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List Price: $19.98Amazon.com's Price: $14.99 You Save: $4.99 (25%)Prices subject to change.
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780790761916
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 0790761912
Label: BBC Warner
Manufacturer: BBC Warner
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: BBC Warner
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 11, 2001
Running Time: 97 minutes
Sales Rank: 28525
Studio: BBC Warner
Theatrical Release Date: September 29, 1975
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Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 09/06/2005 Run time: 97 minutes Rating: Nr
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"Spearhead from Space" launched Doctor Who into the 1970s with not only a new Doctor, Jon Pertwee, but a new assistant, the scientist Liz Shaw (Caroline John) and a regular place in the show for UNIT and Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart (Nicholas Courtney). It also marked the debut of the program in color and saw the Doctor stranded on Earth after Patrick Troughton's last adventure, "The War Games" (1969). Not only that, but it proved the only serial in the show's history to be entirely shot both on film and location, giving it a uniquely cinematic feel. Regenerating in a country hospital, the Doctor finds himself helping the Brigadier investigate an unusual meteorite and its links with a sinister doll factory. The Autons are cybernetic killers--anticipating The Terminator by some 15 years--and the sequence in which they break through shop windows to slaughter pedestrians remains a chilling highpoint of Doctor Who's entire history. Things do turn silly with a subplot involving a wax museum, while the ultimate battle with the Nestine consciousness is more likely to induce laughter than fear, but as vintage television nostalgia this is fast-moving, splendidly characterized entertainment. --Gary S. Dalkin
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Ah the Unit Episodes!! This is Who at its best. Brilliant portrayal as always (and highly believable) by Pertwee, and one of the best and underused baddies in Who history. The Autons have so much potentioal, and the image of plastic coming to life scared the heck out of me as a kid. This one is one to enjoy for all time. HIGHLY suggest you pick this up, wait for Saturday night, dim the lights and watch with the kids.
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This story is noteworthy for several reasons - 1. The first story to feature Jon Pertwee, 2. The first colour episode 3. The Doctor is exiled to Earth, 4. The first regular UNIT story, 5. Liz Shaw, 6. The Autons. This is one of my favorite Jon Pertwee stories and it has a great atmosphere to it.
The TARDIS returns to Earth, the door opens and an unknown man falls out dressed in the clothes of the Doctor. The Earth is also getting hit by objects falling from space. Soon, both the blue ... Read More
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January 1970 found the start of a new era of Doctor Who and the stage was set for a new beginning. Spearhead From Space, the first story of the 1970 season, proved to be just that and more. It was a story of many firsts from the first appearance of the third Doctor (played by Jon Pertwee), to the first episodes made in color to the first appearance of the Autons, Spearhead From Space set the standard for which the Pertwee era would be judged.
The story finds the Doctor exiled to late twentieth ... Read More
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"Spearhead from Space" marks the beginning of John Pertwee's five-year stint as the Doctor. From the very outset, he proves to be great in the role, despite the fact he spends most of the first episode in bed. The story itself is a fascinating, if a little hokey, tale of an alien invasion, with the aliens using mannequins as their instruments for taking over the world. The supporting cast does a great job, and Robert Holmes' story keeps a good pace going throughout the four-episode serial. Overall, this is ... Read More
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One of (if not the) first "Doctor Who" tales to be released on DVD, "Spearhead From Space" introduces fans of Who to Doctor #3, Jon Pertwee. His dashing, cultured (and very comedic) version of the Doctor would go on to rival the popularity of Doctor #4, Tom Baker. Pertwee literally falls into the role as he falls out of the TARDIS and onto the ground at Oxley Woods. The story centers around UNIT and its fearless British leader, Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart (the excellent Nicholas Courtney), ... Read More
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