I loved the 1988 film when it came out, and was a huge fan of the series when it came on in 1989, and was sad to see it leave the air. Sure it is a bit cheesy at times, veering from Monster of the Week to what new revelations about these aliens will their be this week, but it has great and likeable characters, that really grow with you. And I have to say it is too bad I didn’t see the made for TV movies that continued the series when they came out, but I am glad they are available now (even if they don’t always directly follow continuity from the series or from each other). Sure this show shows that it was made in the 1980′s, but it does deal with some very real world things, like racism and bigotry, and that thread is what made it such a good show, and intertwines with elements like Alien Reproduction, that makes it enjoyable to watch even today.

The show starts just after the movie, which takes place 5 years after an Alien Spacecraft landed in the Mohave desert carrying 250,000 Tenctonses Slaves, an Alien race bred to be adaptable with heightened senses and strength and dexterity. After a long quarantine the Tentonses Newcomers have been released and live in Los Angeles, though many people don’t like them, specifically the Earth first Purists, who want to keep these slags in their slagtown. The series follows a slightly bigoted detective named Matthew Sikes (Gary Graham) who after his partner was killed is partnered with the first Newcomer detective George Francisco (Eric Pierpoint). And through the series we see their friendship grow as they each learn more about each other.

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The brand new spin-off to the amazing BBC series LIFE ON MARS. This one with the Gene Genie, Gene Hunt, now in London, and it is an enjoyable series, though not near.y as good as LIFE ON MARS. In fact Gene seems to have changed allot, and where he would have never have taken so much shit from Sam, he lets Alex go on and on. Where Sam seemed like a great cop, Alex doesn’t ever meld into the reality, and just does her own thing, if I were Gene I would have fired her long ago, but instead their is this huge sexual tension and Gene seems emasculated by Alex. And Alex’s whole obsession goes on too much, as the show is the best when Gene and his crew are kicking some ass, and not when Alex is whining and doing something with her mother. I still liked it, but it nothing as compared to the show that it is based on. I downloaded the torrents for this because I wanted to see this, but have already pre-ordered the British BBC DVD.

DI Alex Drake (Keelry Hawes) is police psychologist in present day London, whose leaves her daughter in the car as she goes to talk to a mad man named Arthur Layton (Sean Harris) who is waving a gun, and that seems to know something about her parents death in a car bomb in 1981. She has been studying the case of the suicide of DCI Sam Tyler who had found himself in 1973 in a car accident and after awakening jumped from a building and died in the coma. Alex goes in to talk to Leyton, but she is taken by the mad man, and is shot in the head. Alex wakes up in 1981 at a party, and ends up being a new DI working with DCI Gene Hunt (Philip Glenister) who after the death of Sam Tyler after being his DI for 7 years transfered to London. Along with Gene Hunt have transfered Ray Carling (Dean Andrews) and Chris Skelton (Marshall Lancaster) who is now the tech guy. Rounding out the team is Chris’s girlfriend WPC Sharon ‘Shaz’ Granger (Montserrat Lombard).

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My first experience with the seventh Doctor, Sylvester McCoy, who seems a throwback to the earlier older Doctors, except has a modern British Punk companion Ace (Sophie Aldred) who is the toughest companion since the warrior Leela, a 1980′s punk girl with a backpack a bat and a huge boom box. An enjoyable adventure, and in it we first see Daleks able to elevate, or fly and go up stairs. McCoy makes a good doctor, he is a good actor and enjoyable.

The Doctor and Ace arrive in Shoreditch in 1963 and see a strange high tech van that is tracing magnetic fluctuations at Coal Hill School. They meet Professor Jensen (Pamela Salem) and Sergeant Mike Smith (Dursley McLinden) who seems interested in going out with Ace. They are quickly summoned to another source of magnetic fluctuations, and they find Group Captain Gillmore (Simon Williams) who is going up against a grey Dalek. The Doctor uses Ace’s Nitro-9 explosives to destroy the Dalek. Gilmore’s troops who are taking the Dalek remains are attacked by Mr. Ratcliffe (George Sewell) and his men, and the Dalek is taken. The Doctor goes to the school to search and find a Dalek transportation platform in the basement, and The Doctor tells Ace they Daleks are traveling here to get the Hand of Omega. A gold Dalek comes out of the transmat device, and Ace is detained by the school Headmaster (Michael Sheard), and the doctor is almost killed.

