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Review / Doctor Who - The Ark [1966]
Actors & Directors
  • William Hartnell
  • Michael Imison
  • Peter Purves
  • Jackie Lane
Release date: 1998-10-05
Run time: 98 min.
RRP: £11.99
Price: £15.99

Review Doctor Who - The Ark [1966]:


Actors & Directors
  • Peter Moffatt
  • Peter Davison
Run time: 97 min.
Price: £10.99

Review Doctor Who - Mawdryn Undead [1983] / 2 Entertain Video:


Review 2 Entertain Video / Doctor Who: Hand Of Fear [1976]
Actors & Directors
  • Elisabeth Sladen
  • Glyn Houston
  • Tom Baker
  • Lennie Mayne
Release date: 2007-07-02
Run time: 100 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £9.79

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Review 2 Entertain Video / Doctor Who The Greatest Show in the Galaxy [1963]
Actors & Directors
  • Peter Davison
  • Patrick Troughton
  • William Hartnell
  • Jon Pertwee
  • Tom Baker
Release date: 2000-01-24
Run time: 100 min.
Creator: Sydney Newman
RRP: £12.99
Price: £19.95

Review Doctor Who The Greatest Show in the Galaxy [1963] / 2 Entertain Video:

Doctor Who isn't really known for its villains having a high level of creepiness for anyone over the age of 10 but if you have any sort of clown phobia, this adventure is sure to confirm your worst fears about them. The Doctor (Sylvester McCoy) and his companion Ace land on a barren planet that is hosting the Psychic Circus, which has fallen on hard times. Now, any soul unfortunate enough to stumble into the big top is forced to entertain in the centre ring with typically fatal results. The Doctor tries to find out who or what is behind it all and the resulting story comes off like an allegory for the series itself. After a creative slump in the mid-1980s, Doctor Who was finding its footing again, although the story is burdened by throwing as many disparate elements as possible (including an animated corpse, a wolf girl and even the Gods of Ragnarok) into the mix. The Gods, not unlike the audience, demand to be kept entertained, but for the most part the best the Doctor can do is some cheap conjuring tricks while waiting for the inevitable climax. The most effective element throughout is the menace provided by Ian Reddingon (a regular on EastEnders) as the Chief Clown, sending victims to their doom with wave of his hand and a perpetual smile painted on his face. -Ryan K. Johnson.

Review 2 Entertain Video / Doctor Who - Kinda [1982]
Actors & Directors
  • Peter Grimwade
  • Peter Davison
Release date: 1994-10-03
Run time: 98 min.
RRP: £11.99
Price: £8.99

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Review Warner Home Video / Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. [1966]
Actors & Directors
  • Ray Brooks
  • Bernard Cribbins
  • Roberta Tovey
  • Peter Cushing
  • Gordon Flemyng
  • Andrew Keir
Release date: 1996-05-13
Run time: 81 min.
Creator: Terry Nation
Price: £5.99

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Review Tokyo Shock / Latitude Zero [1969] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Richard Jaeckel
  • Joseph Cotten
  • Akira Takarada
  • Cesar Romero
  • Masumi Okada
  • Ishirô Honda
Release date: 2007-12-11
Run time: 99 min.
Creator: Warren Lewis
Price: £8.70

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Review 2 Entertain Video / Doctor Who - The E-Space Trilogy (Warriors' Gate / Full Circle / State of Decay) [1963]
Actors & Directors
  • Peter Davison
  • Jon Pertwee
  • Tom Baker
  • William Hartnell
  • Patrick Troughton
Release date: 1997-11-03
Run time: 281 min.
Creator: Sydney Newman
RRP: £34.99
Price: £39.99

Review Doctor Who - The E-Space Trilogy (Warriors' Gate / Full Circle / State of Decay) [1963] / 2 Entertain Video:


Review Image Entertainment / 4D Man [1959] (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Robert Strauss
  • Lee Meriwether
  • Edgar Stehli
  • James Congdon
  • Robert Lansing
  • Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr.
Release date: 2000-03-14
Run time: 85 min.
Price: £4.78

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Review Alpha Video / The Undersea Kingdom, Vol. 2 [1936] (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Lois Wilde
  • Ray Corrigan
  • Boothe Howard
  • Joseph Kane
  • B. Reeves Eason
  • Monte Blue
  • William Farnum
Release date: 2003-03-18
Run time: 106 min.
Price: £3.11

Review The Undersea Kingdom, Vol. 2 [1936] (NTSC) / Alpha Video:


Review 2 Entertain Video / Doctor Who The Keys of Marinus [1964]
Actors & Directors
  • John Gorrie
  • Jacqueline Hill
  • William Russell
  • William Hartnell
Release date: 1999-03-01
Run time: 148 min.
Price: £16.99

Review Doctor Who The Keys of Marinus [1964] / 2 Entertain Video:


Review 2 Entertain Video / Doctor Who - Silver Nemesis (The Extended Version) [1988] [1963]
Actors & Directors
  • Courtney Pine
  • Chris Clough
  • Anton Diffring
  • Sopjie Aldred
  • Sylvester McCoy
  • Fiona Walker
Release date: 2000-01-24
Run time: 139 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £16.95

