The Doctor Who Collection

Starring:Peter Cushing, Roy Castle, Jennie Linden, Roberta Tovey, Barrie Ingham, Geoffrey Toone, Michael Coles, John Bown, Yvonne Antrobus, Ken Garady, Nicholas Head, Mike Lennox, Jack Waters (II), Virginia Tyler, Jane Lumb, Bruce Wells, Martin Grace, Sharon Young, Gary Wyler, Mark Petersen (III)
Director: Gordon Flemyng
Studio: Anchor Bay
Product Type: DVD

Editorial Review:
Product Description
For more than 40 years, his BBC-TV serial has captured the imagination of the entire world. But for millions of fans, nothing can match the most remarkable adventures in Dr. Who history: the two action-packed feature films starring the legendary Peter Cushing as the Doctor!

In DR. WHO AND THE DALEKS, the Doctor and his friends must activate The Tardis for a wild ride to the mysterious planet Skaro where they must save a peaceful society from a diabolical Dalek Siege. Then, in DALEKS INVASION EARTH 2150 A.D., Doctor Who travels to the Earth's future and becomes trapped in a battle-ravaged world enslaved by Dalek overlords. Finally, celebrate the 30th anniversary of both these classic movies in DALEKMANIA, the all-new documentary that captures the remarkable Doctor Who phenomenon at its swinging '60s peak!

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Running Time 224 Min

Format: DVD MOVIE
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In the mid-1960s, with Dalekmania sweeping Britain, BBC TV's Doctor Who materialized on the silver screen. Doctor Who and the Daleks replaced William Hartnell with Peter Cushing and remade the Daleks' TV debut with a much bigger budget in Technicolor and Techniscope. With his two granddaughters, Roberta Tovey and Jennie Linden (and Roy Castle along for comic relief), the Doctor becomes an intermediary in a conflict between the robotic Daleks and angelic Thals on the almost-dead world of Skaro. A huge hit on release, the film remains an enjoyable, well-produced family adventure, though somewhat lacking the menace of the TV original.

Daleks: Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. remakes the second Dalek TV serial and finds the Doctor and companions in a ravaged future London where a resistance movement has literally gone underground to fight the Nazi-like alien invaders. Peter Cushing once more makes a kindly, dependable Doctor, though Bernard Cribbins is given a cringe-making comedy routine impersonating a "roboman," and the jazzy soundtrack is wildly out of place. Nevertheless this is a superior sequel, offering lavish production values, better action set pieces, and a higher suspense and fear factor than its predecessor. The best moments remain surprisingly chilling even today.

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The "unearthly" strains of Ron Grainer's soon-to-be-famous title music announced the arrival of Doctor Who to British TV screens on Saturday, November 23, 1963. It must have been quite a baffling experience for first-time viewers: the swirling abstract graphics, the weird electronic sound effects courtesy of the BBC's Radiophonic Workshop, the very oddity of the show's title. This really was groundbreaking TV. "I think you'll find there's a very simple explanation for all of this", says schoolteacher Ian Chesterton (William Russell) condescendingly, shortly before being taken on board the TARDIS and transported to an alien planet. For audiences, too, this was something entirely unfamiliar, yet obviously appealing: Doctor Who ran for almost 30 years and remains one of the BBC's most popular shows. His later incarnations were all eccentric in their different ways, but William Hartnell's original Doctor is an irascible and distinctively alien character, not at all happy having to put up with ignorant 20th-century humans. The "Unearthly Child" of the title is his granddaughter Susan (Carole Ann Ford), temporarily attending school on Earth. She is conspicuously different from her classmates and attracts the attention of two of her teachers who resolve to find out why. After an encounter with her mysterious grandfather they are whisked away on an adventure to a different time and place where angry cavemen are trying in vain to learn the secret of fire. Thus the show's trademarks are established from the outset: the Doctor and his more or less reluctant human companions, the mechanical unreliability of the TARDIS, the cliffhanger ending of each episode. It was a formula that rarely changed but that allowed apparently limitless variation, the only constraint being the BBC's budget. In later years the show tried vainly to compete with blockbuster special effects movies; but its original low-key incarnation relied more on inventive scenarios and good writing--qualities that are just as important now as then. --Mark Walker

The Daleks (sometimes called "The Dead Planet") is the second-ever Doctor Who serial. First broadcast between December 1963 and February 1964, the seven-episode story ensured the program's success by introducing the Doctor's most iconic enemies. Five hundred years after a nuclear war has devastated the planet Skaro, the Doctor (William Hartnell), Barbara, Ian, and Susan materialize in a petrified forest where the pacifist, and decidedly camp, Thals face starvation. Our heroes visit a nearby city, the home of the last remaining Daleks, terrifyingly cold-blooded mutants encased in armed, pepper-pot-like shells, and become involved in a desperate battle for survival. Given a nightmarish atmosphere by Tristram Cary's surreal electronic score, The Daleks proved the template for many a future Doctor Who adventure. Hartnell's Doctor is a surprisingly self-serving hero and the ambitious storytelling, which reflects the Cold War fears of the time, belies a tiny budget. The remastered picture sometimes looks digitized, but this story, remade for the cinema as Dr. Who and the Daleks (1965) and starring Peter Cushing, is still both an effective, if at times unintentionally hilarious, entertainment and an essential piece of television history. A superior sequel, The Dalek Invasion of Earth, was screened in late 1964. --Gary S Dalkin

One of the rarest of the early Doctor Who series, with William Hartnell as the crusty old Doctor, Edge of Destruction is entirely based in the TARDIS, which has stopped somewhere between worlds and times. The Doctor blames Ian and Barbara, the two teachers who came aboard in search for answers about his granddaughter, Susan, assuming they have committed sabotage in an attempt to return to their own time. They, in turn, in spite of recent shared escapes from Cavemen and Daleks, have no particular reason to trust his sanity. Something is causing one after another of them to act with violent irrationality, and the clock is ticking towards their destruction... This is a claustrophobic two-episode plot in which the series examines closely some of its more beloved assumptions. --Roz Kaveney

Customer Reviews:

Finally some worthwhile extras.......2007-05-07

Those of you familiar with my reviews know that I am not too keen on DVD extras, an excuse to jack up the price of the DVD. However, Doctor Who The Beginning Collection contains two extras that, frankly speaking, are reason enough to buy this DVD set. The three stories featured here, Unearthly Child, The Daleks, and Edge of Destruction, are FIVE-Star stories themselves. However, there is nothing new offered as all three have been released on VHS, and enough has been written about those, so I won't ramble on about them. Great stories nonetheless.

