Novelisation :
Publisher: BBC/Knight Books :
Year: 1981 :
Author: Richard Cooper :
Original Price: £1.25 :
ISBN №: 0-340-27535-9 :
Availability: Out of print The novelisation was published to tie-in with the broadcast of the serial. The book's content is fairly faithful to the televised version, although Richard Cooper has rearranged some scenes and added some extra material not seen on-screen, as well as omitting the character of Frank Broadhurst (played on-screen by
Gorden Kaye) entirely. The front cover featured a specially posed publicity photograph by Chris Ridley showing Barry Angel as Martin Smith holding a pair of
binoculars, with Philip Locke as John Doll standing in the background.
VHS :
Label: BBC Video :
Release Date: 1985 :
Catalogue №: BBCV 9023 :
Availability: Deleted Presented as a 106-minute compilation.
BBFC "U" certificate. The opening titles of Part One were edited to remove the episode number caption. The opening titles were missing from Parts Two, Three, Four and Five. The closing titles were missing from Parts One, Two, Three and Four, with a compilation version of the closing credits – i.e. featuring the cast and production crew of the entire serial – at the end of Part Five. The compilation is also strangely missing some scenes that are present in the episodic version of the serial available on Region 1 DVD in the United States, but why these cuts were made (bearing in mind that the omitted sequences are hardly offensive) remains unclear. The BBC Video presentation was by Katrina Murray.
DVD :
Label: Home Vision Entertainment :
Release Date: 24 January 2006 :
Catalogue №: HVE2964DVD :
Availability: Out now
DVD Features • Digitally restored versions of all episodes • Trailer for
The Chronicles of Narnia • Captions for the hearing-impaired Presented in original, unedited episodic format, with a running time of 146 minutes.
MPAA Unrated. To date,
Codename Icarus has only been released on Region 1 DVD in the United States. There are currently no plans for a
Region 2 release for the UK. ==References==