The Doctor Who Collection

Rating:
Summary: Movies are good, but a 3 DVD set?
Review: The 2 movies are adaptations of Doctor Who TV episodes from the 1960s - each squashing about 3 hours of TV into 90 minutes of movie. For all that, the movies do a pretty good job. A Lot of slow padded scenes are trimmed of deleted.
However, this release is inferior to the Region 4 (Australian release), which not only puts both movies on 1 dual layer DVD, but also incorporates the documentary on these movies, "Dalekmania" on the same disc, along with photo galleries & movie posters.
Frankly, if you can play region 4 discs, I'd get the Australian version.

Rating:
Summary: Gran Moff Tarkin as Dr. Who (?) Nah--just kidding!
Review: These movies of "Dr. Who" was made during the 1st season run of the popular BBC series when it was being filmed in black & white. Terry Nation wanted to bring the Daleks to the big screen & in color and did so by making these 2 movies.. The 1st one is based on an episode during the first season called "The Dead Planet" with the late William Hartnell as the Doctor. However, in the movie version it's the late Peter Cushing. Almost the same scipt but with some slight variations. The 2nd movie is an original script with the Daleks returning in the 22nd century to take over the Earth and move the entire planet to another location. The SFX are not too bad. The music for the 2nd movie sounds too much like something out of James Bond.

Rating:
Summary: Gran Moff Tarkin as Dr. Who (?) Nah--just kidding!
Review: These movies of "Dr. Who" was made during the 1st season run of the popular BBC series when it was being filmed in black & white. Terry Nation wanted to bring the Daleks to the big screen & in color and did so by making these 2 movies.. The 1st one is based on an episode during the first season called "The Dead Planet" with the late William Hartnell as the Doctor. However, in the movie version it's the late Peter Cushing. Almost the same scipt but with some slight variations. The 2nd movie is an original script with the Daleks returning in the 22nd century to take over the Earth and move the entire planet to another location. The SFX are not too bad. The music for the 2nd movie sounds too much like something out of James Bond.

Rating:
Summary: Buy the 2 movies alone
Review: This is one of those instances where the Boxed set falls short of expectaions. While the set comes with a 3rd disc of bonus material "Dalekmania"'s interviews are nice additions - the documentary lacks the feeling and excitement of the interviews included along with the various Television eppisodes. The additional trailers included are entertaining but only as examples of the formulaic trailers of sci fi in the mid 60's.

The movies themselves are really quite good. Vibrant colored Daleks and prety good acting. While the original stories were adapted from 1st Doctor William Hartnell's The Mutants (the Daleks) and Dalek invasion of Earth they are seen on a much grander scale.

Peter Cushing's Doctor Who (as he is referred to in the movies) is a much warmer friendly protrayal. but the compainion characters lack the depth that was created within the series. Like the Sylvester McCoy eppisodes it seems budget used for effects outwieghs character development. The second film Dalek invasion of Earth 2150 ad is very well made and has some great comedic play to it. the Scenes of Tom the cop as a roboman are truly hysterical.