DVD: Jon Pertwee

DVD: Jon Pertwee

DVD:

Jon Pertwee

Doctor Who - Beneath The Surface (Doctor Who And The Silurians / The Sea Devils / Warriors Of The Deep)

Jon Pertwee, Peter Davison

BBC Warner, 2008

"These creatures aren't just animals, they're an alien life form, as intelligent as we are."
Doctor Who can be a pretty deep show sometimes. And that goes for the three stories in this aptly named box-set both in the usual figurative sense and quite literally as well. That is, the unifying element in "Doctor Who and the Silurians" (1970), "The Sea Devils" ...

Doctor Who - The Five Doctors (25th Anniversary Edition)

Peter Davison, Richard Hurndall

BBC Warner, 2008

Misleading
This release does NOT contain THE KING'S DEMONS. Go to the Amazon UK site for a better description. This is a 2 disc set though.

Tale of the Mummy

Jason Scott Lee, Louise Lombard

Dimension, 1999

Nifty horror film
Jason Scott Lee (No relation to Chris Lee who has a cameo in the film, along with Honor Blackman and Jack Davenport) plays a cop investigating a series of murders that has origins of an ancient curse a la King Tut. Also with Gerald Butler, Lysette Anthony, Sean ...

Doctor Who - Spearhead from Space

Jon Pertwee, Caroline John

BBC Warner, 2001

The beginning of the Jon Pertwee era and the show goes to colour
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 ...

Doctor Who - Inferno (Episode 54)

Jon Pertwee, Caroline John

BBC Warner, 2006

Breaks the rules, and does it well!
The thing with 99.99% of TV dramas is that they have to follow an unwritten guideline in their storyline. The hero wins, the world (earth, company, whatever is saved) and we finish with a happy ending. Not so here. At least with the alternate world. As Terrance ...

The Water Babies

James Mason, Bernard Cribbins

MGM (Video & DVD), 2003

A movie from my childhood
It's pretty much how I remember it. The animation isn't great compared to today's standards but considering I bought this for a trip down memory lane it was exactly what I was expecting!

Doctor Who - The Three Doctors

Jon Pertwee, Patrick Troughton

BBC Warner, 2004

Tenth anniversary adventure
The Three Doctors was a special four-part story which commemorated the tenth anniversary of Doctor Who. It was also the opener for the show's tenth season (Jon Pertwee's fourth as the Doctor). William Hartnell and Patrick Troughton return as the first and second ...

The House That Dripped Blood

John Bennett, John Bryans

Lions Gate, 2003

Great Horror ... Don't be mislead by gory title
I thought and thought about buying this movie for the longest time because of the title and cover but it was just my kind of show! A lot like the Night Gallery pilot. Good actors doing well written shows. The first tale being about a writer who moves to the "house" for ...

Doctor Who - The Five Doctors (Episode 130)

Peter Davison, Patrick Troughton

BBC Warner, 2001

DOCTOR WHO THE FIVE DOCTORS WAS GOOD MARK
Doctor who the five doctors was good and it had all the five doctors and a dalek and lots of cybermen. age 9 Mark Thomann

Doctor Who - The Time Warrior (Episode 70)

Jon Pertwee

BBC Warner, 2008

The first from Jon Pertwee's final season and the beginning of Sarah Jane Smith
Jon Pertwee's final season has always been one of my favorites and this first story from that season is no exception. This show also marks the first appearence of both Sarah Jane Smith and the Sontarans to the series. Most of this story is set in the past giving us ...

Water Babies (1978) (Clam)

James Mason, Bernard Cribbins

MGM (Video & DVD), 2000

A movie from my childhood
It's pretty much how I remember it. The animation isn't great compared to today's standards but considering I bought this for a trip down memory lane it was exactly what I was expecting!

Stiff Upper Lips

Peter Ustinov, Prunella Scales

Miramax, 2000

The only movie my husband required me to buy.
We saw this movie for the first time on PBS and thought it was hysterical. It's only one of two movies that he can watch over and over again. It's also the only movie he can watch and not fall asleep. It's a little racy, but that's why it's so funny. The whole ...

Doctor Who - The Green Death (Episode 69)

Jon Pertwee, Katy Manning

BBC Warner, 2005

The one with the giant maggots
If you were to ask Who fans to name the quintessential Jon Pertwee story, many would answer The Green Death. It has all the characteristics of a Pertwee classic: a contemporary earthbound setting (contemporary for the early 70s that is), a threat to the environment, ...

Doctor Who - The Claws of Axos (Episode 57)

Jon Pertwee, Katy Manning

BBC Warner, 2005

Color Comes to Doctor Who
Doctor Who really grew up during the Jon Pertwee era. The gray space stations necessitated by monochrome television were no more. The advent of color television opened up a new direction for the program, and nowhere is this direcetion more evident than Claws of Axos. ...

Doctor Who and the Silurians (Episode 52)

Jon Pertwee

BBC Warner, 2008

"The Brigadier won't listen to reason. Maybe the Silurians will."
I fondly recall watching this classic Doctor Who storyline as a teenager in the 1980's and being utterly blown away by its moral complexity. Decades have passed, I'm older and a fair bit more jaded, and it still blows me away! The somewhat unusually titled "Doctor Who ...