Doctor Who: The Brain of Morbius (Episode 84)
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Actor: Elisabeth Sladen, Tom BakerDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Original recording remastered, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 99 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-10-07
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: BBC Warner
DVD Reviews of Doctor Who: The Brain of Morbius (Episode 84)
DVD Review: I was waiting for this one...
Summary: 5 Stars
It's the mad scientist and Rocky Horror (w/o the sex) meets Dr. Who and the BBC. There's something for everyone! Cult worshippers, Sara Jane goes blind, the Dr. almost gets his head cut off... there's large insects combined with humans.... it's lots of fun!DVD Review: "The impossible dream of a thousand alchemists, dripping like tea from an urn."
Summary: 5 Stars
It doesn't take long until the viewer realizes that "The Brain of Morbius" is an unlikely concoction, a hodgepodge homage to any number of classics and not-so-classics, the chief ingredient being of course one of the key progenitors of the science fiction genre, Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein"--with a dash of late 20th-century paranoia, "They Saved Hitler's Brain" tossed into the brew for good measure. The risks taken here by the show's writers and producers, namely that the story collapse into a muddied incoherent mess or else come off as a stitched together patchwork of rip-offs, were significant but well worth it. What we have instead is a brilliant specimen of Doctor Who that draws on several interesting sources in good measure and synthesizes them into something highly original, thrillingly riveting, immensely entertaining, and uniquely characteristic of the show.
Who else, after all, could get away with a story so morbidly gruesome and yet so hilarious? "The Brain of Morbius" gets about as rough and gory as Saturday evening BBC TV in the 70's would allow, with a chilling premise underlining it all: an ingenious but twisted surgeon working to construct a body from spare parts for the preserved brain of his master, a Time Lord dictator presumed executed and long dead (All he needs is a good humanoid cranium, when who should show up at his castle door but the Doctor and Sarah Jane?). And yet moments of clever wit and cerebral comedy punctuate the story without defusing the horror in the least, nor does the overall horrific and moody atmosphere render the humor any less funny. Again, an unlikely combination of mutually conflicting elements somehow sublimates into a wonderful compound greater than the sum of its parts within the crucible of these four episodes. Indeed, this is a vividly memorable tale from early in Tom Baker's tenure as the fourth Doctor, one beloved by a vast majority of the show's fans--myself definitely included.
And what a fine release for October, just in time for Halloween!
DVD Review: 30 years ago
Summary: 5 Stars
It's hard to believe it's been 30 years since Doctor Who came back to America in the form of Tom Baker, I missed the Pertwee episodes from their 1973 run (and in DC they were preempted that summer by the Watergate hearings).
I'd rush home from high school to see the show, a little fuzzy from the station in Baltimore.
But I was captivated.
This episode was one of the many great ones. Great mood that overcame any small defects.
I wonder if for this DVD they fixed the problem with episode one. In the epsiodic and combined version I saw, the first episode was missing the music and sound effects. It's fascinating to see from a technical standpoint how the sound and music contribute to the atmosphere and mood of a televised show.
DVD Review: awsome
Summary: 5 Stars
what can I say, the more Doctor Who that is released the better the world is.DVD Review: Oh What Fun!
Summary: 5 Stars
Always loved this episode. Always will. Pure Doctor Who, this one will have your kids hiding under their beds, and rightfully so. Sacred Fire....Sacred Flame!!!! I can still hear that in my sleep. This one is well acted, well conceived and well received by the fans despite being a hodgepodge of many a story and a set. Baker, brilliant as always engages in a very curious battle of the minds with the villain. Is this Doctir really the 4th? Have there been more? The darkness in this episode works to great effect, but Baker's charm and wit never lets it get too scary. Pure fun!!!!
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