Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #8130 in DVD
• Released on: 2007-11-05
• Rating: Parental Guidance
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 81 minutes

DVD Description
The Infinite Quest is the stunning animated Doctor Who adventure series created for the BBC children’s show Totally Doctor Who. It aired in 13 episodes during the Spring 2007 and featured David Tennant and Freema Agyeman. Anthony Head guest starred as a new character Balthazar – Scourge of the Galaxy.

Featuring spectacular cutting-edge animation technology, The Infinite Quest was written by Alan Barnes and directed by Gary Russell, and is set during the action of the third series of Doctor Who.

The Doctor And Martha follow a trail of clues across wild and wonderful alien worlds, to find the location of the legendary lost spaceship, the Infinite.

Hosted by Barney Harwood and Blue Peter's Liz Barker, the Totally Doctor Who BBC 1 children's programme gives younger viewers an idea of what's going on in the main series.

Synopsis
The latest version of Doctor Who gets an animated make-over in this wonderful and exciting cartoon series.

Customer Reviews

Worthy Of The Television Series
I didn't watch this during the dozen 3 minute transmissions of the episodes on Totally Doctor Who I waited for the 'whole-in-one' showing of the complete story that followed and it comes in at roughly 43 minutes, the length of a tv episode.

I liked it, but I found the constant shifting of locations after every three minutes or so a bit distracting, I can understand why this needed to be done, as a serialized story it was necessary to provide a cliff-hanger to end every mini-episode and the location shifting was designed to keep the story on the move in order that the kid's interests were maintained.

The story is very good actually and it was interesting to see slightly different interpretations of the Doctor and Martha, the whole concept of animation enables the makers of the episode to do anything they want, they are not constrained by budget, there are so many effects in this episode that had it been a live action instalment it would have cost millions and millions, that is the advantage that animation and audio have over television and film, the imagination and the means to realise that vision has no limit.

The acting by the regulars is first rate and it is obvious that David and Freema are taking the material as seriously as a television episode and do not drop their performances for a moment. Anthony Head returns to Doctor Who again to once more play the villain and he is as good as ever.

The animation is by the same company that reconstructed the missing episodes of The Invasion and pull out all the stops to ensure that it looks good, David Tennant actually looks like David Tennant unlike some animation of the past.

The Infinite Quest has been given the status of being a legitimate or proper Doctor Who adventure and is considered part of season 3 but I wonder where it actually fits, I reckon after the episode '42', I am also surprised that it is not being featured in the series 3 boxset but is being given a standalone release, lets hope there is extras and a commentary.

The Infinite Quest has shown that it is possible to do Doctor Who via animation and to make it worthy of the TV show, all we need now is for the BBC to release the other Doctor Who animated adventure 'The Scream of the Shalka', what a pity they didn't release it with The Infinite Quest it would have made a nice little boxset of animated Doctor Who.

The Possibilities are endless
This original Doctor Who adventure from the acclaimed animation house Cosgrove Hall (makers of the peerless Danger Mouse) is a great idea and will hopefully lead to further stories being made in the same way: The unfinished Shada or some of the missing TV stories from the 60s could be remade this way; a mouth watering prospect for Doctor Who fans. The animation is pretty impressive and the story showcases the potential of Doctor Who in animated form, rather than presenting a coherent story in the way that the TV programme does. Great fun for kids and adults, I reckon you could do a lot worse than add this to your DVD collection; Doctor Who fan or not.

Doctor Who - Infinite Quest
Have to say I loved the Infinite Quest on Totally Doctor Who and watched all 13 parts the full run witch was shown after. It's great that this animated episode is coming to DVD and I hope it will have lots of extras on the disc as well, although with other single Doctor who DVD's they don't, but maybe because it's animated that would be different.

Anyway this story goes with the Doctor and Martha looking for a Starship called the Infinite witch has the power to give anyone their heart's desire, but a masked alien called Baltazar wants to find this ship so he can get his revenge on the Doctor, because he stopped him from destroying the Earth and rusted his ship to bits.

A great story with some good one liners, this shows that Doctor Who can jump from the live screen to the animated one with no problem at all. Let hope more like this are done next year, maybe this time with the Doctor and Donna played by Catherine Tate who will be returning to the series next year.