childhood. It's a bit of a disappointment when she points out that kids these days have access to more information about Doctor Who in order to create concrete memories of the show, which some cynics would interpret as a feed, proceeding to plug BBC I-Player, releated magazines, etc. Well, they say some of the best psychologists in the world work in the advertising game.
Ben Aronovitch is on hand to take a swipe at The Green Death, and how the maggots really don't cut it in a modern world, but Nick Briggs comes out fighting on the side of memories when he tells how in spite of the obvious flaws in the productions, he always has something inside his mind bringing him back to the feeling he got when he first saw them.
This is excellent stuff, covering one of the most pertinent questions among the fans, that which most daren't ask for fear of warm, fuzzy memories bursting in a flash of psychology. We'd argue that it's one of the best extras in a good long while, and with the bar set rather high, no more needs to be said.
The UNIT Family - Part 2: Obviously picking up from where the first left off, things get off to a flying start with the casting of Katy Manning as erstwhile thickhead Jo Grant. The lady herself is on camera to relive the awkward audition she went through, including how her Mr Magoo-like glasses didn't stop her natural charm from coming across. In actual fact, she is the lynchpin to this documentary, as it covers her time on the show from beginning to end, concluding with the sense of loss and unease felt at the end of The Green Death.
The eloquent and rueful Barry Letts is kept alive once again through previously recorded footage, and goes into expanding UNIT to consist of recognisable personnel within its structure, as he thought that just having the Brigadier was "a bit daft". He also goes into detail about looking for a gimmick to launch the new season and get on the cover of the Radio Times, and in this case, it was the creation of an ultimate foil for the forces of good. Terrence Dicks takes over at this point, explaining that from this brainstorming came The Master, Moriarty to The Doctor's Sherlock Holmes. Sure, there is a bit of overlapping material, but any chance to hear more from Mr Letts.
Letts also discusses the introduction of Richard Franklyn as Captain Yates, brought in to give a credible chain of command to UNIT, and the thespian himself recounts many fun anecdotes from the shooting of the cosiest era of the show. The best of them is when he got the opportunity to butch-up a bit during Mind of Evil, where he had to start up a motorbike, leap on and roar off into the distance. Naturally, the bike shot off without him, leaving Franklyn flat on his face. We've had experience of saying "That's OK, it's only a small stunt", and having it blow up in our faces, so we can empathise. Speaking of The Mind of Evil, colour clips are tantalisingly seen in this documentary, though they're inset, most of them look pretty good, with only one clip showing obvious signs of colour banding, which we are hoping will be ironed out.
The inclusion of Corporal Bell into the male-dominated UNIT taskforce is discussed, with Letts under the impression that she was to become a permanent character. To our great surprise, Fernanda Marlowe herself pops up to speak for both herself and her short-lived alter-ego. She not exactly complementary about the experience, especially when brought into Claws of Axos to give a weather report for the purposes of explaining away the freak bout of snow to hit Kent during filming.
We've always liked hanging out with the stunt guys on film sets, and an interview with Derek Ware adds a pretty cool dimension to the documentary. The founder of the legendary Havoc stunt agency, this is a man who has no trouble with things blowing up around him, or massive amounts of gunplay, but reveals that the one thing he hates doing is a stunt involving a pushbike!
Another face since disappeared into the ether is good old Nick Courtney, and his reliable ability to make you chuckle is in evidence once again. He mentions his memorable piece of improvisation at the end of The Daemons, where he goes off in search of the local pub for a drink, a move he chose to "associate himself more closely with the role", as he was dying for a pint at the time.
Speaking of Devil's End, John Levene is on hand to recount the time he almost decapitated the main cast of The Daemons, through his irresistible urge to fiddle with the rotor-control of a helicopter whilst they were all standing underneath the blades. It's Levene who provides the most poignant tale to be found here, that of the sitting in the rehearsal rooms just after everyone had received news of Roger Delgado's death, with Pertwee rushing off to the toilets to cry his eyes out. Naturally, he is still being interviewed on his own, and it seems that he'll forever stick to the advice given to him by the Bouffanted-One: "Never share the stage with anyone…"
This documentary should really be called The UNIT Family: The Jo Grant Years, as this is an accurate description of the ground it covers. It starts from Little Miss Dimwit blundering her way into the series and ends when she flies the nest with a higher IQ than she came in with, each story given their own particular "file" name and number. No prizes for guessing which story is called: "File012: T.O.M.T.I.T…?"
It's another winner, and nice to see a documentary where The Doctor isn't the focus, but a bunch of characters whom were liked and loved as much as The Doctor was during the early seventies. We're not sure how much footage is left in the vaults from folks like Barry Letts and Nick Courtney, so it's great to see what there is showcased in such entertaining fashion.
The Making of Day of the Daleks - Special Edition: Want to know just what drives a devotee of Doctor Who to drop themselves into the unenviable tasking of bringing a cherished story right up to date, in spite of a tight budget and even tighter schedule? Well, Day of the Daleks Special Edition producer Steve Broster is here to show exactly what he was up against to get the barking pepper-pots ready for a new generation.
We won't say too much about the nuts and bolts, as they will act as spoilers for those wanting to experience the new cut from fresh, but we will tell you that this is utterly fascinating stuff, bringing you exactly all the elements which makes the concept of filmmaking so alluring.
