Product: Doctor Who [VHS] (1975)
Rating: 5.0
"The Doctor? Everybody seems to be looking for him..."
The Doctor has regenerated into his fifth incarnation, and all is not well. The Doctor's regeneration is failing, Adric is missing, and what is happening to the peaceful town of Castrovalva? "Castrovalva" succeeds on its pure charm. One couldn't ask for a better story to mark a new era in Who. Peter Davison plays the Doctor with ease. Anthony Ainley giving a pretty good performance as the Portreeve. Not overly complicated(unlike "Logopolis"), very smooth and laid back, even with the regeneration crisis. The regular cast are in fine form, except for Adric, who is a big part of the story, but left on the sidelines from time to time. Soundtrac not that bad either. All in all, very surprising, considering which "era" had just ended.