Features three more episodes. In 'Boom Town' the Doctor discovers that Cardiff's plan to build a nuclear power plant is actually a mask to hide a devastating alien plot. Also... more
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programmes inspire as much rabid and cultish adoration. With the 2005 series, however, the BBC have really outdone themselves. Their updated Doctor Who is a revelation: a...
programmes inspire as much rabid and cultish adoration. With the 2005 series, however, the BBC have really outdone themselves. Their updatedDoctor Whois a revelation: a cu...
and Billie Piper as Rose his trusty sidekick. Episodes comprise: 11. Boom Town: The TARDIS crew take a holiday but the Doctor encounters an enemy he thought long si...
programmes inspire as much rabid and cultish adoration. With the 2005 series, however, the BBC have really outdone themselves. Their updated Doctor Who is a revelation: a cult science fiction series that has real mass appeal, and works for both children and their parents. Christopher Eccleston is an inspired and charismatic Doctor--he leaps around the sets with an unrestrained glee, like he's a child running amok in a toy shop. His enthusiasm in downright infectious. His sidekick Rose (Billie Piper) adds a real human touch, particularly as she gradually and believably matures from in-over-her-head city kid to tough-minded interplanetary hero. Much of the credit must go to writer Russell Davies, who has a much-practiced knack for finding popular appeal without dumbing-down his ideas, and who appears to have let his imagination run riot. Even the special effects, whilst not of a big-budget cinematic quality, still manage to strike a balance between cheesiness and realism. Thrilling, funny and thoroughly entertaining, this Doctor Who is a hero for the new millennium. --Robert Burrow
programmes inspire as much rabid and cultish adoration. With the 2005 series, however, the BBC have really outdone themselves. Their updatedDoctor Whois a revelation: a cult science fiction series that has real mass appeal, and works for both children and their parents. Christopher Eccleston is an inspired and charismatic Doctor--he leaps around the sets with an unrestrained glee, like he's a child running amok in a toy shop. Hisenthusiasm in downright infectious. His sidekick Rose (Billie Piper) adds a real human touch, particularly as she gradually and believably matures from in-over-her-head city kid to tough-minded interplanetary hero. Much of the credit must go to writer Russell Davies, who has a much-practiced knack for finding popular appeal without dumbing-down his ideas, and who appears to have let his imagination run riot. Even the special effects, whilst not of a big-budget cinematic quality, still manage to strike a balance between cheesiness and realism. Thrilling, funny and thoroughly entertaining, thisDoctor Whois a hero for the new millennium.--Robert Burrow
location for a downed spacecraft and the alien survivor is wanted by The Doctor. In 'World War Three' the Earth faces war on an interplanetary scale... Or does it? 'Dalek' finds Rose and The Doctor underground in Utah, witnessing the torture and interrogation of an alien whose race wiped out The Time Lords.n
programmes inspire as much rabid and cultish adoration. With the 2005 series, however, the BBC have really outdone themselves. Their updatedDoctor Whois a revelation: a cult science fiction series that has real mass appeal, and works for both children and their parents. Christopher Eccleston is an inspired and charismatic Doctor--he leaps around the sets with an unrestrained glee, like he's a child running amok in a toy shop. His enthusiasm in downright infectious. His sidekick Rose (Billie Piper) adds a real human touch, particularly as she gradually and believably matures from in-over-her-head city kid to tough-minded interplanetary hero. Much of the credit must go to writer Russell Davies, who has a much-practiced knack for finding popular appeal without dumbing-down his ideas, and who appears to have let his imagination run riot. Even the special effects, whilst not of a big-budget cinematic quality, still manage to strike a balance between cheesiness and realism. Thrilling, funny and thoroughly entertaining, thisDoctor Whois a hero for the new millennium.--Robert Burrow
episodes of the `second' series of the rebornDoctor Whomake it to DVD.In fact, that's not quite true. The first of the two is actually the excellent 2005 Christmas special,The Christmas Invasion, which not only marked Tennant's first full story in the role, but also proved to be an excellent way to spend an hour. Taking place during the festive season, the story finds Earth under imminent threat of invasion, at a time when the Doctor is still getting over his regeneration. That means extra pressure for Billie Piper's Rose Tyler, but also offers a welcome return to the series for the terrific Penelope Wilton as Harriet Jones. Yet it's the witty script and Tennant's confident performance that define the episode.The `proper' start of the `second' series was the slightly unevenNew Earth, which scores well again in the humour stakes, but struggles a little more with the story itself. The Doctor and Rose find themselves billions of years in the future, called to a hospital where the feline nursing staff have a cure for every disease. Naturally, there's something more sinister going on, and there's the returning, unscrupulous last surviving human Cassandra (played again by Zoe Wanamaker) to deal with. But while it amounts to a fun episode, it's slightly below the standard the show has set itself of late.All considered though, as a kick off to the second series DVD collection, there's plenty in the pairof episodes on offer here to enjoy, and plenty of potential in David Tennant as the Doctor. Now bring on the rest…!--Simon Brew
