Rating: 9/10
Director: Gordon Flemyng
Summary: The Doctor and his friends combat the evil Daleks in the first Dr Who movie.
Plot: The Doctor (Peter Cushing) an eccentric English inventor has built a machine called the TARDIS (Time And Relative Dimension In Space) which is accidentally sent off into space by Ian Chesterton (Roy Castle) The Doctor, Ian, Barbara (Jennie Linden) and Susan (Roberta Tovey) land on the planet Skaro where they discover it has been left devastated by a Nuclear War, exploring a strange city the Doctor discovers the inhabitants are mutated life forms who live in a life-support machine (The Daleks) after the Doctor and company are affected by Radiation Sickness Susan meets the Thals the other survivors of the War, the Thals give Susan Anti-Radiation pills which the Daleks hope to use to escape their city-bound lives. The Daleks test the drugs on themselves and discover that is causes them to die, they come to the conclusion that they need the Radiation to survive and because the levels are dropping they need to detonate another Nuclear Bomb so the Doctor and his friends gather up the surviving Thals and make an assualt on the Dalek city, the Doctor recovers a piece of the TARDIS that has been stolen and the Thals destroy all the Daleks and prevent the bomb exploding. The Doctor and friends return to the TARDIS and home.
Good Points: Trippy 60's special effects, all round good acting, garish Dalek designs, good conversion from TV to Cinema, Peter Cushing in one of his few non-horror roles.
Bad Points: Roy Castle as Ian has tendency to overact his Comic Relief role and the Daleks control room is...odd (lava lamps!?)
Title: Doctor Who: Daleks Invasion Earth 2150 AD
Rating: 9/10
Director: Gordon Flemyng
Summary: In 2150 AD the Doctor and his companions must avert the Dalek's take-over of Earth.
Plot: After Officer Tom Cambell sees a bank robbery he runs to the Police Box and tries to find a phone however what he finds is Doctor Who (Peter Cushing) and his companions Susan (Roverta Tovey) and Louise (Jill Curzon) the Doctor tells him that he is in London in the year 2150 AD. Tom doesn't believe him and so wanders out of the TARDIS and finds a battle ravaged London, from there they discover that sinister things are afoot (namely the Daleks) the Daleks arrived years earlier and bombarded the planet and put down all resistance. The Dalek plan for taking over the planet (wait for it) is to remove the Earth's magnetic core and replace it with a massive engine so that they can pilot the Earth around the Universe now I know what you're thinking, why couldn't they just use Skaro?, for the answer to this question go find a Doctor Who fansite, for the review of this movie stay here. So anyway the Doctor gets captured by the Daleks and tries to escape for his trouble he nearly gets turned into a robot, the Doctor and a few others are rescued by a group of freedom fighters led by David (Ray Brooks) the company make their way to Bedfordshire and find the Dalek mines, this is where they intend to remove the core of the planet, the Doctor stops them by using the Earth's magentic field to crush the Daleks, this accomplished everyone is free to go their ways and put the Earth back together.
Good points: More good casting, great special effects, story a little daft but again fine conversion from its TV counterpart, more sense is made of the stranger plot points.
Bad points: Again Comic Relief in the form of Bernard Cribbins is overacted, the Dalek's defeat is a little too easy.
Title: Doctor Who: The Enemy Within
Rating: 9/10
Director: Geoffrey Sax
Summary: The Doctor faces the Master in San Francisco on the Eve of the New Millennium.
Plot: The prologue informs us that the Master has finally being captured by the Daleks, a show trial takes place and then the Master is exterminated, he makes one last request that the Doctor (Sylvester McCoy) takes his remains back to Gallifrey (the Time Lord's Home World) the Master (who has the form of a python-type thing) breaks free of his prison and invades the TARDIS console, he causes a malfunction and the TARDIS crashes on Earth in 31st December 1999. The Doctor is accidentally shot by a gang after he steps out of the TARDIS. The Doctor is taken to the hospital and later dies. Around this time the Master steals the body of the ambulance driver (Eric Roberts) the Doctor regenerates however (into Paul McGann) the Master breaks into the TARDIS and is later discovered by Chang Lee (Yee Jee Tso) who has the Doctor's stuff, the Master bends Chang's his arm into helping him steal the Doctor's body. What follows is the Doctor's attempt to repair the TARDIS with an Atomic Clock and then escape Earth but the Master has opened the Eye of Harmony (the TARDIS power source, a mini-black hole) the Doctor gets the Atomic Clock and gets back to the TARDIS but his companion Grace (Daphne Ashbrooke) is taken over by the Master and she knocks the Doctor out. The Master straps the Doctor to a Clockwork Orange type thing and begins the process of stealing the Doctor's lives. Grace recovers her wits and goes to the console room and starts the TARDIS going back in time. She returns to free the Doctor but she and Chang are killed by the Master, the Doctor then destroys the Master by kicking him into the Eye of Harmony. After this somehow Chang and Grace are revived and return to their own time.
Good points: Paul McGann is the best Doctor for a while, great special effects, awesome new TARDIS interior with a gothic/church feel, decent acting all round.
Bad points: Too many changes to the Doctor's character (snogging a companion I don't think so)