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Doctor Who The Monster of Peladon [VHS] [1974]

VHS ~ Jon Pertwee
3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)

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  • Actors: Jon Pertwee, Tom Baker, Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy
  • Format: Box set, HiFi Sound, PAL
  • Language English
  • Classification: U
  • Studio: 2 Entertain Video
  • VHS Release Date: 27 Dec 1995
  • Run Time: 146 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00004CRGK
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 2,112 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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The Tardis returns to Peladon some fifty years after the Doctor's last visit. The planet is now ruled by Queen Thalira - daughter of the last King Peladon - with advice from Chancellor Ortron. The Doctor and Sarah are arrested by Ortron for trespassing on sacred ground but their names are cleared by Alpha Centauri, now Galactic Federation ambassador to Peladon. A ghost-like image of Aggedor has been responsible for some deaths in the planet's trisilicate mines, heightening unrest amoungst the miners. The Doctor discovers that the apparitions are really the result of the use of a matter projector and a directional heat ray by a human engineer, Eckersley. Eckersley is in league with a group of renegade Martian warriors, led by Commander Azaxyr, in a plot to seize the trisilicate deposits for Galaxy 5, a power bloc at war with the Federation. Azaxyr mounts an attack on the throne room and kills Ortron. The Doctor however turns the heat ray on some of the Martians, while others are dispatched by the miners. Eckersley flees, taking the Queen hostage, but the Doctor uses the real Aggedor to track him down, Eckersley is killed, but Aggedor also dies in the skirmish. Its plans thwarted, Galaxy 5 surrenders to the Federation. The Doctor is invited by Thalira to take over as Chancellor but he declines, suggesting the miners' leader Gebek would make a better candidate.

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The Doctor And Sarah arrive on the medieval planet Peladon where the nobles enjoy new riches and new technology. The reason for this wealth is the mining of the rare mineral trisilicate, but the miners are in revolt... Double Pack.

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Great!, 14 Sep 2000
By Mr. C. Lewis "Christopher D Lewis" (Montreal, Quebec) - See all my reviews
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The Monster Of Peladon is a much more exciting remake of the earlier Curse of Peladon. It features the Ice Warriors,Aggador and a whole host of other monsters and people. I highly recommend this video as it is a 6 parter and is on 2 videos. It also features 2 of the best characters in Dr Who-The 3rd Doctor(Jon Pertwee)and Sarah Jane Smith(Liz Sladen) The cliffhanger to part 1 is one of the finest in the show's history! Recommended!
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Aggedor dor dor push pineapple shake the tree, 22 April 2009
By Binro The Heretic "mattieboyz" (Hillsborough, Sheffield) - See all my reviews
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I agree that this is not a patch on the earlier 'Curse of Peladon' but it is far from being the classic series' nadir, and isn't even the worst Pertwee story. One of the Third Doctors' last outings, it features strong performances from Elisabeth Sladen as the redoubtable Sarah-Jane Smith and Nina Thomas as the feisty Queen Thalira. I have to mention the extraordinarily phallic Alpha Centauri - can you imagine a costume design like that today?!
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars An allegory of its own time and space, 22 Feb 2003
Although a long way from a highpoint of the series, this six-parter is interesting for the surprisingly political (and often overtly Socialist) slant the script takes. Whereas social revolutions have been a staple of science fiction even before H.G. Wells wrote The Time Machine, it's rare for a film or television entry in the genre to focus on labour relations and class warfare so explicitly. Just as Frank Herbert's Dune saga was an allegory for the Middle East's political tensions during the oil boom, The Monster of Peladon is an allegory of its own time and place. 70s Britain is now almost ancient history, so many of the references will be lost on a new generation of viewers, but for those who lived through it, watching this show again brings it all back.

For Peladon, standing on the brink of great wealth or even greater disaster, read Britain, for its coveted rare minerals, read North Sea Oil. Joining the Federation (read the Common Market) has not improved the lot of the workers, only the rich; the miners striking for improved wages and conditions (read any of the militant trade unions of the early 70s) are dismissed as bolshie rebels by rulers who would rather confront them than negotiate; while outside enemies manipulate their divisions not so much for conquest as for profit (read the growing trade deficit that saw Britain hover on the verge of bankruptcy). Add a subplot where the Doctor's assistant urges the figurehead Queen of Peladon to seize power by explaining something they have on earth called Women's Lib, and you've got a perfect reflection for the concerns and paranoias facing 70s Britain - that dark, depressing time of strikes, power cuts, IRA bombing campaigns, the three-day week and inept government.

As drama, it works well enough, but as social history, it's positively fascinating.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Ice Warriors at their best, but not much else.
The Doctor returns to Peladon where the miners are rebelling. Don't expect any kind of Heath-era political parable, however. Read more
Published 10 months ago by StormSworder

4.0 out of 5 stars The Curse of Received Wisdom.
All I knew about this story was the result of received wisdom - it's a tired re-hash of "The Curse of Peladon", it's an unsubtle commentary on the miners' strike, all six-episode... Read more
Published on 19 Sep 2003 by Eugene Smith

3.0 out of 5 stars Treading old ground pointlessly
Well , not bad at all , but this is basically just a remake of the much better Peladon story from 1972. Read more
Published on 9 Oct 2001

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