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Doctor Who - The Space Museum/The Chase [DVD]

William Hartnell , Jacqueline Hill , Mervyn Pinfield    Parental Guidance   DVD
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  • Actors: William Hartnell, Jacqueline Hill, William Russell, Maureen O'Brien
  • Directors: Mervyn Pinfield
  • Writers: Glyn Jones
  • Format: PAL
  • Language: English
  • Subtitles: English
  • Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired: English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 4:3 - 1.33:1
  • Number of discs: 3
  • Classification: PG
  • Studio: 2entertain
  • DVD Release Date: 1 Mar 2010
  • Run Time: 250 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (40 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0033PRJWQ
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,575 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)

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Two classic multi-episode Doctor Who storylines from 1965, starring William Hartnell as the Doctor. In 'The Space Museum', the TARDIS and its occupants end up as an exhibit in a forgotten museum in the future. Episodes are: 'The Space Museum', 'The Dimensions of Time', 'The Search' and 'The Final Phase'. In 'The Chase', the travellers are forced to flee in the TARDIS when they learn that a group of time-travelling Daleks are on their trail with orders to exterminate them. Episodes are: 'The Executioners', 'The Death of Time', 'Flight Through Eternity', 'Journey Into Terror', 'The Death of Doctor Who' and 'The Planet of Decision'.


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31 of 33 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A Gorgeous Little Fun-Bundle! 2 Mar 2010
By MV
This is a very good classic Doctor Who package. Fans have often said bad things about these two stories. I think they're great and make a nice change from serious classic B&W Doctor Who. They're very easy to watch and unlike other stories don't require firm, hard concentration. 2|Entertain have really upped the quality of the extras included. There's been a noticable jump up in the quality of the extras - and there's a lot of them. Unlike previous Classic Who releases we don't get cast and crew prattling on and on and on about tedious little details that would send even the most die hard fan into a coma. The extras on this release have been kept tight and to the point, they're interesting, enjoyable and informative. I particularly enjoyed the silent colour film featuring Shawcraft Models - who made most of the props and monsters (including the Daleks) in the 1960's. The picture quality of the episodes themselves look absolutely amazing, the restoration seems to have been undertaken with great care. The restoration team behind the remastering of these classic stories now have almost 20 years experience restoring old TV shows. The technology is improving all the time - and it shows with this release, which as I said before - looks better than anything before.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars Space Museum & The Chase 18 Aug 2012
After watching the 1st episode of The Space Museum I was thinking, this is magnificent stuff. Unfortunately it dies a slow death after that. The story slows down, the Morlok characters are awful as is the guys in black skivvies. William Hartnell is brilliant throughout which does save the show somewhat. The story simply peters out with a lot of poor acting from the support cast and the plot going nowhere until the guys in black skivvies finally get a bit of inspiration and take control saving the Doctor and his companions.

The highlight of this DVD for me was William Hartnells real granddaughter discussing Wiliam in a beautiful interview as part of the bonus extras. This interview really gives us a genuine insight into the real William Hartnell.

The Chase is another flawed show of early Doctor Who. The idea of Doctor Who being chased by the daleks in time and space is a great idea but it just doesn't work over 6 episodes and gets bogged down trying to keep the story interesting over the duration of the episodes. At times things get very interesting, imagine Dracula & Frankenstein smashing up daleks, sure is different.
There is some better acting here than The Space Museum but the story is too long.
The final episode (the best one of the lot) does rescue the show and is very exciting at times as the doctor has 2 enemies to fight.
Once again it's the extras that save this, a full DVD of bonus stuff with some fascinating documentaries about the history of the daleks and the people who helped create them. I enjoyed these more than the actual main program.