programmes inspire as much rabid and cultish adoration. With the 2005 series, however, the BBC have really outdone themselves. Their updated Doctor Who is a revelation: a cult science fiction series that has real mass appeal, and works for both children and their parents. Christopher Eccleston is an inspired and charismatic Doctor--he leaps around the sets with an unrestrained glee, like he's a child running amok in a toy shop. His enthusiasm in downright infectious. His sidekick Rose (Billie Piper) adds a real human touch, particularly as she gradually and believably matures from in-over-her-head city kid to tough-minded interplanetary hero. Much of the credit must go to writer Russell Davies, who has a much-practiced knack for finding popular appeal without dumbing-down his ideas, and who appears to have let his imagination run riot. Even the special effects, whilst not of a big-budget cinematic quality, still manage to strike a balance between cheesiness and realism. Thrilling, funny and thoroughly entertaining, this Doctor Who is a hero for the new millennium. --Robert Burrow
programmes inspire as much rabid and cultish adoration. With the 2005 series, however, the BBC have really outdone themselves. Their updated Doctor Who is a revelation: a cult science fiction series that has real mass appeal, and works for both children and their parents. Christopher Eccleston is an inspired and charismatic Doctor--he leaps around the sets with an unrestrained glee, like he's a child running amok in a toy shop. His enthusiasm in downright infectious. His sidekick Rose (Billie Piper) adds a real human touch, particularly as she gradually and believably matures from in-over-her-head city kid to tough-minded interplanetary hero. Much of the credit must go to writer Russell Davies, who has a much-practiced knack for finding popular appeal without dumbing-down his ideas, and who appears to have let his imagination run riot. Even the special effects, whilst not of a big-budget cinematic quality, still manage to strike a balance between cheesiness and realism. Thrilling, funny and thoroughly entertaining, this Doctor Who is a hero for the new millennium. --Robert Burrow
Production Year: 2005 - Science Fiction - Director: Brian Grant, Joe Ahearne, James Hawes, Euros Lyn, Keith Boak - Original Language: English - Classification: 12 years and over
Production Year: 2005 - Science Fiction - Director: Brian Grant, Joe Ahearne, James Hawes - Original Language: English - Classification: Parental Guidance
...we have seen how the Doctor and Rose meet and then seen the Doctor face his most lethal enemy the Dalek, aliens taking over Downing street and also the Blitz being eclipsed by zombies in gas masks. It is hard to believe that all of this has happened in one series of a programme and now we must come to the dramatic conclusion of the series and I will tell you about series one volume four of the new 2005 series of Doctor Who.
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Ok seen as this ... ...you who don't:
The Doctor is a time-lord who along with his assistant Rose travels through time to face friends and enemies and basically visit strange planets and races.
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Cast:
Christopher Eccleston - The Doctor.
Billie Piper - Rose Tyler.
Noel Clarke - Mickey Smith.
Camille Coduri - Jackie Tyler.
John Barrowman - Captain Jack Harness.
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Episodes on the DVD:
Boom Town:
This episode is great and features an enemy who we have ...
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Advantages: great entertainment and some thrilling action Disadvantages: none
...series starring Christopher Eccleston as Doctor Who and Billie Piper as his assistant, Rose Tyler
Also.. co-starring John Barrowman as Captain Jack Harkness and introducing the regenerated Doctor for the next series… David Tennant.
Writers: Russell T. Davies
Directors: Joe Adhearne Producers: Phil Collinson, Russel T. Davis, Julie Gardner and Mal Young.
**BRIEF PLOTS**
*1 - BOOM TOWN --- ( 4th June 2005)
Cardiff seems to be a quiet little place ... ...an old enemy who the Doctor thought had perished in an earlier attack on Downing street.
Since taking over as Mayor, Margaret has planned something very sinister for the town of Cardiff for her own benefit and the revenge for the death of her family…
As the Doctor decides to return the Slitheen to her home planet of Raxacoricofallapatorious to face trial for her crimes it is not too long before the fireworks starts and the ground starts to shake…. ...
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Advantages: A very gripping and emotional end to a brilliantly imagined series.... Disadvantages: Did we REALLY need another episode with the Slitheen?
...0ne of the new, re-imagined DOCTOR WHO (and what a money-spinning idea that was- releasing the first season over seperate discs) comes to the dedicated fan not with a whimper but a big, explosive bang!! Finally the BAD WOLF storyline draws to a close (for now...) with the return of an old foe, one of the first mentions of something called TORCHWOOD (hmm....) and what some have come to regard as the worst episode of season one as an opener.....
BOOM ... ...small talk, Captain Jack, The Doctor and Rose are taking some all-too needed time-out when The Doctor sees a familiar face in the local paper; that of a member of the Slitheen family who managed to teleport herself away just before Downing Street was destroyed. Magaret Blaine, as she calls herself, has become mayoress of Cardiff and intends to use a nucleur meltdown at local power station, Blaidd Drwg (Bad Wolf in welsh), to escape the planet following ...
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