Main menuMalcolm Hulke, Doctor Who - Invasion of the dinosaurs
Release details
| Title | Doctor Who - Invasion of the dinosaurs | ||||||||
| Artist(s): | Malcolm Hulke | ||||||||
| Category: | BBC - BBCDVD (Click on this button to view other releases of BBC - BBCDVD DVD's.) | ||||||||
| Label and catalogue number: |  BBC3 - BBCDVD 3376A | ||||||||
| Format: | Disc DVD's | ||||||||
| Country: | UK  | ||||||||
| Released: | 1973 | ||||||||
| Genre: | Dramas - Sci-fi View all other tracks listed as Dramas - Sci-fi. | ||||||||
| Run-off codes: | A0101888748-A912 13 IFPI L556 Sony DADC A0101888754-A511 28 IFPI L556 Sony DADC | ||||||||
| Item deleted? | No | ||||||||
| Distributed / printed by |  2 entertain | ||||||||
| Page views: | 2585 times since 20th May, 2017, global rank is 2164, rank in dvds is 89. | ||||||||
| My rating: | ***** | ||||||||
| Guest rating: | ***** | ||||||||
My copies information
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| Detail | Value | ||||||||||
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| Cover condition | Near mint | ||||||||||
| Record condition | Near mint | ||||||||||
| BBC records label code | - | ||||||||||
| Number have | 1 | ||||||||||
| What type of seller was used | Friends and family | ||||||||||
| Where can I buy this release? | You may be able to purchase this release from the following websites (others are available!) | ||||||||||
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Tracks
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| Side & track no | Track and Artist | Length | |||||||||
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| A1 | Part 1 | 25.29 | |||||||||
| A2 | Part 2 | 24.43 | |||||||||
| A3 | Part 3 | 23.26 | |||||||||
| A4 | Part 4 | 23.33 | |||||||||
| A5 | Part 5 | 24.30 | |||||||||
| A6 | Part 6 | 25.34 | |||||||||
| A7 | Part 1 in colour | 25.29 | |||||||||
| A8 | Coming soon - The Sensorites | 0.99 | |||||||||
| B1 | People, power and puppetry - Remembering making The Invasion of the Dinosaurs | 32.43 | |||||||||
| B2 | Deleted scenes | 4.48 | |||||||||
| B3 | Now and then - The locations of The Invasion of the Dinosaurs | 13.43 | |||||||||
| B4 | Doctor Who stories - Elisabeth Sladen part 1 | 14.00 | |||||||||
| B5 | John Levene commentary (from 20054) | 10.15 | |||||||||
| B6 | Photo gallery | 6.13 | |||||||||
| B7 | Billy Smart's Circus - Jon Pertwee arrives with Who-mobile | 1.42 | |||||||||
| B8 | Radio Times listings [PDF] | ||||||||||
| Total length of media 4:17:47. | |||||||||||
All release pictures
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Reviews
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| My rating | 3 | |
| Guest rating | Current average value is 3. To vote, please select one of these buttons: | |
Extra notes on cover, middle (gatefold sleeve) and any inserts | ||
StarringJon Pertwee Elisabeth Sladen Nicholas Courtney - Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart Richard Franklin - Captain Mike Yates John Levene - Sergeant Benton Noel Johnson - Sir Charles Grover Peter Miles - Professor Whittaker Martin Jarvis - Butler John Bennett - General Finch Terence Wilton - Mark Carmen Silvera - Ruth Brian Badcoe - Adam Ben Aris - Lieutenant Shears Dave Carter - Sergeant Duffy Martin Taylor - Corporal Norton George Bryson - Private Ogden John Caesar - R/T Soldier Pat Gorman - UNIT Corporal Colin Bell - Private Bryson Timothy Craven - Robinson Trevor Lawrence - Lodge Terry Walsh - Looter Gordon Reid - Phillips James Marcus - Peasant Written byMalcolm Hulke Produced byBarry Letts Directed byPaddy Russell SynopsisReturning to London, The Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith find a city almost completely devoid of life. The civilian population has been evacuated in the wake of an unimaginable event: somehow, dinosaurs have returned to terrorise the Earth ... As the Brigadier and UNIT fend off increasingly vicious attacks from gigantic prehistoric reptiles, the Doctor investigates just how these monsters are appearing without warning. But when Sarah Jane is kidnapped, the Doctor realises that perhaps even his oldest friends can't be trusted ... BackgroundBritish television in the early 1970s had many iconic images, and Jon Pertwee's Doctor teaming up with UNIT to defeat invasions was an integral part of Saturday night viewing. It was during the original transmission of Invasion of the Dinosaurs that the media first reported that Pertwee would be leaving Doctor Who. Looking back now, this was perhaps the ideal story in which the signal for an era's end was made. Now entering his fifth season, the Third Doctor valiantly leapt to Earth's defence time after time, with his cloak billowing behind him and the Brigadier supporting him all the way. All manner of alien threats had tried to invade our world, and in this story the ultimate in monsters finally arrive - dinosaurs! The Triceratops, Stegosaurus and Tyrannosaurus rex were creatures the viewing public had long wanted their time-travelling hero to face, and the cliffhanger endings to four of these six episodes pit the Doctor against various prehistoric beasts. Of course, on a restrictive 1970s television budget, the appearance of Cretaceous creatures requires the viewer to suspend some measure of disbelief. For some time this story was relegated to the position of a poorly realised experiment. Thankfully, this viewpoint has changed of late, with Invasion of the Dinosaurs now seen as a testament to the victory of creative ideas over budget, and the beginning of a fitting swansong for a legendary incarnation of the Doctor. | ||
Other versions | ||
| I have the title track on these releases: | ||
| [dvds] | BBCDVD 3376 | Doctor Who - U. N. I. T. files |
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