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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0883929026081
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Original recording remastered, Subtitled, NTSC
Label: BBC Warner
Manufacturer: BBC Warner
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: BBC Warner
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 07, 2008
Running Time: 99 minutes
Sales Rank: 198
Studio: BBC Warner
Theatrical Release Date: September 29, 1975
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Rating: - 30 years ago
It's hard to believe it's been 30 years since Doctor Who came back to America in the form of Tom Baker, I missed the Pertwee episodes from their 1973 run (and in DC they were preempted that summer by the Watergate hearings).
I'd rush home from high school to see the show, a little fuzzy from the station in Baltimore.
But I was captivated.
This episode was one of the many great ones. Great mood that overcame any small defects.
I wonder if for this DVD they fixed the problem with episode one. In the epsiodic and combined version I saw, the first episode was missing the music and sound effects. It's fascinating to see from a technical standpoint how the sound and music contribute to the atmosphere and mood of a televised show.
Rating: - awsome
what can I say, the more Doctor Who that is released the better the world is.
Rating: - Oh What Fun!
Always loved this episode. Always will. Pure Doctor Who, this one will have your kids hiding under their beds, and rightfully so. Sacred Fire....Sacred Flame!!!! I can still hear that in my sleep. This one is well acted, well conceived and well received by the fans despite being a hodgepodge of many a story and a set. Baker, brilliant as always engages in a very curious battle of the minds with the villain. Is this Doctir really the 4th? Have there been more? The darkness in this episode works to great effect, but Baker's charm and wit never lets it get too scary. Pure fun!!!!
Rating: - Finally!! I have been waiting for this one!
I really wish BBC would get on the ball releasing more of the Hinchcliffe/Holmes "gothic horror" period of Doctor Who. They are some of my very favorites. Inspired by the excellent Hammer horror films, they drip with ambiance and mood, and were very creepy when I was young (remember Image of Fendahl or Seeds of Doom?). Brain of Morbius is a great version of Frankenstein, fish-bowl-headed monster and all.
Here's a bit of trivia for you: When The 4th Doctor is battling the monster, for a short time he is losing the battle. The screen flashes several faces as the Doctor lashes about in agony. The writer has said that the faces shown are incarnations of the Doctor prior to William Hartnell's version. This is often cited as a huge bit of discontinuity, as it throws a wrench in the claim that David Tennant is currently portraying the 10th Doctor.
Rating:  - The Planet of the Modern Prometheus. (With a bit of, "She")
Season Thirteen.
Much to the Doctors chagrin the Time Lords have taken control of the TARDIS, sending the Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith into very dangerous ground upon the stormlashed graveyard planet of Karn.
Sheltering from the rain in a castle atop a mountain, the Doctor encounters the surgeon Mehendri Solon, and his simple minded slave/assistant Condo conducting gruesome experiments on living flesh, but for what reason?
And now as a storm approaches, great evil from the depths of Time Lord history plots its return to the land of the living.
But can even the Doctor's mind, be a match for The Brain of Morbius.
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Four episodes of sumptuous gothic filled suspense, suspense that will suspend your everyday worries and cares, well at least for ninety minutes anyway. Mr Baker and Ms Sladen are on sparkling form, as is Philip Madoc, marvellously getting his teeth into a role he can go gloriously over the top with. Welsh born Madoc was a; "Who" semi regular, featuring in stories like The War Games as The War Lord, The Krotons as Eelek, and The Power of Kroll as Fenner. As well as the second Peter Cushing Dalek film. And with the passing of time, even writer Terrance Dicks no longer feels so bland towards this story anymore. For people like myself who finds the extras a nice touch, I did feel the extras were a bit on the weak side compared to some other releases.
Warning to the parents of little ones, the scene where Solon shoots Condo reveals a bit of blood, ... Read More
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