The first of the two fantastic extras is a 55-minute documentary called Doctor Who Origins. It details the story of how our favorite tv show about our favorite time lord was conceived, featuring snippets of interviews with not only the surviving starring cast, William Russell and Carole Ann Ford, but also the original behind the scenes team of Producer Verity Lambert and Director Waris Hussein. Also interviewed for this special presentation was the creator of Doctor Who himself, Sidney Newman. We also get some great still shots of Doctor Who in production, as well as movie reels of Grandstand and Juke Box Jury, the two programs that sandwiched Doctor Who when it was first broadcast. To top it off, this documentary contains footage of Ron Grainer and Delia Derbyshire, who composed the eerie Doctor Who theme music, hard at work at the now defunct Radiophonic Workshop.

The second great extra in this collection is the 30-minute montage of stills and soundtrack to form the story, Marco Polo, which due to the BBC's lack of vision and foresight, has been lost forever. From all accounts, this story was a classic. Taking place over a span of several months gave Marco Polo an epic feel. While the full story is likely never to be regained, this condensed version provides us with a glimpse of its greatness.

In conclusion, the three featured stories are the reason to purchase this DVD set. However, the two extras I discussed justify their own separate release and heavily enhance this set.

Doctor Who.......2007-04-05

I purchased this as a gift and the receiver was very happy with it.

Doctor Who?.......2007-04-05

Even though I don't know much about this old TV series, my husband is a big fan. This was bought as gift for him and he LOVES it. He has already watched all the shows once and I know he'll watch it many more times. If you are already a Dr. Who fan, it's 100% good deal!

Absolutely Awesome!!!.......2007-03-24

This is some of the best television I've ever seen, not to mention some of the absolute best sci fi. I grew up watching the Tom Baker run of Doctor Who on PBS, and had always been under the impression that the show hadn't reached the popularity that it had until Baker simply because it wasn't as good. Not so...at all. Imagine my surprise upon watching the very first story and finding it to be some of the absolute best Doctor Who I'd ever seen! It's so SERIOUS too! William Hartnell is quickly becoming my favorite Doctor. It boggles my mind that this show was intended to be a children's program. Not only is it downright spooky, but the dialogue is amazingly quick and intelligent, more so than the dialogue of modern shows explicitly intended for adults! It is certainly a shame that Sydney didn't like the pilot's portrayal of the Doctor, and that he insisted they re-film it, "lightening things up" and making the Doctor less ominous and sinister, for the pilot now stands among my very favorite episodes as a likely candidate of best of all time. Hartnell's Doctor is very different from all the others, especially at first. Beyond his irascibility and touchy pride, this "differentness" lies in the fact that he's not altogether the protagonist. For the only time in Who history--here, at the very beginning--we are shown a Doctor who has a purely antagonistic relationship with his companions, who does not travel with them out of his own choosing, and this allows for a fascinating dynamic to emerge. For starters, both Ian and Barbara are extremely intelligent, more intelligent that any subsequent companion is ever allowed to be again. Even Romana, who is another Time Lord, was all-too-often reduced to a silly "screamer" waiting for the Doctor to rescue her. The only exception I can think of to this is the wonderful Liz Shaw in Spearhead from Space, even though her character was also later dumbed down a bit. No, Ian and Barbara are both intelligent and fully capable people. This creates an interesting difference in the show: the Doctor seems to cause as many problems as he solves, and it is often Ian, the companion, who heroically saves the day.

Unearthly Child is awesomely entertaining. I fully ignore critics who claim it is lacking. I also ignore critics of Hartnell's acting. He's brilliant as the Doctor, as far as I'm concerned, and the recent evidence that he too was forced to leave the role against his will (Colin Baker being the other instance) is extremely disheartening. (William Hartnell apparently later wrote in a letter that he did not willingly choose to stop playing the Doctor. Apparently he was replaced because his salary was too big. The claims that he left because of bad health make little sense given that he immediately continued acting elsewhere!) Some complain about the dialogue flubs present in these first episodes. I do not think they detract from the acting or the quality of the show at all. On the contrary, I felt that they only added to the realism of the show, as people mess up what they're trying to say all the time in real life. Also interesting is the fact that Hartnell often adlibbed lines, as Tom Baker did, and quite cleverly too. All that hilarious business about how the Doctor cannot remember Ian Chesterton's name, and then yelling whenever this is pointed out to him, was all Hartnell's adlibbing. He calls Chesterton "Chesterfield" is Daleks, and then "Charterhouse" in Edge of Destruction and "Charlton" in Marco Polo! Very funny stuff.

It is absolutely fascinating to watch both the pilot and the alternative episode one, observing the changes in the Doctor's character that were put into play. In the pilot he is forceful and downright intimidating. In the alternate story one he is more grandfatherly and aloof. In fact, just like priming experiments in psychology, one's perceptions of the Doctor's remarks in episode two will seem slightly different depending on whether one watches it after the original pilot or the re-filmed episode one! As mentioned above, Unearthly Child is astonishingly "adult" for a show that was intended to teach kids about history and science (though it never really did), more adult than the show would be in the future, well after it shed any intentions of being a kid's show! John Nathan-Turner's claims of "reinstilling" real science into the show were rubbish of course; the show never did contain real science and never did under his reign either. (For instance, the Doctor's educational speech about how solar systems form in Edge of Destruction is pure gobbledygook.) It did, however, encourage a general scientific attitude in children. I know it did in my case!

The Daleks, story two, is equally great, and is what made Doctor Who a smash hit. The third story, Edge of Destruction, is one of the most unique stories in Who history. To my mind it stands out with Doctor two's The Mind Robber as being some of the most atypical Who, looking and feeling more like a Twilight Zone episode than Doctor Who. The intention was to change the chemistry between the Doctor and Ian and Barbara, as the producers felt that the antagonistic relationship could not be maintained. It begins as a fantastically creepy and mysterious story, with a genuinely frightening Susan walking around the TARDIS with a pair of scissors before going Anthony Perkins on a lounge, complete with knockoff Psycho music! The explanation for the bizarre events in Edge of Destruction creates some interesting discontinuity. Namely, the explanation is that the TARDIS is alive. It is interesting that the Doctor is not aware of this, suggesting not only that he actually knows very little about the TARDIS but that he only recently stole it. The new show of course picks up on this, having Doctor nine ridiculously state that the TARDIS has a "soul"--ridiculous dialogue for Doctor Who, but then again, I simply cannot bring myself to like the show no matter how much I try. (The only thing that was cheesy in the original run was the special effects. In the new run the special effects are no longer cheesy BUT EVERYTHING ELSE IS!!) The discontinuity comes from the fact that what makes the TARDIS "alive" is the "power" held down right under its column in Edge of Destruction and the new show, a power that is simply not there in the Tom Baker episodes, as the fourth Doctor was constantly shown tinkering about underneath the column with no "power" or "soul" attempting to escape. Such discontinuities are interesting, though they are bound to exist in such a massive fictional universe. (The biggest of such discontinuities has to be the counting of David Tennant as the tenth Doctor, when the writer of Brain of Morbius states that the faces shown in the Doctor's battle with Morbius are versions of the Doctor prior to William Hartnell!) Also of interest are the claims that Susan and the Doctor's discussion of the planet Quinnus in Edge of Destruction is the first revelation we are given that they've visited other planets. Not so. In Unearthly Child they state they are exiles of another race. So, right off the bat we know they're aliens, just not that they're Time Lords--that the Doctor is a Time Lord isn't revealed, or invented rather, until the second Doctor's story The War Games, though the Doctor's first brush with one of his own kind comes in the First Doctor's story The Time Meddler.

