Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #68 in DVD
• Released on: 2010-01-11
• Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
• Format: PAL
• Number of discs: 3
• Running time: 195 minutes

DVD Description
Join the Doctor and his companions in this double pack which includes Waters of Mars and the remaining David Tennant specials.

The Waters of Mars - Mars, 2059. Bowie Base One. Last recorded message: "Don't drink the water. Don't even touch it. Not one drop."

Starring David Tennant and Lindsay Duncan
Includes DOCTOR WHO CONFIDENTIAL. Final Winter specials

Synopsis
Join the Doctor and his companions in this double pack which includes, Waters of Mars and The remaining David Tennant Specials.

Customer Reviews

Greatly Entertaining
With this dvd of specials to mark the end of David Tennant's tenure as the Doctor we are given quite a treat. The first special 'Waters of Mars', the Doctor has to prevent what is in the water on Mars gaining travel to Earth, thus destroying human life as we know it. Unfortunately for the Doctor he knows what will happen and tries to take a back seat as it is one of those moments in time and history that he feels cannot be altered. Of course, being who he is he decides to help the unfortunate team on Mars. With a lot of the team dying he tries to save the rest, and returns them to Earth in the TARDIS. But, can the Doctor's actions go against those that have already been pre-ordained? At the end of the episode the Doctor is summoned by the Ood.

In the second special the Doctor travels to the Ood to find out why and how they have managed to summon him. What the Doctor finds out seems to be inpossible, the Master has come back to life. Hurtling through time and space will the Doctor get to Earth in time?

After a Joshua Naismith decides to give his daughter life immortal from technology stolen from Torchwood the Master is captured by him to assist in making sure that the apparatus is working properly. But who are the aliens that are masquerading as humans doing there? And will Wilf be able to find the Doctor for help? Indeed how can Wilf locate the Doctor when others have tried and failed over the millennia?

With the Master changing virtually the entire planet into copies of himself, will things ever be the same again? Why doesn't Donna change into a copy of the Master, and how has she started to remember the past? Indeed with Donna remembering the past will she go crazy, or will she be able to help save humanity? On top of this the Time Lords have been brought back into existence, and they wish to stop time for good, but what kind of result will this lead to?

The Doctor knows that he will die in his present incarnation, but will he be able to return everything to status quo? Truly the two episodes that make up 'The End of Time' are fantastic, and a great way for David Tennant to leave the show, and the new Docotr to appear.

Bad Doctor
The doctor always needs to have someone with him - to control him and remind him who he is and what he stands for. In The Waters of Mars, we see the darker side of the doctor. With that you can see he is also like a human - we all make mistakes.

Not the glorious ending is should have been...
Was it just me? Or were the final two episodes of David Tennants tenure as Doctor Who - dare I say it - mawkish, drawn out and, well, disappointing? David Tennant has been an excellent Doctor, with some great stories - Waters of Mars being one of them - but, although he, John Simm and Bernard Cribbens turned in excellent perfomances, The End of Time story itself was just not good enough for a two part Christmas special, especially as we have been starved of Who this year, with no series. I know that this will not find favour with the die hard fans for whom Russell T Davies can do no wrong, and perhaps one of the problems with combining a Christmas special with the departure of the lead actor is that the result cannot live up to the weight of expectation, or the hype. Don't get me wrong, I've given it 3 stars and you should definitely see it, because any Doctor Who is better than none at all, but I was hoping for sharp, compelling and exciting storytelling and what I saw was complacent and overly sentimental.