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My first Colin Baker adventure (well I remember seeing him as a kid, and being totally disturbed), and I enjoyed it, though it is certainly quite different, but still the Doctor, and still enjoyable. And this is the first time I have seen an American companion with Peri (Nicola Bryant), and it is a great contrast to this more aristocratic doctor. Not an amazing story, but enjoyable.

The Doctor (Colin Baker) and his companion Peri (Nicola Byrant) land on the planet Necros to go to the funeral of an old friend at a suspended animation facility called Tranquil Repose, which is also supplying food to the poor of the galaxy, and so a very important place. They are attacked by a mutant who tells them that someone named the Great Healer experimented on him and caused his genetic mutation. A strange disc jokey (Alexai Sayle) is acting like a 60′s rock DJ, and monitoring what goes on, as he DJ’s for the people in suspended animation. A couple enters the facility looking for the man the Doctor is visiting Arthur Stengos, these are his daughter Natasha (Bridget Lynch-Blosse) and Grigory (Stephen Flynn). They find some experiments, and aDalek casing with a mutant creature inside, who turns out to by Arthur (Alec Linstead) who is becoming a Dalek. A woman named Kara (Eleanor Bron) owns the company, but is under the heal of the Great Healer who turns out to be Davros (Terry Maooloy) who is taking her profits. Kara hires a contract mercenary named Orcini (William Guant) and his squire Bostcok (John Ogwen) who she sends to kill Davros. Meanwhile the Doctor and Peri meet Tasambeker (Jenny Tomasin), and Peri wants to the DJ, and the Doctor finds a statue of himself at the facility as a dead person and it falls on him.

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I went on a Dalek kick and picked up basically all of the available DALEK episodes of Dr. Who, and thus also got an intro to a bunch of the Doctors that I didn’t know, and I have just started to get to know, and Peter Davison is one I only recently got to know, and while he is nothing compared to Tom Baker, he and Janet Fielding are an interesting pair, and I enjoyed this return to the Daleks, as it really seems like a sequel to the last Tom Baker Dalek episode Destiny of the Daleks. This is an enjoyable episode though not amazing. The humanoid Daleks seems strange, but do foreshadow what would happen in the current Doctor Who series. Not my favorite Doctor, but it seems, I do enjoy most of Doctor Who, and at least in some way I like all of the Doctors, or maybe I just like the Tardis.

The Doctor (Peter Davison) along with his companions Tegan (Janet Fielding) and Turlough (Mark Stickson) get stuck in a time vortek that is sending them to London in 1984. Meanwhile some strange London police led by Commander Lytton (Maurice Colbourne) gun down some strange humanoids, but two escape Galloway (William Sleigh) and Quartermaster Sergeant Stein (Rodney Bewes), who go into a warehouse, where Galloway is killed. Lytton heads back to a warship in space and prepares to attack a prison space station. The humans on the prison ship have only one Prisoner, and prepare for the attack, setting up what defense that they can. Lytton and his men break into the cell and manage to release Davros (Terry Molloy) from his cryogenic sleep that the fourth doctor put him in. The Doctor and his companions meat Stein, and befriend him. They search the warehouse, and find alien artifacts and Turlough ends up going through the Time Corrider and ends on the Dalek ship.

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This is the earliest episode of Doctor Who I have ever seen, and the only one with the first Doctor and his granddaughter Susan, and the basic story was remade into the 2 movies Dr. Who and the Daleks and Saleks Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. which change the story and make it actually Doctor Who from Earth. This actually starts the second season of Doctor Who and while the quality of the black and white video is quite low, it is surprising how much of the original Who is still in the story (even if he didn’t become a Timelord until the second Doctor, and the third Doctor that talked about Gallifrey). And the Daleks improved, but these are the basic ones (actually there second appearance) that have not really changed till this day. Cool to see. Damn I would love to see the entire Doctor Who series.

The Doctor (William Hartnell) materializes the Tardis on Earth in London, though not quite sure of the time, though he is supposed to return Ian Chesterton (William Russell) and Barbara Wright (Jacqueline Hill) to their home, and they get out with the Doctor’s niece Susan Foreman (Carol Anne Ford). London is curiously silent. Susan tries to climb a wall, but slips and twists her ankle, and causes the bridge to fall and cover the entrance to the Tardis. The Doctor and Ian head off to check out a warehouse across the way, and find a calendar marked 2164 and a dead body with a strange appliance attached to his head, a Roboman. Meanwhile Susuan and Barbara get taken by human freedom fighters to their hiding place. The Doctor and Ian decide to return to the Tardis when they see a flying saucer over the city, but they find the girls have gone, and then Robomen surround them, and a Dalek emerges from the water, as they have conquerd Earth. The Dalek orders them taken to the Landing area.

