Doctor Who - 108 5 - Shada [DVD (PAL) TRBLE]

I'm uploading all of Doctor Who, in order. Since, roughly, the beginning of the Tom Baker era the torrents have been marked 'TRBLE' to help search them. As soon as someone else is seeding the current disc I do the next one.



If there is an official BBC DVD then that's what you get, if there isn't then it's my own DVD. These are sometimes taken from official BBC VHS releases, sometimes encoded from AVI's. From the Baker era onwards it's probably about 50:50. I always list the source, assuming I can remember what it was (most of these I made years ago). My menu's are fairly simple affairs, partly because it was the best I could do at the time, partly because I can't stand having to sit through 5 minutes of garbage to get to the main menu (as with the BBC releases!). When a previously uploaded VHS or AVI disc is released on DVD by the BBC I'll do an updated version. These will have an 'a' after the number (as in '027a - The War Machines). All of my discs are PAL.



When I started and wrote the original 'Read Me' file, I said that this was going to take a couple of years. I just looked back, and I started at 'An Unearthly Child' in June 2007. As we're now just over 18 months on and about halfway through Tom Baker, this was probably a bit optimistic! At the current rate, I should catch up with the modern era towards the end of 2010 (which should still be Matt Smith, but who knows?)



I wasn't sure whether to include this one in the numbering system or not. As you can see, I settled on making it a .5, so not in the main numbering system.



Disc 1 is the BBC VHS release starring Tom Baker, with the existing footage linked with narration. It is encoded from AVI, because my VHS copy has seen better days and this was better quality.



Disc 2 is the BBCi version starring Paul McGann, with Cosgrove Hall animation. It is also encoded from AVI, because someone else is clearly better at getting a decent quality rip from Flash animation! This would also be my first widescreen upload.