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Includes all the episodes from the electrifying third series of the new DOCTOR WHO, featuring David Tenant. Episodes include: 'Smith and Jones', 'The Shakespeare Code', 'Gridlock', 'Daleks In Manhattan', 'Evolution Of the Daleks', 'The Lazarus Experiment', '42', 'Human Nature', 'The Family Of Blood', Blink', 'Utopia', 'The .. Read more

Starring David Tennant, Freema Agyeman
Director Charles Palmer, Richard Clarke
Genres Sci-Fi/Fantasy

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Doctor Who - Series 3 Vol. 1 cover art

Doctor Who - Series 3 Vol. 1

Includes all the episodes from the electrifying third series of the new DOCTOR WHO, featuring David Tenant. Episodes include: 'Smith and Jones', 'The Shakespeare Code', 'Gridlock', 'Daleks In Manhattan', 'Evolution Of the Daleks', 'The Lazarus Experiment', '42', 'Human Nature', 'The Family Of Blood', Blink', 'Utopia', 'The Sound Of Drums' and 'Last Of The Timelords'.

Starring David Tennant, Freema Agyeman
Director Charles Palmer, Richard Clarke
Studio 2 ENTERTAIN VIDEO
Run time DVD: 2 hrs 15 mins
Certificate DVD Certificate PG.gif
Genres Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Language English
Hearing-impaired English
Released DVD: 21 May 2007
Production year: 2007
Format DVD

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  • The single best piece of family-orientated entertainment BBC has broadcast in its entire history

    • The Guardian
    • Posted 08 Oct 2007

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  • 24 out of 24 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 5 stars

    Three Is The Magic Number

    Well, wow. Doctor Who has really done it this time. The generally excellent revival by Russell T Davies has so far given us an excellent but stylistically unsteady first series, a more uniform but pick-and-mix quality second series, and a couple of distinctly ropey Christmas specials which don't stand up past the initial euphoria of Quality Street and cheap champagne. It seems that, judging by this DVD volume at least, for the third series they've really gone full-on with producing a definitive mature vision for a mainstream present-day Doctor Who series.

    The opener, 'Smith And Jones', manages to not only introduce a new companion, five other new recurring characters, a new monster race and a new villain, but to find time too for some sublime set pieces, some electric dialogue and completely succeeding in building anticipation for the following twelve instalments. The special effects, now enhanced by the poaching of several Hollywood CGI artists to the team, have come on leaps and bounds too - simply put this show has the best SFX I've ever seen in a television programme.

    Episode two 'The Shakespeare Code', Gareth Roberts's first script for the programme, is a sci-fi historical in which the Doctor meets Shakespeare and discovers the power of words. Written as an unashamed comedy and with more jokes than possibly any Doctor Who script to date, the additional decision for the story to be executed as a pastiche of a typical Shakespeare play adds wonderful levels to it. Quoting liberally out of everything from Macbeth to Harry Potter, this unashamed celebration of the written word is an absolute triumph. Also look out for perhaps the nastiest death scene ever to appear on primetime BBC1...

    The third episode 'Gridlock' is yet another complete change of pace, being even more dialogue-driven than the last. Taking its cue from pulp SF comics such as Judge Dredd, more or less the entire episode is set aboard various vehicles stuck on an intergalactic motorway, with dozens of vivid characters making appearances as the Doctor tries to save an entire civilisation. This is probably the most emotional episode of Doctor Who since the beginning, with three or four incredibly moving set-pieces providing welcome dignity and gravitas to the series. All this and the return of giant crab monsters the Macra (last seen in Doctor Who forty years ago)!

    As the New Doctor Who DVDs reach this eleventh volume, the sheer quality of the work contained here leaves you with no reason to doubt that the other seven adventures in this run will be just as captivating, and that as the series continues to run into the next decade it will always be the best programme on telly.

    Besides, it would be silly to stop now. After all, who is Mr Saxon...?

      • A customer from St Helens, England
      • Posted 19 Apr 2007 14:48

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  • 1 out of 1 person found this review helpful

    Rated - 4 stars

    What else is there to expect...

    ... but a another representation of the quirky and entertaining universe of Dr. Who. Been meaning to catch up to the series and find out how the series three companion was introduced and developed. Enjoyed the episodes on this first disc... and now awaiting the next. Tennants expressional talents are often put to great effect as the Doctor.

    • gabrielwolf
      • gabrielwolf from Hemel Hempstead
      • Posted 08 Apr 2009 14:37

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