Doctor Who: Pyramids of Mars (Story 82)
by Paddy Russell
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Actor: Elisabeth Sladen, Gabriel Woolf, Tom BakerDirector: Paddy Russell
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 1.0; English (Subtitled); Mandarin Chinese (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); German (Subtitled); Indonesian (Subtitled); Korean (Subtitled); Thai (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: Widescreen, 1.33:1
Running Time: 97 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-09-07
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: BBC Worldwide
DVD Reviews of Doctor Who: Pyramids of Mars (Story 82)
DVD Review: Beware Sutekh - The Doctor & The Devil
Summary: 4 Stars
"The forces that are being summoned into corporeal existence in that house are more powerful & dangerous than anything even I have ever encountered."
"I bring Sutekh's gift of death to all Humanity."
- The Doctor prepares to battle Set, while the animated corpse of Marcus Scarman brings back an unwanted souvenier courtesy of "The Pyramids of Mars"
Another great "Doctor Who" serial that is arguably one his best adventures.
The TARDIS, with The Doctor & Sarah onboard, is making its way back to UNIT HQ when it experiences a reverse time anomaly. The Doctor safely lands The TARDIS & discovers that, they are at the correct location, but, decades earlier in an old priory that is now standing where UNIT HQ will become sometime in the future.
The Doctor senses there is extreme danger within the spacetime continium & starts to investigate as to whats is going on. The priory is owned by archeologist, Marcus Scarman, who has discovered, on his excavation in Egypt, the imprisoned tomb of Sutekh, The Destroyer. Sutekh an evil god of the Osirions killed his brother Horus & in turn The Osirions eternaly imprisoned Sutekh into a blind pyramid. That is until Scarman discovers his tomb & pays for his discovery with his life, as Sutekh kills Scarman, possessing his corpse & bringing back all items that were enclosed in his tomb back to the priory in England.
Sutekh's plan is to order Scarman to construct a rocket consisting of 4 nuclear warheads that can be sent to Mars & can free him from his eternal prison. Once freed, Sutekh will be able to destroy whole galaxies laying waste to billions of lives. Our evil is his good.
With the help of Sutekh's robot mummies, Scarman cardens off the grounds surrounding the priory stating that any humans within the property must die. The construction of the rocket begins, as The Doctor tries to come up with a plan. Along the way, The Doctor & Sarah meet Scarman's brother Lawrence, who still believes his brother is still alive & Dr. Warlock a friend of Marcus' who meets his untimely death at the hands of the robot mummies.
The Doctor, Sarah, & Lawrence return to the safety of The TARDIS to think of a way to stop Sutekh. Sarah wishes to go home to her own time & The Doctor obliges by bringing her back to 1980. The Doctor gives Sarah a crash course in "anti-time", in which the events of the present altercate the actions of the future. The Doctor opens the door to the TARDIS as Sarah stands in the doorway shocked to see her future change to nothing but ash & ruin. Essentialy, a dead planet orbiting its sun, courtesy of Sutekh.
Now with no choice but to go back & stop the evil Osirion, Sarah & The Doctor discover that if they destroy the rocket, Sutekh will still remain imprisoned forever in the pyramids of Mars. But, Sutekh has other plans & The Doctor must travel to Mars and stop Sutekh once & for all.
"The Pyramids Of Mars" borrows heavily from The Hammer Films adaption of "The Mummy".
The mummies used for the show were quickly turned into robots as the director discovered while researching Egyptology that mummies were wrapped with there legs together, not apart.
The priory was indeed owned by Mick Jagger, of "The Rolling Stones", but, was not in attendance for the shooting of the show (he was rehearsing with "The Stones" for an upcoming world tour). Jagger's parents were there, instead.
Michael Sheard, who plays Lawrence Scarman, went on to do more "Who" episodes, but, will be eternally remembered as an autograph signing Hitler in "Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade" & also as the doomed Admiral Ozzel in "The Empire Strikes Back" (Darth Vader, Force chokes him in the first quarter of the film. "He is as clumsy as he is stupid.")
The DVD specs consists of all four parts to "The Pyramids Of Mars" in Dolby 2.0, with an optional audio commentary by the director and Elisabeth Sladen, Deleted Scenes, a look back at the priory used in the film, a look at Egyptology, & an Easter Egg consisting of the BBC 1 & 2 promos to each episode.
Description of Doctor Who: Pyramids of Mars (Story 82)
As the Doctor and Sarah attempt to return to UNIT HQ, the TARDIS is thrown off course and materializes in 1911 at an old priory owned by Egyptologist Marcus Scarman. While excavating a tomb, the archaeologist became possessed by the spirit of Sutekh, the last survivor of the godlike Osirans. The Doctor and Sarah witness strange and deadly events as Sutekh, who has lain imprisoned in a pyramid for thousands of years, employs Scarman and a legion of robotic mummies in an elaborate scheme that may bring about the destruction of the world.Bestsellers in DVD
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