By the way, they brought back Sarah Jane in the new show, why not Ian? He still looks great! (For that matter--Tom Baker has stated that he wants to play the Master on the new show--let him already!!)

The First Doctor is the Best.......2007-03-12

The Beginning Collection is great and the first Doctor is the best. It was exciting to see the beginning of the series. I think having the Doctor travel with his granddaughter and having teachers as his first companions made for good family entertainment. The extras in the set were great, too.

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"Look, I'm sure there must be plenty of other Time Lords who'd be delighted..."
The Doctor from the States
Dr. Who/ The Key To Time
Marvelous Gift for Any Dr. Who Enthusiast.
Like taking a trip back in time

Doctor Who - The Key to Time Collection
Starring: Tom Baker , Mary Tamm , and John Leeson
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ASIN: B000067FPE
Release Date: 2002-10-01

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The Key to Time: The Complete Adventure encompasses one of the more ambitious chapters in the history of the long-running BBC television series Doctor Who, and its landmark status, combined with the presence of the well-loved Tom Baker in the title role, should make this six-disc boxed set irresistible to Who fans. The 26-episode series was conceived by producer Graham Williams, who was intrigued by the idea of a season-long story arc, and after several setbacks he finally achieved it in 1978-79 for the program's 16th season. In The Key to Time, the Doctor and his new companion, the elegant and sharp-witted Time Lady Romana (Mary Tamm) are dispatched by the White Guardian to recover the six segments of the Key of Time, a powerful device with the ability to stop time. The Doctor and Romana must travel the universe to find the hidden segments before the nefarious Black Guardian discovers them. Their adventures bring them in contact with a host of unusual personalities and, in a time-honored Doctor Who tradition, a number of terrifying monsters.

Unlike the other Doctor Who DVDs from BBC America, The Key to Time: The Complete Adventure is debuting in North America rather than the United Kingdom, the reason being that the Baker serials have proven more popular with American audiences. And while offering somewhat fewer supplemental features than the previous releases, the boxed set is a rare opportunity to own an entire season of Doctor Who at one time. For fans of the series and Baker in particular, The Key to Time: The Complete Adventure is a must-have. --Paul Gaita

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The longest running Sci-Fi program in the history of this universe. The Doctor is a Time Lord who travels the universe for kicks because his planet is the dullest in the universe and Earth is much more fun. Million of fans continue to enjoy this series on many levels, from the fantasy and sci-fi to the tongue in cheek humor.

DVD Features:
Audio Commentary
Biographies
Photo gallery
Production Notes

Customer Reviews:

"Look, I'm sure there must be plenty of other Time Lords who'd be delighted...".......2007-05-27

This fantastic "Doctor Who" box set is unprecedented in at least two ways. Firstly, the very idea of linking all six storylines of the show's sixteenth season into one epic meta-story was and remains ambitiously inventive, something not really attempted before and rarely repeated on such a grand scale since. Each story is quite different and episodic in the usual "Doctor Who" fashion, and yet in all of them the Doctor and his assigned assistant Romana are searching for the six segments of the Key to Time hidden scattered throughout time and space--a mission hoisted on the reluctant Doctor by the White Guardian, an immensely powerful cosmic being concerned with maintaining the balance of the universe. In this quest, the Doctor, Romana, and K9 will come across all manner of challenges: clever con-men and tenacious tyrants, peregrinating planets and apoplectic pirates, daft Druids and strolling stones, antique androids and crafty counts, cornered colonialists and colossal calamari, and finally missile-happy militarists and sadistic shadows. All in a day's work if you're a Time Lord, I guess.

Secondly, as of this date this is the only fully complete season of classic "Doctor Who" available on DVD, and so it gives the viewer a much more realistic and authentic sense of what watching this show from week to week would've been like. That is, in other DVD releases the BBC has concentrated on classics, fan favorites, turning points--storylines that really stand out for some reason, in other words. But no show can maintain such a high strung level of intensity constantly, even a great show like "Doctor Who"--no, mixed in among the rare landmarks will of course be unremarkably good or just okay stories and, yes, even a few clunkers. And that's exactly what we find here in "The Key to Time Set" in fact: all six stories are very enjoyable, creative, and fun, but the quality is indeed noticeably variable. More representative of the show's overall stellar strengths and endearing weaknesses, really.

Besides, with Tom Baker as the Doctor, what have you got to lose? Yeah, it's a box set, but go ahead and splurge a little. After all, you only live once--unless you're a Time Lord, of course.

P.S. The six storylines in this DVD set all make up one overarching story arc, as mentioned, and they're probably best watched in that manner. For that reason, and in terms of economics and convenience, this box set is probably the way to go, especially if you're a fervent Doctor Who fan. However, if you are exclusively interested only in a single DVD from this set, they are sold individually as well:
1. Doctor Who - The Ribos Operation (Episode 98) (The Key to Time Series, Part 1)
2. Doctor Who - The Pirate Planet (Episode 99) (The Key to Time Series, Part 2)
3. Doctor Who: Stones of Blood (Episode 100) (The Key To Time Series, Part 3)
4. Doctor Who - The Androids of Tara (Episode 101) (The Key to Time Series, Part 4)
5. Doctor Who - The Power of Kroll (Episode 102) (The Key to Time Series, Part 5)
6. Doctor Who: The Armegeddon Factor (Episode 103) (The Key to Time Series, Part 6)

The Doctor from the States.......2007-05-14

This is been one of my best purchase from United States. Impossible to find elsewhere, the season of the Key to Time can't be missed by any Doctor Who fan, by any Douglas Adams fan (the second episode of the season sees Doctor Adams leave for a while his labour of love, Hitchhicker Guide to the Galaxy, to accomplish his duty for the other "Doctor"), by any english television fan (a lot of surprises about the other actors in the series all around!!!). Wish someday the next season will come out, when Douglas Adams where script editor, but in the meanwhile, this box is providing me as much fun as I could expect. though I think that the best Doctor Who period is still the one of the Hinchcliff's production, this season shows still enough care and professionality by the actors, the writers, the producers and all the television workers. Need to know more? Oh, come on, just buy it!