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A mediocre Tom Baker adventure as Doctor Who. Enjoyable that it has the Daleks and is the first episode of the second Romana (Lalla Ward who had just played Princess AStra in the Armageddon Factor and who ended up marrying Baker for a short period), but obviously low budget, and not too hard workout out. I love when for set pieces they have little spot lights on stands. I mean that doesn’t throw you out at all does it? Still it was Tom Baker Doctor who, so I still had fun watching it.

Using the randomizer so as not to run into enemy hands, the Tardis lands a planet that is strangely familiar to the Doctor (Tom Baker). K-9 is suffering from Laryngitis, and Romana (Lalla Ward) comes out in the form of Princess Astra having just regenerated, the Doctor wants her to take another form, but this is the one she wants, so he relents, and the two head out. The planet has very high levels of radiation, so they take pills and head out, but their are seismic disturbances and explosions. They watch some humanoids burry a body, and then watch a spaceship come and land and half burry itself in the sand, they are going to investigate, but explosions make them enter ruins, where a girder falls on the doctor. Romana goes back to get K-9, but discovers that the Tardis has been partially burried, and when she returns, the Doctor is gone. The Doctor has been taken by a silver haired high tech race called the Movellans. Romana sees a man, and runs to hide and ends up captured by the Daleks.

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A classic Tom Baker Doctor Who with Elisabeth Sladen as his companion. This one has elements of both Forbidden Planet and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and really has 4 enemies that the Doctor must Deal with or befriend. This is a great one, and I love the planetary sets as well as the space ship they end up on. Not only that but Sladen was so much more an equal to the doctor than Billie Piper could ever be. This is must see for all Tom Baker fans.

The TARDIS picks up a distress call, and ends up on the planet Zeta Minor, where a Morestran Scientific expedition had fallen to an invisible killer that takes the bodies and then brings them back completely drained of life. A military mission from Soresnosn arrives, and finds Professor Sorenson (Frederick Jaeger) still alive, though a bit manic and unwilling to give up his antimatter work. The squad takes the Doctor captive, thinking he is the killer, and beam the Tardis to their ship with Sarah Jane Smith (Elisabeth Sladen) inside of it.

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I started watching this show because I had seen John Simm on Doctor Who playing the Master in the new series Season 3 ending, and I was really impressed with him as an actor. And I saw that he had another BBC series playing on BBC America, and this was LIFE ON MARS, which I caught up starting with the second season, and was blown away. Once I finished, I tried to find the first series on DVD, but it isn’t released in the US, so I downloaded the first series via Torrents, and watched them on my iPhone. And again this whole series is just so damn good, that I ended up picking up the DVD’s from Amazon UK (A Region 3 PAL disc since my OPPO easily converts PAL discs to play on NTSC). This is such a great show. Not only is it an excellent 70′s cop drama, but it also has science fiction elements, and elements of mental instability as well. It is also a tale of a man who has lost his humanity, and through a bizarre set of circumstances, starts to get it back, but also to teach his humanity what it can use of his clinical self. Really of my favorite shows, I just wish it wasn’t only 2 series long, though at least ASHES TO ASHES is on now, which continues the story of DCI Hunt, but now in the 80′s. Damn this is a great show! And I love seeing it how it was, with racism and sexism and a great soundtrack, because that is how it was.

