Name: Doctor Who - The ambassadors of death
Brand: BBC3
SKU: BBCDVD3484
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Doctor Who - The ambassadors of death (David Whitaker / Malcolm Hulke / Trevor Ray)

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Release details

Detail			Value
Catalogue number			BBCDVD 3484
Title			Doctor Who - The ambassadors of death
Artist(s)			David Whitaker / Malcolm Hulke / Trevor Ray
Cover condition			Near mint
Record condition			Near mint
BBC records label code			-
Item deleted?			No
Released			1970
Distributed / printed by			2 entertain
Country of origin			UK
Media type			Primary
Media genre			Dramas - Sci-fi View all other tracks listed as Dramas - Sci-fi.
Run-off codes / Shop bar codes			A0101999668-A912 02 A0101997054-A511 02
My rating			*****
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Label

Side & track	Track and Artist	Length
Tracks Below is a list of tracks for this release.
A1	Part 1	24.33
A2	Part 2	24.39
A3	Part 3	24.38
A4	Part 4	24.37
A5	Part 5	24.17
A6	Part 6	24.31
A7	Part 7	24.32
Mars probe 7
B1	Making the Ambassadors of death	25.51
B2	Trailer	1.28
B3	Tomorrow's times - The Third Doctor - Newspaper comments	13.07
B4	Photo gallery	4.26
B5	Radio Times billings [PDF]
B6	Coming soon - The claws of Axos	1.04
Total length of media 3:37:43.

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Extra notes on cover, middle (gatefold sleeve) and any inserts
Starring Jon Pertwee (Third Doctor) Caroline John (Liz Shaw) Nicholas Courtney - Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart John Levene - Sergeant Benton John Abineri - General Carrington Ronald Allen - Ralph Cornish Robert Cawdron - Bruno Taltalian Cheryl Molineaux - Miss Rutherford Robert Robertson - Collinson Ray Armstrong - Grey Dallas Cavell - Sir James Quinlan Michael Wisher - John Wakefield William Dysart - Reegan Cyril Shaps - Lennox Juan Moreno - Dobson Gordon Sterne - Van Heldorf John Lord - Masters Tony Harwood - Flynn Roy Scammell - Technician Bernard Martin, Joanna Ross, Carl Conway - Control room assistants Derek Ware - UNIT Sergeant James Haswell - Corporal Champion James Clayton - Private Parker Geoffrey Beevers - Private Johnson Max Faulkner - UNIT Soldier Peter Halliday - Alien Voices Peter Noel Cook - Alien Space Captain Ric Felgate - Van Lyden/Ambassador Steve Peters - Lefee/Ambassador Neville Simons - Michaels/Ambassador Written by David Whitaker Trevor Ray (episode 1, uncredited) Malcolm Hulke (episodes 2-7, uncredited) Terrance Dicks (episodes 2-7, uncredited) Produced by Barry Letts Directed by Michael Ferguson Synopsis Somthing has gone seriously wrong with Mars Probe 7. With no contact from the Astronauts since the rocket started its return journey from Matrs, Space Control is now extremely worried about the fate of the crew. A rescue mission recovers something - but whatever it is, it certainly isn't human. To find out what has happened to the astronauts, the Doctor must head into space without the TARDIS ... Background In Doctor Who, Earth in the 1970s is extremely unlucky when it comes to alien invaders. It is therefore fortuitous that Jon Pertwee's Third Doctor is exiled there during that period. By The Ambassadors of Death, the third story of Season Seven, the new Doctor has already prevented a plastic Auton invasion and also helped stop reptilian Silurians reclaim our world. Now he comes up against a sci-fi favourite - invaders from Mars. There's a Doctor Who twist, of course, with aliens that probably aren't actually Martians, and with the real enemy a little bit closer to home ... The story started life as discussions with writer David Whitaker and the Doctor Who production team in 1968. However, by the time it was being made, it was a very different series with a new set of rules and characters. The Third Doctor without a working TARDIS, Liz Shaw and UNIT were all added to the story, originally called The Invaders from Mars, and it took three writers to complete the seven-part serial. The Ambassadors of Death is an exciting example of a new era of the series. The story makes good use of the new colour separation effect - CSO - a technique that producer Barry Letts was keen to experiment with. Scenes were written into thew production especially so that CSO could be used. And, with complex action sequences and effective stunts, that is Doctor Who meets James Bond meets classic sci-fi movie, and it sits perfectly in this first run of Earth-based stories for the Third Doctor.
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