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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0794051285621
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Full Screen, Original recording remastered, Restored, NTSC
Label: BBC Warner
Manufacturer: BBC Warner
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: BBC Warner
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 06, 2007
Running Time: 200 minutes
Sales Rank: 28924
Studio: BBC Warner



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Description:
The Doctor, Zoe and Jamie team up with UNIT to fend off a worldwide invasion of Cybermen. Brigadier Lethbridge Stewart puts you in the picture concerning the action in the missing episodes.

DVD Features:
Audio Commentary:Audio Commentary by actress Elisabeth Sladen, co-writer Bob Baker and producer Philip Hinchcliffe.
Other:Doctor Who is in the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest running sci-fi series in television history




Amazon.com:
An electronics industrialist plots to conquer the world using the cybernetic devices his company makes. You can insert your own Bill Gates joke here, but in this epic eight-part 1968 Doctor Who adventure, the villain, Tobias Vaughn (Kevin Stoney in a great performance, one eyebrow perpetually cocked as he schemes), has allied himself with the robotic Cybermen and nearly succeeds in global domination. This story was a harbinger of what was to come in the series during the first half of the 1970s--that is, the threat to contemporary (or near-future) Earth, with the Doctor (Patrick Troughton) joining up with the quasi-military U.N.I.T. headed by Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart (Nicholas Courtney--who also provides a newly shot introduction to the story and fills in the two missing episodes that were shamelessly destroyed by the BBC when they purged their archives in the early 1970s). Director Douglas Camfield fully exploits the mood-inducing black-and-white imagery, manages to keep the action going (with assistance from real Department of Defence soldiers on loan), and provides some memorable moments, particularly the Cybermen bursting out of the sewers and marching relentlessly through the streets of London at the end of episode 6. The writers wisely give Vaughn most of the exposition with the Doctor and allow the Cybermen to remain nearly indestructible, mostly silent killers. This may not be the greatest of the Cybermen stories in the 1960s, but the metallic monsters make the most of their appearances here, thus cementing their reputation in popularity as second only to the Daleks. --Ryan K. Johnson



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Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - More in ShippingCare
Product, video DVD, arrived with broken jewel case. In standard mailer and unmarked. Understand marking ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Unique
Second Doctor Who actor Patrick Troughton gives one of his best performances not "entirely" lost like most ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - pretty good
I thought the animated portions (to match with the still extant audio for the missing episodes) were a little ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Who fans
This is a good dvd to get the full story line. The animation for the missing episodes is alright & the sound ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Fantastic!
It is great to finally see this clasic tale that was previousally unavailable! The BBC foolishily destroyed episodes ... Read More

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