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BBC
Production Details
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| Production Code: | FF | |
| Original Transmission (UK): | Saturday 17th
December 1966 - Saturday 07th January 1967 |
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| Season: | 4 | |
| Number of Episodes: | 4 | |
| Writers: | Gerry Davis & Elwyn Jones | |
| Producer: | Innes Lloyd | |
| Director: | Hugh David | |
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Loose
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| Production Release Date: | August 2007 | |
| Episode(s) Reconstructed: | Episodes 1,2,3,4 | |
| Source Material: | John Cura's telesnaps | |
| Audio recorded by Graham Strong | ||
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| Other authentic pictures | ||
| CGI (Computer Generated Images) | ||
| Pictures from other stories / sources | ||
| Specially Created Material | ||
| Tape length required: | UK / Australia:
E180 USA / Canada: T160 |
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Bonus
Material
As well as the reconstruction we are able to bring you the following goodies… |
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Celebrity Introduction Despite still
being much in demand as an actor Michael Elwyn, who played Lieutenant
Algernon Ffinch in the story, spared the time to provide our celebrity
introduction. |
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Production Featurette Also included on the tape is a short 'mini-documentary' which gives an insight into the events surrounding the production of The Highlanders. This is narrated by Michael Elwyn. |
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Historical Extract Also included as part of the introduction is a documentary on the Battle of Culloden, Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Jacobite uprisings beautifully narrated by Michael Elwyn. |
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Celebrity Interview We also include
an interview with actor Michael Elwyn, who discusses his career from early
days in Doctor Who up to his role in the new series of Robin Hood. |
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Carry on Culloden Sometimes the Loose Cannon team wonders if The Highlanders was written by Gerry Davis or Talbot Rothwell!! |
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No episodes of this serial are known to survive. If any should resurface and be released at a later date, please purchase the official BBC video release to complement our reconstruction. Support The BBC Video Releases. |
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| Loose Cannon Says: |
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Though other stories still need reconstructing we decided to revisit an older recon which was in need of a spring clean. Better quality telesnap scans, better quality Australian censor clips, clips from other serials appropriate for the story and new photographs and composites as well as improved methods of converting between formats make the new Highlanders a far more polished recon. |
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Arriving in Scotland in the aftermath of the Battle of Culloden, the Doctor and his companions are taken prisoner by a group of Scottish rebels. Offering medical help to the clan's injured Laird, the Doctor is able to win over their captors. Their respite is short-lived, though. While Polly and the Laird's daughter, Kirsty, go to fetch water, the others are captured by a Redcoat troop under the command of Lieutenant Ffinch. Ffinch leaves his prisoners in the custody of Grey, a crooked solicitor who plans to sell them into slavery in the West Indies. To win his friends' freedom, the Doctor must stretch his powers of disguise to their limits... |
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Review by Sean Gibbons This
newest edition of “The Highlanders” is one of the very best recons yet!
A much improved, carefully crafted, most enjoyable recon, which has helped
restore, clarify and improve an equally enjoyable story. I have got to
know this story reasonably well from the BBC website telesnaps, and the
BBC Audio, but if possible this tape recon has surpassed those two sources
put together! From the lovely TARDIS / Police Box materialisation and
departure, to the care and detail taken in putting faces to the soundtrack
voices, plus great re-instating of original footage, this recon sparkles,
and once again, so do all the vivid cast and characters. It’s a jolly
little period adventure story, and you have made a magnificent job of
it! Many, many thanks. |
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Review by Christopher Loftus Personally I've never had a lot of time for the Highlanders, to me a story that sort of pretended to be a historical and story that never really come alive in the Target book, the Audio CD and the old recon (LC09) didn't do anything to improve that view. But the new version has brought the story back to life. Clearer, sharper 100% better, and now due to Dean and Russ, it can finally hold it's head up high, it will never be Marco Polo, but watching it again it does seem to have it all Adventure, suspense, and a great dollop of fun!! Maybe the guys in Cardiff should get a copy, and see that you dont need a famous figure to make the historicals work. The special features are interesting, and Michael Elwyn makes a fantastic interviewee, and the Carry On feature appeals to my rather non-PC sense of Humour! Well done everyone involved. To anyone reading this that is put off getting it by the old version or the JV one, think again, 4 episodes of fun. |
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Review by Jason Pendergast To be brutally honest, I have found the Highlanders to be one of the least interesting stories of Doctor Who. However, this could be due to the fact that so little footage (15 seconds) of it actually has survived over the years. What the Loose Cannons Crew has done has added A LOT of visual flair to jazz up this story- everything from the CGI (??) smoke in Ffinch's pipe to the way the darken rooms lighten up adds some charm to this lost show. If your only experience with the Highlanders is the older telesnap recon, please give this a try. It seemed that at least double the usual amount of photos were used (or created) in each episode, each clearer and more detailed than ever seen before. |
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