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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
  • Producers: Terence Dudley
  • 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: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0177XV12I
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 264 in DVD & Blu-ray (See Top 100 in DVD & Blu-ray)

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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.

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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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5.0 out of 5 starsDoomwatch - the last classic BBC release.
By R. C. Meade on 25 Jan. 2016
Great to hear Doomwatch, is finally being officially released after many years. Understandable because of the missing episodes - I hoped further episodes might have been found since the UK gold showings - but sadly, none have come to light. But at least we should see the complete episodes that do still exist. Hopefully, the best will have been made of the original recordings. I wonder if the original 2" quad tapes were used - or the "Transparent" copies that were made when they were Digitised a few years ago.
This is probably the last official release of great BBC material, from a time when the corporation still had courage & great creative ability.
The BBC is a gutless apology of a broadcaster these days.
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4.0 out of 5 starsDoomwatch DVD
By Auntie Sabrina on 27 Mar. 2016
SFX Magazine say "Dropouts and other artefacts are noticeable on the episodes themselves, and a few suffer particularly badly - many were 'reverse converted' from overseas copies returned to the beeb."

Also includes the 29 minute BBC Four documentary The Cult Of... as a bonus feature.
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