Doctor Who - The Invasion
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Actor: Doctor WhoBrand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Full Screen, NTSC, Original recording remastered, Restored
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 200 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-03-06
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: BBC Warner
Movie Reviews of Doctor Who - The Invasion
Movie Review: Great Troughton episode
Summary: 5 Stars
I won't rehash what everyone else has already written. However, I will say that I am thrilled that the Beeb released this. What a great Troughten era episode. I do disagree with the assessment from some that the animation is great. It isn't awful, but it could have been MUCH better. The best comparison is Johnny Quest. Really. The characters move like stop-action filming. I wish that they had sprung for some better animation - CGI would have been great. Having said this, it is head & shoulders better than the reconstructions with the stills (these are lovingly made, but can be tedious to watch). Bottom line: the animation is only two episodes & it is watchable & the story is great, so get it.
Summary of Doctor Who - The Invasion
The Doctor, Zoe and Jamie team up with UNIT to fend off a worldwide invasion of Cybermen. Brigadier Lethbridge Stewart puts you in the picture concerning the action in the missing episodes.DVD Features:
Audio Commentary:Audio Commentary by actress Elisabeth Sladen, co-writer Bob Baker and producer Philip Hinchcliffe.
Other:Doctor Who is in the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest running sci-fi series in television history
An electronics industrialist plots to conquer the world using the cybernetic devices his company makes. You can insert your own Bill Gates joke here, but in this epic eight-part 1968 Doctor Who adventure, the villain, Tobias Vaughn (Kevin Stoney in a great performance, one eyebrow perpetually cocked as he schemes), has allied himself with the robotic Cybermen and nearly succeeds in global domination. This story was a harbinger of what was to come in the series during the first half of the 1970s--that is, the threat to contemporary (or near-future) Earth, with the Doctor (Patrick Troughton) joining up with the quasi-military U.N.I.T. headed by Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart (Nicholas Courtney--who also provides a newly shot introduction to the story and fills in the two missing episodes that were shamelessly destroyed by the BBC when they purged their archives in the early 1970s). Director Douglas Camfield fully exploits the mood-inducing black-and-white imagery, manages to keep the action going (with assistance from real Department of Defence soldiers on loan), and provides some memorable moments, particularly the Cybermen bursting out of the sewers and marching relentlessly through the streets of London at the end of episode 6. The writers wisely give Vaughn most of the exposition with the Doctor and allow the Cybermen to remain nearly indestructible, mostly silent killers. This may not be the greatest of the Cybermen stories in the 1960s, but the metallic monsters make the most of their appearances here, thus cementing their reputation in popularity as second only to the Daleks. --Ryan K. Johnson
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