Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited DVD Volume 2 (Doctors 5–8).
Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of television’s longest-running Sci Fi series with The Doctors Revisited TV Series, a BBC collection of authoritative tribute specials to the 11 actors who have played this iconic character.
This Doctors Revisited: Volume 2 showcases the years 1981–1996, which saw four new actors portray The Doctor, Peter Davison (1981–84), Colin Baker (1984–86), Sylvester McCoy (1987–89) and Paul McGann (1996). Get to know these amazing actors like never before and own a piece of television history!
Each Doctor has a special feature looking back on his tenure, including interviews & clips from the show. Each special is followed by a favourite story series for that Doctor, including a special introduction by Steven Moffat (current Dr. Who Showrunner and Lead Writer).
5th DOCTOR – PETER DAVISON (1982 –1984)
The Special commentators include Peter Davison, Steven Moffat, Hugh Bonneville
(appears in 2 episodes in the modern series), Sarah Sutton (plays Nyssa), Mark
Strickson (plays Turlough), David Tennant (plays the 10th Doctor), Nicola Bryant
(plays Peri), Janet Fielding (plays Tegan), Marcus Wilson (series producer),
Matthew Waterhouse (plays Adric) and Noel Clarke (plays Mickey Smith).
Fielding compares Davison's Doctor to the previous Doctors: “There was
clearly a decision to show him as much more emotionally engaged, and therefore
he was bound to be more vulnerable.”
This special is followed by the series “Earthshock” (1982).
It's the year 2526 on planet Earth. Eight scientists went down to survey a set
of caves, and Professor Kyle is the only one who made it out alive. She returns
to the caverns accompanied by soldiers, to collect her colleagues' bodies and
find the murderers…
6th DOCTOR – COLIN BAKER (1984 –1986)
The Special commentators include Marcus Wilson, Colin Baker, Steven Moffat,
Nicholas Briggs (voice of the Daleks), Bonnie Langford (plays companion Mel) and
Nicola Bryant. I thought this was the best Doctor Revisited Special yet, made
more interesting because this Doctor could be brash and unlikeable. He may be
the only Doctor who tried to strangle a companion, and he IS the only one to fix
the TARDIS' Chameleon Circuit. Finally, the TARDIS could appear as something
other than a blue Police Box!
This special is followed by the series, “Vengeance on Varos” (1985).
Once again, the TARDIS has problems and stalls, just like a car, in the middle
of deep space. In the meanwhile, there's disturbing happenings on the planet
Varos. The Varos Governor is in negotiations with Sil, the Galatron Mining
Corporation representative. The Corporation mines the metal Zeiton-7 on Varos.
It's an almost worthless ore, Sil reminds the Governor, and the corporation
does Varos a favor to even bother at all. But the Governor holds out for a
higher price…
7TH DOCTOR – SYLVESTER MCCOY (1987 – 1988)
The Special commentators are Sylvester McCoy, Marcus Wilson, Sophie Aldred
(plays Ace), Bonnie Langford, Tom MacRae (writer “The Girl Who Waited”),
Nicholas Briggs and Steven Moffat. Ace is a great companion. I tend to forget
that she was just a teenager. Moffat says, “Traditionally, … the girls were
for screaming. But not with the Doctor and Ace. She provides the muscle… She
blows stuff up, she doesn't scream and she clobbers people.”
This special is followed by the action-packed series, “Remembrance of the
Daleks” (1988). The series starts with a brilliant, subtle intro. We view
Earth from space and can hear snippets of historic 1963 radio broadcasts, such
as John F. Kennedy, “We all inhabit this small planet” and Martin Luther
King, “I have a dream”. And then, as we pull back from further from the
planet, we see a giant spaceship approaching Earth. An invasion in 1963?
The Doctor and Ace land in 1963, too, near 76 Totter's Lane, where the very
first Doctor Who episode “An Unearthly Child” took place. It was on that 1st
visit that the Doctor hid a powerful Time Lord relic. He's come back to
retrieve it, and somebody else is trying to get it, too…
8TH DOCTOR – PAUL MCGANN (1996)
The Special commentators are Daphne Ashbrook (plays Grace Holloway), Steven
Moffat, Marcus Wilson, Yee Jee Tso (plays Chang Lee), Sylvester McCoy and
Nicholas Briggs. The Narrator says, “It was the 1990's. TV was ruled by Mulder
and Skully. But for one night only, Doctor Who came back.”
This special is followed by the 90 minute American made-for-TV movie, “Doctor Who: The Movie” (1996). The DVD will include the movie in two formats: widescreen & feature-length, and in its episodic original format. The 7th Doctor is en route to Gallifrey, when something goes wrong and the TARDIS performs an emergency landing. It's San Francisco, Earth, New Year's Eve, 1999. The Doctor exits the TARDIS, unaware that a slithery creature leaves its hiding place and follows him. Fortuitously, the TARDIS landing saves a young man, Chang Lee, from a gangland execution. Un-fortuitously, the rival gang shoots the Doctor instead…
4 disc collection.