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TV SeriesDoctor Who, The BeginningApril 2007
Whether you're a committed fan or, like this reviewer, an occasional but curious dipper-in, you can't help admiring the BBC's unflinching devotion to committing the whole of the good doctor's adventures to DVD. Red Dwarf, Series 8September 2006
Series 8 of Red Dwarf, recorded in 1998, is the final series of the iconic British science fiction comedy. Space Odyssey: Voyage to the PlanetsFebruary 2006
For anyone who missed the BBC's dramatised three-hour tour of our solar system when it was screened by the ABC earlier this year, the price of this DVD is a modest levy indeed for a small slice of television history. The two-part presentation travels with the crew of the Pegasus to Venus and Mars, through the Sun's outer atmosphere and the asteroid belt to the gas giants and beyond. Blake's 7, Series 3November 2005
Blake's 7 was being made as Ridley Scott was frightening the pants off filmgoers with Alien. Scott's Nostromo, flown with weary disregard by Dallas, Ripley and the others, looked plausibly futuristic, battered but solid - as you'd expect an interstellar ore-refining vessel to look. Blake's Liberator, flown by Avon, Cally, Tarrant, Dayna and Vila is bright, clean and loaded with high-tech widgets you'd expect from a ship that's the envy of the cosmos. It's also an early '80s example of BBC set construction and isn't at all convincing. |
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