Doctorin' the TARDIS (74 titles)

Yet another guide to Doctor Who on DVD!

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The first three serials. An Unearthly Child has a spooky first episode followed by three middling ones set in the stone age, The Daleks is iconic but overlong and The Edge of Destruction a bit of a curio, being as it is entirely set in the TARDIS. Well worth it just to see how the show started.

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Doctor Who - The Beginning (3 discs) on DVD (1963)
Starring: William Hartnell, Carole Ann Ford, Jacqueline Hill
Director: Waris Hussein, Richard Martin
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Features four episodes. Includes the previously unreleased pilot episode and the very first episode from the long-running sci-fi TV series set in London in 1963. In 'An Unearthly Child', teachers Ian and Barbara follow a mysterious pupil, Susan, home one evening and find that she lives in a ..read more »

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Doctor Who - The Aztecs

Though the format has varied considerably over the years, there have been several guiding principles behind Doctor Who. One of these is that characters should never change history, and it is this dilemma that serves as the core for The Aztecs, a fine serial that is to a certain extent the truest expression of the show's early educational slant.

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Doctor Who - The Aztecs on DVD (1964)
Starring: William Hartnell, William Russell
Director: John Crockett
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Doctor Who (William Hartnell) and the crew of the Tardis find themselves inside of a 15th-century Aztec temple. Things soon go awry when Barbara is worshiped by the civilization as the goddess Yetaxa. Barbara decides to take advantage of her newfound status as a deity and decree that her subjects ..read more »

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Doctor Who - Dalek Invasion Of Earth

The most memorable early Dalek story, chiefly for its spirit of the Blitz atmosphere. Fans will also remember it for featuring the first companion departure, as the Doctor's kooky grand-daughter Susan decides to shack up with a fey looking Scottish resistance fighter.

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Doctor Who - Dalek Invasion Of Earth (2 discs) on DVD (1964)
Starring: William Hartnell, Ray Brooks, Bernard Cribbins
Director: Richard Martin
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The Doctor, played by William Hartnell, and a number of his companions take their T.A.R.D.I.S. time machine to the future only to discover that the Earth has been ravaged and taken over by a race of diabolical robots known as Daleks. Realizing that the Daleks are trying to mine the Earth's nuclear ..read more »

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Doctor Who - The Web Planet

Once memorably described by a Doctor Who fan as like a Czechoslovakian school play on crack. If it had turned out right, we'd be remembering it as the only Doctor Who story to feature a completely alien cast of supporting characters; as it is, we remember it for the ridiculous insect costumes and Billy Hartnell's baroque line fluffing. He spends one abortive scene giggling like a little schoolgirl. Strangely enough, a heavy source of reference in the New Series.

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Doctor Who - The Web Planet on DVD (1965)
Starring: William Hartnell
Director: Richard Martin
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The Tardis lands on a strange planet where Doctor Who and his friends take on the might of the Zarbis, an evil power.

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Doctor Who - Time Meddler

Creaky black and white japery in which the Doctor meets a rogue Time Lord (though they weren't yet called that) in Viking-era England.

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Doctor Who - Time Meddler on DVD (1965)
Starring: William Hartnell, Peter Purves, Maureen O'Brien
Director: Douglas Camfield
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The TARDIS arrives on an English coastline in the year 1066. Exploring, the Doctor discovers that one of his own people, the Monk, is conspiring to wipe out the Viking fleet and thus allow King Harold to face the forces of William of Normandy with a fresh army at the Battle of Hastings. The Doctor ..read more »

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Doctor Who - The Tomb Of The Cybermen

When this was returned to the archives in the early 90s fandom let out a collective sigh of disappointment. Far from being a taut base under siege thriller, Tomb of the Cybermen turned out to be a slightly daft runaround with dodgy racial undertones.

Doctor Who - The Tomb Of The Cybermen on DVD (1967)
Starring: Patrick Troughton, Clive Merrison, Frazer Hines
Director: Morris Barry
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Doctor Who (Patrick Troughton) and his mates bring the TARDIS to Telos, where lies the ancient tomb of the notorious Cybermen. A team of archaeologists are in the midst of excavating, trying to determine just why the mysterious race went extinct. Of course, it isn't long before a traitorous member ..read more »

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Doctor Who - The Mind Robber

Much of Patrick Troughton's era is missing from the archives, and what is left largely comes from his third and final series, which is variable in quality. The Mind Robber is one of the few left. It's ingenious enough but lacks in depth, and Troughton himself is somewhat over-rated.

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Doctor Who - The Mind Robber on DVD
Starring: Patrick Troughton, Frazer Hines, Wendy Padbury
Director: David Maloney
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The Tardis crash-lands in a strange place where things exist only when they are believed in.

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Doctor Who: The Invasion

The Cybermen return in an action-oriented serial that acts as a trial run for the Pertwee years. The DVD features two animated episodes to replace those missing from the archives- and very good they are too.

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Doctor Who: The Invasion (2 discs) on DVD (1968)
Starring: Patrick Troughton, Frazer Hines, Wendy Padbury
Director: Douglas Camfield
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Having arrived in 1975, The Doctor (Patrick Troughton) and his assistants discover that sinister things are afoot at an electrical conglomerate; a company that's managed to monopolise the entire world market. Furthermore, the shadowy CEO of the company is actually in league with the Cybermen and ..read more »

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Doctor Who - The Seeds Of Death

Generic Troughton runaround featuring the mildly terrifying Ice Warriors. From the tone of it you would have no idea this is his third last story.

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Doctor Who - The Seeds Of Death on DVD (1968)
Starring: Patrick Troughton, Wendy Padbury, Fraser Hines
Director: Michael Ferguson
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Doctor Who (Patrrick Troughton) is summoned on a treacherous journey to Earth's moon in the 21st century. But the travel station has been seized by Ice Warriors from Mars and the Doctor must now outwit them to save the dying Earth.

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Doctor Who - Lost In Time

For completists only, this is an odds and sods collections of surviving episodes from otherwise missing Hartnell and Troughton serials.

Doctor Who - Lost In Time (3 discs) on DVD (1963)
Starring: William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton
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A compilation of lost episodes from the television series of Doctor Who. Includes the episodes: 'The Daleks' Master Plan', The Moonbase', 'The Underwater Menace', 'The Wheel In Space' and 'The Abominable Snowman'.

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