This is a 'film only' review You don't have to be very old to remember when Doctor Who was low budget with people wrapped in green bubble wrap to make the aliens and pyrotechnics which were limited to about one an episode. Cybermen which looked like men in jumpsuits which had been spray painted silver (but at least they had more dialogue) and a TARDIS interior which looked like it came as a flat pack. Since the revival of Doctor Who I have stared watching some older ones via a DVD through the post rental service. Out of the ones I have seen again I still think Tom Baker was the best (the one with the scarf and 'jelly babies') closely followed by ...  Read the complete review

First broadcast in 1989 and starring Sylvester McCoy as the Seventh Doctor and Sophie Aldred as his companion Dorothy "Ace", "Ghost Light" is one of the most powerful of the classic Doctor Who stories and one which sadly came too late to prevent the programme being axed for over a decade. Arriving at a large house in the late nineteenth century, the Doctor announces to Ace that he has a surprise for her. As they progress through the house it becomes increasingly evident that mysterious - and probably malignant forces - are at work and that the building houses a devastating secret. The previous owners of the house have disappeared, with the exception ..  Read the complete review

Doctor Who's last season was its strongest for many years, with all of its four stories finding fanatical support among some sections of the fan community. It wasn't supposed to be the end, script editor Andrew Cartmel had a definite idea of where he wanted to take the show, but watching those last few stories, you do get the feeling that... they knew. Ghost Light was not the last story to be aired, the show's epilogue voiceover was tacked on to the end of Survival, but it was the last to be filmed. For once, the fact that the season's budget had run out worked in the serial's favour. Set in a single country house over the course of two or three ...  Read the complete review

This DVD contains a story from the last series of classic Doctor Who (series 26), actually being the last story to be filmed. Starring Sylvester McCoy as the Doctor, the serial is an experiment in a new way of story telling in as much as half the time (especially on first viewing), the viewer will have no idea what is happening. There is no obvious conclusion to the end of the story. Like the rest of the stories in this series, the Tardis interior is unseen. The Doctor takes his companion, Ace (Sophie Aldred) back to a mansion, "Gabrielle Chase", that she has nightmares about. He has taken her back to 1883, and we learn why the ...  Read the complete review