Doctor Who: The Invasion (Story 46)
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Actor: Patrick TroughtonBrand: 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 Video / Warner Bros.
Product features:
- 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.Running Time: 200 min. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre:?TELEVISION Rating:?NR Age:?794051285621 UPC:?794051285621 Manufacturer No:?E2856
DVD Reviews of Doctor Who: The Invasion (Story 46)
DVD 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. DVD Review: Only halfway through and already I am thrilled beyond words!
Summary: 5 Stars
The animation of the missing episodes were brilliant! Let's hope that they will apply this formula to more of the first and second doctor's stories! I'm on the edge of my seat for this one!DVD Review: Great serial with excellent restoration work
Summary: 5 Stars
One of the best early serials, this story has painstakingly been restored to as-good-as-possible shape, with "missing" segments restored by animation. If they would do such good work for other "missing" serials, many classic Doctor Who stories could be regenerated into new life.DVD Review: More in ShippingCare
Summary: 4 Stars
Product, video DVD, arrived with broken jewel case. In standard mailer and unmarked. Understand marking as video attracks theft, but maybe marking as fragile would help. DVD fine antd I have another jewel box for it, but was a bit scary for a few seconds when I thought the DVD might have been affected.DVD Review: Unique
Summary: 4 Stars
Second Doctor Who actor Patrick Troughton gives one of his best performances not "entirely" lost like most of the episodes from 1963-1970. While some of those stories exist in thier entirety, most are incomplete. THE INVASION has 6 of the 8 episodes that remaim entirely. The other two episodes (episodes 1 and 4) make this DVD truely UNINQUE. While video footage of 1 and 4 has been lost the audio remained, and now replaced with animated reconstructions. What hurts this otherwise CLASIC STORY is the sheer lenghth, which can be blamed on the BBC after the original script called for a six part story. These stories are a part of the extras which are a must for any fan of Doctor Who. The real treasure of this story is three-fold #1 the introduction of Nicholas Courtney as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart and UNIT #2 the return of the Cybermen the sound of thier invasion itself is priceless #3 Kevin Stoney as the real villian of this story, Tobias Vaughn is worth purchase price alone. Truely one of Doctor Who's greatest Villians.
Description of Doctor Who: The Invasion (Story 46)
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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