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	Doctor Who: The Lost TV Episodes: Collection 1: 1964-1965 publisher: BBC United Kingdom, published: 2010-09-14 ASIN: 1408467518 sales rank: 365154 price: $78.72 (new)	Dozens of "Doctor Who" TV episodes are lost as visual film recordings - but they survive as audio soundtracks, digitally remastered with additional linking narration by members of the original cast. This handsome 12CD box set collects together five adventures which are either wholly or partially lost from the TV archives, but which can be enjoyed in their entirety on audio. Presented in chronological order of transmission, the stories in this collection are "Marco Polo", "The Reign of Terror", "The Crusade", "Galaxy 4", and "The Myth Makers", all starring William Hartnell as the original Doctor. It also includes bonus interviews with William Russell (Ian), Carole Ann Ford (Susan) and Maureen O'Brien (Vicki) in which they recall their time as Doctor Who companions; colour scans of the original TV camera scripts for all 25 episodes, presented as PDF files and a JPEG map showing the route taken by the Doctor and his companions in the company of the explorer Marco Polo. "The Lost TV Episodes Collections" are presented in an attractive tuck-end slipcase. Each individual story is presented in its own rigid case with accompanying sleeve notes, cast & production credits and full track listing.
	The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Primary Phase (Original BBC Radio Series) by: Douglas Adams publisher: BBC Audiobooks America, published: 2008-10-14 ASIN: 160283511X sales rank: 116745 price: $13.52 (new), $13.52 (used)	The BBC Radio Full-Cast Dramatization! Seconds before the Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy who, for the last fifteen years, has been posing as an out-of-work actor. Together this dynamic pair begin a journey through space aided by quotes from The Hitchhiker's Guide ("A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have") and a galaxy-full of fellow travelers: Zaphod Beeblebrox--the two-headed, three-armed ex-hippie and totally out-to-lunch president of the galaxy; Trillian, Zaphod's girlfriend (formally Tricia McMillan), whom Arthur tried to pick up at a cocktail party once upon a time zone; Marvin, a paranoid, brilliant, and chronically depressed robot; Veet Voojagig, a former graduate student who is obsessed with the disappearance of all the ballpoint pens he bought over the years. Where are these pens? Why are we born? Why do we die? Why do we spend so much time between wearing digital watches? For all the answers stick your thumb to the stars. And don't forget to bring a towel! Presented Fully Dramatized on 3 CDs.
	The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Tertiary Phase (BBC Radio Full-Cast Dramatization) by: Douglas Adams publisher: BBC Audiobooks America, published: 2005-03-24 ASIN: 1572704691 sales rank: 449280 price: $15.78 (new), $9.50 (used)	The brand new third installment of Douglas Adams's classic time travel tale, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Tertiary Phase, is now available on audio. The long-awaited CD—which revives the BBC's popular radio series with this new six-part dramatization of Adams's book Life, the Universe and Everything—features 25 minutes of exclusive and previously unheard footage and features the author himself playing the role of Agrajag. The plot picks up where the second radio series left off: Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect escape from prehistoric Earth on a time-traveling sofa while a pack of homicidal robots blow up Lords Cricket Ground. Armed only with a rabbit bone, a worn dressing gown, and a spaceship that looks remarkably like an Italian bistro, Arthur embarks on an intergalactic journey to save the universe. Several members of the original BBC Radio 4 cast reunited for this special audio production, including Simon Jones as Arthur Dent, Geoffrey McGivern as Ford Prefect, Susan Sheridan as Trillian, Mark Wing-Davey as Zaphod Beeblebrox, and Stephen Moore as Marvin the Paranoid Android. Richard Griffiths, Chris Langham, Joanna Lumley, and cricket commentators Fred Trueman and Henry Blofeld also star in this brilliant satire replete with incisive comedic wit.
	Star Wars, Dark Forces Collector's Trilogy (Soldier for the Empire; Rebel Agent; Jedi Knight) by: William C. Dietz publisher: Highbridge Audio, published: 1998-11-01 ASIN: 1565112784 sales rank: 426473 price: $21.99 (new), $19.35 (used)	Fully dramatized. Kyle Katarn has joined the ranks of legendary Star Wars heroes such as Luke Skywalker and Han Solo. A timeless adventure of revenge and honor, the trilogy is set in a shimmering universe of sound that only CD technology can fully capture. In Soldier for the Empire, Kyle Katarn, having just graduated from the Imperial Military Academy, learns of his father's murder. On his way home, he meets a Rebel agent, learns the ugly truth about the way in which his father died, and swears revenge. In Rebel Agent, Kyle learns more about what his father found in the Valley of the Jedi that ultimately led to his death. Kyle finally earns his Knighthood as a Jedi, and the stage is set for him to avenge his father's death and stop the Dark Jedi from taking control of the source of energy that lies underneath the Valley. Jedi Knight, the exciting conclusion to the series. In Jedi Knight Jerec, the Dark Jedi, brings his forces to Ruusan in the final part of his search for the Valley of the Jedi. Destroying anything that gets in his way, Jerec reaches the Valley just ahead of Kyle Katarn and Jan Ors. With the help of the indigenous inhabitants of the planet, Kyle and Jan confront Jerec's Jedi and prepare for a final showdown with Jerec. If Jerec defeats Kyle, the unlimited power contained in the Valley will enable him to rule the galaxy. Are Kyle's untrained Jedi powers enough to defeat Jerec?
