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Whistle Stopper - Doctor Who - The Beginning Collection
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List Price: $44.98
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Manufacturer: BBC Warner
Starring: William Hartnell, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill, Carole Ann Ford
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: DOCTOR WHO
EAN: 0794051248923
Format: Box set
Label: BBC Warner
Manufacturer: BBC Warner
Number Of Items: 3
Publisher: BBC Warner
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2006-03-28
Running Time: 311
Studio: BBC Warner
Theatrical Release Date: 1963
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Summary: Easy to forget how good they were...
Comment: It's really very easy to dismiss what a perfect storm came together in the 1963 to create the worlds longest running sci-fi progamme that became an institution. At 27 year old first time producer (Lambert), an out of work playwright (Nation), an aging tough guy (Hartnell), and a budget close to nothing, which they nearly blow through on the first two stories. See the beginning of it all.
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Summary: Excellent!
Comment: Doctor Who - The Beginning CollectionAn excellent DVD to see the very beginnings of Dr. Who. Just as entertaining as the most recent.
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Summary: Yes I shall come back!
Comment: This is Doctor Who. The beginning. The essence. It all begins here. This is must have Who. The set is a collection of three storeis, and all three are gems. An Unearthly Child tends to get overlooked because the Daleks put the show on the map, but it is a brilliant episode that starts things off. It is hughly entertaining and holds up better than most Who episodes because it is one of the historical episodes(pity those were abandoned for a long time). Watch the character of the Doctor really evolve here from paranoid traveller, to fearful, to protector. The Edge of Destruction, a 2 parter, is also routinely overlooked, but it should not be. How many shows could succesfuly pull off an entire episode in one room. It is one of the scariest episoded ever and again allows the characters and their relationships with one another evolve. As for the dalek episode....it is a classic.
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Summary: Not all there
Comment: I was getting ready to buy this, then i looked up the episode guide. There are suposed to be 30 episodes in all for the first doctor. Not 4!!!!!!!!!! It should be around 15 hours with each episode being about 30 minutes. When someone gets smart and finally starts to put all episodes/seasons of the old ones in 1 package each, ONLY then will i buy them!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: The beginning is a very delicate time...
Comment: I was very happy to have purchased this collection... I just recently became a fan of the New Doctor and I have taken some time to watch some of the older series. This 3 story run (story two giving us our first look at long time Doctor adversary The Dalek's) was a great introduction to this long running series. And the character of the Doctor himself in this, his first incarnation.
Despite the relative contrived nature of the first story, the second and third made for it's simple plot with great zeal. It was a good start for what has fastly become one of my favorite series. Granted I have in no way seen all of it's episodes, or for that matter all of the incarnations of the Doctor. But of what I've seen so far has made me think The Doctor Who series is one of the most interesting and imaginative I've had the pleasure of catching. And I hope to be a fan for a long time to come.
And as an avid television watcher and reader I can appreciate a good beginning... We all want to know how our favorite stories began. And this is an aspect of that... Sure it doesn't tell us why The Doctor left his home and in fact much about him, but it does show us a Doctor Who whom is not exactly the Doctor we know. A man who is not as happy to be among humans in the 20th century. Younger, in ways, more foolhardy and impetuous. And at the same time Old and angry.
In short, a wonderful beginning.
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Media Type: DVD
Artist: DOCTOR WHO
Title: BEGINNING COLLECTION
Street Release Date: 03/28/2006
Domestic
Genre: TELEVISION
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