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Simon Oates (Actor), Robert Powell (Actor) Rated: Suitable for 15 years and over Format: DVD
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  • Actors: Simon Oates, Robert Powell, John Paul, Joby Blanshard, Vivien Sherrard
  • Format: PAL
  • Language: English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 7
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Simply Media
  • DVD Release Date: 4 April 2016
  • Run Time: 1030 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0177XV12I
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Doomwatch is the nickname for the Department of Measurement of Scientific Work. Under the leadership of Nobel Prize winning physicist, Dr. Spencer Quist, the Doomwatch team struggled, for three seasons, to keep an eye on the environment and supervise government and private sector research in an attempt to prevent pollution and other disasters that might be caused by the misuse of new scientific developments, discoveries and technology. While confronting dangers ranging from a plastic eating bacteria to hyper intelligent species of rats, from mind destroying sound waves to toxic wastes and genetic mutations, the Doomwatch team always found themselves under the gun, from unsupportive governmental superiors, and openly hostile corporations, and the powerful influences they could wield. The Doomwatch team initially consisted of Quist; former intelligence agent, Dr. John Ridge; eager young researcher Toby Wren; technician and computer specialist Colin Bradley; and secretary Pat Hunnisett. Episode List: Disc 1 S01, E01 - The Plastic Eaters; S01,E04 - Tomorrow The Rat; S01,E05 - Project Sahara; S01,E06 - Re-Entry Forbidden Disc 2 S01,E07 - The Devil s Sweets; S01,E08 - The Red Sky; S01,E10 - Train and De-Train; S01,E11 - The Battery People Disc 3 S02,E01 - You Killed Toby Wren; S02,E02 Invasion; S02,E03 - The Islanders; S02,E04 - No Room for Error Disc 4 S02,E05 - By The Pricking Of My Thumbs; S02,E06 - The Iron Doctor; S02,E07 - Flight Into Yesterday Disc 5 S02,E08 - The Web Of Fear; S02,E09 - In The Dark; S02,E10 - The Human Time Bomb Disc 6 S02,E11 - The Inquest; S02,E12 - The Logicians; S02,E13 - Public Enemy Disc 7 S03,E04 - Waiting For A Knighthood; S03,E06 - Hair Trigger; S03,E12 - Sex And Violence (Never transmitted); Extra - The Cult Of Doomwatch (documentary)

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5.0 out of 5 starsA DVD release long awaited.
By Mr. A. E. Ward Davies on 5 April 2016
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I am thrilled that this classic series has finally surfaced on DVD. The videos compromised only four episodes and they were hard to obtain.
The existing episodes offer an example of how great British television once was: fine writing and very good acting. Gerry Davis and Kit Pedler created an imaginative and quite gripping drama about a team of government "watchdogs" who tackle a range of environmental hazards.
The DVD set itself is securely packaged and comes with an informative documentary on the making of the series. Perhaps an accompanying booklet would have sufficed but that is merely a quibble. The main thing is, is that this series can be enjoyed again - in spite of the episodes currently missing from the archives. Enjoy!
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3.0 out of 5 starsGreat Series - Lazy Release by Simply Media
By Mr. Mark Slater on 4 April 2016
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After a very long wait - the complete remaining Doomwatch has finally arrived on DVD. The series is obviously great, and well overdue - but the quality of the release is pretty poor. There has been zero restoration so picture-wise it isn't much better than the UK Gold off-air copies I already had. Even more annoying is the lack of supporting material. Some sort of booklet, as with other archive releases, would have been appropriate - but failing that, at the very least an insert or printing on the reverse of the sleeve (so it would have been visible through the case) indicating which episodes and features were on which disk. As it is there's nothing. To make matters even worse, when you put the disk in, the menus only list the episode by series/number, and don't give the episode titles - so if you want to find a specific episode you'll have to fire up Google, or get out a book and either make your own insert, or hazard a guess which disk it's on. What's also odd is the cover - Robert Powell front and centre, but no sign whatsoever of Simon Oates?! It's a shame that after all this time this was released by Simply Media - who have made the absolute barest minimum effort and simply dumped it onto disk, when this could have been given the treatment it deserved. If only the BFI (or Network) had been given the opportunity. 5 stars for the series - zero stars for the quality of this release = 3 stars.
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5.0 out of 5 starswhich are no worse than anything else from the 70s ( isn't it ...
By kit on 14 Mar. 2016
Come Beta Decay, Come Doomsday, Come......? Doomwatch is a highly imaginative, thought-provoking and in some ways still frightening series that provoked, at it's original broadcast ( 1970-72 ) quite remarkable publicity ( at one point a UK parliamentary inquiry was established to see if such a group as it depicted should be set up ). The series creators, Dr Kit Pedler and Gerry Davis, had worked on Dr Who from 1966-68 creating amongst others things, the Cybermen and UNIT. At the time the production team felt the need to make Dr Who more ''earthy'' both literally and figuratively and Pedler, an ophthalmologist who had previously worked on Tomorrow's World, was brought in as the show scientific adviser by Davis, then acting as it's Script Editor. After leaving their posts in 1969, the pair submitted an idea for a drama series dealing with Science Fact within a fictional setting, what is sometimes called ''soft scifi'', as it deals with social commentary rather than hardware, & how new sci-tech ''progress'' would be ''policed'' by the State. From this came the idea for Doomwatch, the nickname for the Dept. for Observation & Measurement of Scientific Work ( in one ep. ''Tomorrow The Rat'' a character refers to them as ''scientific Gestapo'' ), in reality a badly funded, looked down upon bureaucracy which varying Ministers deride & use as an excuse to not deal with problems that are ''too difficult'' ( to put this in perspective David Cameron's govt. has unofficially used the term ''too difficult box'' to describe things it doesn't want to deal with ). At the time of original broadcast the UK gov. had just created the Dept. of Environment, the forerunner to the Green Party ( People ) & Greenpeace were being formed, so the series was very much part of the era's zeitgeist.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsAT LONG LAST!!!!! AMAZING NEWS!!!
By Stevie D on 9 Nov. 2015
The fact that this classic series is FINALLY being released is excellent news! Why the BBC or Network haven't released it before now is beyond me! I only hope that Simply Media make some effort to remaster the prints and grade them given the series archive nature, and the fact that only 10 of the episodes are original copies, whereas the rest are reverse standard conversions from overseas copies returned to the BBC. I've only ever seen the 4 episodes released by BBC Video way back in 1990, so I've waited over 25 years for this!!! Basically 24 episodes still exist out of the 38 which were made, the rest suffering the same incineration fate as numerous Dr Who, Steptoe, Dad's Army, Hancock, etc! So we'll have 8 out of 13 from series 1, all 13 from series 2, and just 3 out of 12 from series 3 (though that series is meant to be the weakest, even series creators Kit Peddler and Gerry Davies had disowned it by then for straying too far from their original conception and becomming too far fetched and silly.) I won't go into the details of what the series is about, because others have already done so, but this series is up there with classic Dr Who, Blakes 7, Survivors, Quartermass, Day of the Triffids, Sapphire and Steel, and UFO as one of the best and most memorable British sci-fi shows ever made! Great to know the final banned untransmitted episode Sex and Violence will be included on a 6 disc set, which will also include the half hour Cult of Doomwatch shown some years ago, and hopefully cast commentaries and more!Read more ›
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