Why have they re-released Remembrance of the Daleks as a Special Edition?
The answer is a bit complicated. In 2007, 2entertain in the UK decided to release a Davros Box Set in their market. It would contain all five of the classic series stories that featured Davros. Four of them had been released before, however, with only Destiny of the Daleks being new to the DVD market. With that in mind, they decided to try and soup up the box set a bit. They had been unhappy with the original UK edition of Remembrance of the Daleks. It had faults in the restoration that meant some special effects had gone missing, and one of the featurettes didn’t work as intended. (Both of these problems had been repaired for the later North American edition that’s been on our market since 2002.) They decided one way to improve the Davros Box Set would be to make a Special Edition, with those faults fixed and some new special features added. They also decided to make special arrangements with Big Finish Productions (www.bigfinish.com), the licensed makers of audio dramas of Doctor Who
