Doctor Who - The Crusade / Space Museum - Box Set [1965]
£49.97
Pictures from an exhibition - Season 2.(Only Space Museum reviewed.) After a series of wierd happenings aboard ship. The TARDIS appears to land on the planet Xeros, but when travelling through time and space, appearances can sometimes be deceptive. As Realtime catches up, the Tardis crew realize they have been given a glimpse of their future fate. They must change this future or face eternity as exhibits in the Morok War Museum... ~~~~ Ep.1-The Space Museum,-Wandering around the museum one of the exhibits catches their eye. Ep.2-The Dimensions of Time,-Change sometimes starts with a Revolution. Ep.3-The Search,-the Doctor plays mind games with a mind probe. Ep.4-The Final Phase,-the Doctor is prepared for his, exhibition, but the revolution is successful and the Tardis crew leave Xeros. But across the gulf of space, evil exterminating eyes have been watching them..... And this time they mean business! ~~~~ Episode One is possibly the most intriguing episode in the programmes long history, it s a shame the remaining three episodes don t quite maintain episode ones intriguing premise. After, The Web Planet s overspend of most of season two s budget, this was the story that had to, cut cost s. It does rather show, unfortunately. 5 Stars for Episode 1. Don t let the fact it s in Black and White put you off. Airdate:~24/4/65-15/5/65.
Doctor Who: The Crusade & The Space Museum Box Set - This boxset contains a single video containing episodes one and three of The Crusade with William Rusell (Ian Chesterton) commentating linking narration, and The Space Museum in its fullness. Also, with this boxset, there comes four postcards, three of whihc are photographs taken from The Crusade, and one which is taken from The Space Museum, a TARDIS keyring and a CD of the missing episodes two and four of The Crusade are also with this boxset. This is an essential for all fans, since not only is it limited, but contains the newly re-discovered episode one of The Crusade - it s well worth its money!
Wonderfully Engaging Historical Adventure - This box set illustrates what was so thrilling about Doctor Who back when it was first broadcast. The inclusion of the CD audio of the missing twoi episodes was a brilient idea (Cheers to whoever thought of it). This video shows that acting hasn t changed that much and that period acting in the 1960 s was very well coreographed.
Hartnell fans stand up... and then sit down again. - I only really discovered Hartnell s Doctor about a year ago when I bought a copy of The Rescue and the Romans. I enjoyed the Rescue, and tolerated the Romans. I then picked up a copy of The War Machines, and was again mildly impressed. But still, my interest was better served by The Talons of Weng-Chiang than Marco Polo.Until now.When the first episode, The Lion, rolls on, you know you re in for something special. By the 1980 s, you had to wait 10 minutes into episode 1 before anything happened, sometimes before the Doctor even arrived! But with the Crusade, we are immediately thrust into 12th Century Palestine, brought to life by the wonderful actors, particularly Julian Glover s distinguished King Richard, and Bernard Kay s wonderful Saladin. Even the missing two episodes are hardly noticed, with the inspired inclusion of the CD. It makes one wonder why the historical adventures are so unpopular.But then suddenly, the Space Museum. I try to be tolerant of 60 s shows, but I have no idea why the production team wanted to do this story. The acting s awful, the plot full of holes you could drive a semi trailer through, and the sets laughable.So 5 stars for The Crusade, and 2 for The Space Museum.