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• The Doctors - 30 Years Of Time Travel And Beyond | DVD | (04/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £10.99

  The Doctors: 30 Years of Time Travel and Beyond is a Doctor Who documentary directed by Bill Baggs, the independent producer behind Who-related video series Auton (1997-9), P.R.O.B.E. (1995-6) and The Stranger (1992-5). Amateurish production values include captions being cropped at the sides of the screen and microphones wandering fully into shot. But it's worth putting up with these for the many interviews, including those with Jon Pertwee, Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy. The highlight among the ex-Doctors being Peter Davidson talking in very good humour with Mark Strickson (Turlough). Other interviewees include Wendy Padbury (Zoe), Nicholas Courtney (The Brigadier), Caroline John (Liz Shaw), Louise Jameson (Leela) and Sophie Aldred (Ace) reminiscing affectionately with McCoy at one of the locations for their Who adventure "Survival" (1989). Also offering their views are producers Philip Hinchcliffe (1974-7) and John Nathan-Turner (1980-9), director David Moloney, Shaun Sutton of BBC Drama, writers Pip and Jane Baker and various others. Included are some previously unpublished stills and colour location filming footage from "The Smugglers" (1966), "The Abdominal Snowman" (1967), "The Daemons" (1971) and "Shada" (1979). Covering the entire 26-year history of Doctor Who in 66 minutes means this is far from comprehensive, but for fans it is fascinating stuff elevated by the genuine love almost everyone involved clearly feels for the show. On the DVD: The Doctors: 30 Years of Time Travel and Beyond has production values far removed from the exceptionally well presented official BBC Doctor Who titles. The only extra is 12 minutes of silent colour location filming footage of very variable quality, selections from which are included in the main programme. In the documentary itself the sound is perfectly acceptable mono. Unfortunately the picture appears to have been transferred from a damaged video master and there is an almost constant horizontal tearing across the centre of the screen, varying from slight but noticeable to so extreme it makes the feature all but unwatchable. The packaging incorrectly names the director as Bill Braggs and describes the programme as giving an insight into "the design of the Ice Warrior and Cybermen models" featured in the last series. It doesn't.--Gary S. Dalkin

• The Search for Simon | DVD | (13/10/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  David has spent years traveling the UK and the world funded by a small but fortuitous lottery win to visit people who claimed to have been abducted or had a close encounter he has a website and Face-book group where he asks people to help in his quest they upload video interviews they have done for him. He has met and interviewed respected scientists and members of the public who have 'come into contact' with Aliens or even been abducted themselves. David is convinced he is onto something. His mother has given up hope that David will ever get a proper job - or heaven forbid - find a girl and settle down but point blank refuses to talk about the loss of her other son Simon. Every week David goes to the local pub (to either play war-games or be in a pub quiz). His fellow pub friends are totally bored of his UFO obsession however Sally a girl he met at the 'Failed Suicide club' really likes him though David is oblivious to her advances and being somewhat shy - she isn't getting very far. David won't listen to anyone talk about the possibility that Simon just died or is dead - because listening means he's wasted his whole life.

• Doctor Who : Rememberance Of The Daleks | DVD | (02/07/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  ""Doctor my men have just put three highly explosive grenades into a confined area. Nothing remotely human could have survived that."" But as the Doctor informs Group Captain Gilmore the hostile agressor which has already killed one of his men is not remotely human. For London in 1963 is to be the alloted place and time for a further encounter between the Doctor and his most feared enemy - the Daleks. Accompanied by a streetwise teenager from the 1980's called Ace the Doctor must

• Anomaly (Region 0 Multi-Region DVD) | DVD | (04/11/2019) from £20.00   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  ANOMALY KATE LETHBRIDGE-STEWART IS DEAD!,br > Gordon Gordy Lethbridge-Stewart thought he had left the world of his grandfather behind him. As a research scientist, all he was interested in was developing new technologies.,br > Unfortunately, what he doesn t know is that retired UNIT operative Captain Douglas Cavendish has given him alien technology to develop his ideas with ... and that leads to a great deal of trouble indeed! Trouble that forces Kate Lethbridge-Stewart to make a life or death choice! In this fast paced sequel to both DAEMOS RISING and the DOCTOR WHO story THE TIME MONSTER, it s difficult to tell if reality is ... well ...real! Time itself it being manipulated and it s already run out more than once!