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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0794051285621
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Full Screen, Original recording remastered, Restored, NTSC
Label: BBC Warner
Manufacturer: BBC Warner
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: BBC Warner
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 06, 2007
Running Time: 200 minutes
Sales Rank: 14362
Studio: BBC Warner
Editorial Review:
Description:
The Doctor, Zoe and Jamie team up with UNIT to fend off a worldwide invasion of Cybermen. Brigadier Lethbridge Stewart puts you in the picture concerning the action in the missing episodes.
DVD Features:
Audio Commentary:Audio Commentary by actress Elisabeth Sladen, co-writer Bob Baker and producer Philip Hinchcliffe.
Other:Doctor Who is in the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest running sci-fi series in television history
Amazon.com:
An electronics industrialist plots to conquer the world using the cybernetic devices his company makes. You can insert your own Bill Gates joke here, but in this epic eight-part 1968 Doctor Who adventure, the villain, Tobias Vaughn (Kevin Stoney in a great performance, one eyebrow perpetually cocked as he schemes), has allied himself with the robotic Cybermen and nearly succeeds in global domination. This story was a harbinger of what was to come in the series during the first half of the 1970s--that is, the threat to contemporary (or near-future) Earth, with the Doctor (Patrick Troughton) joining up with the quasi-military U.N.I.T. headed by Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart (Nicholas Courtney--who also provides a newly shot introduction to the story and fills in the two missing episodes that were shamelessly destroyed by the BBC when they purged their archives in the early 1970s). Director Douglas Camfield fully exploits the mood-inducing black-and-white imagery, manages to keep the action going (with assistance from real Department of Defence soldiers on loan), and provides some memorable moments, particularly the Cybermen bursting out of the sewers and marching relentlessly through the streets of London at the end of episode 6. The writers wisely give Vaughn most of the exposition with the Doctor and allow the Cybermen to remain nearly indestructible, mostly silent killers. This may not be the greatest of the Cybermen stories in the 1960s, but the metallic monsters make the most of their appearances here, thus cementing their reputation in popularity as second only to the Daleks. --Ryan K. Johnson
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Only halfway through and already I am thrilled beyond words!
The animation of the missing episodes were brilliant! Let's hope that they will apply this formula to more of the first and second doctor's stories! I'm on the edge of my seat for this one!
Rating: - Great serial with excellent restoration work
One of the best early serials, this story has painstakingly been restored to as-good-as-possible shape, with "missing" segments restored by animation. If they would do such good work for other "missing" serials, many classic Doctor Who stories could be regenerated into new life.
Rating:  - More in ShippingCare
Product, video DVD, arrived with broken jewel case. In standard mailer and unmarked. Understand marking as video attracks theft, but maybe marking as fragile would help. DVD fine antd I have another jewel box for it, but was a bit scary for a few seconds when I thought the DVD might have been affected.
Rating: - Unique
Second Doctor Who actor Patrick Troughton gives one of his best performances not "entirely" lost like most of the episodes from 1963-1970. While some of those stories exist in thier entirety, most are incomplete. THE INVASION has 6 of the 8 episodes that remaim entirely. The other two episodes (episodes 1 and 4) make this DVD truely UNINQUE. While video footage of 1 and 4 has been lost the audio remained, and now replaced with animated reconstructions. What hurts this otherwise CLASIC STORY is ... Read More
Rating: - pretty good
I thought the animated portions (to match with the still extant audio for the missing episodes) were a little cheesy in quality, but the idea was good; it was better than the narration of the missing episodes I've seen done with some of the other ones.
And it's great to see some more of the missing stories being released.
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