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Doctor Who - The Aztecs [1964] [DVD] [1963]

William Hartnell , Jacqueline Hill , Richard Martin    Universal, suitable for all   DVD
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  • Actors: William Hartnell, Jacqueline Hill, William Russell, Carole Ann Ford
  • Directors: Richard Martin
  • 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: 1
  • Classification: U
  • Studio: 2 Entertain Video
  • DVD Release Date: 21 Oct 2002
  • Run Time: 98 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (43 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00006G9WC
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 13,189 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)

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The Doctor (William Hartnell), Ian (William Russell), Barbara (Jacqueline Hill) and Susan (Carol Ann Ford) find themselves stranded in Aztec times when the TARDIS is trapped in a tomb. Proclaimed a goddess by the Aztec priests, Barbara attempts to change the course of history by forbidding the human sacrifices which are part of the Aztecs' religion. It is up to the Doctor to find a way back into the tomb and recover the TARDIS, before the priest Tlotoxl (John Ringham) unmasks Barbara.


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5.0 out of 5 stars Aztecs and Drahvins and Rills 10 April 2013
By Paul Tapner TOP 500 REVIEWER VINE™ VOICE
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THIS IS A REVIEW OF THE SPECIAL EDITION OF THIS DVD, NOT THE ORIGINAL RELEASE. I MENTION THIS BECAUSE THE AMAZON SYSTEM WILL PROBABLY POST THE REVIEW ON THE PAGES FOR BOTH.

Given the above, you will know that the Aztecs is a four part story from the first year of Doctor Who, which sees the TARDIS crew in 15th century Mexico. Where Barbara learns why they can never interfere with established. A pure historical story, as they are called, it is straight drama with no alien monsters. It's very good, strong drama, and a story with a strong and well deserved reputation as a result.

This edition of the dvd is a new one that supersedes the original release. The story as shown on the first disc of this new two disc version has an improved picture quality to the one on the original release.

It has all the same extras that were on that. On it's first disc.

But all of the second disc is new.

There's a coming soon trailer for an upcoming release in this range.

A reconstruction of the 1965 First Doctor story Galaxy Four. Until recently, all four parts of this story were missing from the bbc archives, thanks to the policy of the time of wiping tapes after transmission since they thought they wouldn't be needed again. But then a copy of part three was returned to the bbc thanks to a collector of old films in 2011. The reconstruction is built around that, which is shown in it's entirety. The rest of it uses what footage survives from the other three episodes, plus photos, minimalist animation, and the soundtrack, in order to reconstruct what is still missing. It does slim down the missing three episodes somewhat, thus the whole thing runs no more than just over seventy minutes [approx].

Galaxy Four, to go by the soundtrack - as we'd always had to unless we'd seen it's original broadcast - isn't a very strong story, a rather slight idea stretched to a slowly paced four minutes. It sees the TARDIS on a planet that's about to explode and where two spaceships have crashed. One containing glamorous woman warriors called Drahvins and another with hideous creature called the Rills who have robot servants called Chumblies. The Doctor and friends find choosing who to help isn't as easy a matter as it appears. But the reconstruction, by trimming the story down, does make it pacier, and the third episode isn't bad. Thanks to some excellent acting from the ladies playing the Drahvins and some interesting set designs on the Rill ship. So this is worth a watch.

Doctor Who forever! Celestial toyroom, is a twenty five minute long feature looking at Doctor Who merchandise down the years. From the heydays of Dalek Mania to the return of the show in 2005 and what has followed. It does feel initially as if it's going to rush through things at too fast a pace, but it soon settles down and becomes very watchable. It will bring lots of fun memories back to children of the 70's. And illuminate you about counterfeit merchandise. Beware the Cyber helicopters!

Chronicle - the Realms of Gold, is a long forgotten edition of a history documentary from the 1960's, and is all about what happened to the real Aztecs when Cortez met Montezuma. It runs for fifty minutes but it's utterly absorbing and it absolutely flies by. A documentary of the kind they used to make - a single presenter on location, minimalist music, no reconstructions, and just drawings and maps to illustrate things, it's fascinating viewing. If perhaps a bit apologetic for certain things on occasion.

Then there's two more things from the 1960's archive;

A whole scene going is a four minute feature from music and arts programme that show on set footage from the making of the Second Peter Cushing as the Doctor V the Daleks film, along with some chat with the director. It's a bit short, but the set footage is fascinating to watch.

And from comedy sketch show It's a square world comes a seven minute long sketch with Clive Dunn as a scientist demonstrating his rocket to presenter Michael Bentine. In this Clive Dunn dresses like the First Doctor and there's one Doctor Who joke, but that's the only connection it has with the show. It's reasonably amusing viewing, though, and has a couple of surprise guest stars.