Dr. Who/ The Key To Time .......2007-05-14

Each episode has a fantastical story base; including real outdoor environment locations (different landscapes--coal mine,castle,swampland.etc.),and very colorful interior sets/stages (spaceships,catacombs,rooms). There are unique creatures and peoples that The Dr. and his assistants, (including his robot dog K-9), come into contact with; in order to obtain the 6 keys to time. Some crude special effects are used to convey certain ideas, but each story makes sense and the outcome is fulfilling. It's comedic too; and at times, it has thought-provoking themes.

Marvelous Gift for Any Dr. Who Enthusiast........2007-03-14

Bought this set for my husband as a Christmas Gift. He's really enjoyed it. The special features, including commentary by Tom Baker, Mary Tamm, and others, really makes it fun.

Like taking a trip back in time.......2007-03-05

The key to time series was not one of the seasons I originally saw when I use to watch Doctor Who with Tom Baker, but nevertheless it still brought back all those memories. If your a current Doctor who fan you will find the effects cheezy, and somewhat corny, but at the time this show ran they were amazing on the old 19 inch tvs. If your an old Tom Baker fan you should enjoy this! Mary Tamm does a great job as Romana and the other characters are excellent! the stories are top rate and Tom Baker is just as you remembered!

Doctor Who - Lost in Time Collection of Rare Episodes - The William Hartnell Years and the Patrick Troughton Years

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Good for those that are Dr. Who fans
Don't bother buying it.
"People spend all their time making nice things, and then other people come along and break them."
Early Doctor
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Doctor Who - Lost in Time Collection of Rare Episodes - The William Hartnell Years and the Patrick Troughton Years
Starring: Doctor Who
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Doctor Who - The Beginning Collection
Doctor Who - The Dalek Invasion of Earth
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Doctor Who - The Key to Time Collection

ASIN: B0002OXVF0
Release Date: 2004-11-02

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The sad fact faced by all fans of the BBC's long-running science fiction series Doctor Who is that nearly half of the 200+ episodes are considered lost or incomplete due to improper storage. However, episodes and tantalizing glimpses of "orphaned" stories from the reign of the first Doctor, William Hartnell (1963-66) have been culled together from 16 and 35mm prints and restored for this set. The most noteworthy treasure is "Day of Armageddon," the second episode in the epic 12-part story from season 3, "The Daleks' Master Plan," which has been unseen by the public since its initial airing in 1965. Also among the recently recovered is "The Lion," the first episode of season's 2's "The Crusade." The only other surviving episodes from these stories--episodes 5 and 10 from "The Daleks' Master Plan," and episode 3 from "The Crusade" (audio tracks and narrative links for the second and fourth episodes of this story are also included), as well as the sole remaining episode (#4, "The Final Test") from "The Celestial Toymaker" (featuring veteran actor Michael Gough) round out the disc. The DVD extras include fragments from the lost episodes of "The Daleks' Master Plan" and season 4's "The Smugglers" and "The Tenth Planet," all rescued from a variety of far-flung places; also included is commentary by actor Julian Glover for episode 3 of "The Crusade" and actors Peter Purves and Kevin Stoney, along with designer Raymond Cusick for "Day of Armaggedon," and some 8mm off-screen footage from the Hartnell era. Viewers can also access introductions to and an afterword for "The Crusade" (taken from the original VHS release) by accessing the "Play All" option on the main menu.

As with the First Doctor, a number of episodes and stories from Patrick Troughton's Second Doctor tenure (1966-69) are also incomplete or missing altogether, so The Patrick Troughton Years attempts to reconstruct the "orphaned" stories through episodes and clips culled from a variety of sources. For Who historians, the most important footage here is from Troughton's first appearance as the Doctor in season 5's "The Power of the Daleks," which is missing in its entirety; a rough glimpse of the transition from actor William Hartnell to Troughton is included, along with other surviving fragments. The complete episodes offered here are the sole remaining episode from season 4's "The Underwater Menace" (fragments from this story are included in the extras), episodes 2 and 4 from "The Moonbase," which features the return of the Cybermen (audio from episodes 1 and 3 is featured in the extras), episodes 1 and 3 from "The Faceless Ones," and episode 2 from "The Evil of the Daleks" (which includes commentary by actress Deborah Watling, who played the Doctor's companion, Victoria). Disc 2 marks the only episode from the Yetis' debut in "The Abominable Snowmen" (Watling again provides commentary), two episodes from "The Wheel in Space" (with commentary by director Tristan de Vere Cole and story editor Derrick Sherwin) and just one apiece for "The Web of Fear," "The Space Pirates," and "The Enemy of the World." Chief among the extras is the 1998 documentary The Missing Years, which interviews several of the film collectors responsible for rescuing these lost episodes and fragments (the doc has been updated to reflect the 2004 discovery of two William Hartnell episodes); the supplemental features offer fragments and behind-the-scenes footage from "The Macra Terror" (with a rare clip of the monsters), "Fury from the Deep" (which includes a scene reconstruction), "The Highlanders," and the aforementioned stories.

The William Hartnell Years and the Patrick Troughton Years are also available individually. Either scenario is sure to please the die-hard Doctor Who fan. --Paul Gaita

Customer Reviews:

Good for those that are Dr. Who fans.......2007-05-21

I think this is a product for those that are Dr. Who fans and you just can't get enough of anything to do with The Doctor. There are complete episodes BUT NO complete story lines, so you kind of have to take that for what it's worth. Some of the Hartnell episodes are sound only. That's a little tough to go through, but still fun. I do not regret getting this as I consider myself a pretty good fan. I'm not overboard, but not a casual fan either. I enjoyed seeing what some of the missing episodes were like and was able to distance myself from having closure on each story line. There are three different versions of these lost, rare episodes available, and this is the best because it includes all of the episodes currently available. There is a copy of each of the first two Drs. Doctor Who - Lost in Time Collection of Rare Episodes - The William Hartnell Years 1963-1966 and Doctor Who Lost in Time Collection of Rare Episodes - The Patrick Troughton Years 1966-1969 and this copy of both combined Doctor Who - Lost in Time Collection of Rare Episodes - The William Hartnell Years and the Patrick Troughton Years. This copy contains everything on both those first two and then a few extra episodes found after that. So, I'd recommend this over the others if you are a fan.

Don't bother buying it........2007-02-24

My husband was VERY disapointed with this collection! Sure there are lost episodes, but they jump around and the whole set of the series isn't there.

I too was very disappointed.

