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 Doctor Who - Robot (DVD)
 Doctor Who - Robot (DVD) ... released 04 June, 2007 at 2 Entertain Video / Features of the DVD: Full Screen, PAL / Tom Baker's reign as the venerable British science fiction hero Doctor Who began with this four-part serial from 1974-75; it also marked the dawn of what was arguably the most popular period in the program's history. Written by Terrance Dicks, Robot also introduces the late Ian Marter as the Doctor's companion-to-be Harry Sullivan, a UNIT medic who is pulled into the adventure after treating the Doctor, who is recovering from his fourth regeneration (third Doctor Jon Pertwee appears briefly at the beginning of the first episode). Meanwhile, Sarah Jane (Elisabeth Sladen) and the Brigadier (Nicholas Courtney) investigate a series of robberies involving a top secret weapons project that seem to have been carried out not by humans, but a colossal object. Could the mysterious "Think Tank" and its robotics division be involved? Robot is a terrific launching point for "The Baker Years"--the star himself is charming and amusing, and the story itself is brisk, involving, and quite suspenseful at times. In short, it's an excellent point for Who newcomers to introduce themselves to this most well-loved of Doctors. The single-disc DVD includes commentary by Baker, Sladen, Dicks, and producer Barry Letts, as well as a 40-minute documentary titled "Are Friends Electric?" which recalls the production of Baker's first serial via interviews with the cast and production team, including producer Phillip Hinchcliffe and director Christopher Barry. "The Tunnel Effect" is a 13-minute interview with graphic designer Bernard Lodge on how he created the memorable "infinite tunnel" titles for the Baker stories, and there's a clip from children's program Blue Peter, which was broadcast from the set of Robot. The by-now standard photo gallery, production notes, and a PDF of the Radio Times listings round out the extras. --Paul GaitaNewest Review: ... is really quite impossible to dislike. The story follows the newly regenerated Doctor piecing back together a personality ... more ... while companion, Sarah Jane Smith, is investigating mysterious events at a local scientific research laboratories. Not long into the story a killer robot is no the loose, a mad scientist is behaving suspiciously and a local, fascist group is preparing a revolution.
Within this quite manic story we have some very stable, grounding elements. The show was about to return to the space exploration format of earlier years, but here the transition between Doctors is eased by staying comfortably within the UNIT formula esta...more |
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Doctor Who - Robot (DVD): Robot (1434 words)
by - written on 21/10/07 (Very useful, 136 readings)
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What I am reviewing is the Doctor Who DVD “Robot” It is now hard to imagine a time when people never knew who Tom Baker was as he has been in television now since 1974 and had various roles in different shows. His most remarkable and best know role was that of the doctor. In 1973 after Katy Manning had left the series and Roger Delgado had been killed in a car crash things were not the same for Jon Pertwee in the role as the Doctor and he decided to leave the show after the next series set of four stories. The stories were set to end in 1974 with the last story being Planet of the spiders, where the doctor would be riddled with deadly alien ... Read the complete review
Robot (293 words)
by - written on 04/01/08 (Very useful, 7 readings)
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ROBOT is the first 'Doctor Who' story starring Tom Baker, and was first broadcast in late 1974 / early 1975. The story also stars Elisabeth Sladen as his companion Sarah Jane Smith, who recently appeared in her own Children's BBC series, THE SARAH JANE ADVENTURES, and Ian Marter and Nicholas Courtney as UNIT members Harry Sullivan and Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart (UNIT was the military group The Doctor worked with during the period of the show's production). The plot has The Doctor, who has just regenerated, aid UNIT in investigating the theft of top secret plans and equipment from premises which had been believed to be impenetrable. It transpires that the ... Read the complete review
Doctor Who - Robot (DVD): The Doctor is dead, Long Live the Doctor (472 words)
by - written on 31/01/09 (Very useful, 22 readings)
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One of the later fourth Doctor stories, "The Brain of Morbius" was claimed by its writers to be an interpretation of "Frankenstein" and, upon watching it, it is easy to see where that supposition has arisen. Yet, in several ways there are some suggestions that an earlier story also has elements of this classic horror. That one is "Robot", which introduces us properly to the fourth Doctor. The story takes place, upon Earth, in the present time (or to be more precise that of the 1970's or 1980's - the writers apparently originally setting the Third Doctor stories slightly in the future) and in many ways follows very similar ... Read the complete review
Tom Baker begins with another excellent collector's DVD (407 words)
by - written on 03/08/09 (Very useful, 15 readings)
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The dynamic Jon Pertwee will always be the Doctor I associate with classic Who, exciting yet earthbound. Conversely, I find Tom Baker's portrayal of the Doctor to be painfully overrated. A performance the developed the role hugely in the first year and then settled for "Doctor-by-numbers" for the next 6. With that in mind, Robot is something of a stumbling block for me. This story sees the end of the Third doctor and the arrival of the Fourth, the changing of hands. However, Baker's performance in this story is really quite impossible to dislike. The story follows the newly regenerated Doctor piecing back together a personality while companion, ... Read the complete review
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