Doctor Who - The Claws Of Axos (DVD)

I'll get the most important bit of this review out of the way first; I hate The Claws of Axos. I hated it as a kid, I hated it as a teenager and I hate it now. But I love Jon Pertwee and so I keep trying to like it. It never works and I hate it this time around aswell. The Claws of Axos is a Doctor Who serial from Jon Pertwee's second year as The Doctor. The story involves the arrival of a bizarre, angelic looking aliens on Earth. They come bearing gifts, a miracle mineral they call Axonite. This mineral has the power to become any other substance it is required to be and the aliens wish it to be shared among all Earth's people. Opportunistic members of the ...  Read the complete review

First broadcast in 1971 and starring Jon Pertwee as the Third Doctor Who, assisted by Jo Grant and Brigadier Lethbridge Stewart, "The Claws of Axos" takes the viewer on a dramatic escapade in which deception and greed both play a prominent role and desperate measures are needed to prevent a catastrophic outcome. Commencing when an unidentified object is picked up via UNIT's satellites as heading towards Earth's atmosphere, there is immediate tension between the Doctor, a government minister named Chinn assigned to an investigation and the Brigadier when the latter two men believe the best course of action is obliteration of the object through the use of ...  Read the complete review