Advantages: Good extras on 60's BBC television Disadvantages: Slow pace
Some stories really separate the fan from the casual viewer. I suspect only the keen fan will be interested in watching this early William Hartnell six part adventure as it s-l-o-w-l-y unwinds the kind of cultural misunderstanding SF tale that would becom ...
Advantages: 80's nostalgia, 'middle class' acting Disadvantages: maybe a little dated in parts
I last saw this television programme when it was first televised on ITV in the 1980's. I was a young teenager at the time. It was an addictive sci-fi and very inspirational. A school boy suddently acquiring super intelligence when an inquisitive alien see ...
margarita003 11.06.2005 ·Read full review
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Review of Chocky (DVD)
Advantages: Kate O'Mara, great location filming Disadvantages: The tree, the story, the Master
As the nation prepares to mourn the end of David Tennant's reign as the Doctor, it's important to remember that it was not always the biggest thing on television. Whoever you blame (Colin Baker unfairly tends to cop quite a lot of the flack), the mid-80s ...
Advantages: Solid story from the Colin Baker Era Disadvantages: The plot at times can be slow.
Colin Baker is sometimes written up as a poor doctor, at a time when the scripts were generally rubbish and the show was declining rapidly.
Now being a 30 year old fan, I remember these stories from their original showings, back in the eighties and out ...
Advantages: Buy it to add to the collection. Disadvantages: Beryl Reid and the iffy Cybermen.
Landing on Earth in the 26th Century, slap bang in the middle of a murder investigation. The Tardis crew are immediately the prime suspects, as someone, or something has been killing a group of archaeologists.
It soon transpires that there is a group o ...
