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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0794051419125
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
Label: BBC Warner
Manufacturer: BBC Warner
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: BBC Warner
Region Code: 1
Release Date: November 06, 2007
Running Time: 98 minutes
Sales Rank: 15852
Studio: BBC Warner
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Description:
All is not well aboard the TARDIS - in an attempt to cheer up Nyssa and Tegan after the recent death of fellow companion Adric, the Doctor plans a trip back to the year 1851 and a visit to the Great Exhibition in London. However, the journey is unexpectedly interrupted and the TARDIS mysteriously appears in Terminal 1 of Heathrow Airport in modern-day London. At the same time, a routine incoming Concorde flight disappears without a trace... Are the two events connected? A second Concorde, carrying the Doctor, his companions and the TARDIS, is dispatched to follow the same flight path as the missing aircraft in an attempt to discover the fate of the passengers. But when this Concorde arrives back at Heathrow, they discover that things are not quite what they appear to be... What sinister force is behind the kidnapping of the Concorde passengers and crew? Is an ancient malevolent power at work, or something with which the Doctor is much more familiar?
DVD Features:
Audio Commentary
DVD ROM Features
Deleted Scenes
Featurette
Interviews
Outtakes
Photo gallery
Production Notes
Amazon.com:
Time-Flight is the four-episode serial that concluded Peter Davison's first season as the fifth Doctor. Arriving at Heathrow Airport with companions Nyssa (Sarah Sutton) and Tegan (Janet Fielding), still grieving after the death of Adric in 'Earthshock' (1982), the Doctor is soon involved in solving the mystery of a Concorde that has literally vanished into thin air. Tracing the lost plane's flight path in a second Concorde, the travelers find themselves flying through a hole in time into the prehistoric past. Here the Master (Anthony Ainley), under the rather camp persona of Kalid (which strangely he maintains even when alone), is planning to harness the power of the currently disembodied alien Xeraphin, who are stranded on Earth. Echoing both the classic 1960 Twilight Zone episode 'The Odyssey of Flight 33' and prefiguring Stephen King's chilling The Langoliers (1990), at heart Time-Flight is a reworking of the superior Tom Baker Doctor Who story 'City of Death' (1979). Ending on a minor cliffhanger, what makes the story really distinctive is that it was the first drama of any sort to be given permission to film in and around a genuine Concorde. --Gary S. Dalkin
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - The end of season 19
I should start be saying that for me the show began to go off kilter a bit during the JNT era. However, I really still like Peter Davison's first season but this one is the worst of them. It isn't really a bad story but it feels like a missed oppertunity which unfortunately would mark a bit of the JNT era. This is one of those episodes that you sit around, watch and can't really why you don't care more for it. I hadn't seen it in years and then I preordered it before it was released about a year ago. My thought was that it probably wasn't as bad as I had remembered and sat down prepared to give it a chance. The problem is that after watching it again, I haven't pulled it out since.
Rating:  - "The coherence is breaking up!"
I hadn't watched TIME-FLIGHT since my teenage years and I didn't really remember much about it apart from the very low opinion it has amongst Doctor Who fans. Watching this on DVD years later it turns out that the serial is everything I was expecting and more.
TIME-FLIGHT is the story of two British Concordes which accidentally travel 140 million years into the past. In this time zone is a mysterious sorcerer, an old enemy, blobby creatures called Plasmatons and an ancient, powerful extraterrestrial race called the Xeraphin with the whole plot revolving around the age-old struggle between good and evil. If this sounds interesting to you, then you'll no doubt be disappointed by the end result. The serial ends up being a bunch of different bits and pieces thrown together with little in the way of structure or logic to form them into a cohesive whole.
TIME-FLIGHT's first problem is its script. By eleven minutes into the first episode, we're already knee-deep in technobabble; we'll be in over our heads before the final credits roll. This is what people who say they don't like science-fiction probably cannot stand. If one doesn't know the conventions of the genre, one would assume that one lacks the knowledge of science and therefore cannot follow the story for that reason. They don't realize that the screenwriter is just making up all this physics as he goes along.
The script does far too much telling with almost no showing. Characters simply stand around ... Read More
Rating:  - Great DVD.
An excellent episode. I can't wait for the rest of the series to be released.
Rating:  - Oh, come on, it's better than you think!
Thanks to reviewer John Liosatos, I was convinced to have a second look at Time Flight when it came out on DVD and I'm glad I did. I have a newfound liking for the story, it's a good light-hearted simple adventure.
Like Timelash, Time-Flight certainly isn't a classic, I can't give it five stars, because there are a few things still niggling, the way they leave Tegan still feels jarring, as does the Master dressing up as an Arabic zombie.
But despite that... Time-Flight is great! Once they get over the sadness of Adric being killed, this TARDIS crew of the Doctor, Tegan and Nyssa suddenly work a lot better, without Adric's petulant streak that was apparent with his time with the Fifth Doctor. I love the irony that the Doctor keeps trying to get Tegan to Heathrow Airport, but fails, and when he doesn't try, he reaches it bang on target, right place, right time. And the script has some good quips in it, with the Doctor climbing out of the TARDIS and into a side compartment of the plane, and saying in wonder, "This is smaller on the inside than it is on the outside!" Nice twist on the common quote.
As for the same old argument, the special effects are worse here, Grimwade (the writer) shoulod've known better, boo-hoo, get over it. The sole positive viewpoint on the DVD with the Grimwade interview says it perfectly, "You've got to keep pushing the ideas" Good on ya Grimwade. If you can't stretch your imagination, and let yourself get into the story (sending a Concorde ... Read More
Rating: - One of my favorites!
I have always enjoyed the interaction between Peter Davison's Doctor and Anthony Ainley's Master, and this is one of my favorite episodes featuring the two. I was delighted to see it come out on DVD, and I enjoyed the extras!
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