A mixed bag but still enjoyable if you can watch through some excesses.
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45 of 52 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars "Dr Hartnell's House of Horrors" 19 Jan 2010
Neither story's a classic but they both have their moments. Space Museum starts off brilliantly with an excellent concept (well worth revisiting) the tardis crew slip a groove or jump a track in time, arriving in their personal future like ghosts unable to touch or interact with others. This is expertly laid out as they see themselves as exhibits in a Space Museum. Yes I know that's a spoiler but I think that much info would be on the disc cover. Moments like the simple effect of reversing a shot of a glass being dropped so it's jumping back into Vicki's hand somehow works and is creepy. A Dr Whodunnit (sorry)as they must find out how they end up that way & what can be done to avod it is set up as they properly arrive at an earlier time at the episode's end.
There's a backdrop of planet Xeros colonised by the warlike Moroks just to site their forgotten museum. The Moroks have bouffant wigs that would give Pertwee a run for his money & are rather well fed but that may be to convey that they are a race past their prime. Richard Shaw is v good as Lobos giving more than there is in the script. The rebel Xerons look like teenagers in space with mad eyebrows-watch for a young Jeremy Bulloch!
Eps 2-4 what started out so well becomes a run around and the story keeps taking 1 step forward then 1 step back e.g. having usefully established that not knowing what may cause their fate going back to the Tardis is not an option, the fact they don't know if they're avoiding or causing their fate is re-stated too often. Almost like saying the story's all rather pointless. I'm intrigued by Robert Shearman "defending the Museum" among the extras though.
There's fun to be had though as Vicki attempts to lead a revolution, Billy Hartnell impersonates a Dalek + makes a mind probe churn out nonsense and a shock discovery makes Ian believe their fate is coming to pass.
We jump right into the Chase which does exactly what it says on the tin as the Daleks decide once & for all they need to sort this Doctor fellow out and hunt him down in their own time machine which was called a DARDIS in the script (Dalek & Relative Dimensions in Space?)though that was dropped by recording.
The crew become aware of the situation courtesy of a device from the museum which is like 4th dimensional freeview and as well as Dalek plans it screens The Gettysberg Address, Shakespearean secrets and The Beatles doing Ticket to Ride (#1) which causes classic teacher trying to look hip dance moevments from Ian.
They are pursued through a House of Horrors with robots of Frankenstein, Dracula and a woman who shrieks a bit, The Mary Celeste-solving the mystery of course & the Empire State Bulding (before we knew of the Daleks' work with contractors there. Empire State sequence is our 1st glimpse of companion to be Peter Purves-here playing an irritating American tourist who takes the mickey out of the Daleks but they oddly don't exterminate him.
Fans of 60's aliens get a desert planet (it's a Terry Nation script so it's moniker is ARIDus!) with amphibious looking natives (watch for a young Hywel Bennett) and a silly Mire Beast. With their impeccable sense of the dramatic, the Daleks repeat their River Thames stunt rising up out of sand (coughing guts up).
The conclusion takes place on planet Mechanus where ther are carnivorous mushrooms and the Mechanoids which are wonderful spherical servo robots who've developed their own will. They fight the Daleks in a marvellously cut and directed battle that belies the small numbers.
It's all rather silly but better fun than Museum & a shame plans to make a Peter Cushing film of it never got off the ground. The Daleks are fun but almost in self parody mode and hatch a plan to use a robot double of the Doctor. What makes this look such a bad plan is the casting of Non-Hartnell look alike Edmund Warwick as the robot Doctor who doesn't even convince in longshot!
Regulars all get some good stuff to do epecially the departure of Ian & Barbara, plus the introduction of Peter Purves'Steven. Steven Taylor works fine as a bitter astronaut marooned with the Mechanoids- even if he oddly does a Dame Edna Everage voice when calling a Mech "My fat little darling!" Okay something of an exaggeration, but he does deliver the line oddly.

