Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #91922 in DVD
• Released on: 2001-11-20
• Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
• Formats: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Colour, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
• Original language: English, French
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 84 minutes

Customer Reviews

Second time lucky.
Of the two Doctor Who films that were produced during the sixties, this is the better by far. Peter Cushing returns to play the Doctor and does his best but still seems quite unsure about how to play the role, although he deserved to be commended for avoiding a simple impression of his television counterpart, William Hartnell. The supporting cast are impressive, which include Bernard Cribbins and Philip Madoc. The filming at Shepperton Studios is nice and the space ship in the sky is more convincing than the TV series ever managed.

Pulp Fiction With Peter Cushing's Dr Who!
After inadvertantly picking up a London copper, the Doc + chums arrive in a menacing 22nd Century dominated by Daleks. What are they planning at their colossal mining complex in Bedfordshire?

Cushing's second and final appearance as Dr Who is far superior to the flat first film as we have a hell of a lot of location filming and some impressive action sequences and effects. The Daleks are truly awe-inspiring and yet they do not dominate the film, leaving space for many of the humans to shine. Cushing's a great Doc, and all in all this is a nice production. Nowhere near the quality of the TV story like!

James

Much better than the TV production
It's hard for me to be objective about this film because it remains such a vivid memory from ten years ago when I first saw it, but in terms of its great production design and atmospheric location filming, it's streets ahead, and indeed far more impressive, than its woefully cheap small-screen counterpart (The Dalek Invasion of Earth) from the Dr Who series. The Dalek saucer, with its concentrically turning platforms, is one of the finest spaceships in cinema history and the various scenes of the Daleks gliding about a ruined London are brilliantly executed. Call me mad, but I even like Bernard Cribbins.

A definate yes to buy this film - even 38 years on from its first big-screen appearance it still looks delightfully impressive.