Doctor Who - Remembrance Of The Daleks (DVD)

REMEMBRANCE OF THE DALEKS is the 5th 'Doctor Who' story starring Sylvester McCoy, who was the seventh and final actor to play The Doctor before the show was cancelled in 1989. This story was shown in October 1988, and was the last DOCTOR WHO story to feature the Daleks before the show went off the air. The story, which takes place over 4 episodes, also stars Sophie Aldred as The Doctor's companion, Ace. The plot in this story has The Doctor taking Ace to London in November 1963 - the time and place where he was back when the show first started, with William Hartnell as The Doctor in the first story AN UNEARTHLY CHILD. Here they get involved in a battle between ...  Read the complete review

The last Dalek episode to be produced for seventeen years, Ben Aaronovitch’s ‘Remembrance of the Daleks’ finally draws the long-running feud between the Doctor and the mutated killing machines to a conclusive finale, just in time for the show’s sudden cancellation a year later. The most iconic villains of Doctor Who, the Daleks first appeared as early as the second serial in 1963, although this twenty-fifth anniversary special (of sorts) opts instead to revisit the location of the very first episode ever produced, ‘An Unearthly Child.’ As an unofficial anniversary episode, this four-part serial does feel a little bit like a present for hardcore fans, but for ...  Read the complete review

It is London in 1963 and the first Doctor is forced to leave Earth, after two teachers from his granddaughter Susan?s school discover the TARDIS, disguised as a police box, sitting in a junkyard at Totter?s Yard. It is now 25 years later and the seventh Doctor returns ? with a brand new companion, Ace, in tow and with business that he must complete. Not for the first time unusual things are happening at Coal Hill School and at Totter?s Lane junkyard. The Doctor discovers that his old enemies - the Daleks - are also after the technology that the Doctor left behind on Earth. Timelord technology, a Stella manipulator known as the Hand of Omega, which would be ...  Read the complete review

Remembrance Of The Daleks is set in the year 1963 and evolves around the seventh doctor (played by Sylvester McCoy,) who has returned to Earth with his companion Ace (Sophie Aldred). This is not the doctor's first appearance in this time period and this story links well with another story that was released years earlier (An Unearthly Child). In Remembrance Of The Daleks, the doctor faces off against two opposing factions of the metallic menaces called Daleks who are searching for a device know only as 'the hand of omega.' This would also be the last Doctor Who story to feature the Daleks until the shows resurrection. Sylvester McCoy was my second favourite ...  Read the complete review

1988’s ‘Remembrance of the Daleks’ was the last hurrah for the tin-can exterminators who had been largely responsible for Doctor Who’s popularity as a television show for the previous quarter of a century. Riddled with in-jokes and indecipherable continuity references it may have been, but Remembrance is, in fact, tremendous light-hearted fun which manages to examine a few genuine issues in a non-trivial way en route, and it is also a top-notch piece of 1980’s British television. THE SERIAL Remembrance is a four-part serial originally broadcast during October 1988. It features the Seventh Doctor, Sylvester McCoy, together ...  Read the complete review