Doctor Who Story 130 The Five Doctors directed by Lovett Bickford and written by David Fisher (1980)
18 September 2007It is too bad, but this should in fact be called 3 of 5 Doctors, since Tom Baker is only here in archival footage (which is too bad, he would have been great to see with everyone else, and many villains and companions joining as well. It is an enjoyable romp. This is the special edition, which is longer and has added effects (pretty pitiful computer graphics if you ask me). Worth checking out for sure, especially with the clash off all the Doctor’s personalities, though my least favorite is Peter Davison, and damn wasn’t Richard Hurndall as the first doctor (replacing William Hartnell who died in 1975) a surly old man! Ha, I have never seen him as the Doctor. This is really fun, damn I wish they would do something like this in the current Doctor Who, and get all the living Doctors to be in it. Still it all ends very easily without much of an ending, but still fun.
The Doctor (Peter Davison) and his companions Tegan Jovanka (Janet Fielding) and Turlough (Mark Stickson) are on a Holiday in the EYe of Orion, when the Doctor starts feeling as if parts of himself have been ripped away. We see the First Doctor (Richard Hurndall) being taken by a time vortex then the Second Doctor (Patrick Troughton) is visiting the Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart (NIcholas Courtney) when they are taken. Sarah Jane Smith (Elisabeth Sladen) ignores a warning from K9 (John Leeson) and is taken. Then the Third Doctor (jon Pertwee) is taken. The Fourth Doctor (Tom Baker) is attempted to be taken, but something happens, and he is caught in time. All the Doctor’s as well as many of their companions, sush as the first Doctor’s granddaughter Susan (Carol Ann Ford), the Cybermen and a Dalek that fights the First Doctor. They have all been taken to the Death Zone on Gallifrey homeworld of the TimeLords, where a tomb of an ancient powerful timelord Rassilon is housed and the ancient TImelords used to use to play games of death.
REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS…
President Borusa (Philip Latham) and the council enlist The Master ((anthony Alinely) to send into the Death Zone and help the Doctor, though the Doctor won’t believe him, and he ends up being with the evil Cybermen, and the Doctor uses the Master’s teleporter and ends up back with the council, where one man is keyed as a suspect, though the Doctor thinks differently. Meanwhile the rest of the Doctors and companions all work their way to the tomb of Rasalon, and the Master destroys the Cybermen.
The Fifth Doctor realizes it is the President who is doing the evil deads and he wants immortality from Rasalon, and they head to the temple, with him under the Presidents control, though he manages to get out of it, and the First Doctor lets the President get his immortality, which is in fact trapping him the tomb alive forever, but unable to move or even talk, and Rassilon (Richard Mathews) frees the Fourth Doctor and then allows the other Doctors to go to their own timelines, but then Chancellor Flavia (Dinah Sheridan) shows up and makes the Fifth Doctor the President of the council, but he leaves her in charge and escapes with Tegan and Turlough, heading out in his Tardis.
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Fun, and I do like Pertwee and Throughton’s doctors and would like to see more of them.