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List Price: $34.98 Our Price: $25.49 You Save: $9.49 Features • Closed-captioned • Color • DVD-Video • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 29 September, 1975 DVD Release : 05 September, 2006 |
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Doctor Who - Inferno (Episode 54) description An experiment gone awry sends the Doctor (Jon Pertwee) to a parallel universe where his friends and companions are members of a fascist regime in this thrilling and popular episode from the long-running British science fiction series Doctor Who. Inferno is the name of a project designed to drill into the Earth's core and release a powerful energy source called Stahlman's Gas; what's yielded instead is an insidious substance that transforms men into monsters. The resulting chaos interrupts the Doctor's travel in the TARDIS and knocks him into an alternate Earth run by a military dictatorship, and where Project Inferno's progress threatens to bring about an apocalypse. This seven-part story arc from 1970 is a high-water mark for the already superb Pertwee-era Doctor, a tense, imaginative adventure that evokes the U.K.'s chilling Quatermass TV productions and movies in its mix of science fiction and horror. Fans will particularly appreciate the opportunities afforded to longtime Who supporting players Nicholas Courtney (as the Brigadier) and Caroline John (as the Doctor's companion Liz) to step outside their usual roles and essay memorably villainous turns as their parallel-Earth selves. The double-disc presentation of Inferno offers the by-now-standard wealth of extras, including commentary by Courtney, script editor Terrance Dicks, producer/director Barry Letts, and co-star John Levene (Sgt. Benton) and lengthy featurettes on the making of the story and the UNIT brigade during Pertwee's tenure (the latter featuring interviews with much of the supporting cast and crew). A short deleted scene from the episode (featuring Pertwee in a rare second turn as the voice of a radio announcer), a promo film for the BBC Visual Effects Department (which features clips from the Who stories Ambassadors of Death, Caves of Steel, and a missing episode from Doomwatch), and PDF files of the 1971 Doctor Who Annual and Radio Times round out the supplemental features. --Paul Gaita |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | Breaks the rules, and does it well! |
| The thing with 99.99% of TV dramas is that they have to follow an unwritten guideline in their storyline. The hero wins, the world (earth, company, whatever is saved) and we finish with a happy ending.
Not so here. At least with the alternate world. As Terrance Dicks points out in the commentary, it's the one time that the writers got to "blow up the world" Inferno is a doom-laden, serious story, and, unusual for seven parts, just flies by. Project Inferno is trying to drill below the earth to unlock a new type of energy, which has been named "Stahlman's gas." Doesn't sound like enough plot? Add in that the Doctor's trying to work his TARDIS with just the console, and when a result of too much energy occurs, he's forced into the alternate world. Same people, except he can't trust these new versions. Stahlman's as up himself in this world, Liz is more of an anti-hero, and the Brigadier (sorry, Brigade Leader) is the one trying to stop the Doctor. The end of Episode Six must go doiwn as one of the best cliffhangers of all time, with the Doctor trying to get back to his world, and all of them just seeing this volcanic lava tinge... All in all, a rollercoaster of a serial. Well worth the money. |
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