Torrent - Doctor Who - 024 - William Hartnell - The Celestial Toymaker DVD (PAL)
Doctor Who - 024 - William Hartnell - The Celestial Toymaker DVD (PAL)
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I am uploading the whole of Doctor Who on DVD, in order.
Where available these will be the official BBC DVD's. Where there isn't a DVD it'll be my own, USUALLY from a BBC VHS release. Where there are episodes or stories missing they'll be reconstructions (usually Loose Cannon), encoded onto DVD. All of my DVD's are in PAL format.
As soon as someone else is seeding I'll do the next one. If no one seeds them they'll die 'cos I haven't got the bandwidth to seed more than one at a time. At roughly one a week this is going to take a couple of years!
In response to a couple of the criticisms which have been placed in the comments, occasionally these are taken from avi rips which I got off IRC years ago. Any encodes from avi's are episodes which have not yet been remastered so the drop in quality is negligible. However they are MOSTLY (please note the word - ie. not all) taken directly from official BBC VHS releases or the tape as recieved from the dubsite in the case of the recons. Any existing episodes from recons are replaced with the best quality BBC original, for instance, from the 'Lost In Time' DVD.
I will not be replying to comments directly because I do not have a forum account on Mininova. I have been involved in many forums and bulletin boards over the last 15 years and now prefer to be anonymous due to the high number of dickheads who post to these. I also can't stand leetspeak or text language - learn to type and stop rubbishing anyone who hasn't got 40 thousand posts to their name - everyone had a first time and you probably asked just as many dumb questions.
Finally, if you still feel the need to moan, please go ahead. It hasn't cost you anything and I don't see why I should give a rat's ass. If you want better quality then pay for it.
Loose Cannon are still best recons out there and they are free as well. Seen the other recons on previous stories, not as well done.
Great rips though keep up the great work bringing the "classic" years of Doctor Who to everyone. Might have a whole new generation watching from "behind the sofa".
A lot may never have seen the original broadcasts and the "recons" are the only way to experience the missing episodes for the first time.
Thanks
Great job on the DVD and thanks for the up.
I agree, Loose Cannon are the best recons out there, but the fact that they are so digitally unfriendly is a pain in the arse. Some of the other recon artists who are online offer things like optional audio tracks of original audio or audio with narration from the BBC releases and the images are MUCH crisper being totally digital to digital. Even without the nice BBC narrated audio, I still prefer the Loose Cannon copies and really appreciate their more recent "animated" enhanced recons, but I wish that they would bridge the digital gap already.