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Dark Season [DVD] [1991]

DVD ~ Victoria Lambert
4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
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  • Actors: Victoria Lambert, Kate Winslet, Ben Chandler, Brigit Forsyth, Grant Parsons
  • Format: PAL
  • Language English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: PG
  • Studio: 2 Entertain Video
  • DVD Release Date: 24 Jul 2006
  • Run Time: 180 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000FPV8JC
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 25,733 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Dark Season is a science-fiction mystery that centres on a school where nothing is as it seems. When a mysterious millionaire, Mr Eldritch, shows up--claiming to be its benefactor and donating computers to every pupil--he arouses suspicion in a small group of students. They set about uncovering a plot that not only threatens all the children in their school, but the entire human race! Written by Russell T Davies (Doctor Who, Queer as Folk) and starring a young Kate Winslet in one of her first TV roles, the series also stars Jacqueline Pearce as the indomitable Miss Pendragon.

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5.0 out of 5 stars I can't believe they're releasing this!, 3 Jul 2006
By Shaun White (Ripley, Derbyshire England) - See all my reviews
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I'm 27 now and I fondly remember watching this on CBBC in the early 1990s and rushing into school the next day to talk about what we'd seen. It was a great kid's drama with a dollop of sci-fi a splash of thrills etc. From what I remember, it's a six parter. The first half is about this weird group of people who give each kid at this school a free computer. The catch was that this group used the computers to control the kids. You can see were Russell T Davies' ideas for Doctor Who were spawned! Remember Doctor Who recently where in an alternative universe, the man who created the Cybermen downloaded info directly into people's brains with blue-tooth type earpieces?
The second half was where this weird woman and a group of archeologists dug up the school playing field as a war machine was buried underneath it. The weird woman incidentally can also be seen in Moondial as Miss Pendragon! Useless bit of info there.
It was years later when Kate Winslet started cropping up in films that I wondered where I'd seen her before. Yes, Kate Winslet is in this with two other kids, a brainy one and one on a skateboard.
I can't remember much more of the plot so buy or rent it and check it out!
It's gonna look a bit dated now - especially the computer's they give to the kids (very retro), but I'll be snapping this up!
Anyway, if you're anything like me and buy any old tat they put out on DVD to remind you of your misspent youth, you probably have ordered this already. By the way, the BBC are also releasing Century Falls on the same day. This was a similarly dark tale that I missed the first time round so I'll be buying that too.
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4.0 out of 5 stars From the writer of Doctor Who, 22 Aug 2007
By S. Bentley "stuarthoratiobentley" (North Yorkshire) - See all my reviews
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This was the first thing I saw that I was conscious of the writer. I don't know why but Russell T. Davies stuck in my head. The show was one of the reasons why I thought Davies would do a good job with Doctor Who and in its way, created when Dr Who was off the air, it was a replacement for the same.

Three kids find themselves involved in two separate adventures (that end up building to a single climax much as today's Who will have a subplot running through the series that explodes in the series finale) involving computers, a dyed blond supervillain, archaeological digs and alien war machines. Oh and Thelma from the Likely Lads. It's filmed much in the style of classic Doctor Who, features dialogue for the main character Marcie that you could hear Tom Baker or Sylvester McCoy saying, and has a Who-like credit sequence. It's like a re-mix. As such it's a fun sci-fi horror adventure for kids that still holds up rather well today due to Davies' clever writing.

I thoroughly recommend it. The only question is, whatever happened to Victoria Lambert?
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4.0 out of 5 stars Russell T Davies' Classic Sci-Fi Thriller from Children's BBC, 20 Aug 2009
By A. Foxley (UK) - See all my reviews
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When I was about 9 or 10, 'Dark Season' was possibly the most exciting thing in the world - a smart, thrilling sci-fi adventure series about three ordinary children who finds themselves caught up in a sinister world of computers, sinister villains and dark secrets buried underground. Comprising two linked three-part stories, the series is one of Russell T Davies' first TV scripts, and as one might expect, is heavily informed by shows such as 'Doctor Who' - the Doctor could drop effortlessly into this series and not feel out of place at all. It boasts a great cast, including a young Kate Winslet as one of the juvenile leads, and some great ideas, and although some of the dialogue is perhaps a little creaky and at times too clever for its own good (plucky heroine Marcie is perhaps a little too eccentric to be entirely convincing, though Victoria Lambert is great in the role), it remains a highlight of the BBC's children's output. It's a great series anyway, but might be particularly interesting for fans of modern-day 'Doctor Who' and its junior spin-off 'The Sarah Jane Adventures', as in many ways it feels like a prototype of sorts for the sci-fi adventures Russell T Davies would become known for much later.
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