The first episode of the first series starts off with DCI (that is Detective Chief Inspector) Sam Tyler (John Simm) is leading a murder investigation in 2006 Manchester. Sam is cold an analytical, and never listens to his gut. His girlfriend works for him, she is named Maya (Archie Panjabi), and she stills believe in her gut, and that causes her to be taken by the killer. Sam starts to freak out, and stops his car, and gets out, while the David Bowie song Life on Mars plays on his ipod, and he gets hit by a car. Sam wakes up in the same location in 1973, where he finds out he is a DI (Detective Inspector) working for a gruff, alcoholic self proclaimed Sheriff of Manchester. This is Gene Hunt (Philip Glenister) who is known to his people as Guv. Working for the Governor is his DS (Detective Sergeant) Ray Carling (Dean Andrews) who instantly hates Sam because he wanted his job, and Chris Skelton (Marshall Lancaster) the young coper who just wants to learn from whomever is his boss. Sam gets thrown right into a murder case, and one in the same place as the one he was investigating in 2006, but he is still messed up, so he talks to a Female Cop named Annie Cartwright (Liz White) who is super cute, though a bit overweight, and there is instantly a bit of attraction. Sam talks to her about being from the future, and she tries to calm him down, having a psychology degree himself. Sam meanwhile keeps having visions of someone in red running through a forrest, and he is also hearing voices that make him believe that he is not in the past, but is in actually in a coma in 2006, and he has to figure out what is going on, to be able to get back to his life. Rounding out the cast is Nelson (Tony Marshall) the Jamaican who owns their local pub, and who is another guiding voice for Sam.

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As I said in the last review I had barely seen any of this Season, and it is really good, maybe even better than the first Season, but at least as good. This is an amazing show and Hugh Laurie is one of the best actors on television. It is amazing enough that he gets rid of his accent, but his characterization of House is absolutely fantastic. This show is a must see.

All the characters are back, the surly Doctor Gregory House (Hugh Laurie) his boss Doctor Lisa Cuddy (Lisa Edelstein) his best friend Doctor James WIlson (Robert Sean Leonard) and his House’s 3 employees Doctor Eric Foreman (Omar Epps), Doctor Allison Cameron (Jennifer Morrison) and Doctor Robert Chase (Jesse Spencer).

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My father got me into this show on one of my trips back to Maryland. He showed me Three Stories, at almost the end of the first Season, which has House (The one who makes this show so good the amazing Hugh Laurie, the British actor who makes this show) teaching a class and explaining 3 diagnostics, and one of them turns out to be him, and explains his pain in his leg and why he is no longer with the love of his life. This is the episode that made me get into the show, but after watching the first 2 seasons on DVD and the start of the 3rd season, I realized that I didn’t start watching until part way through the 3rd season, and then saw the start on repeats. This first season is an introduction to Dr. Gregory House, who is basically the Sherlock Holmes of medicine. A nasty man, who hates his patients, but loves to solve cases, he always has to figure out the riddle, and he is crippled in his right leg, with intense pain that makes him pop vikaden all the time. He has a team of 3 doctors who work for him, and constantly fight against him (which is what he needs to solve the cases), and who deal with the patients so he doesn’t need to. This is an amazing show and well worth checking out if you haven’t seen it yet, the only complaint on this season is this disc is unfortunately not Anamporphicaly enhanced, so it is letter-boxed widescreen on a 4×3 disc, which really sucks, especially because the disc does not say that.

Dr, Gregory House (Hugh Laurie) is the best diagnostic doctor to ever exist, but he is in pain, surly and hates people. He will do anything to stay away from patients, and especially his clinic duty assigned by his boss Doctor Lisa Cuddy (Lisa Edelstein), and there is something between them, but it never really goes anywhere. House’s best friend is Dr. James Wilson (Robert Sean Leonard) an Oncologist, who tries to act as House’s conscience, but doesn’t always do too well. House has 3 employees, his surly Nuerologist Dr. Eric Foreman (Omar Epps) his yes man Doctor Robert Chase (Jesse Spencer), and the woman who wants to save everyone Doctor Allison Cameron (Jennifer Morrison). House uses his three doctors to deal with patients and run diagnostic tests, and as a sounding board for his ideas so he can figure out what is wrong with his patients, which he has to work on one each episode.

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Another great Season of the New Doctor Who. David Tennant is my favorite Doctor since Tom Baker and Freema Agyeman is a much better companion than Billie Piper ever was. Not only that, but the return of one of the Doctor’s best villains in the guise of John Simm is just fantastic. John Simm is great, and really makes the finally of this amazing show. I am a huge fan of Doctor Who and I really like this darker grittier Who, even if they still only film in SD (I would love to see it in HD). The worst thing is there are only specials going on in the next year since Tennat is going off to work with the Royal Shakespeare company for a year, so the won’t show any new episodes in the next year in the US. Another enjoyable season and the new companion who is much more of a mach for the doctor is certainly the best thing they could have done.

