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Tom Baker (Actor), Mary Tamm (Actor) | Rated: Parental Guidance | Format: DVD
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  • Actors: Tom Baker, Mary Tamm
  • Format: PAL
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 7
  • Classification: PG
  • Studio: 2 entertain
  • DVD Release Date: 16 Nov 2009
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B002TOKFNM
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,838 in DVD (See Top 100 in DVD)
    #33 in  DVD > Television > Science Fiction & Fantasy

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The Key to Time starring the much loved Tom Baker is a multi-story box set containing the six linked stories comprising Doctor Who's 16th season along with a huge array of extras contained on seven discs released September 24th priced £69.99.

In The Key to Time, the Doctor and his new companion, the elegant and sharp-witted Time Lady Romana (Mary Tamm) are dispatched by the White Guardian to recover the six segments of the Key of Time, a powerful device with the ability to stop time.The Doctors and Romans’ mission is to find the six segments before the evil Black Guardian discovers them.

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22 of 24 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Out of time, 30 Dec 2009
This review is from: Doctor Who - The Key to Time Box Set (Re-issue) [DVD] (DVD)
Doctor Who's first attempt at a story arc starts off well but ends up tired and out of steam. It is almost painful to watch the ideas (and money) running out in the final two stories of this season. That said, the first four stories are either good or very good, with the odd moment of greatness popping up here and there. Tom Baker is slightly past his best here, but Mary Tamm's Romana is excellent, matching the doctor in intelligence and arrogance, and generally adding a touch of class to the proceedings. As usual with classic Doctor Who DVDs, there is a wealth of extra documentary material that puts other lines to shame - why can't all DVDs have this much extra stuff?

STORIES:
The Ribos Operation (****) kicks things off with a pair of con-men trying to sell a slightly-used planet to a warlord. it's all about the writing here: almost every character feels like a real person, the conversations is delightful and a scene in which the outcast Binro's belief that those lights in the night sky are other worlds is vindicated is one of the best scenes in the whole series, yet it has absolutely no relevance to the plot. great, great stuff. The only fly in this story's ointment is the Shrivenzale, a truly awful rubber monster even by Doctor Who's standards.

The Pirate Planet (***), written by one Douglas Adams, is great-but-lightweight fun, with a scenery-chewing villain and a deadly robotic parrot to give K9 a run for his money. Adams was a man of ideas rather than storytelling, though, and this tale doesn't quite add up to the sum of its parts.

The Stones of Blood (***) is excellent in its first, Earth-based, half, but once the story shifts to Hyperspace it falls down into pedestrian courtroom drama. However the creepy stone monsters and the wonderful Beatrice Lehmann bring this to life whenever they're on.

The Androids of Tara (****) Doctor Who is never better than when it steals, and here it's classic film The Prisoner of Zenda that gets the treatment. There's a rubbish monster of course, but mercifuly it's over and done with in 30 seconds and we can sit back and enjoy this delicious fantasy of robots, doubles and, um, robot doubles.

The Power of Kroll (*) is one of the worst DW stories ever made, with its hackneyed savages-vs-developers script and badly-realised giant squid. Can the Robert Holmes who wrote this [word I can't say on Amazon] be the same man who wrote The Ribos Operation? Or did a stray robot double from the previous story wander into the producer's office during a tea break and thrash out a script when no-one was looking?

The Armageddon Factor (*) starts of intriguingly, but runs out of ideas pretty fast. Towards the end the Doctor sets up a time loop, in which events repeat themselves over and over again, and by the end of this you'll know exactly how that feels. The scene that wraps up the story arc end is rather too short to feel satisfying.

Extras (7 1/2 hours): there are so many extras here (16 documentaries, 9 commentaries, 25 archive pieces and a whole load of other stuff including the 1979 Dr Who annual) that I'm not going to list and rate them all. Suffice it to say that A Matter of Time (on disc 1), which discusses producer Graham Williams's time on the show (and this season in particular) is the most essential watch, Stones Free (disc 3) is a very interesting look at the Rollright Stones (used for location filming), and on disc 7 Tom Baker reads us some wonderful fireside ghost stories. The commentaries range from the sparklingly witty to the tired and dreary, while the production subtitles are as ever informative and helpful.

This box set is probably best bought after the price comes down a bit more, as the too-few good stories don't really justify paying full whack.
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29 of 33 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars I actually have it!, 18 Nov 2009
By L. Whitehurst - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Doctor Who - The Key to Time Box Set (Re-issue) [DVD] (DVD)
The box set is different to the Limited Edition one in that it has the individual cases facing outwards (like Trial of a Timelord). The box is sturdy and good quality compared to some other 2entertain Who sets. The DVDs themselves are exactly the same as the previous ones released two years ago, containing all special features.

For the price, its worth it for 26 episodes!

Very pleased with it.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars the key to time revisited, 15 Dec 2009
By Mr. Stephen Scollie (Kirkwall,Orkney Isles,UK) - See all my reviews
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I only saw a couple of these episodes first time round so I was delighted to get this box set. I would say that they are typical fourth doctor stories with a fine mixture of humour and drama. Mary Tamm is a good companion and really should have had a second season with a screen regeneration, but her reasons for going are explained. The best episode in my opinion is THE STONES OF BLOOD closely followed by THE PIRATE PLANET; the poorest being THE POWER OF KROLL. The special features are quite good and well worth the cost of the boxset.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic series
One of the real GREATS of the Dr Who cannon of works. A fantastic series of stories covering the search for and acquisition of the Six Segments of the Key to Time. Read more
Published 16 days ago by Kevin Bransbury-jones

4.0 out of 5 stars Good but not the best.
For me this season can easily be forgotten for two reasons. One I was not alive to watch it first time round and secondly, the BBC deleted the first releases of these stories... Read more
Published 27 days ago by P. Lockwood

5.0 out of 5 stars Classic viewing
I bought this box set for my son, who is now re-visiting the older Doctor Who episodes, having got into the newer TV shows. Read more
Published 5 months ago by S. Reynolds

4.0 out of 5 stars A mixed bag of stories but a great boxed set
The Key to Time was a genuine rarity in DVD circles: a limited edition release that genuinely was limited and quickly sold out, fetching increasingly absurd prices on ebay -... Read more
Published 5 months ago by Trevor Willsmer

5.0 out of 5 stars Mixed stories
OK then lets start of...

The Ribos Operation for me was not to enjoyable in parts 1 and 2 but the action got better and better on Parts 3 and 4. Read more
Published 6 months ago by P.A.G

5.0 out of 5 stars dr who, tom baker.
Great quality. Tom Baker was the best Dr in my opinion. I will enjoy these dvds!
Published 7 months ago by Mr. E. A. Smith

5.0 out of 5 stars about time too!!
it's well past time that this boxset was given a proper release. first released in america but without all the extras, then finally released in this country as a very expensive... Read more
Published 8 months ago by Mr. R. W. Graham

5.0 out of 5 stars The Key To Time box set
This completes my Dr Who DVD collection of releases thus far. I was relunctant to buy this when it was first released as a very expensive limited edition. Read more
Published 9 months ago by B. Marsden

4.0 out of 5 stars reissue that's a blow to the ebayers
Well they have finally kept to their word and re issued the very sucessful Key To Time Boxset but obviously not Limited edition like the original release, but now means more fans... Read more
Published 10 months ago by Badwolf

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