	Doctor Who: The Smugglers (BBC TV Soundtrack) by: Anneke Wills publisher: BBC Worldwide Ltd., published: 2003-07 ASIN: 0563535040 sales rank: 851108 price: $7.37 (new), $34.63 (used)	Further dramatized adventures of the time-travelling Doctor Who, this time in the murky world of pirates and hidden treasure.
	Star Wars: The Original Radio Drama by: Lucasfilm Ltd. publisher: Highbridge Audio, published: 1993-05-01 ASIN: 1565110056 sales rank: 408313 price: $33.38 (new), $33.37 (used)	When this series was first broadcast on National Public Radio in 1981, it generated the largest response in the network's history: 50,000 letters and phone calls in a single week, an audience of 750,000 per episode, and a subsequent 40-percent jump in NPR listenership. This landmark production, perhaps the most ambitious radio project ever attempted, began when Star Wars creator George Lucas donated the story rights to an NPR affiliate. Writer Brian Daley adapted the film's highly visual script to the special demands and unique possibilities of radio, creating a more richly textured tale with greater emphasis on character development. Director John Madden guided a splendid cast—including Mark Hamill and Anthony Daniels, reprising their film roles as Luke Skywalker and the persnickety robot See Threepio—through an intense 10-day dialogue recording session. Then came months of painstaking work for virtuoso sound engineer Tom Voegeli, whose brilliant blending of the actors' voices, the music, and hundreds of sound effects takes this intergalactic adventure into a realm of imagination that is beyond the reach of cinema.
	Stargate SG-1: Pathogen by: Sharon Gosling publisher: Big Finish Productions, published: 2009-11-16 ASIN: 1844354040 sales rank: 283376 price: $9.27 (new), $11.30 (used)	Teal'c - was there a rock fall? Are we.... are we trapped in here? SG-1 runs into trouble when the team triggers a Goa'uld trap meant for grave robbers. Infected by an unknown pathogen, Colonel O'Neill orders the team to stay put and sends for help. It arrives in the form of Dr Janet Fraiser, but when did any rescue ever go smoothly for Stargate Command's flagship team - or its intrepid doctor?
	Torchwood: In the Shadows: A Torchwood Audio Original Narrated by Eve Myles by: Joseph Lidster publisher: BBC United Kingdom, published: 2010-01-05 ASIN: 1602838305 sales rank: 163952 price: $15.19 (new), $17.55 (used)	Torchwood receive reports of a strange death: a man in his thirties who died of old age. A series of other strange events leads Torchwood to conclude that someone is sending victims to a dark dimension, to be punished by the thing they fear most. Who is the mysterious taxi driver preying on his passengers? What significance do boxes of matches play in this mystery? And can Jack ever escape from his own personal Hell? A Torchwood audio original short story read by Eve Myles (a.k.a. Gwen Cooper).
	Torchwood: Everyone Says Hello: A Torchwood Audio Original Narrated by Burn Gorman by: Dan Abnett publisher: BBC United Kingdom, published: 2010-01-05 ASIN: 1602838321 sales rank: 794227 price: $15.03 (new), $14.00 (used)	An exciting original short story written exclusively for audio and featuring narration by cast member Burn Gorman. Across Cardiff, ordinary people are behaving in odd ways: saying hello to one another, and going out of their way to greet people. Torchwood discovers that an alien communications field is gathering strength in the city. The team must find the device responsible and shut it off-before civil unrest engulfs the city.
	The Survivalist # 6 - The Savage Horde by: Jerry Ahern publisher: Graphic Audio, published: 2008-08-01 ASIN: 1599504715 sales rank: 869422 price: $19.99 (new), $11.98 (used)	John Thomas Rourke, M.D., ex-CIA Covert Operations Officer, weapons expert, and survival authority is on the move again searching for a cache of eighty megaton warhead missiles secreted on the New West Coast. It all begins with a fire fight between Brigands and a unit of U.S. II armed forces, a battle that ends with Rourke, and a seriously wounded Natalia, taking refuge on a submarine. The sight of the sunken remains of San Francisco is a grisly reminder of the Night of the War; the horde of half-dressed savages waiting on the shore, a deadly example of the madness of this brutal post-holocaust world. Surrounded now by murderous madmen and threatened by a mysterious officer who has been travelling with him, Rourke must call on all his training to escape and continue the search for his family. He must go on he is The Survivalist.

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