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	The Stones of Blood


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Starring: Tom Baker, John Leeson & Mary Tamm
By: David Fisher
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Editions: UK (VHS) | Australia (VHS) | US (original VHS) | US (repackaged VHS)
Description: Video release of the 1978 Doctor Who TV serial of the same name — the third story in the Key To Time season.

Edition: UK (VHS)
Released: May 1995
Publisher: BBC Video
Format: 1 x VHS PAL
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The Doctor, Romana and K9 continue their search for the six disguised segments that make up the powerful Key to Time.
The TARDIS lands on Earth close to the Nine Travellers, an ancient stone circle. Professor Amelia Rumford and her associate Vivien Fay, who are studying the stones, explain that whenever the circle has been surveyed, the number of stones has changed. Also interested in the circle are a group of druids — dedicated followers of the Cailleach, the Celtic goddess of war, death and magic — who are prepared to perform human sacrifice to satisfy her demands for blood.
The Doctor soon learns that there is more to the Nine Travellers, the Cailleach and the druids than meets the eye. How can the stones apparently move around the countryside? And why has the area around the circle always been owned by a woman?
After Romana discovers the true identity of the evil Cailleach, the Doctor finds that he must travel into hyperspace to solve the mystery of the Nine Travellers and save his companion from the blood-hungry alien life-forms known as the Ogri...
Transmission date: 28th October 1978 to 18th November 1978

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Edition: Australia (VHS)
Released: July 1995
Publisher: BBC Video
Format: 1 x VHS PAL
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Same as UK edition.

Edition: US (original VHS)
Released: March 1996
Publisher: BBC Video
Format: 1 x VHS NTSC
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Same as UK edition.

Edition: US (repackaged VHS)
Released: March 1998
Publisher: BBC Video
Format: 1 x VHS NTSC
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Note: Re-released in updated “Gateway Collection” cover at a discounted price. (The other stories repackaged in this way were Pyramids of Mars, The Talons of Weng-Chiang and City of Death.)
Cover blurb:
The Tardis lands on Earth close to the Nine Travellers, an ancient stone circle. Professor Amelia Rumford and her associate Vivien Fay, who are studying the stones, explain that whenever the circle has been surveyed, the number of stones has changed. Also interested in the circle are a group of druids — dedicated followers of the Cailleach, the Celtic goddess of war, death and magic — who are prepared to perform human sacrifice to satisfy her demands for blood.
The Doctor soon learns that there is more to the Nine Travellers, the Cailleach and the druids than meets the eye. How can the stones apparently move around the countryside? And why has the area around the circle always been owned by a woman?
After Romana discovers the true identity of the evil Cailleach, the Doctor finds that he must travel into hyperspace to solve the mystery of the Nine Travellers and save his companion from the blood-hungry alien life-forms known as the Ogri...


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