Extras include; for Space Museum, "Defending the Space Museum" is billed as a "robust" defence of the story. This is some strange new usage of "Robust" as Rob Shearman actually says what many reviewers have said; great 1st episode but less good to follow albeit with good moments. He does make an interesting point that this is a story written as a comedy but not directed as one.
"My Grandfather William Hartnell" is a sadly brief interview with Jessica Carney (maybe a future moderator for commentaries?) but a charming piece anyway. Spoof piece "A Holiday for the Doctor" is a fun look at the absences of the Doctor in 60's stories when the lead wanted a break, Ida Green being a great creation. Saving the best til last the commentary with William Russell & Maureen O'Brien, joined by writer Glynn Jones is the most fun Hartnell commentary yet and marks the emergence of a new classic commentary star with Peter Purves moderating. Peter has done his home work and coaxes very funny stories out of them all about Hartnell's line fluffing, old school director Mervyn Pinfield's overuse of 4 shots, how rubbish the Moroks are and info on how the script changed from the original. Peter Purves acts as moderator again with Maureen, William plus director Richard Martin on the Chase and that's in similar vein.
"Cusick in Cardiff" sees the legendary designer visit the home of new Who treated with respect by current design gurus. He's quite pleased with the new Daleks and the Tardis. "Shawcraft the Original Model makers " looks at the builders of early monsters and covers their work pretty well and is marvellously supplemented by vintage colour super 8 film of their studios. , "Last Stop White City" covers Ian & Barbara too quickly to have much detail and there's a sort of 2 part documentary on you know who "Daleks Conquer & Destroy" which is an overview of the Daleks and their appeal and "Daleks Beyond the Screen" considers merchandise & their use in other media. A good look at our favourite monsters with some good interviewees and some Big Finish Audio clips. There are some colour slides too.
A pretty good package for provided you like the 60's stories or are a big fan of the Daleks.
(#1) The Beatles themselves were to have appeared as old men at their 50th reunion concert but Mr. Epstein said no.
(#2) A very funny letter 2 decades ago to DWM asked if due to the spoonerising of Moroks and Xerons as Moron Xeroks (Xerox?)Jones may have a had a problem with photocopiers, perhaps all shall be revealed.
(#3) Jessica C also wrote the Hartnell biography "Who's There?" which I recommend.
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5.0 out of 5 stars indeed too
especially liked the 1st episode of the Space Museum & the last of the Chase, that is all folks, cheeio
Published 1 month ago by Richard Keen
5.0 out of 5 stars "...cleaned & enhanced by The Restoration Team... essential...
DOCTOR WHO - THE CHASE has been consummately cleaned & enhanced by The Restoration Team but I am continually bemused (nothing new there. Read more
Published 1 month ago by The EYE OF HORUS Editor
5.0 out of 5 stars Two Hartnells!
The restorations is, as usual, top quality and the extras (or VAM as they are now referred to!) help fill out the background to the stories.
Published 2 months ago by William S Lowery
5.0 out of 5 stars NIce
Have just finished watching the chase. Watched the space museum on Wednesday 6th Feb. Both stories are very good. Read more
Published 3 months ago by LESTAT
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Stories - First Class
Some of the best Hartnell stories, should have been taken up and developred more in future stories, great acting throughout.
Published 5 months ago by William Anderson
5.0 out of 5 stars A Chase Through Time and Space!
The Chase, an excellent dated Dalek Story. The daleks have got their own Tardis and so begins a perilous chase through time and space. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Andrew50
5.0 out of 5 stars william heartnell
the 1960's dr who is my favourite with william heartnell playing the doctor. i am a big fan. i have been watching dr who for a long time.
Published 11 months ago by S. Edwards
3.0 out of 5 stars Four out of ten ain't bad?
The Space Museum... what a stinker! No thanks, not my cup of tea.

On paper it's quite a clever idea, certainly one that had potential. So what happened? Read more
Published 16 months ago by Shaun Cryer
4.0 out of 5 stars Pure Dalek Value "But That's About It"
The Space Museum: set at a museum on the planet xeros, the Doctor, Ian, Barbara and Vicki are caught up in a time track that enables them to see in to the near future, they can see... Read more
Published 17 months ago by M.B.E. Of Tooting
4.0 out of 5 stars "Advance and attack! Attack and destroy! Destroy and rejoice!"
The Space Museum has long had the reputation as one of the worst black and white Doctor Who stories, the general consensus holding that it starts reasonably well but quickly... Read more
Published 23 months ago by Trevor Willsmer
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