"People spend all their time making nice things, and then other people come along and break them.".......2007-02-10

Something about "Doctor Who" certainly inspires dedication in the show's fans. There is not really a single complete storyline in this whole DVD set, just scattered, random fragments of storylines. One or two episodes out of four or six, three episodes out of twelve--merely bits and pieces. And yet we find ourselves watching them with all the enthusiasm of a classical scholar who has come across some stray pages from the Library of Alexandria. Sure, it'd be nice to have the whole archive complete, but barring that, these fragmentary glimpses of the show in its formative years are a treasure.

Different folks will come to this with different preferences, of course. I myself was especially enthralled by the bits from "The Moonbase" and "The Wheel in Space"--both for the vintage early appearances of the Cybermen and for the classic "space age" manner in which the future was envisioned. The long, fantastically involved bits from "The Dalek's Masterplan" were neat for similar reasons, though set in a much more distant future. As someone with an interest in Asian religions, I found the setting of "The Abominable Snowmen" in a Buddhist monastery to be particularly noteworthy. And in "The Faceless Ones" seeing the Tardis materialize on an airport landing strip (of all places) was priceless. These were some of the highlights for me, but the whole thing was enjoyable overall.

Of course, it must be said that this is enjoyment of a very masochistic sort. There you are, getting into the story, mesmerized by William Hartnell and Patrick Troughton's incredible performances, thrilled by the threats of enemies familiar and unfamiliar, following along as the plot thickens and the suspense quickens...right up until the episode's cliffhanger. And that's it. You'll never see what happens next. I found myself shouting in dismay almost every time, as if I didn't know this was inevitable from the start. But for diehard followers of the renegade Time Lord's saga, it's well worth it.

Early Doctor.......2007-01-11

This was interesting in that you get to see the early Doctor. However I didn't know that some of the episodes weren't complete and all you hear is the audio because the film has been lost to time. It would be nice if there was some kind of warning to the consumer about what they were really getting.

WAy Cool Show.......2006-10-31

I can't say enough about this show. It is just so far out and way way cool. I mean like wow. This collection of shows really puts a spin on my brain. Great scripts an cool acting.

Average customer rating:

Not essential Who viewing.
Buy the 2 movies alone
The Doctor Who Collection
daleks rule!
Avoid Mary Tamm

The Doctor Who Collection
Starring: Peter Cushing , Roy Castle , Jennie Linden , Roberta Tovey , and Barrie Ingham
Director: Gordon Flemyng
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Doctor Who - The Beginning Collection
Doctor Who - The Key to Time Collection
Doctor Who - The Complete First Series
Doctor Who - Inferno (Episode 54)
Doctor Who - The Complete Second Series

ASIN: B00005OCK9
Release Date: 2001-11-20

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For more than 40 years, his BBC-TV serial has captured the imagination of the entire world. But for millions of fans, nothing can match the most remarkable adventures in Dr. Who history: the two action-packed feature films starring the legendary Peter Cushing as the Doctor!

In DR. WHO AND THE DALEKS, the Doctor and his friends must activate The Tardis for a wild ride to the mysterious planet Skaro where they must save a peaceful society from a diabolical Dalek Siege. Then, in DALEKS INVASION EARTH 2150 A.D., Doctor Who travels to the Earth's future and becomes trapped in a battle-ravaged world enslaved by Dalek overlords. Finally, celebrate the 30th anniversary of both these classic movies in DALEKMANIA, the all-new documentary that captures the remarkable Doctor Who phenomenon at its swinging '60s peak!

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Running Time 224 Min

Format: DVD MOVIE

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In the mid-1960s, with Dalekmania sweeping Britain, BBC TV's Doctor Who materialized on the silver screen. Doctor Who and the Daleks replaced William Hartnell with Peter Cushing and remade the Daleks' TV debut with a much bigger budget in Technicolor and Techniscope. With his two granddaughters, Roberta Tovey and Jennie Linden (and Roy Castle along for comic relief), the Doctor becomes an intermediary in a conflict between the robotic Daleks and angelic Thals on the almost-dead world of Skaro. A huge hit on release, the film remains an enjoyable, well-produced family adventure, though somewhat lacking the menace of the TV original.

Daleks: Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. remakes the second Dalek TV serial and finds the Doctor and companions in a ravaged future London where a resistance movement has literally gone underground to fight the Nazi-like alien invaders. Peter Cushing once more makes a kindly, dependable Doctor, though Bernard Cribbins is given a cringe-making comedy routine impersonating a "roboman," and the jazzy soundtrack is wildly out of place. Nevertheless this is a superior sequel, offering lavish production values, better action set pieces, and a higher suspense and fear factor than its predecessor. The best moments remain surprisingly chilling even today.

The three-DVD set includes Dalekmania, a fun, very well made 1995 documentary running 57 minutes and recounting the production of both feature films. Included are interviews with various surviving cast members. Doctor Who and the Daleks--the first disc--has an affectionate commentary track with Roberta Tovey and Jennie Linden, hosted by Jonathan Southcote, author of The Cult Films of Peter Cushing. Sadly Daleks: Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. has no substantial extra features, but both films include the respective trailer presented anamorphically enhanced and a DVD-ROM reproduction of the relevant movie brochure. The mono sound is good and the sharp, vibrant, anamorphically enhanced 2.35:1 transfers are all but flawless, making both films look good as new. --Gary S. Dalkin

Customer Reviews:

Not essential Who viewing........2005-03-22

The difficulty I had with these films is they seem only to exist in order to capitalise on the Dalek legend. Peter Cushing was never an actual, "Dr Who" in the many TV series incarnations he had, that fact makes these film suffer instantly. Most Who fans have recollections of one of the Dr's incarnations as a favourite, My own favourite was the whackily sublime Tom Baker who series also featured the robot assistant dog, K9.
One has to have some memory or notion of each Dr Who's foibles to make his incarnation believable, Cushing only played him in these 2 films and lives in many people's memories as a long time actor in the Hammer Horror genre. There isn't much else to help you recognise the series here either, the assistants are different and there is just a little too much obvious comedy on offer. You may have giggled at silly monsters and wobbly sets but Dr Who was also a serious business!
The main thing that gave Dr Who his enduring appeal was Sci Fi with a dry and whacky flirtation with British dottiness.
These films spell that dottiness out too much and loose an essential component of what makes Dr Who appeling as a result, Cushing is most like Hartnell but is too enrgetic and frivalous to carry it off, he's more like a witch finder general as he was in "Twins of Evil"; Dr Who needs some refinement and Cushing doesn't give him much.
The assistants are whacky "Scooby Doo" style detective kids - wrong again! I think the films tried to "Americanise" the Dr for more mass appeal, failing to realise in so doing that American fans like him the way he was on TV.
On the plus side the Daleks do not dissapoint in their menace, quite how an electric kitchen bin with a sink plunger snout can be so scarry I don't know, but they are!
Die hard fans should peel their eyes soon, The BBC is riviving the good Dr, a new series is set air in the UK on the 26th March 2005; the first for 16 years! This time played by Christopher Eccleston who you may remember as Nicole Kidman's husband in "The Others".

