Doctor Who: Spearhead from Space
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Actor: Jon PertweeBrand: Warner Brothers
Producer: Peter Bryant
Writer: Sydney Newman
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 97 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-09-11
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: BBC Video / Warner Bros.
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Movie Review: Where The Nestines Came From
Summary: 5 Stars
Many people who have seen the new Doctor Who series may already have found this out, but in case you haven't yet, here goes. The Nestine Consciousness and its plastic slaves, the Autons, first appeared in 'Spearhead From Space' along with John Pertwee's incarnation of The Doctor. This episode and the later story 'Terror of the Autons' both illicited some of the most insistent protests from the viewing public - specifically parents of supposedly frightened children. The funny thing is that the children followed up with letters of their own claiming that they loved being scared. Many present day adults in Britain have admitted to this day that department store manequins still give them the willies thanks to The Autons.
Actually, what is most important is that if you are looking for history of the Autons and Nestine Cosciousness in the Doctor Who universe, this is the place to start. What you will notice is that even without modern CGI effects, the BBC wizards were able to bring a wide assortment of plastic items to life. Though nothing like the Auton trash bin from 'Rose' (Season 1: Episode 1 of the new series) these effects are nevertheless still creepy enough to spook and excite younger viewers (6-11 depending).
Summary of Doctor Who: Spearhead from Space
Movie DVD"Spearhead from Space" launched Doctor Who into the 1970s with not only a new Doctor, Jon Pertwee, but a new assistant, the scientist Liz Shaw (Caroline John) and a regular place in the show for UNIT and Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart (Nicholas Courtney). It also marked the debut of the program in color and saw the Doctor stranded on Earth after Patrick Troughton's last adventure, "The War Games" (1969). Not only that, but it proved the only serial in the show's history to be entirely shot both on film and location, giving it a uniquely cinematic feel. Regenerating in a country hospital, the Doctor finds himself helping the Brigadier investigate an unusual meteorite and its links with a sinister doll factory. The Autons are cybernetic killers--anticipating The Terminator by some 15 years--and the sequence in which they break through shop windows to slaughter pedestrians remains a chilling highpoint of Doctor Who's entire history. Things do turn silly with a subplot involving a wax museum, while the ultimate battle with the Nestine consciousness is more likely to induce laughter than fear, but as vintage television nostalgia this is fast-moving, splendidly characterized entertainment. --Gary S. Dalkin
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