Main menuMalcolm Hulke, Doctor Who - Frontier in space
Release details
| Title | Doctor Who - Frontier in space | ||||||||
| Artist(s): | Malcolm Hulke | ||||||||
| Category: | BBC - BBCDVD (Click on this button to view other releases of BBC - BBCDVD DVD's.) | ||||||||
| Label and catalogue number: |  BBC3 - BBCDVD 2614A | ||||||||
| Format: | Disc DVD's | ||||||||
| Country: | UK  | ||||||||
| Released: | 1973 | ||||||||
| Genre: | Dramas - Sci-fi View all other tracks listed as Dramas - Sci-fi. | ||||||||
| Run-off codes: | A0101378337-A912 04 IFPI L556 Sony DADC A0101378338-B922 04 IFPI L556 Sony DADC | ||||||||
| Item deleted? | No | ||||||||
| Distributed / printed by |  2 entertain | ||||||||
| Page views: | 1659 times since 20th May, 2017, global rank is 3203, rank in dvds is 203. | ||||||||
| My rating: | ***** | ||||||||
| Guest rating: | ***** | ||||||||
My copies information
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| Detail | Value | ||||||||||
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| Cover condition | Near mint | ||||||||||
| Record condition | Near mint | ||||||||||
| BBC records label code | - | ||||||||||
| Number have | 1 | ||||||||||
| What type of seller was used | Amazon online shop | ||||||||||
| Where can I buy this release? | You may be able to purchase this release from the following websites (others are available!) | ||||||||||
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Tracks
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| Side & track no | Track and Artist | Length | |||||||||
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| A1 | Part 1 | 23.27 | |||||||||
| A2 | Part 2 | 24.10 | |||||||||
| A3 | Part 3 | 24.00 | |||||||||
| A4 | Part 4 | 23.35 | |||||||||
| A5 | Part 5 | 23.57 | |||||||||
| A6 | Part 6 | 24.44 | |||||||||
| The perfect scenario | |||||||||||
| B1 | Lost frontiers | 30.04 | |||||||||
| B2 | The space war | 17.58 | |||||||||
| Roger Delgado | |||||||||||
| B3 | The Master | 31.46 | |||||||||
| Stripped for action | |||||||||||
| B4 | The Third Doctor | 16.06 | |||||||||
| B5 | Photo gallery | 6.10 | |||||||||
| B6 | Radio Times billings [PDF] | ||||||||||
| B7 | BBC Enterprises sales literature [PDF] | ||||||||||
| B8 | Coming soon - The King's demons / Planet of fire | 1.17 | |||||||||
| Total length of media 4:07:14. | |||||||||||
All release pictures
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Reviews
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| My rating | 3 | |
| Guest rating | Current average value is 3. To vote, please select one of these buttons: | |
Extra notes on cover, middle (gatefold sleeve) and any inserts | ||
StarringJon Pertwee (Third Doctor) Katy Manning (Jo Grant) Roger Delgado - The Master Vera Fusek - President Michael Hawkins - General Williams Ramsay Williams - Congressman Brook John Woodnutt - Draconian Emperor Peter Birrel - Draconian Prince Lawrence Davidson - Draconian First Secretary Roy Pattison - Draconian Space Pilot Bill Wilde - Draconian Captain Ian Frost - Draconian Messenger Ray Lonnen - Gardiner Barry Ashton - Kemp John Rees - Hardy James Culliford - Stewart Harold Goldblatt - Professor Dale Dennis Bowen - Prison Governor Madhav Sharma - Patel Richard Shaw - Cross Luan Peters - Sheila Louis Mahoney, Bill Mitchell - Newscasters Karol Hagar - Secretary Timothy Craven - Cell Guard Laurence Harrington - Lunar Guard Clifford Elkin - Earth Cruiser Captain Stanley Price - Pilot of Space Ship Caroline Hunt - Technician Rick Lester, Michael Kilgarriff, Stephen Thorne - Ogrons Michael Wisher - Dalek Voice John Scott Martin, Murphy Grumbar, Cy Town - Daleks Written byMalcolm Hulke Produced byBarry Letts Directed byPaul Bernard SynopsisIt is the year 2450, and a fragile peace exists between the great empires of Earth and Draconia. The TARDIS materialises aboard an Earth cargo ship which comes under attack. Arrested and accused of espionage, the Doctor is sentenced to life imprisonment on the Moon, but salvation arrives in an unexpected form ... Can the Doctor and Jo stop the Master's plans to provoke a galactic war and reveal the deadly enemy waiting for the chance to destroy both empires? BackgroundBarry Letts and Terrance Dicks had made grand plans for the tenth anniversary season of Doctor Who. Not only would it feature the reappearance of William Hartnell and Patrick Troughton alongside Jon Pertwee in The Three Doctors, but there would also be an epic 12-part story to rival The Daleks' Master Plan (1965/5). In the event, two linked six part stories were commissioned. Frontier in Space, the first of these stories, is an ambitious project realised through extensive model work, careful scripting, inventive use of locations and impressive design. It presents a future permeated with 1970s Cold War sensibilities, bleak, unfriendly and distrustful, where two galactic empires teeter on the brink of war. But this future is far from black and white. As in Doctor Who and the Silurians (1970) and The Sea Devils (1972), Malcolm Hulke portrays two morally ambiguous adversaries and highlights the fear and latent aggression on both sides as they are manipulated by a third party. Perhaps unexpectedly, it is the presence of the Master that brings humour and lightness to the story. Roger Delgado's performance is beguiling, playfully master minding the escalation of tension and relishing being in control. Given that this was Delgado's last appearance as the Master before his untimely death, it is all the more tragic that his final moments on screen are edited to a rather hasty and unsatisfactory conclusion. Conceived with great ambition, Frontier in Space is somewhat compromised in its climax by the need to dovetail into Planet of the Daleks, but remains a first-class space opera realised on a grand scale. | ||
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