Doctor Who - City of Death [VHS]

Doctor Who - City of Death [VHS]

Doctor Who - City of Death [VHS]

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Actor: Jon Pertwee, Patrick Troughton, Peter Davison, Tom Baker, William Hartnell
Producer: Peter Bryant
Writer: Sydney Newman
Edition: VHS Tape
Format: Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
Running Time: 100 minutes
Release Date: 1998-03-31
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Studio: 20th Century Fox

VHS Movie Reviews of Doctor Who - City of Death [VHS]

Movie Review: Not as good as I had heard
Summary: 2 Stars

City of Death is one of the highest rated Doctor who episodes and I found it disapointing. I own about 10 ofTom Bakers episodes and I found this one the worst don't get me wrong it is ok but only ok. I would recomend the key to time series and not this one.

Movie Review: That could have been the most important punch in history, Duggan
Summary: 5 Stars

1. An alien space ship explodes after attempting to launch from pre modern earth. The Doctor and Romana are in Paris.
2. A crack in time has occurred, someone is tampering with time. The Doctor and Romana are beings outside of time and experiencing the side affects.
3. The Mona Lisa is missing eyebrows.
4. The Count Carlos Scarlioni is altering time in few second intervals. Scarlioni provides 1 million francs to fund the time project. The count wants to extend the interval and is pushing the professor Kerensky to work without sleep.
5. The doctor steal the micromeson scanner from woman's wrist. The bracelet was used to monitor the alarm systems of the Mona Lisa. The woman works with Scarlioni. The woman gets the bracelet back.
6. Duggan, a detective learns from the doctor of a plot brewing to steal the Mona Lisa. Lost Masterpieces are showing up all around the world. Scarlioni is returning fake masterpieces. Scarlioni kidnaps the Doctor, Romana, and Duggan. Scarlioni holds the Doctor, Romana, and Duggan in a cellar.
7. Carlos Scarlioni is the alien in the space ship. How did he manage to escape the explosion and live into the future?
8. The Doctor says, "when you tinkering with time, you must know what your doing." The professor is working with a celluar accelerator. The professor has created a different time continuum but total incompatible with the current time continuum. The doctor reverses the polarity and time continuum moves backwards through time.
9. Romana finds a room blocked up for 500 years. The Doctor, Romana, and Duggan discover six Mona Lisa's and appear to be authentic. Duggan reveals that there are seven people who will buy a Mona Lisa. "Duggan, why is that I start talk someone you knock them out?" Duggan knocks out the Countess with a Ming Dynasty vase. The doctor travels back in time and meets with Leonard Da Vinci. Captain Tancredi/Scarlioni arrived prior and knows the Doctor; the Doctor realizes that Scaroth can communicate with his fragments in various splinters of time.
10. The doctor learns the Jagaroth were a vicious warlike race that destroyed themselves 400 million years in a war. Tencredi is the savior of his race. Jagaroth fell on the earth in early earth and before life. Tencredi explains that a few escaped to the young planet Earth in a malfunctioning spacecraft. Scaroth was in the time warp chamber and during the explosion Scaroth was fractured into twelve splinters of himself were scattered across time and space. The explosion causes radiation that blends with the amino acids that begin life. Reversing time would cancel out life. The Doctor writes "This is a fake" on the back of the Mona Lisa pictures.
11. The real reason for Professor Kerensky experiments is to unit the fragments of Scaroth.
12. Professor Kerensky needs power and money. The seven Mona Lisa will bring $100 million to build a machine to build time bubble to encapsulate the earth. Scarlioni is Scaroth. Scaroth taught fire, pyramids, and technology to create the device to save his people. Scaroth realizes the doctor and the Romana are the key to undoing centuries.
13. Scaroth kills the professor in the time generator
14. Scaroth needs Romana to create a time field interface stablizer. Scaroth will apply the time field generator to Paris and destroy unless Romana cooperates.
15. The Doctor tells the countess, her husband is Scaroth, green skin, and one eye. 16. "Scaroth do you know what will happen, if you go back before life began and alter time." Scaroth says, "Yes, I do and I don't care".
17. Scaroth kills the countess with the bracelet.
18. Scaroth tried to put the whole earth in a time bubble for a few seconds. Scaroth will go back in time, 400 million years, prevent his spaceship from exploding, and save his people. Two minutes to warn himself not to launch. All history would be changed.
19. The Doctor, Romana, and Duggan race to the Tardis to intercept Scaroth before he can erase all existence. "Is noone interested in history?" "The death of one race creates the birth of a new race". Duggan knocks out Scaroth. History is preserved.

Movie Review: Release has faulty labeling on the packaging
Summary: 2 Stars

Ive bought this dvd three times and all three time I had to return it, it seems that there was an error in the manufacturing process rendering some of the disc one discs. It appears that everyone of the time I bought this two disc set, both discs are the same (supplement discs), even though both are correctly labeled disc one and two. So buyers beware, im kinda of leary in trying to buy another in the hopes of getting a proper set. Obviously there are proper sets floating around or else there would'nt be so many positive reviews.

Movie Review: Classic Doctor at his best
Summary: 5 Stars

I can't believe cheesy 70s sci fi could be so fun. Honestly the special effects are nonexistent, but that makes this show even better. I could have been conceived to this, but my parents might have been watching it instead. If you love the doctor and if you love cheesy sci fi, and if you have a disdain for CGI or expensive special effects, you will love this dvd.

Movie Review: Great show
Summary: 5 Stars

It's too bad that Douglas Adams died so young because this was a great episode for Tom Baker to star in. The story line is just as goofy as the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy was when I read it.

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Summary of Doctor Who - City of Death [VHS]

The late Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) co-wrote this enormously popular four-part story from 1979, which pits the Doctor (Tom Baker) and Romana (Lalla Ward) against a time-traveling alien (Julian Glover) whose body, fragmented by an accident, spurred evolution millions of years ago. Now restored to his full (and horrific) form, he plans to travel back in time and prevent the destruction of his ship--which in turn would profoundly affect the course of humanity. A terrific blend of science-fiction thrills and humor (well-played by Baker and Ward), City of Death also benefits from its Paris locations and terrific performances by Glover and Space: 1999's Catherine Schell, as well as a pair of unexpected cameos from John Cleese and Eleanor Bron as art critics. The story's high caliber was rewarded with phenomenal ratings (reportedly, the largest ever for Doctor Who), and has remained a fan favorite ever since.

DVD features
Thanks to its popularity, the two-disc DVD of City of Death comes with an abundance of typically topnotch supplemental features. The commentary by Glover, co-star Tom Chadbon, and director Michael Hayes, is the longest and most informative of the extras, but it's well-matched by Paris in the Springtime, a 45-minute making-of featurette that offers rare archival interviews with Adams and many of the cast (but not Baker or Ward, sadly) and crew. Paris, W12 offers 20 minutes of studio footage taken from 1/2-inch videotape, while Prehistoric Landscapes and Chicken Wrangler are very different views of the story's special effects (the latter is a particularly amusing glimpse at the challenges of working with live animals). Finally, there's Eye on Blatchford, a wry parody of BBC "human interest" news items, here focusing on another alien attempting to live peacefully in the rural English countryside. Production notes and photos and a batch of well-concealed Easter eggs round out this highly enjoyable set. --Paul Gaita

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