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Posted on March 22, 2012 | Post a comment |
Talking of Redcap, while I'm about it, I thought I'd post this review of the second series on DVD that I wrote for Action TV when that was still being published. (Yes, that is Diana Rigg - the show was made by ABC, which also made The Avengers).
But first, here's a whole episode, Crime Passionel, which I'll discuss later.
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Posted on March 19, 2012 | comments |
Starring: Jon Pertwee, Tom Baker, Elisabeth Sladen
Writers: Malcolm Hulke, Terry Nation
Director: Paddy Russell, Barry Letts
Price: £30.63 (Amazon price: £12.99; BBC Shop price: £22.25)
Released: January 9th 2012
It's competition time again, you lucky people, courtesy of the BBC Shop throwing me a load of DVDs that I don't really want. This time round, it's your chance to win an entire box set: Doctor Who - The UNIT Files. Now this contains one Jon Pertwee six-parter featuring UNIT and that has the word 'Invasion' in the title, as well as one four-part Tom Baker story featuring UNIT and that has the word 'Invasion' in the title. Can you guess what the stories are?
Yes, it's Invasion (of the Dinosaurs) and The Android Invasion, written by two of Doctor Who's old reliables: Malcolm Hulke and Terry Nation. And for once, I've actually sat down and watched them. Well, not the DVD extras, of course - don't be silly.
Find out what I thought of them and how you could win them on DVD after this shiny trailer:
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Posted on March 5, 2012 | comments |
Starring: William Hartnell, Carole Ann Ford
Writer: Peter R Newman
Director: Frank Cox
Price: £20.42 (Amazon price: £12.99; BBC Shop price: £12.99)
Released: January 23rd 2012
I have to confess that I'm not the most diligent of DVD reviewers. Give me something that I can watch in an hour or two and I'm fine. Give me something that lasts two and a half hours and that also has commentaries and epic amounts of extras and basically, I'm not up for that. Call it being busy, call it being lazy - it ain't happening.
But sometimes, I'll give it a try. In this case, the BBC Shop, in their infinite wisdom, sent me the six-part William Hartnell Doctor Who story The Sensorites to peruse. Now, I hadn't seen this in about 20 years and beyond a slight reference to it at some point when the Ood popped up in modern Who, it had almost completely escaped my mind. Feeling semi-dedicated, I decided to give The Sensorites a go. See how I fared after this trailer and the jump.
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