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“Our challenge was to make an edgy/trippy sci-fi movie for around 30 million dollars”, says scriptwriter Alex Garland in the introduction to his illustrated screenplay for the 2012 blockbuster movie Dredd, based on the 2000 AD comic character. “Eventually we reached a point where we felt that we needed the addition of a new creative voice, one who could define some of the key Judge/Mega-City One visuals.”

Unless any more missing episodes are discovered, or the BBC ever figures out what to do with the two extant episodes of The Underwater Menace, it appears that the range of classic Doctor Who DVDs came to an end with the release of The Web of Fear in February of this year.

According to author Bruce G. Hallenbeck in his excellent new book about UK film company Amicus, the owner/producers Milton Subotsky and Max J. Rosenberg  'did not invent the horror anthology. They merely took a pre-existent format and ran with it. But they turned it into a sub-genre all its own and left behind them a collective of which both they, and all who sailed in them, could be justifiably proud.'

Over the years DK Publishing has made a name for itself with its lavishly illustrated reference guides to iconic characters from the worlds of film, television and comic books. With Doctor Who celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, it's no surprise to find the BBC's Time Lord getting in on the act.