Buy the 2 movies alone.......2004-10-08

This is one of those instances where the Boxed set falls short of expectaions. While the set comes with a 3rd disc of bonus material "Dalekmania"'s interviews are nice additions - the documentary lacks the feeling and excitement of the interviews included along with the various Television eppisodes. The additional trailers included are entertaining but only as examples of the formulaic trailers of sci fi in the mid 60's.

The movies themselves are really quite good. Vibrant colored Daleks and prety good acting. While the original stories were adapted from 1st Doctor William Hartnell's The Mutants (the Daleks) and Dalek invasion of Earth they are seen on a much grander scale.

Peter Cushing's Doctor Who (as he is referred to in the movies) is a much warmer friendly protrayal. but the compainion characters lack the depth that was created within the series. Like the Sylvester McCoy eppisodes it seems budget used for effects outwieghs character development. The second film Dalek invasion of Earth 2150 ad is very well made and has some great comedic play to it. the Scenes of Tom the cop as a roboman are truly hysterical.

The Doctor Who Collection.......2004-04-13

For both Doctor Who and Peter Cushing fans these films are curiosities(however well made or liked).Released at the time to cash in on DALEKMANIA they were,for some time,the only example of early Doctor Who available to American TV viewers.Their success no doubt convinced the BBC(back in 1966)that the programme's audience would accept a different actor portraying the title character which in turn allowed the series to run over 25 years.
My only problem with The Doctor Who Collection is how it's been packaged.A 3-disc boxed set!?!The two films each run less than 85 minutes and could easily fit on a single DVD with room left over for bonus features.The DALEKMANIA disc provides no real insight into the series/movies/actors or monsters and was made several years earlier to promote the VHS release!
Anchor Bay no doubt thought Doctor Who/Peter Cushing fans could be milked for this release which smacks of greed and contempt.I have no doubt with the advent of DVD-ripping technology bootlegs will abound.More power to them

daleks rule!.......2004-01-16

I love these movies and this is a great way to watch em! Peter Cushing is very entertaining as the doctor and it's too bad he only played the part twice. These movies are so sixties it's fantastic! Im a sucker for sci fi which isn't afraid to be fun and the Daleks are such great villans! Both movies entertain and the Dalekmania disc is a nice bonus.
By the way, who is Mary Tamm? She's not in these movies.

Avoid Mary Tamm.......2003-09-27

I have been a WHO fan forever.

Tom Baker is outstanding as usual.

I recommend that you seek episodes without Mary Tamm as she is very pushy and obnoxiously masculine really degrades the show.

Would have been 5 star though Tamm made it very trying.

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A number of episodes and stories from actor Patrick Troughton's turn as Doctor Who (1966-69) are either incomplete or missing altogether, much to the dismay of series fans. However, this two-disc set attempts to reconstruct the "orphaned" stories through episodes and clips culled from a variety of sources. For Who historians, the most important footage here is from Troughton's first appearance as the Doctor in season 5's "The Power of the Daleks," which is missing in its entirety; a rough glimpse of the transition from actor William Hartnell to Troughton is included, along with other surviving fragments. The complete episodes offered here are the sole remaining episode from season 4's "The Underwater Menace" (fragments from this story are included in the extras), episodes 2 and 4 from "The Moonbase," which features the return of the Cybermen (audio from episodes 1 and 3 is featured in the extras), episodes 1 and 3 from "The Faceless Ones," and episode 2 from "The Evil of the Daleks" (which includes commentary by actress Deborah Watling, who played the Doctor's companion, Victoria). Disc 2 marks the only episode from the Yetis' debut in "The Abominable Snowmen" (Watling again provides commentary), two episodes from "The Wheel in Space" (with commentary by director Tristan de Vere Cole and story editor Derrick Sherwin) and just one apiece for "The Web of Fear," "The Space Pirates," and "The Enemy of the World."

Chief among the extras is the 1998 documentary The Missing Years, which interviews several of the film collectors responsible for rescuing these lost episodes and fragments (the doc has been updated to reflect the 2004 discovery of two William Hartnell episodes); the supplemental features offer fragments and behind-the-scenes footage from "The Macra Terror" (with a rare clip of the monsters), "Fury from the Deep" (which includes a scene reconstruction), "The Highlanders," and the aforementioned stories. As with the William Hartnell disc, the Patrick Troughton Years is available for U.S. buyers as a stand-alone two-disc set and as part of a three-disc box with the Hartnell disc, while U.K. buyers will receive only the box; either scenario is sure to please the die-hard Doctor Who fan. --Paul Gaita

Customer Reviews:

For true dr.who fans! Especially Troughton fans!.......2004-12-29

What a great buy. I usually ignore the over priced dr. who dvd's and go for the used vhs editions instead. What little Troughton I've seen has been a joy to watch so this was a easy buy since it seemed to be a well packed 2 disc dvd set. I actually feel lucky to be able to view these gems, both video and audio. TO hear the old 'thud' they used for the Tardis landing and the original (reamstered?) theme is worth the price alone. WHen you see the strings attached to spaceships you know you've come home again :-)

The picture is B&W crystal clear (great job), the episodes are the sci-fi type (no historical stories, yeah!) and the sound is very good considering the time period it was shot. Who knows what condition these episodes were in before they got the treatment.

I think including the audio only for the remaining missing parts is genious. Just lay back n close your eyes and listen. Pray to the gods of Zena or the PTB more of the lost Troughton (and Hartnell) episodes will be discovered, restored, and released. Also I hope the new series is good enough to run a few seasons.

Note to the bbc: lower the prices of these dvd's, you'll get more fans. For what I paid for this set I could have got a complete season of Angel or Buffy.

Disappointing Patchwork.......2004-12-14

I was somewat disappointed by this patchwork as it has no complete story at all. While the Moonbase and the Crusade offer Audio for the missing episodes there is no commentary so you are left to wonder what is happening in the silences.

I expected more from the BBC

The episodes that are shown are captivating and do give an insight into the quality and occasional lack of quality that makes up Doctor Who.

The Underwater Menace with its string transported Fish People and exaggerated evil madman was quite amusing.

Yes the Show was great what a shame the DVD production is not.

Fabulous for collectors.......2004-12-13

This collection is a must for true Doctor Who fans and especially those who like Patrick Troughton, the Second Doctor. As has been said in other reviews, so many of the Troughton and Hartnell episodes were either destroyed or lost. So what we have here is a hodgepodge of existing episodes, clips, and even audio tracks.

