Doctor Who: The Three Doctors (Story 65)

Product Description The Doctor and UNIT are called upon to investigate strange events surrounding Dr. Tyler's research into cosmic rays. UNIT HQ comes under attack by an alien force, and the Doctor has no other option but to call on the Time Lords for help. The Time Lords, too, are under attack--from a mysterious power emanating from a black hole in space. With power reserves falling, the only way they can help the Doctor is to break the First Law of Time and allow him to help himself. The First and Second Doctors are lifted out of their time streams and sent to Earth to help the Third. Between the three of them, they must find a solution to the threat that not only endangers UNIT and Earth, but also the future of the Time Lords themselves. Set Contains: Doctor Who: The Three Doctors is presented in the original 4:3 aspect ratio with good mono sound. The introductory 16-mm film footage is very grainy and lined, but later exteriors are good and the interior video-shot material in fine. The commentary by Katy Manning, Nicholas Courtney, and producer Barry Letts is informative and funny. Extras include excerpts from a highly entertaining 1972 Pebble Mill at One with Patrick Troughton and BBC props designer Bernard Wilkie (20 min.) and a 1973 retrospective on the show from Blue Peter featuring Pertwee with the then new Whomobile, all presented by ex-Who companion Peter Purves. There are highlights from a BSB Doctor Who weekend from 1990, with brief interviews with Courtney, David Martin, Bob Baker, Pertwee, producer John Nathan Turner, and writer Terrance Dicks (10 min.). Rather more exciting is the appearances of the warm and witty Pertwee, Manning, and a very late Courtney at the 1993 PanoptiCon convention (29 min.). There are also two trailers, info text and a scored photo gallery. --Gary S. Dalkin