Review Doctor Who - Silver Nemesis (The Extended Version) [1988] [1963] / 2 Entertain Video:


Review Vci Video / Gorgo [1961] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Christopher Rhodes
  • Vincent Winter
  • William Sylvester
  • Eugène Lourié
  • Bill Travers
  • Joseph O'Conor
Release date: 2000-08-29
Run time: 76 min.
Price: £4.23

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Review 2 Entertain Video / Doctor Who: Revenge of the Cybermen [1963]
Actors & Directors
  • Elisabeth Sladen
  • Ian Marter
  • Michael E. Bryant
  • Tom Baker
Release date: 1999-04-12
Run time: 90 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £14.83

Review Doctor Who: Revenge of the Cybermen [1963] / 2 Entertain Video:


Review 2 Entertain Video / Doctor Who The Ark in Space [1963]
Actors & Directors
  • Ian Marter
  • Elizabeth Sladen
  • Richard Martin (IV)
  • John Gorrie
  • Tom Baker
Release date: 2000-01-24
Run time: 98 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £4.99

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Review 2 Entertain Video / Doctor Who - The Robots of Death [1986] [1963]
Actors & Directors
  • Tom Baker
  • Louise Jameson
  • Michael E. Briant
Release date: 1995-02-13
Run time: 91 min.
RRP: £7.99
Price: £3.99

Review Doctor Who - The Robots of Death [1986] [1963] / 2 Entertain Video:

By Tom Baker's third season in the role the actor had become firmly established in the minds of many fans as the definitive Doctor. First broadcast in early 1977, "Robots of Death" follows on directly from "Face of Evil", which was writer Chris Boucher's debut and also that of Louise Jameson's Leela, the Doctor's most shapely companion (a kind of Neanderthal Seven of Nine if you will). Boucher's second Who story concerns an isolated mining ship on which a series of inexplicable deaths take place-although as the Doctor opines, "nothing is inexplicable, only unexplained". The Doctor and Leela inevitably become embroiled in events, which soon turn into a sci-fi murder-mystery: imagine Isaac Asimov crossed with Agatha Christie in a Frank Herbert Dune-like setting. Add an undercover robot sent by "the company" and the claustrophobic, not to say deadly setting of the mining ship and there is a fascinating foreshadowing of Alien, too. It is tightly plotted, intelligent Saturday teatime entertainment (something that was possible then but is now an unthinkable oxymoron) with a typically strong cast of redoubtable thesps in supporting roles (not to mention extravagant costumes and garish make-up). There may be no Daleks or Cybermen, but this is vintage Who nevertheless. -Mark Walker.

Review MGM / Konga [1961] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Austin Trevor
  • Margo Johns
  • Claire Gordon
  • John Lemont
  • Michael Gough
  • Jess Conrad
Release date: 2005-12-06
Run time: 90 min.
Creator: Aben Kandel
Price: £6.51

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Review MPI Home Video / Terror Beneath the Sea [1966]
Actors & Directors
  • Gunther Braun
  • Mike Daning
  • Sonny Chiba
  • Hajime Sato
  • Mike Daneen
  • Franz Gruber
Release date: 2005-10-25
Run time: 79 min.
Price: £7.41

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Review 2 Entertain Video / Doctor Who - Warriors Of The Deep [1984]
Actors & Directors
  • Janet Fielding
  • Ingrid Pitt
  • Peter Davison
  • Mark Stickland
  • Pennant Roberts
  • Tom Adams
Release date: 1995-09-04
Run time: 97 min.
RRP: £11.99
Price: £9.50

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Review Universal Studios / This Island Earth [1955] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Jack Arnold
  • Jeff Morrow
  • Joseph M. Newman
  • Faith Domergue
  • Lance Fuller
  • Russell Johnson
  • Rex Reason
Release date: 2006-08-22
Run time: 86 min.
Price: £5.40

Review This Island Earth [1955] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Universal Studios:

A mysterious, pilotless plane carries scientist Rex Reason to a colony of America's best and brightest minds. They have been kidnapped by a dying alien race, the Metalunians, to repair their defence shield before their enemies destroy their world completely, and are to be found toiling under their spying eyes and futuristic security cameras (two-way TVs that dominate every room). Jeff Morrow, under a raised forehead, bronze tan, and snow-white hair, philosophises as Exeter, the thoughtful Metalunian torn between his duty and his morals as he forces the plucky humans to labour in his race's defence. The moody mystery of the first half turns to pure pulp adventure when the humans are transported across the galaxy to the battle-scarred world of Metaluna, under the threatening watch of a monstrous bug-eyed monster with a giant brain for a head and massive claws for hands. There is a genuine sense of wonder to Joseph Newman's intergalactic adventure, one of the most ambitious science fiction films of the 1950s. The story is simple space opera, but the futuristic designs of glass and metal, the marvellous alien makeup, and grand-standing special effects invest the film with a Technicolor splendour. Faith Domergue co-stars as a nuclear physicist and Gilligan's Island's Russell Johnson makes his first professorial appearance as a scientist. Science-fiction auteur Jack Arnold was an unbilled co-director. -Sean Axmaker.

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