Altered Vistas releases Curse of the Daleks

Sunday, April 06, 2008

Altered Vistas has released a CGI computer animated version of the Doctor Who stage production, Curse of the Daleks.

Curse of the Daleks originally played at London’s Wyndham Theatre over Christmas and New Year 1965/66.

Following sabotage, the crew of the spaceship Starfinder are forced to land on the inhospitable world of Skaro. The Daleks are dormant following their war with the humans fifty years before, but someone doesn’t want them to stay that way and will go to any lengths to reactivate them. Could it be Ladiver and Sline, two prisoners who are being taken back to Earth to stand trial for their many crimes? Or how about Professor Vanderlyn and his frosty assistant Miss Clements? Perhaps it is one of the Starfinder’s crew, such as the bullish Captain Redway? And who will stop them from giving the Daleks back their power and once again waging war on the universe?

Curse of the Daleks
 
Written by David Whitaker and Terry Nation, this production is a double-disc release packed with bonus features, including a short documentary on the original stage show, plus Jonathan Redwood recreating an edited version of William Hartnell’s appearance on ‘Desert Island Discs’ (complete with brief audio clips of Hartnell’s music selection) and a fascinating montage of images illustrating Hartnell’s life and career.
 
Full details of the production can be found on the Altered Vistas Web site: www.alteredvistas.co.uk where you can also find the next exciting instalment of Iain McClumpha’s original Dalek comic strip Invasion of the Mechanoids, new wallpapers, many new reviews, lots of new details on their Who’s Who page, extended and revised versions of their History of the Daleks in the Comics and History of the Cybermen in the Comics features, the former now with over 170 images, the latter with almost 100 images, plus news on forthcoming productions and much more.

As always with Altered Vistas productions, this is free – you just need to send a blank CD, along with return postage and packing. You can’t say fairer than that.