There's really only one full story here and that's "The Moonbase." All four parts exist but episodes #1 & #3 exist as audio tracks only. However all exisiting audio & video are presented here. I admire the BBC for putting out the audio tracks of this gem from Troughton's first year as the Doctor but it's a shame that they didn't utilize more of the exisiting photographs to give it a little bit of extra life. It was annoying listening to a 20 minute audio track with just a single picture of a Cyberman staring back from the TV screen.

Along with "The Moonbase," you're getting episodes from "The Faceless Ones," "The Underwater Menace," "The Evil of the Daleks," "The Enemy of the World," "The Abominable Snowman," "The Enemy of the World," "The Web of Fear," "the Wheel in Space," and "The Space Pirates."

You're also getting some BBC promotional clips, 10-15 second clips from scattered episodes, images shot off TV screens, and even a 10 minute 8mm documentary called "The Last Dalek," which showed some of the production techniques used to bring the famous metallic menaces to life.

By far this is a great DVD for fans and collectors but is of little value to the casual Doctor Who viewer.

Not worth the price of admission.......2004-11-17

This thing should be selling for about 15 bucks. You are getting about an hour and a half of damaged episodes.
The box and cover make it look like you are getting a complete compilation but the "collection of rare episodes" should say "a collection of footage from missing episodes". This again is NOT a box set of all Troughton episodes, and is VERY OVER PRICED.

If you want the entire doctor who collection go mortgage your home because it'll cost you over $5,000 to do it. Get every Trek episode from all shows and you'll run about $2,500 for twice the viewing time. I think the BBC needs to seriously rethink their pricing scheme.

Lost in time... but worth the find!.......2004-11-08

As most Doctor Who fans know, there are huge gaps in the archives for the black and white era of the show that featured the first two actors to play the role, William Hartnell and Patrick Troughton. Due to a total disregard for archiving material and, criminally, as a cost cutting exercise, there was a systematic junking policy for `expired' TV shows across many broadcast networks through to the 1970's. In many ways, Doctor Who fared better than most with many complete stories surviving either in private hands or more often by happy accidents.

Although anything to have survived is miraculous, in many cases, irritatingly, stories were left incomplete on the archive shelves. Pretty much useless to any broadcaster and indeed seemingly for home DVD or video release. But the bright guys at the BBC have spotted a way to gather up all this stray material and package it together on a collection of three discs featuring not only eighteen complete episodes but a whole myriad of other snippets and gems from the vaults.

As a huge Doctor Who fan, I was thrilled to see all these homeless relics gathered together, but from a wider commercial viewpoint, I don't think it's a particularly interesting project. But isn't it wonderful for fans to be indulged in this way? I'd never seen either episodes of The Faceless Ones before, so this was a real treat, as it was to see the newly discovered gem from The Daleks' Master Plan.

The problem for me is that alone, or even where two or more episodes exist, it's exceptionally frustrating to watch what remains of these stories. If you're watching episode one for example, you're completely hooked by the end and then hugely disappointed that there is no more! For stories that just have the odd episode from the middle of the story, it's enough to drive you barmy. My biggest irritation came from watching episode 4 of The Celestial Toymaker. What on earth is going on? It would have been so, so much better had the DVD contained a synopsis of what was missing to help flesh out some of the material and put things into context. Definitely an opportunity missed. In a step towards this, there are soundtracks included for two missing episodes from The Crusade and The Moonbase, which does help complete those stories, but since photos exist of both missing episodes, why weren't they included? When all there is to hear is music or sound effects, it leaves you bewildered as to what might be happening. A photo or a subtitle would have been so much more effective.

Also gathered from the cutting room floor are many, many short clips (in some cases, don't blink or you'll miss them) from other completely deleted episodes. It's sad that in so many cases these split second clips are all that have remained. There's also a lot of home movie footage, which is really interesting. I believe this to be the only color examples of footage from the era and although short, they are wonderful to see.

We can but hope that as time goes on, some of the missing material will turn up. No one would have thought the complete Tomb of the Cybermen would suddenly reappear in 1992. So hope springs eternal. Until then, here's some classic Who, brilliantly restored and remastered to enjoy.

Doctor Who - Lost in Time Collection of Rare Episodes - The William Hartnell Years 1963-1966

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Doctor Who - Lost in Time - The William Hartnell Years 1963-1966
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Lost in time... but worth the find!
A chance to see rare episodes!

Doctor Who - Lost in Time Collection of Rare Episodes - The William Hartnell Years 1963-1966
Starring: William Hartnell , William Russell , Jacqueline Hill , Carole Ann Ford , and Maureen O'Brien
Manufacturer: BBC Warner
ProductGroup: DVD
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Doctor Who Lost in Time Collection of Rare Episodes - The Patrick Troughton Years 1966-1969
Doctor Who - The Dalek Invasion of Earth
Doctor Who - The Beginning Collection
Doctor Who - The Aztecs
Doctor Who - The Web Planet (Episode 13)

ASIN: B0002OXVEG
Release Date: 2004-11-02

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The DVD extras include fragments from the lost episodes of "The Daleks' Master Plan" and season 4's "The Smugglers" and "The Tenth Planet," all rescued from a variety of far-flung places; also included is commentary by actor Julian Glover for episode 3 of "The Crusade" and actors Peter Purves and Kevin Stoney, along with designer Raymond Cusick for "Day of Armaggedon," and some 8mm off-screen footage from the Hartnell era. Viewers can also access introductions to and an afterword for "The Crusade" (taken from the original VHS release) by accessing the "Play All" option on the main menu. The William Hartnell Years is available in the U.S. as a single disc and in a three-disc box with a double disc of rare episodes from the Patrick Troughton era; however, the Hartnell disc is only available to U.K. buyers in the boxed set. Either way, it's a must-have for Doctor Who completists. --Paul Gaita

Customer Reviews:

The original Dr. Who.......2006-11-03

We became intrigued with the new version of Dr. Who, but when in Britain recently, came upon an exhibit of the original Dr. Who, quite a celebrity there. This DVD brings the viewer back to Dr. Who as it originally was conceived, and is great fun, although I have to say that I prefer the modern version.

Doctor Who - Lost in Time - The William Hartnell Years 1963-1966.......2006-03-17

This episode sort of ties up the missiong episodes that are included which are The Crusade, & The Celestial Toymaker.

Disappointing patchwork.......2004-12-14

Lost in time... but worth the find!.......2004-11-08

A chance to see rare episodes!.......2004-07-25

This release contains six episodes of early Doctor Who, but unlike practically every other release, these are assorted episodes from a variety of stories. The sad fact is that not every episode of the series survived to the present day. Many of the earliest were destroyed, but fortunately, not all of them. As a result, this collection doesn't really contain a complete story, but what it does offer, is a fascinating look at what exists from these incomplete stories. The other postitive thing is that these episodes have never been aired on US television!

