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With its historic place in Doctor Who legend as Tom Baker’s last turn as the incumbent Doctor, Logopolis is almost guaranteed to have killer bonus features.

The main featurette, A New Body At Last (actually named after a quote from the previous story, The Keeper Of Traken), takes a surprisingly no-holds-barred, no-punches-pulled look at Baker’s exit from the TARDIS. Baker himself, writer Christopher Bidmead, co-stars Matthew Waterhouse, Sarah Sutton and Adrian Gibbs, and numerous others deliver a warts-and-all retelling of both the making of this particular adventure, and of Baker’s decision to leave the show permanently. (more…)

The most low-key story in a trilogy of adventures that had major ramifications for the series, The Keeper Of Traken saw the reintroduction of the Master - making only his second appearance since the death of Roger Delgado, the first actor to play the role - as a surprise twist at the end of part four. Traken is also notable for being the singular outing for Tom Baker’s Doctor and Matthew Waterhouse’s Adric as the TARDIS crew. (Though Logopolis also starts out with this pairing, by the end of that story’s second episode more companions have been introduced to the mix.) (more…)