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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0883929016839
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: BBC Warner
Manufacturer: BBC Warner
Number Of Items: 4
Publisher: BBC Warner
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 03, 2008
Running Time: 419 minutes
Sales Rank: 9351
Studio: BBC Warner
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Product Description:
All three classic battles with the Silurians and the Sea Devils! Doctor Who and the Silurians Exiled to Earth and now working for UNIT as their scientific advisor the Doctor is summoned to an underground research center at Wenley Moor to investigate a series of inexplicable power losses. Initially suspecting sabotage he soon discovers that the nearby cave system conceals a colony of an ancient race called the Silurians. Awaking from a hibernation which has lasted millions of years they are now planning to reclaim the Earth from humankind. The Sea Devils Arrested after the events at Devils End the Master has been incarcerated at a top security prison on a remote island off the south coast of England. When the Doctor and Jo Grant pay a visit to their old enemy they find him a reformed character. But can the spate of mysterious shipping accidents and garbled reports of sea monsters in the local area really be a coincidence? The Doctor soon finds himself pitted against the Sea Devils an ancient race of reptile intent on eliminating humankind and reclaiming the Earth for themselves. Warriors of the Deep Earth 2084. Two global superpowers hover on the brink of war. When the TARDIS is forced to make an unplanned visit to Sea Base Four the Doctor Tegan and Turlough find themselves accused of being enemy agents. Quickly embroiled in a deadly game of paranoid intrigue it becomes clear that others on the base have sabotage and murder in mind. However there is a greater threat to humankind: the Silurians and Sea Devils prehistoric reptiles seeking to reclaim the Earth. Can the Doctor prevent them from implementing their ?final solution? and triggering a war that could wipe out the entire human race?Running Time: 419 min.System Requirements:Running Time: 97 mins Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS UPC: 883929016839 Manufacturer No: 1000038389
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Rating: - This planet ain't big enough for...
BENEATH THE SURFACE is one box-set that contains three stories -- three distinct takes on a simple, basic premise. The idea behind all of them is that a race of reptiles evolved into a superior intelligence on Earth, long before the dawn of man. Forced into a state of advanced hibernation millions of years ago, these beings have awoken in the present day and are shocked and outraged by the presence of humans all over the planet they perceive to belong to them.
The story begins in the ... Read More
Rating: - 2 out of 3 ain't bad
We get 2 gems from the Pertwee era and one of the Davison era's weakest. The Silurians really set the stage for the 70s in Doctor Who. A monster story like this from the 60s would have had the monsters be evil and the Doctor eagerly destroying them. Malcolm Hulke often had no real bad guys in his stories, just groups in conflict with different points of view. The Doctor tries to make the peace between Silurians and humans but is thwarted by distrusting members of both sides. A very progressive ... Read More
Rating:  - The aliens were here first
Several times on the bonus material for "Doctor Who and the Silurians", then-script editor Terrance Dicks explains the origins for that story's eponymous villain. With the Doctor exiled to Earth and the TARDIS disabled, Dicks was told by one of his writers that the show was now limited to just two story types: alien invasion, and mad scientist. Realizing he was painted into a corner, Dicks decided to invert the scenario by commissioning an alien invasion from a species that was already on Earth before ... Read More
Rating:  - Okay stories, but a must have for collectors
These were not my favourite stories from the Doctor Who series, the Silurians and Sea Devils are the typical low budget hokey nemisis to Doctor's 3 and 5, but I'm still glad to add them to my dvd collection. Can't wait for the coming story arcs in August involving Tom Baker and Louise Jameson as the Doctor and Leela, and hopefully they'll come out with the 13 part "Trial of a Timelord" starring the notorious Colin Baker as Doctor #6 in the coming years.
Rating: - "These creatures aren't just animals, they're an alien life form, as intelligent as we are."
Doctor Who can be a pretty deep show sometimes. And that goes for the three stories in this aptly named box-set both in the usual figurative sense and quite literally as well. That is, the unifying element in "Doctor Who and the Silurians" (1970), "The Sea Devils" (1972), and "Warriors of the Deep" (1984) is one of the most creatively imaginative set of antagonists the show has seen in its long history, and they antagonize from the depths of the earth and sea. The eponymous Silurians, that is, along with ... Read More
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