Doctor Who - Four To Doomsday (DVD)

The TARDIS arrives on board a spaceship, crewed by a bizarre mix of Australian Aborigines, Mayans, Athenians and Futu dynasty Chinese, and lead by three Urbankans, silky-voiced Monarch and his two ministers, Persuasion and Enlightenment. After much talking and dance sequences, it is revealed that Monarch is hoping to travel backwards in time to the dawn of the Universe, where he believes he will meet himself. Monarch believes he is God, and he's got a big barrel of poison that dares anyone to tell him he's wrong. A little context Tom Baker, after seven seasons of laughing at aliens and being rude to people in art galleries, had signed off ...  Read the complete review

After instructing Adric to input the co-ordinates into the Tardis, the Doctor is confident he can return Tegan back to Earth and Heathrow Airport. Yet, whether through an error on the part of that young mathematician, or through more sinister means, the Tardis is taken off course and materialises instead upon a spaceship. After discovering that the atmosphere within the craft is toxic without some form of breathing apparatus, the Doctor instructs Tegan, Nyssa and Adric to remain in the Tardis and steps out to being some preliminary investigations of their surroundings. Before long it becomes apparent that he is being observed and, curious as to who might be behind the ...  Read the complete review

Peter Davison's first filmed performance as The Doctor, and second to be broadcast, between the 18th and 26th January 1982, is a curious mix of Red Dwarf style sets and Bill And Ted's Excellent Adventure characters. Though this was before both of those it provides a useful comparison. The Doctor and his companions; Tegan, Nyssa and Adric arrive on a massive spaceship which is four days from Earth. Some of the plot of this one is a little confusing I found, but basically the ship is run by Monarch, a giant frog like man who is some kind of scientific genius. At first Monarch appears friendly but it soon becomes clear that he is sinister. He wants to repopulate ...  Read the complete review