Main menuDavid Whitaker / Malcolm Hulke / Trevor Ray, Doctor Who - The ambassadors of death
Release details
| Title | Doctor Who - The ambassadors of death | ||||||||
| Artist(s): | David Whitaker / Malcolm Hulke / Trevor Ray | ||||||||
| Category: | BBC - BBCDVD (Click on this button to view other releases of BBC - BBCDVD DVD's.) | ||||||||
| Label and catalogue number: |  BBC3 - BBCDVD 3484 | ||||||||
| Format: | Disc DVD's | ||||||||
| Country: | UK  | ||||||||
| Released: | 1970 | ||||||||
| Genre: | Dramas - Sci-fi View all other tracks listed as Dramas - Sci-fi. | ||||||||
| Run-off codes: | A0101999668-A912 02 A0101997054-A511 02 | ||||||||
| Item deleted? | No | ||||||||
| Distributed / printed by |  2 entertain | ||||||||
| Page views: | 13798 times since 20th May, 2017, global rank is 21, rank in dvds is 3. | ||||||||
| 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 | Amazon online shop | ||||||||||
| 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 | 24.33 | |||||||||
| A2 | Part 2 | 24.39 | |||||||||
| A3 | Part 3 | 24.38 | |||||||||
| A4 | Part 4 | 24.37 | |||||||||
| A5 | Part 5 | 24.17 | |||||||||
| A6 | Part 6 | 24.31 | |||||||||
| A7 | Part 7 | 24.32 | |||||||||
| Mars probe 7 | |||||||||||
| B1 | Making the Ambassadors of death | 25.51 | |||||||||
| B2 | Trailer | 1.28 | |||||||||
| B3 | Tomorrow's times - The Third Doctor - Newspaper comments | 13.07 | |||||||||
| B4 | Photo gallery | 4.26 | |||||||||
| B5 | Radio Times billings [PDF] | ||||||||||
| B6 | Coming soon - The claws of Axos | 1.04 | |||||||||
| Total length of media 3:37:43. | |||||||||||
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Reviews
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| My rating | 3 | |
| Guest rating | Current average value is 2. To vote, please select one of these buttons: | |
Extra notes on cover, middle (gatefold sleeve) and any inserts | ||
StarringJon Pertwee (Third Doctor) Caroline John (Liz Shaw) Nicholas Courtney - Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart John Levene - Sergeant Benton John Abineri - General Carrington Ronald Allen - Ralph Cornish Robert Cawdron - Bruno Taltalian Cheryl Molineaux - Miss Rutherford Robert Robertson - Collinson Ray Armstrong - Grey Dallas Cavell - Sir James Quinlan Michael Wisher - John Wakefield William Dysart - Reegan Cyril Shaps - Lennox Juan Moreno - Dobson Gordon Sterne - Van Heldorf John Lord - Masters Tony Harwood - Flynn Roy Scammell - Technician Bernard Martin, Joanna Ross, Carl Conway - Control room assistants Derek Ware - UNIT Sergeant James Haswell - Corporal Champion James Clayton - Private Parker Geoffrey Beevers - Private Johnson Max Faulkner - UNIT Soldier Peter Halliday - Alien Voices Peter Noel Cook - Alien Space Captain Ric Felgate - Van Lyden/Ambassador Steve Peters - Lefee/Ambassador Neville Simons - Michaels/Ambassador Written byDavid Whitaker Trevor Ray (episode 1, uncredited) Malcolm Hulke (episodes 2-7, uncredited) Terrance Dicks (episodes 2-7, uncredited) Produced byBarry Letts Directed byMichael Ferguson SynopsisSomthing has gone seriously wrong with Mars Probe 7. With no contact from the Astronauts since the rocket started its return journey from Matrs, Space Control is now extremely worried about the fate of the crew. A rescue mission recovers something - but whatever it is, it certainly isn't human. To find out what has happened to the astronauts, the Doctor must head into space without the TARDIS ... BackgroundIn Doctor Who, Earth in the 1970s is extremely unlucky when it comes to alien invaders. It is therefore fortuitous that Jon Pertwee's Third Doctor is exiled there during that period. By The Ambassadors of Death, the third story of Season Seven, the new Doctor has already prevented a plastic Auton invasion and also helped stop reptilian Silurians reclaim our world. Now he comes up against a sci-fi favourite - invaders from Mars. There's a Doctor Who twist, of course, with aliens that probably aren't actually Martians, and with the real enemy a little bit closer to home ... The story started life as discussions with writer David Whitaker and the Doctor Who production team in 1968. However, by the time it was being made, it was a very different series with a new set of rules and characters. The Third Doctor without a working TARDIS, Liz Shaw and UNIT were all added to the story, originally called The Invaders from Mars, and it took three writers to complete the seven-part serial. The Ambassadors of Death is an exciting example of a new era of the series. The story makes good use of the new colour separation effect - CSO - a technique that producer Barry Letts was keen to experiment with. Scenes were written into thew production especially so that CSO could be used. And, with complex action sequences and effective stunts, that is Doctor Who meets James Bond meets classic sci-fi movie, and it sits perfectly in this first run of Earth-based stories for the Third Doctor. | ||
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