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After it’s untimely cancellation amazingly Futurama has returned from cancellation and started with a joke about the network idiots that cancelled the show. And it is back in all of it’s glory. This is a movie that will be broken down into 4 episodes fro the cartoon network, but this is it in all it’s full length glory. This is amazing, it is as good as the show ever was, and I hope it goes more than just these 4 movies, because this show rocks! Futurama is funnier than the Simpsons ever was, so much more over the top, and so much more in your face. I love Bender, Fry and Leela, Amy, Hermes, and The Proffesor. WHY OH WHY WAS THIS SHOW EVER CANCELLED, BUT THEN FOX CANCELLED FIREFOX AS WELL.

The gang returns, Phillip K. Fry (Billy West), Bender (John Di Maggio), Leela (Katey Sagal), Amy Wong (Lauren Tom), Hermes Conrad (Phil LaMarr) and Professor Farnsworth (again Billy West), and this time they head to a nudist planet, where they all fall for some scammers and give out their e-mail addresses, and then get caught in Spam and Phishing Scams. And not only that but Hermes has an accident, and loses his body, it will be fixed, but for a while he will have to live in a jar from the museum, and her wife quickly goes back to her first husband, and Leela meets the technician Lars Fillmore a bald guy with a deep voice, and they quickly hit it off. Meanwhile they have lost all their stuff to spammers without Hermes to stop them, and professor loses the business, and Bender takes a spam that makes him under the Spammers control. The Spammers move in and smell knowledge coming from Fry’s ass. On it is a bender tattoo with the machine code that allows someone to travel back in time, so they use Bender to go back in time and steal things for them, until they have stolen all the wealth of Earth, and even Leela’s pet Nibbler (who is actually an advanced race) can’t get them to stop. They do realize that the copies of themselves made by the time travel are doomed to die though.

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Ronald D. Moore has really topped himself here. The series Battlestar Galactica is fantastic, dark and brooding and a great commentary on our modern times, though it has not been looking too good in the last season and a half, but this single movie has elevated it again, because this is easily as good or better than the show ever was, giving the story of the Battlestar Pegasus that we never saw, and introducing an incredible new character who really brings this show up. The DVD is great, with extra scenes that flesh out characters back stories, and let us see more of the scenes that were shown on Sci Fi (though not all of the Adama scenes strangely) and is well worth seeing, if only it were in HD! This is probably the best episode of this show since the first Season, and I can only hope that Season 4, the final Season is this good. And this will certainly give us a new perspective on the events that happen in the new Season, which I think was the point. It is too bad this show is ending after this Season.

This is the story of the first mission of the Pegasus under the command of Captain Lee ‘Apollo’ Adama (Jamie Barber) who has been given command of the ship after it’s first Captain, Admiral Helena Cain (Michelle Forbes) was killed by the Cylon 6, here known as Gina (Tricia Helfer) then Colonel Jack Fisk (Graham Beckel) andf his replacement were killed too. Apollo gets one of Cain’s key Captain’s, Kendra Shaw (Stephanie Chaves Jacobsen) who was pealing potatoes under Cane’s replacements, and is now injecting herself with some drug, and makes her his new hard asses XO. And though Kendra we see the story of the Pegasus and what happened to it before.

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I am a huge Bruce Campbell fan, and after seeing Brisco County Jr. i wanted more Bruce Campbell goodness, and this show paid it in spades. This show is 10 times more over the top than Brisco Country, with little or no reality, and is so much fun. The show is hysterical and as silly as can be, and casting Verne Troyer as the bad ass Napolean Bonaparte could be one of the biggest casting acts of genius I have ever heard of. This show is hysterical and amazing. Sure the episodes are short as it is only a 22 minute short, but they pack in a lot of story, and the show has so many great characters, this could not be more fun. And it is great that Bruce was also an executive producer on this New Zealand produced show.

Bruce Campbell plays Jack Styles, an American secret agent, whose womanizing gets him in trouble, so he is sent to the Asian island of Pullo Pullo to report to the top British Agent Mrs Emilia Smythe Rothschild (ANgela Marie Dotchin). Jack doesn’t like being under someone’s control, especially a stuffy British scientist. They are sent to take care of the French who run the island, and keep them in line. The French are led by Napolean’s brother Governor Croque (Stuart Devenie) who is a fop and more than a little crazy. His second is Captain Brogard (Stephen Papps)..

