I had to leave this post for a few days whilst I did another cover. I like things in threes - so I needed a further cover to add to the two I had planned for this post.
But what to do?
I seem to have done everything I wanted to do with these designs. Then I thought, how about a steelbook Blu-ray for something that is missing from the archives that isn't Doctor Who? So I set to work on creating a quick and dirty design for Nigel Kneale's long lost teleplay The Creature from 1955. It tends to get forgotten about what with being surrounded by Quatermass serials and Nineteen Eighty-four. But it did have the honour of a Hammer movie version (which is actually superior and better known that that awful film of Nineteen Eighty-four starring Edmond O'Brien.).
I might do a steelbook cover for Nigel Kneale's Nineteen Eighty-four at some point. Though I'd better hurry as 2021 marks the year that Orwell's works enter the public domain and we stand a chance of having the play finally released on DVD/Blu-ray.
Anyhow, here's some Blu-ray covers what I did over the course of a few weeks.
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Some of the late BBC designer Derek Dodd's original colour photos from Power of the Daleks recently went under the hammer at auction. The price estimate put the very rare (and largely unseen) stills way out of most fans price bracket and they had to make do with the artistically arranged lo-res photo of the collection on the auction house's website to get a basic feel of their awesome-ness.
But fear not! There are plans to make the stills available to everyone (at a reasonable price).
You TOO can own a genuine piece of Doctor Who history... just like the BIG fans do!
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Finished doing these over the last weekend.
A couple of paperback covers featuring Armada books style branding.
Power of the Daleks is being released on download and DVD shortly.
And Class is the new spin-off from Doctor Who that begins on BBC3online and BBC1 in a few weeks time.
The release of the missing Doctor Who adventure Power of the Daleks in a fully animated form has been largely met with rounds of applause from Who fans everywhere.
Initially it will be released by the BBC Store as daily downloads followed by a more traditional DVD version a fortnight or so later. But what about other formats for this classic story. I'm sure the BBC would want to make as much money from the production as possible.
Then there's the older fans who prefer their Doctor Who in more vintage formats. And with covers that would fit more uniformly into existing collections.
I've spent the last few days put together a portfolio of covers for such releases.
None of these will be available to buy because the BBC is an up-to-date, with-it content provider and has little time for ancient methods of communication and storage.
I might do a steelbook cover for Nigel Kneale's Nineteen Eighty-four at some point. Though I'd better hurry as 2021 marks the year that Orwell's works enter the public domain and we stand a chance of having the play finally released on DVD/Blu-ray. 
