Doctor Who - The Beginning Collection
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Actor: Carole Ann Ford, Jacqueline Hill, William Hartnell, William RussellBrand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 311 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-03-28
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: BBC Warner
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- The Doctor is a renegade Time Lord: an eccentric, highly-intelligent scientist from a distant planet. He travels through time and space in the TARDIS, a curious device, larger on the inside than on the outside, which was designed to change its appearance to suit its surroundings. Unfortunately, the Doctor's TARDIS seems to be broken, and always appears as a blue British police box. The Doctor
DVD Reviews of Doctor Who - The Beginning Collection
DVD Review: Doctor...who?
Summary: 5 Stars
Dooctor Who: The Beginning Colection contains the very first three adventures of what would become one of the greatest televison shows ever seen. In "An Unearthly Child" were taken to Earth in the year 1963 where two teachers Ian Chesterton and Brabra Wright of Coal Hill school are talking about a student who goes by the name of Susan and is very bright but seems to be getting a number of her facts wrong. She shows great brillance in the fields of science and history but seems to know almost nothing of current day events and things. Soon enough the two teachers decide to follow her and find themselves at the entrance to a scrapyard in Totters Lane. Once inside they find no trace of Susan but a police box standing in the scrapyard. All the while a strange old man appears and has a key to open it and once inside thier world changes forever. After a brief argument and Ian messing with the controls to the TARDIS. Something Susan came up with to call it. Are sent back into earth's distant past where they encounter cavemen trying to figure out the secret of fire and control of the clan.
After the events of the previous episode they are once traveling in time and space. They land on a strange planet filled with many dangers. Worse still they encounter a race called The Daleks. Strange mutated creatures that live inside metal shells. Whose thrist for conquest and destruction knows no bounds. Soon after they meet another race The Thalls long time enemies and very peace loving people. The Doctor and the others have to find a way to save the Thalls and stop the Daleks from conquering thier world.
In the third installment The Doctor and the others are trapped inside the TARDIS and don't seem to have any memory of where they have been and who they are. All to soon it is discovered that a strange alien being has entered the TARDIS and wants to destroy them all.
DVD Review: the start of a fascinating,enduring series.
Summary: 5 Stars
i loved the episodes in this set!even though these episodes were filmed in the early sixties,they are so fun to watch.the special effects aren't great,but i still got caught up in the action and what the characters were doing.it was very interesting seeing william hartnell's portrayal of the first doctor.although,each actor,who plays the doctor brings some of himself into the character.i fully intend to buy more of the william hartnell era on dvd,and other seasons of doctor who,as well!DVD Review: Doctor Who
Summary: 5 Stars
The product arrived on time and in great condition. The receiver of the gift was thrilled when she opened it. Thank you.DVD Review: In The Beginning.....
Summary: 5 Stars
This one is a must have for any hardcore Who fan or someone that loves retro sci-fi.William Hartnell is one of the best doctors and these gems take you all the way back to the beginning and include some very good special features like:Dr. Who-Origins and Marco Polo. All three episodes are good,but the real treat is definately The Daleks.This one is not only the Doctor's first encounter with the iconic villians but also happens to be one of the best episodes in the show's long history.Treat yourself and buy it!!!DVD Review: First Things First
Summary: 4 Stars
I made a big mistake with The Beginning Collection: I watched the third of the three stories first. The mistake, however, wasn't not knowing who the companions were; instead, the mistake was simply watching the least effective of the three first - and getting a false impression of William Hartnell's Doctor. Of all the Doctor Who stories I've watched so far, from all the Doctor's regenerations, The Edge of Destruction was by far and away the least effective. I didn't like the William Hartnell Doctor, nor did I like the Susan character. But the biggest problem was the story itself; it didn't make it clear why the Doctor and Susan were so paranoid (I suppose it was because they were, literally, out of time and space; and therefore completely out of their element). At any rate, when I watched An Unearthly Child, I got a much more positive impression of Hartnell's Doctor - in fact, he was the only one of the four travelers who seemed to have a sense of the danger they were in. I've read other reviews of other Doctors where Adric or Tegan or Peri was considered the worst companion ever. But I nominate the Doctor's granddaughter Susan for that honor; she was simply unbearable. Hartnell's Doctor, however, I would place just below Tom Baker's as the best of the early Doctors.
Description of Doctor Who - The Beginning Collection
The Doctor is a renegade Time Lord: an eccentric highly-intelligent scientist from a distant planet. He travels through time and space in the TARDIS a curious device larger on the inside than on the outside which was designed to change its appearance to suit its surroundings. Unfortunately the Doctor's TARDIS seems to be broken and always appears as a blue British police box. The Doctor has a soft spot for the planet Earth and often visits there either to save it from various alien threats or to whisk a choice few inhabitants away to the distant parts of the galaxy to help him fight evil there. The Doctor has many foes including Daleks (led by Davros) and The Master another renegade Time Lord. Time Lord biology enables them to regenerate their bodies and so both the Doctor and the Master appear evolve over the years...Format: DVD MOVIE Genre:?DRAMA UPC:?794051248923 Manufacturer No:?E2489The "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
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