Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4692 in DVD
• Released on: 2006-11-06
• Rating: Parental Guidance
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 2
• Running time: 192 minutes

Synopsis
Having arrived in 1975, The Doctor (Patrick Trouton) and his assistants discover that sinister things are afoot at an electrical conglomerate; a company that’s managed to monopolise the entire world market. Furthermore, the shadowy CEO of the company is actually in league with the Cybermen and together plot a full-scale invasion of our planet. With a strategy already in motion, is it too late for the Doctor to foil the Cybermen’s dastardly plan?

Customer Reviews

Now, if this could be done for the other destroyed stories...
The idea of doing animated reconstructions of destroyed Who episodes is brilliant, especially when the soundtrack still exists! I have the (US) video version of The Invasion, but this updated DVD is much better. I'm only disappointed that fans in the US have not been given the easy opportunity to enjoy this. (Loved the re-emergence of International Electromatics in the new season 2 as well)

I wish the animation had a bit more expression, but the faces and atmosphere are very well done.

I'd love to see "Enemy of the World," "The Faceless Ones," and "The Celestial Toymaker" given the same opportunities to be enjoyed again.

"Stay tooned with Pat Troughton"
Well, do the animated episodes work or not? Yes, they work brilliantly, Troughton's mannerisms and Kevin Stoney's facial expressions are particularly well captured-just see Pat run!
Both animated episodes are fully animated and do not have a few seconds of reprise material from the orginial episodes either side cut in. It's just a shame the animated version of the titles was not used.

A strong story if a little stretched at 8 episodes, this is the best candidate for a story to rival "Tomb of the Cybermen" as the best complete Troughton! It moves along enough most of the times to compensate for any padding.

Trougton excels as Earth's self appointed defender, and is at his best playing opposite Kevin Stoney's full blooded villain. When together, both men raise their game.

Jamie gets some very good moments opposite Peter Halliday's incompetent henchman, while Zoe uses her computer skills and has many humourous moments with a girlpal.

The ultimate in Cyber-minimalism, the metallic monsters get very little screen time and even less dialogue. They are all the more effective for this and Douglas Camfield makes a handful of cybermen look like an army.

He gets real soldiers to play with too and stages some marvellous battle sequences. Unit was rarely this impressive again, a giant organisation who can whip up a helicopter in minutes! Nicholas Courtney makes his Brigadier solid and likeable. Watch also for Benton!

Main documentary "Evolution of the Invasion" is very well put together with many of those involved interviewed. Edward Burnham has an interesting story on how he wanted to play his death scene, and an unfilmed scene is recreated for us, showing how another character might have been killed off.
1 very serious omission is author Derrick Sherwin, and while we're at it is it so impossible to edit in some archive interviews with Troughton?

There is a very good featurette on how the animation was created-note the glee of the man who "played" Troughton for some motion capture!

Similarly the history of fans taping the soundtracks on reel to reel recorders is explored. Marvellous stuff except for the person who plays a bit of his prized recording of "Brian of Morbius", "With audience reaction" as if it were a major historical document. GET OUT MORE!

The commentary is the usual enjoyable fare but also features the naimators appraising their work on episode 1, and Frazer Hines and Wendy Padbury assessing their animated selves for ep 4.

A return to glory for a dear old story. can we have the same for 10th Planet please?

Not quite one for all fans, unless they were very big on the new Cybermen.

Nostalgiafest!
It's brilliant! Buy it now!
The recreated cartoon episodes are stunning.
Kevin Stoney is the showstealer.
It's meaty and there are very good extras.
What a shame the high costs will probably prevent any more reconstructed stories!
So, why not but it to encourage more of them.