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I have a fan of Bruce “The Man” Campbell since I saw the original evil dead film, and have wanted to see this show for some time, but it was my friend Tony that turned me onto it by lending me the first disc, and from there I picked it up because I was hooked. This is B movie material, which is exactly what Campbell was made for, and in this turned into a turn of the century Western following a Bounty Hunter who is always looking for the next big thing, meaning we see a lot of references to modern technology, and here we see their first uses, as well as some fun science fiction thrown into boot. This show is fun and as silly as can be, but it has great characters that you really care about, and want to keep watching, all the way until the series ends. This show only lasted one season, but the Episodes are long, so the adventure lasts some time, and if you B Movie Westerns you will have one hell of a time.

The story starts with the most famous Marshall in the west, Brisco County Sr. (R. Lee Ermey in a role perfect for him) taking in the John Bly (Billy Drago) gang on a train, but the remnants of the gang ambush the train, kill County Sr. and escape. The robber baron’s then need a Bounty Hunter, so they hire the ivy league lawyer, and bad ass Brisco County Jr. (Bruce Campbell) to capture the gang. He is assisted by his liaison, a lawyer named Socrates Poole (Christian Clemenson), and sets off to take in the gang, also becoming involved with John Bly’s search for a trio of mysterious golden orbs that posses great power. Brisco has a nemesis to begin with, the best tracker around, another bounty hunter named Lord Bowler (Julius Carry) who was a former soldier, and who eventually becomes Brisco’s partner and friend.

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I grew up with the Muppets, and am even working on a puppet show with my friend Jared right now (you can see the initial test here), so I am a huge Muppet fan, and with the second Season the Muppets really hit their stride, and also a season where the guest list was mind blowing. This is amazing, and absolutely hysterical. From the completely insane (Peter Sellers) to great musicians and funny men. This is an amazing season of the show. If you haven’t seen it, you have missed out on a major part of my life, and if you have seen it, rush out and see it again, you know you want to, and if you have kids you should have this already. And make sure you watch the opening credits and through the ending if just to get the 2 Waldorf and Statler bits as well as Gonzo playing his horn, which is different each time. You will also note that these are longer than the initial US versions by one sketch, and while it does repeat once, it gives something new to capture your interest.

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It 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.

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An OK Tom Baker adventure, and I believe the last one available on NTSC DVD at this point. The best part is the aged makeup on Tom Baker which is fantastic, and this one is mostly notable as the end of the Doctor using the Randmizer he installed at the end of the Key of Time Series. Enjoyable, but nothing too special, except I do think Tom Baker’s last season uniform with the question marks on the color is my favorite of all.

The Doctor (Tom Baker) and Romana (Lalla Ward) have turned off the randomizer, and decided to go on a vacation, but they are in Brighton, on the off Season and cold. Romana accidently blows up K-9, but decides she wants to go the planet Argolis and it’s giant pleasure domes the Hive. The Argolin race is dyeing, and their planet is a wasteland thanks to a war with the Foamasi, a reptilian race, who it seems now want to buy the dead planet of it’s adversary, and take it out of the horrible debt it is in. The Argolins are led by Mena (Adrienne Corri) mother of the young Pangol (David Haig) who hates all aliens and especially the Foamasi, and runs a machine that plays image games based on a tachyon technology, but it seems to backfire and someone is actually ripped to pieces by the machine.

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A very enjoyable Tom Baker Dr Who romp through Paris and time, trying to figure out what is happening with certain time shifts that seem to be occurring, and only they can see them. This is quite an enjoyable tale, with a great villain, and some fun trips into history, and Lalla Ward as Romana does make a good companion to the Doctor, having another Time Lord along makes him up his scientific game. A must see for any Tom Baker fans.

An alien being on Earth in the past from a race called the Jagaroth attempts to take off from ancient molten Earth, but the ship explodes. The Doctor (Tom Baker) and Romana (Lalla Ward) are in Paris in 1979 enjoying a holiday, when they feel time slip, they are not too worried and visit the Louvre to see the Mona Lisa, but then another time slip occurs, and The Doctor almost passes out. As he falls, he lands in the lap of The Countess Scarlioni (Catherine Schell), where he grabs a bracelet made with futuristic Alien technology. The Doctor and Romana leave, and are followed by a private detective Duggan (Tom Chadbon). Duggan thinks they are thieves, but in fact thieves working for the Count Scarlioni (Julian Glover) come and take the bracelet, and then take them to meet the Count. The Count has a scientist named Professor Kerensky (David Graham) working on some time experiments, he thinks to solve world hunger, but it is in fact for more nefarious purposes.

