Production Year: 1983 - Science Fiction - Original Language: English - Classification: Universal - Starring: Peter Davison, Jon Pertwee, Patrick Troughton, Tom Baker, Richard Hurndall more
This film is a DOCTOR WHO fan's fantasy come true. This legendary special is a grand one-time-only reunion of the first five Doctors, as well as a reunion of all their most famous... more
and Davison, dumps them on some moorland and lets some of the Doctor's greatest enemies take potshots at them. Except, of course, that William Hartnell had sadly passed on by the time this series was made in 1983 (although his replacement Richard Hurndall does an excellent job) and Tom Baker was only featured as a patched-in cameo, apparently prevented from joining in by a temporal thingummy. However, this kind of creakiness comes with the territory and is soon forgotten. The assorted incarnations of the Doctor (together with a scattering of assistants) are drawn together through time and space to battle Daleks, Cybermen, Yeti--those weirdandroids which keep jumping into the air and disappearing--and many other old foes. They realise that they're on their home planet of Gallifrey and must eventually deal with the legacy of Rassilon, founder of the Time Lords. It's all great fun, of course, and the excellent chapter points on this DVD compensate for the rather self-indulgent lack of editing.--Roger Thomas
Production Year: 2007 - Science Fiction - Director: Francis Lawrence - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Alice Braga, Charlie Tahan, Dash Mihok, Will Smith, Salli Richardson, Willow Smith
This film is a DOCTOR WHO fan's fantasy come true. This legendary special is a grand one-time-only reunion of the first five Doctors, as well as a reunion of all their most famous friends, foes, and monsters.
Advantages: All Five Doctors together i one story! Disadvantages: Just a few plot holes!
...Quite rightly broadcast to coincide with the 20th Anniversary of DoctorWho airing on BBC1, after all the show had become the longest running sci-fi show on television and had a few more years to run before its untimely hiatus. So deciding to buy a DVD to start watching the shows again or in some cases for the first time, I can safely say that The FiveDoctors is quite a masterpiece in DoctorWho history.
The story begins with the Fifth Doctor, Peter Davison, who is spending time relaxing in the Eye of Orion, when he suddenly keels over in pain it is up to his companions to get the Doctor back to Gallifrey. Whoever is behind this is also pulling the earlier versions of The Doctor from the time stream as well and this is causing the Fifth Doctor a fair amount of pain, as he says he is being diminished. When I say FiveDoctors it is...
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Advantages: Great stuff Disadvantages: None really
...Now well into the second series of the revamped DoctorWho, we see the writers take a bit of a different tack with the plotlines. We have another double episode story with The Impossible Planet and The Satan Pit, and then a foray into an episode where the Doctor and Rose are not greatly featured, with a band of other actors taking the top billing for the episode, in Love and Monsters. This is a welcome change from the norm.
The Impossible Planet
The Doctor and Rose are sucked out of the TARDIS and onto a spaceship, which they find out is being held in orbit around a black hole. The ship has a small crew of humans running it, and cannot explain why the black hole has not swallowed them up. The ship also has a horde of a slave race known as the Ood on board, controlled by the crew. They are drilling into the surface of the nearby...
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Advantages: Great rebirth of the doctor Disadvantages: None really
...plummeted. There was a TV movie starring Paul McGann in 1996, which I vaguely remember, and then a 9 year gap before Russell T Davies revamped the doctor as Christopher Eccleston. The show has been immensely popular and is still going strong, with David Tennant now playing the Time Lord and soon to be replaced with Mat Smith.
The DVD series
The first DVD features the first 3 episodes of what is called Series 1. Although it's not the first series ever, it is the first of the more modern series, and so it is thus called.
Episode 1 - Rose
The first episode of the new series naturally has a bit of explaining to do after such a long time away from the screen. Although there was a film in 1996, no episodes had been made since 1989, meaning a 16 year gap and a whole new generation of DoctorWho fans to impress. We are introduced in this...
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