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For those who don't know what the TARDIS is - it's a time
travel machine in the shape of a London police box - and while
small on the outside, opens into a decent-sized vehicle filled
with all sorts of gadgets.
There have been heaps of doctors from William Hartnell in
the 1960s, to Patrick Troughton (my fave), to Tom Baker, Jon
Pertwee, Sylvester McCoy, Paul McGann, and Colin Baker, but
it's the charmingly likeable Peter Davison who stars in Doctor
Who: The Caves of Androzani.
The Doctor, and his assistant Peri (Nicola Bryant) land on
the small planet of Androzani and find themselves in deep
trouble and in the middle of a civil war.
The planet is being fought over for control of the valuable
Spectrox mines, and the war between the government and the
robot warriors of a mysterious and hideously disfigured Sharaz
Jek is brutal. So is Spectrox, which poisons people slowly.
Can the Doctor end the hostilities? Can he and Peri stay
alive?
The production values of the Doctor Who series are humourously
cheap and you are never sure whether the moving, wooden-sounding
cave floor is going to collapse or the walls fall in, but
they are one of the great things about the programme.
The transfer is pretty good - better than you'll get over
the standard idiot box broadcasts - and the sound well above
average. There's just something about that music that draws
you in…
This was Davison's last journey as the Doctor.
Conclusion: Movie: 75% DVD Extras: 70%
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