ECW - The Doctor Is In (DVD)

Advantages: Very funny
Disadvantages: Not known outside the US

...Take a bit of Don Quixote, Trading Places, Risky Business and The Nutty Professor. Throw in Dan Ackroyd, Howard Hesseman and Fran Drescher. And you have Dr Detroit. Dan plays a mild mannered college Professor who is chosen by Hesseman as his made-up business partner Dr Detroit. Hesseman owes money to Mom, a big-time hood in his local city and has no intention of paying. So he creates Dr Detroit, his business partner who will pay Mom and skips town leaving Dan to create Dr Detroit and look after the hookers and either pay off Mom or run her out of town. A film that I think was most likely never released outside of the USA. Which is a shame as it has a good plot, good characters and good set pieces that drive the film well. Combine some excellent 80's music, throw in pimps and James Brown for good measure and you have one of Dan's best... Read review

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Advantages: The best re-invention of a popular sci-fi series that there has ever been......
Disadvantages: None- this is as good as a new DOCTOR WHO show was ever going to get.....

...be fair, the movie pilot wasn't THAT good and so the idea never got recommissioned as more than a one-off..... Which brings us to 2005..... Russell.T.Davies announced the return of The Doctor as you had never seen him before with Billie Piper (because she wants to, because she wants to?) as his assisstant and with Christopher Eccleston in the starring role. It could have gone either way- thankfully the new, re-imagined series was an overnight, and rightfully so, success!!! This DVD encompasses the first three episodes, ROSE, THE END OF THE WORLD and THE UNQUIET DEAD and is worth re-watching if only to pick up on all the hints RTD drops throughout the series which all relate to the seasons climatic end, BAD WOLF. Much like in the T.V series LOST, the show is peppered with little clues that only the most avid of fans will have picked... Read review

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Advantages: a good story , opening up for more
Disadvantages: missing Eccleston as the Doc...

...Writer: Russell T. Davis Director: James Hawes Producers: Russell T. Davis and Julie Gardner. *THE CHRISTMAS INVASION (25th December 2006) (60 minute special) **BRIEF PLOT** It's Christmas on planet earth and the Doctor is in the regeneration process, making way for the tenth Doctor, (played by David Tennant) to take the reigns… but unfortunately for the human race, the Doctor is drained of energy and fast asleep whilst an invasion by the gruesome enemy takes place… With Rose and Mickey first encountering some rather Jolly looking, but very dangerous, father Christmases, who are hell bent on finding the Doctor before he fully regenerates… then coming up against an out of control Christmas tree, they soon realise that there is more danger to the planet than first thought… Then when the world is held to ransom by... Read review

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