Whether you want to buy special editions, or wait for them to come down in price, or care about picture quality, is entirely up to you. But as a whole there's enough in this release for me to make it worth five stars.
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12 of 14 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars For Galaxy Four 13 Mar 2013
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The Aztecs for me is the finest Hartnell story. Efficient in length, making good use of all the characters in different ways to previous stories, of historical interest, dramatic, engaging and so on.

However, this release is a serious bit of mis-selling, as most people will be interested in seeing the recently discovered Galaxy Four episode, if they knew about it. There is a small mention of it on the back cover, and that it has been reconstructed.

Having seen Galaxy Four for the first time (because I do now feel I have seen it, I have a different view of the story, as well as being over the moon at owning another missing episode and impressed at the time spent doing an engaging reconstruction)

Galaxy Four-Reconstructed warrants a single disc release in a case of its own. Whether that is released on its own for £9.99 or whether a box-set, either option would have been far preferable to a foot-note extra on a disc of a previously released story, which a good proportion of fandom don't even watch.

One of the most misjudged DVD releases, but that does not detract from a superb story, restored even further and the best "extra feature" of all time.

Perhaps this should have been Doctor Who - Galaxy Four Reconstructed, with bonus feature - Doctor Who - The Aztecs SE.
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26 of 31 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars The Doctor Finds Love And Human Sacrifice 28 Jun 2005
Format:DVD
Thoroughly enjoyable romp into one-take early Sixties British television and a valuable, immaculately presented document of all the elements that made Dr Who one of most popular programmes of the period. Hartnell's Dr Who is severe, pompous, self-involved, distracted, an old genius on the verge of dementia. It's a brilliant characterisation, partly originating in Hartnell's own declining health as well as the scripts and his performance. Hartnell's constant fluffing of lines and cues, rarely reshot within a budget conscious BBC, adds to the realism of his character. Yet he is able to be subtle as well. Consider the way he romances the old Aztec woman to get the blueprint for the pyramid where the TARDIS is trapped. She falls in love with him, and the old bugger is flattered. More than anything else(getting the plans, his feelings for her, for example), he's still got that ability to attract women. For an episode and a half he struts like a peacock, and it's priceless.

Apart from Hartnell the acting is variable to say the least, especially from his erstwhile companions. However, John Ringham as Tlotoxl is a highlight. Basically, he does Oliver's Richard III. He's hilarious while, at the same time, curiously appropiate. He develops the intrigue of the complex and morally ambiguous plot which explores the fallacy of an outsider(in this case, Barbara) interfering with an established culture. The intelligence of Dr Who's scripts obviously contributed to its broad audience.

The DVD has some excellent features, notably the documentary 'Remembering the Aztecs', and the digital remastering of the original material is superb.

Not just history or nostalgia, but genuinely engaging television for a 21st century audience.

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Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars Two Classic Dr Who Stories
"The Aztecs" was the first Dr Who story that I was able to watch, so this DVD was a real piece of nostalgia for me. Read more
Published 15 days ago by Mr. J. Hastings
4.0 out of 5 stars Great for the second disc
This is the reissue. It's a great story 'The Aztecs' but it only includes the documentary from the original release. Read more
Published 28 days ago by Mr. Andrew J. Boland
4.0 out of 5 stars Special edition includes a lost story
Ok, so you really need to be a doctor who fan to like this. I grew up watching these old episodes. Maybe it's the nostalgia of it all that I give it 4 stars. Read more
Published 28 days ago by Paul Gasper
5.0 out of 5 stars The Aztecs
I like the stills animation along side the latest surviving episode of Galaxy 4. I thought it was very interesting
Published 1 month ago by Fraser Gibb
5.0 out of 5 stars The Aztecs?That's the Least of it
When I first heard about this special edition, I had no intention of buying it; I'd already bought the story twice before, once on VHS and a few years later on DVD, and saw no... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Tony
5.0 out of 5 stars Now with added Galaxy 4
Here we go again!! Another already released story getting the re release treatment when there are still episodes that haven't been released yet!! Read more
Published 2 months ago by Mr. R. W. Graham
5.0 out of 5 stars To Buy or Not to Buy?
In short - YES, absolutely!
Some of us long-term Doctor Who collectors' are growing tired of these constant reissues, or 'Special Editions' of stories that have already had... Read more
Published 2 months ago by MV
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent vintage DR WHO
Not dissapointed prefer the older Dr Who stories personally and this is another great one always reliable Dr Who classics
Published 2 months ago by Johnsaab
5.0 out of 5 stars "You can't rewrite history! Not one line!"
Whenever I rewatch a story from Doctor Who's first season, the most striking thing about the programme is that the Doctor isn't a hero who fights evil, he's basically someone who... Read more
Published 2 months ago by D. Smith
5.0 out of 5 stars Doctor Who DVD - The Aztecs.
I would recommend this DVD to all Doctor Who fans. It is an excellent story and I was so happy to see it advertised for sale.
Published 2 months ago by maureen cochrane
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