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After the FOX show was cancelled, these guys made the jump to IFC, and back to older less complicated puppets for Greg and Count Blah. Here they do low budget movie parodies, and some of them are hysterical, though they have a much different tone than the TV show. This is a much darker world, and done much more in a back room, with mostly handheld cameras and a lot grittier. It is obvious they had a much smaller budget. Still fun to see more of Greg and especially Warren who is really highlighted here. Dan Milano does a great job playing them and everyone else in this, though it does feel like it is missing some of the spark of the FOX show. Still worth checking out, but certainly not the same.

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Sure the effects are as cheesy as can be, but this is a riveting horror adventure, set in the confines of a lonely light house. Again I enjoy having Louise Jameson as the warrior woman, which is such a change from most of the Doctor’s companions. And it is another fun Tom Baker adventure.

The Doctor (Tom Baker) and Leela (Louise Jameson) get lost in the fog, and end up on the lonely Fang Rock the location of an old lighthouse which recently had electricity installed, with 3 keepers. The youngest keeper VInce Hawkins (John Abbott) saw a light fall from the sky, and he and the eldest keeper Rueben (Colin Douglas) find the engineer Ben (Ralph Watson) dead, just as the Doctor and Leela show up. The power keeps dyeing in the lighthouse, and a ship ends up wrecking, and they rescue the survivors with a greedy lord Palmerdale (Sean Caffrey) his colonel friend Skinsale (Alan Rowe) the lords secretary Adelaide (Annette Wollett) and Harker (Rio Fanning).

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A long story, six episodes instead of the usual 4, is an enjoyable romp in victorian England with the Doctor dressed in his best Holmes attire, though honestly not too memorable and it is just too bad that most of the Chinese in the episode are played by white people because it certainly comes off as a bit racist. Nothing too memorable here for sure, and made best by having Louise Jameson as Leela because as a warrior woman, she is so different than most of his other companions.

The Doctor (Tom Baker) and Leela (Louise Jameson) head back to Victorian England circa 1888 to see how her ancestors live, and to go to a theater, but they have a run in with a bunch of Chinese Coolies, and the Police take them in to question them, as Leela was beating the guy up that they captured. A stage magician named Li H’sen Chang (John Bennett) who seems to be part of disappearances of woman that come to his show, is brought in to interpret, and has the coolie kill himself. The Doctor then befriends the police pathologist Professor Litefoot (Henry Gordon Jago) and they discover large rat hair, and find giant rats in the sewer which must be protecting something.

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An enjoyable Tom Baker adventure, with a warrior companion Leela (Louise Jameson), and some interesting aliens. Enjoyable.

Leela and the Doctor (Tom Baker) arrive on an alien planet in side of a massive sandminer Storm Mine 4, which is mining the sand in the air for precious ores. The ship is run by COmmander Uvanov (Russell Hunter) and a small human crew aided by numerous humanoid robots, with 3 classes, their leader, the talking class, and the dumb class, and just as the Doctor and Leela arrive their is a murder among the crew, and they quickly try to blame the Doctor and Leela for the crime.

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I can’t believe I had never even heard of this series, because the humor is mine exactly. I haven’t laughed so hard in quite some time. If Jared hadn’t lent this to me I would never have seen it, and oh what a depressing world it would be then! I can’t believe I never saw this show when it came out, and it only made it one season. This show should still be on. It is a comedy show about the creation of a kids tv show in a world where puppets are alive, and it is most certainly aimed at adult audiences. This show is absolutely hysterical and a must see. Rent it if you haven’t seen it. I need to pick up this DVD.

This is the story of the hand bunny puppet Greg The Bunny (Dan Milano) who is roomates with Jimmy (Seth Green) a useless teen, and tries to snag a job with Jimmy’s father Gil Bender (Eugene Levy) as a PA on the kids show that Gil Directs and Produces SWEET KNUCKLE JUNCTION. The thing is Gil and the new studio executive Alison Kaiser (Sarah Silverman) have just fired their old and fried lead Rochester Rabbit (James Murray) and they mistake Greg for an actor and hire him.

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