Creating the new footage was a very communal experience, having to rely on fans and enthusiasts to band together with each particular element they possessed. Aside from having the coolest T-shirt, DP John Kelly also had a 16mm Arriflex, his recent acquisition being the lynchpin for the project, being the same camera used at the time. Dalek builder Toby Chamberlain not only supplied Skaro's finest, but also made a rather spiffing Ogron costume during the eighties, and both of his carefully-crafted baddies were used. Kevin Looseley plays a poor-schmuck UNIT soldier, who gets blasted to atoms, with Nick Nicholson as the Ogron whom pulls the trigger on said hero.
After the filming, it's onto effects, colour-grading and music, with Mr Mark Ayres once again coming up trumps. He details the struggle to replace the Dalek voices, where the real work started once Nick Briggs had finished his part of the looping. This was mainly due to the soundtrack only existing in the final, mono mix, which made it much more difficult to have the new dialogue blended into the track. His results are excellent, and any man who uses Mission speakers is OK by us!
This really should satisfy anyone whom watches it, from the curious to the downright rabid. Sure, to some, the addition of new effects and generally re-editing a story from that particular era is considered blasphemy, but even this section of fandom will have a spark of admiration at the lengths Mr Broster and his team have gone to in bringing back the Day of the Daleks they knew from years ago to just how they remember it.
The UNIT Dating Conundrum: This is a brief, whimsical look at the way Doctor Who has contradicted itself chronologically over the years, where certain stories have taken place before certain incidents and introductions have even taken place. Toby Hadoke is your genial guide along this torturous path, using concrete information and carefully calculated supposition to keep a track of when each major story takes place, before reluctantly playing things down in the manner of religious zealots in the face of hard facts.
From the first meeting of The Cosmic Hobo and Lethbridge-Stewart (in what seems to be the seventies) and how the Pertwee-era UNIT tales all took place over the course of a year, everything is carefully catalogued in the attempts to iron out the chronology, with things shaping up pretty well, and aside from some problems with fashion, it falls into place. But then…
… The Mawdryn Undead buggers up everything, setting events in 1977, where it blows every attempt to maintain continuity out of the water, and it'll take more than just the usual standbys of "parallel universe" and "the TARDIS jumping a time-track" to explain it all away. It's all good fun, with a required sense of humour to stop things getting into the realms of "nerdy", and any documentary on the subject of Doctor Who which manages to cram in Showaddywaddy really knows the right way to pitch complex material in a way palatable for the uninitiated.
Hadoke is clearly having fun with the material, and "osmosis" seems to be the word of the day, as you can't help but be swept along with it. How willing you are to go with your own theories about the return of the Brigadier will depend how you find the last couple of minutes, but everybody should get a bang out of this one. And we thought the only UNIT conundrum was making sure that it said "day" rather than "date" in the competition rules...
Teaser: This is essentially a "title-trailer" for the special edition of Day of the Daleks without the luxury of a title. It was all wonderfully vague, and perfect for whipping up fans into a frenzy. A nice inclusion.
Day of the Daleks is an entertaing romp, with great performances from the regulars and some nice character moments scattered throughout. Most of the flaws in this story, which were primarily budgetary, have been fixed with the special edition included here. The special edition is absolutely wonderful, a thing of beauty that was an obvious labour of love for all concered and far and away the best special edition of a Doctor Who story to date. The extras are plentiful and for the purists out there, the original version has been included.
This is certainly the stand-out Doctor Who DVD release of the year and a strong contender for the best ever Doctor Who DVD - it really IS that good. We can't recommend this highly enough. Be sure not to get caught in a time-loop after this has flown off the shelves - there lies the route to enternal torment!
Review by Wilson Bros
Faltskogian Member Join Date: February 2006 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 26
Another entertaining informative review.
Esp relevant considering the utter balls up Mr Lucas has made with his latest revisions to Star Wars, Dr Who truly shows how to make changes and still stay true to the original source material, and thus not alienate the fan base.
Esp relevant considering the utter balls up Mr Lucas has made with his latest revisions to Star Wars, Dr Who truly shows how to make changes and still stay true to the original source material, and thus not alienate the fan base.
Wilson Bros Reviewer Join Date: August 2004 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 1,183
Thanks for the kind words.
Don't get us started on the Blu-ray revisions to the Star Wars saga. Lucas has finally bolloxed it up once and for all, and we're pretty damn irked about it.
Getting back on topic, we can't stress how wonderful this release it - the special edition is fabulous and is so respectful of the original work, that it practically doffs its cap and bows its head...
Kevin & Nick W
Don't get us started on the Blu-ray revisions to the Star Wars saga. Lucas has finally bolloxed it up once and for all, and we're pretty damn irked about it.
Getting back on topic, we can't stress how wonderful this release it - the special edition is fabulous and is so respectful of the original work, that it practically doffs its cap and bows its head...
Kevin & Nick W
General viewing, but some scenes may be unsuitable for young children
Disc Details
Release Date: 15th September 2011
Discs: 2
Disc Type: Single side, dual layer
RCE: No
Video: PAL
Aspect: 1.33:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: Dolby Digital 2.0 English
Subtitles: English
Extras: Special Edition version, Audio Commentary, Production Subtitles, Blasting the Past, A View from the Gallery, The UNIT Family Part 2, Then and Now, Nationwide, Blue Peter, The Cheating Memory, The Making of Day of the Daleks Special Edition, The UNIT Dating Conundrum, Photo Gallery, Coming Soon, Teaser, PDF Materials
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Paul Bernard
Cast: Jon Pertwee, Katy Manning, Nicholas Courtney, Richard Franklin, John Levene, The Candyman
Genre: Sci-Fi
Length: 100 minutes
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