Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #8669 in VHS
• Released on: 1996-02-26
• Rating: Universal, suitable for all
• Formats: Collector's Edition, HiFi Sound, PAL
• Number of tapes: 1
• Running time: 79 minutes

Synopsis
The first big-screen adventure based on the BBC TV series. Doctor Who travels to Skaro, the birthplace of the terrifying Daleks who are plotting to exterminate their enemies, the Thals, with a massive neutron bomb. Digitally remastered.

Customer Reviews

Exterminate!
The Doctor (played by the scary Peter Cushing) goes to the aid of a tribe threatened by the evil Daleks, aided by Roy Castle, sans trumpet and before he went off to help Norris McWhirter break records. The tribe members are *extremely* camp, dressed in Peter Pan style tunics, with blonde hair, tights and make-up (unusual only when you consider that most of the tribe are men). "Tomorrow we shall go to the city of the Daleks!" proclaims one of them merrily, fondly embracing his male companion. Lucky the Doctor was around to help them, really.

The Truth And noting BUT the Truth
This Film of the Daleks is good if you a real doctor who fan.(like me) The sets are good and the daleks are like the original. Im a bit dissopinted that the Doctor is not a timelord nor susan.The one thing i did notice was the lights on the Daleks actually flash to what they are saying (Unlike i the series!) The tharls are a bit over dressed but it adds to the magic ...if you wish. Over all a good film and i wonder if there is going to be another...i rate it 4 star!

More of a send-up than a re-make. For easly-pleased kids only.
This film was launched at the height of the Dalek craze in the 1960s, its man selling point was that it was in colour and that it was on a film-sized budget.

Looking at it again these days, you realise the above points were just about all it had going for it. You also realise that, whilst the Dr Who TV series is intelligent sci-fi, this is strictly a kiddie's show. The original Dalek story involved a post-holocaust world in which the victims of a global war had become dependant on machinery and the aggressors had become peaceful farmers. In the film version, however, we have a race of camp-looking people in silly make-up pitted against multi-coloured ranting tin-pots. The petrified forest has none of the atmosphere of the black-and-white version. The 'huge city' exterior consists of a wall with three doors, whilst inside it's all lava lamps and shower curtains. Peter Cushing and Roy Castle do the best with the material they've been given - they both play characters who are more or less comedy figures - but you can't help feeling how good this film might have been if it had been taken seriously. Maybe kids will like it, but given the high standards of the Dr Who series (including the new episodes) they might feel their intelligence is being insulted.