Monsters who Came Back for More! (documentary)

Monsters Who Came Back For More! was a 2|entertain DVD documentary in which Nicholas Briggs and Peter Ware examined the reasons why monsters returned for further adventures.
Briggs explained that he often felt empathy for the characters when they were clearly afraid. For this reason he fondly remembered the Second Doctor era as Patrick Troughton could could portray fear very well.

The first section, "Shadow of the Daleks", explained how the immediate success of the Daleks led to their return in The Dalek Invasion of Earth. The various attempts to better the Daleks were mentioned. Briggs dismissed the notion that the War Machines could be a recurring monster, despite their Blue Peter presentation as "bigger Daleks".

Ware and Briggs then listed their "top recurring monsters" with Daleks and Cybermen being unanimously on top. Briggs went with Ice Warriors as his third while Ware went with Sontarans before changing his mind and going for Weeping Angels. Both agreed that the Robot Yeti were worthy of praise despite having only been in two stories. Briggs went so far as to jest that he had a "Yeti sphere" in place of a heart.

As to why monsters came back, Ware suggested it was a cost-based decision as the costumes could simply be reused. Both Briggs and Ware agreed that viewers liked to see old monsters as they were familiar with them. Ware compared it to a concert where people wait patiently for the band to play their most famous song. Briggs saw how well a monster was remembered to be important. Particular attention was made to the return of the Macra with Ware viewing it as a crazy decision only a fan like Russell T Davies could make where Briggs took a similar view suggesting only some fans would identify the species while others would just see it as "a crab monster".

Original to DVD
The Seeds of Death: Special Edition
Release date:
28 March 2011

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