Product: Doctor Who [VHS] (1975)
Rating: 4.0
Beware of Greeks bearing AXONITE!!!
An "okay" 3rd Doctor (Jon Pertwee) adventure, originally broadcast in 1971, that rates higher because it is with Roger Delgado's Master (taken from the series too soon do to a tragic accident) is in it.A organic spacecraft arrives on Earth in the spirit of the 50's Sci-Fi classics, the humans are ready to blow it away. Thanks to their restrain they discover a race of beautiful, , golden aliens offering an unlimited source of energy, but in reality they are a threat too Earth, working with the Doctor's villainous nemesis the renegade a Timelord called the Master. Will the exiled Doctor uncover the truth about the alien plan and aide Humanity or has is his desire for the freedom to leave Earth overcome him? judgment? Has the Doctor joined forces with his old adversary only to serve his own agenda?Surrounded by "the Brig" and his trigger-happy UNIT soldiers, self-inflated, self-serving bureaucrats, not to mention the cartoon locals, all reacting true to type, it's no wonder the Doctor seems to be torn between allies. There's lots of great sets, monsters, alien transformation into some top-notch costumes (that were so expensive they were saved and reused in "The Seeds of Doom," among others). Some of the scenes with the Doctor and the Master in the final episodes are very good, and completely sell the idea that the Doctor may have traded sides, because he was always on "his own side" to begin with.