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Doctor Who - Spearhead from Space

starring: Jon Pertwee, Caroline John, Nicholas Courtney

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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: 9873
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

Amazon.com:
'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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Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Frighteningly Good!
Ah the Unit Episodes!! This is Who at its best. Brilliant portrayal as always (and highly believable) ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - 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 ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - A Doctor Who Story That Nightmares Are Made Of
January 1970 found the start of a new era of Doctor Who and the stage was set for a new beginning. Spearhead From ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - THE PERTWEE ERA BEGINS!
"Spearhead from Space" marks the beginning of John Pertwee's five-year stint as the Doctor. From the very outset, ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Pertwee's First Adventure
One of (if not the) first "Doctor Who" tales to be released on DVD, "Spearhead From Space" introduces fans of Who ... Read More

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