BBCDVD 3376A Doctor Who - Invasion of the dinosaurs by Malcolm Hulke


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Catalogue numberBBCDVD 3376A
TitleDoctor Who - Invasion of the dinosaurs
Artist(s)Malcolm Hulke
Cover conditionNear mint
Record conditionNear mint
BBC records label code-
Item deleted?No
Released1973
Distributed / printed by2 entertain
Country of originUK UK flag
Media typePrimary
Media genreDramas - Sci-fi
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Run-off codes / Shop bar codesA0101888748-A912 13 IFPI L556 Sony DADC
A0101888754-A511 28 IFPI L556 Sony DADC
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Tracks

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Side & trackTrack and ArtistLength
A1Part 125.29
A2Part 224.43
A3Part 323.26
A4Part 423.33
A5Part 524.30
A6Part 625.34
A7Part 1 in colour25.29
A8Coming soon - The Sensorites0.99
B1People, power and puppetry - Remembering making The Invasion of the Dinosaurs32.43
B2Deleted scenes4.48
B3Now and then - The locations of The Invasion of the Dinosaurs13.43
B4Doctor Who stories - Elisabeth Sladen part 114.00
B5John Levene commentary (from 20054)10.15
B6Photo gallery6.13
B7Billy Smart's Circus - Jon Pertwee arrives with Who-mobile1.42
B8Radio Times listings [PDF]
Total length of media 4:17:47.

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Extra notes on cover, middle (gatefold sleeve) and any inserts


Starring


Jon Pertwee
Elisabeth Sladen
Nicholas Courtney - Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
Richard Franklin - Captain Mike Yates
John Levene - Sergeant Benton
Noel Johnson - Sir Charles Grover
Peter Miles - Professor Whittaker
Martin Jarvis - Butler
John Bennett - General Finch
Terence Wilton - Mark
Carmen Silvera - Ruth
Brian Badcoe - Adam
Ben Aris - Lieutenant Shears
Dave Carter - Sergeant Duffy
Martin Taylor - Corporal Norton
George Bryson - Private Ogden
John Caesar - R/T Soldier
Pat Gorman - UNIT Corporal
Colin Bell - Private Bryson
Timothy Craven - Robinson
Trevor Lawrence - Lodge
Terry Walsh - Looter
Gordon Reid - Phillips
James Marcus - Peasant

Written by


Malcolm Hulke

Produced by


Barry Letts

Directed by


Paddy Russell

Synopsis


Returning to London, The Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith find a city almost completely devoid of life. The civilian population has been evacuated in the wake of an unimaginable event: somehow, dinosaurs have returned to terrorise the Earth ...

As the Brigadier and UNIT fend off increasingly vicious attacks from gigantic prehistoric reptiles, the Doctor investigates just how these monsters are appearing without warning. But when Sarah Jane is kidnapped, the Doctor realises that perhaps even his oldest friends can't be trusted ...

Background


British television in the early 1970s had many iconic images, and Jon Pertwee's Doctor teaming up with UNIT to defeat invasions was an integral part of Saturday night viewing. It was during the original transmission of Invasion of the Dinosaurs that the media first reported that Pertwee would be leaving Doctor Who. Looking back now, this was perhaps the ideal story in which the signal for an era's end was made.

Now entering his fifth season, the Third Doctor valiantly leapt to Earth's defence time after time, with his cloak billowing behind him and the Brigadier supporting him all the way. All manner of alien threats had tried to invade our world, and in this story the ultimate in monsters finally arrive - dinosaurs! The Triceratops, Stegosaurus and Tyrannosaurus rex were creatures the viewing public had long wanted their time-travelling hero to face, and the cliffhanger endings to four of these six episodes pit the Doctor against various prehistoric beasts.

Of course, on a restrictive 1970s television budget, the appearance of Cretaceous creatures requires the viewer to suspend some measure of disbelief. For some time this story was relegated to the position of a poorly realised experiment. Thankfully, this viewpoint has changed of late, with Invasion of the Dinosaurs now seen as a testament to the victory of creative ideas over budget, and the beginning of a fitting swansong for a legendary incarnation of the Doctor.
 

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