As for the goodies inside:

THE CRUSADE 1 & 3 - A historical story in which the Doctor, Ian, Barbara and Vicki encounter the era of King Richard the Lionhearted, (played by Julian Glover), and his sister Joanna (played by Jean Marsh). A four-part story originally, the second and fourth parts are included on the DVD in audio-only format, so you can experience the complete story as much as is humanly possible. Also, as a bonus, there is a commentary track for the third episode.

THE DALEKS' MASTER PLAN 2, 5 & 10 - These three episodes are all that remain from this epic 12-part adventure, (and in fact the second episode was only just discovered at the beginning of 2004, and has never been seen anywhere since its original transmission in 1965!) This story features the Doctor and his companion Steven, with seldom seen companions Katarina and Sara Kingdom. This story also features the first appearance of Nicholas Courtney, who would gain fame later in the program as the Brigadier. Plus, it has Daleks! Episode 2 also features a commentary track.

THE CELESTIAL TOYMAKER 4 - The final part of a 4-part adventure, featuring the Doctor, Steven and Dodo playing a deadly game against the Celestial Toymaker, (played by Michael Gough, perhaps better known in this day and age as Alfred the Butler in the Batman movies of the 1990's). Great fun this one is.

As if that wasn't enough, the DVD release also features a variety of surviving clips from various other Hartnell stories.

This collection is a real treasure! To be honest, it may not be the best purchase for someone who is just getting into Doctor Who, as these aren't complete stories, but then again, they do offer an appealling assortment of goodies from three very different early stories. As sad as it is that there are episodes missing from the early days of Doctor Who, it is gratifying that these gems to exist to give you a taste of the wonders they were creating for this unique series.

One final note - if you think you might be at all interested in this, consider buying the Troughton set too, which contains a further 12 episodes from that era!

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Doctor Who Mega Collection
Starring: Dr. Who
Manufacturer: BBC Warner
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Doctor Who - The Beginning Collection
Doctor Who - Genesis of the Daleks (Episode 78)
Doctor Who - Revelation of the Daleks (Episode 143)
Doctor Who - Inferno (Episode 54)
Doctor Who - The Web Planet (Episode 13)

ASIN: B000CEV6XE
Release Date: 2005-12-06

Description

Kickstart your travels in time and space with a megaset of over 64 hours from the world's longest running science-fiction TV series! See all seven Doctors from the original series in 33 top stories, including two by Douglas Adams (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) and nine by Robert Holmes.

Doctor #1 William Hartnell stars in The Aztecs, The Dalek Invasion of Earth plus the rare episodes of the Lost in Time Collection.

Doctor #2 Patrick Troughton stars in The Tomb of the Cybermen, The Mind Robber, The Seeds of Death and rare episodes of the Lost in Time Collection.

Doctor #3 Jon Pertwee stars in Spearhead from Space, The Claws of Axos, The Three Doctors, Carnival of Monsters and The Green Death.

Doctor #4 Tom Baker stars in The Ark in Space, Pyramids of Mars, The Robots of Death, The Talons of Weng-Chiang, Horror of Fang Rock, City of Death, The Leisure Hive and the entire Key to Time season! Key to Time stories are The Ribos Operation, The Pirate Planet, The Stones of Blood, The Androids of Tara, The Power of Kroll and The Armageddon Factor.

Doctor #5 Peter Davison stars in The Visitation, Earthshock, The Five Doctors, Resurrection of the Daleks and The Caves of Androzani.

Doctor #6 Colin Baker stars in Vengeance on Varos and The Two Doctors.

Doctor #7 Sylvester McCoy stars in Remembrance of the Daleks, Ghost Light and The Curse of Fenric.

Customer Reviews:

It is Dr. Who.......2007-03-18

If you are a Whovian you'll be happy about all of it. Sure, I'd like to control which and when the episodes get released but I don't. what's more I'll buy every single one of them that comes out. While there are certainly episodes I would have chosen this is essentially a discount price for ALL the episodes released at the time of this collections creation. A+ to Amazon for coming up with the idea.

Good Program but a Steep Price.......2006-12-23

Has been a fan of the new series on Sci-Fi and has seen little of the original. This item does sound good but the price is a bit hard to swallow. I sorta think they are going in a good direction with the release of the beginnings boxed set. They should just concentrate on releasing boxed sets like that for each individual Doctor Who having all the episode they were in. I would gladly pay over time for sets like that no matter how long it takes for them to be released instead of all these jumbled realease that try to get your money now when they will come up with something better down the line if they can.

Too Expensive - Does not meet market need.......2006-04-09

Face it -- Doctor Who fans come in all different shapes and sizes and very few of us can stomach spending $600+ bucks for episodes we probably won't want to watch.

My suggestion would be to box (parse) the series according to the Doctor's resurrection. Perhaps include the last episode of the previous doctor and the first of the next -- if it makes sense to do so.

Afterall, most of us are fans of a particular doctor -- for me, I'd buy the "Tom Baker" and "Peter Davidson" years but probably not the others. (No offense to the other doctors.)

In the long run, BBC would sell a lot more DVDs.

Also, I really don't like the fact that all the collections don't contain ALL of the episodes of a given season.

Now that the new Doctor Whos are on air in the US again, I think it would be worth the BBC's effort to get the historical ones correct. My kids LOVE the new Doctor (as do I) and now they have an interest in the previous doctors as well.

Well worth saving your money for..........2006-03-30

Even if you follow the other reviewer's advice to save extra cash and get the new Hartnell collection. Only one complaint about this collection...

WHERE IS "GENESIS OF THE DALEKS"?

wait until they come out with ALL of them.......2006-03-15

Most of the current releases are good, but why not either buy separately or wait until all DW's(not distroyed) are released. Don't let some guy at Best Buy tell ya it's too steap though, what you buy(even at the price of your two cars, and your natty neighbor's gold plated holy zsuit with the golden fly on the pant.) is your business. The fact they don't sell DW's or Star Trek Origianl Seires locally means I'll take my business online or elsewhere. The Star Teck sets are cheaper and more abundantly complete. I bought all of them instead. You CAN get star trek in "series sequense" you know, you don't have to buy e'm all at once like a fat priest choking on BBQ. Don't get Doctor Who Mega pax unless you totally like all of em. I like continuety but some episodes(4-part stories) are just awful. Most of these are high quality stories I still wish they would release some of "what other people call crap" as in "Meglos" "Horns of Nimon" and "Monster of Peledon"(or "Curse") I personally like them not every one has the same opinion, you know.

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