This is one of the best Doctor Who stories EVER
934984
This is one of the best Doctor Who stories EVER. Don't take my word for it; watch it for yourself.
1531979
If you are doctor who fan, this is one of the greatest story lines. The weeping angels. It goes into detail that we just don't get in the shows. I like the story and it was a quick read. The writer stayed true to the television show and show mythology. Would recommend to anyone.
605141
If you are one of the many new Doctor Who fans you might notice that the Cybermen that the Doctor has faced have all been from a different universe.  If you want a grasp on how the Cybermen came to be in THIS universe Spare Parts is a first rate rendition of the tale.

The 5th Doctor and Nyssa find themselves on an earth like planet that after a moment of hesitation the Doctor realizing where he is attempt to get them out, but as you might guess they are caught up in events that are leading to the creation of the Cyberman.

Although this was made before the advent of the new series the concept of the "fixed point in time" comes into play as the Doctor has to decide how much if at all he can or should effect events.  The fifth doctor particular character plays out very well here and the supporting cast and plot all around really works.

As a rule I'm not a big fan of Cybermen stories, but big finish tends to do them pretty well ie:&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/Dr-Who-Human-Resources-1-Dr-Who-Big-Finish/dp/1844352617/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">Dr Who Human Resources 1 (Dr Who Big Finish)</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/Dr-Who-Human-Resources-2-Dr-Who-Big-Finish/dp/1844352625/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">Dr Who Human Resources 2 (Dr Who Big Finish)</a>.  This story really brings them to "life" so to speak.

Excellent addition to your collection.  Buy it.
4588010
I have always loved doctor who as a tv show and this is just like it also the weeping Angels are one of my personal favorite monsters in the show
2460140
This is CLASSIC classic Doctor Who. If you haven't seen any of the vintage stuff, this is kinda the best of the best. Tom Baker really is the good doctor!
496392
Perhaps this is one of the great Doctor Who episodes that one wonders why it has taken so long to be released on VHS. The plot is simple: workers are being taxed to death by the government. Something that still is going on today. The good always win in situations like this. It has all the drama on can want: an attempted suicide, a rebel from another world, the Doctor in a straight jacket, the steaming execution, and the truth of who is actually running the planet! All and all it's a great buy! Even though Leela can be boring at times, a drunken Tom Baker makes up for it! The straight jacket did suit the Doctor well!
3061490
I love it so much. It is a very wonderful addition to my Doctor Who collection.
2190594
Doctor Who is famous for its ability to go anywhere in time and space in whatever medium. For a period in the late 1990s, BBC Books published a series of short stories featuring the first eight Doctors in a variety of situations with the final volume of that run not only featuring those Doctors, sometimes in surprising ways, but a couple of more besides as well. The results are nothing short of intriguing.

Short Trips And Side Steps is made up of twenty-one very different stories with two of them being multiple parts. The two multi-part stories are amongst the best highlights of the book. A Town Called Eternity is a two-part tale with the fifth Doctor and Peri visiting Wild West where they soon encounter her ancestors, anachronistic dinosaurs and an old enemy in a tale that would have made for an excellent  two-part TV story from the Davison era. The other multi-part story is the three part First Doctor tale Nothing At The End Of The Lane by Daniel O'Mahony which presents a fascinating, odd and excellent tale with school teacher and later companion Barbara Wright at its heart. Nothing At The End Of The Lane alone makes this book worth a read.

Beyond those, the book is a solid with some excellent stories including Trevor Baxendale's Eighth Doctor story the Queen Of Eros (which I can just imagine being adapted as a New Series episode), the post-Trial sixth Doctor story Gone Too Soon as well as the four excellent Special Occasions stories with the Fourth Doctor and second Romana in a variety of circumstances. Yet like many anthologies it has its fair share of disappointments including Justin Richards' story for the Peter Cushing's Dr. Who and Revenants by Peter Anghelides which both started promising but ultimately left me underwhelmed with Revenants featuring an unknown future Doctor. There's also some odd tales including a flash fiction piece by Lawerence Miles which is quite humerus in an odd kind of way.

Overall though, a solid volume of Who short stories. If the point of the Short Trips range was to give fans the biggest bang for their buck, then this book succeeded wonderfully. Taking in Doctor's from across different media, it celebrates the wonderful diversity of Doctor Who at a time when it was sorely missing for our screens. More than fifteen years later, it shines on even now.
2686184
Yes, the one with all of them. Except that the first Doctor is recast and played very well by Richard Hurndall and Tom Baker, Doctor #4 chose not to take part. The producer bought Tom Baker many lunches and many drinks and in the end, he still refused to take part. So, bits from the unfinished story, Shada, were used for Tom's contribution.
In watching this story, it's important to not have extremely high expectations. It crams a lot into a 90 minute slot (100 minutes for the extended, special edition DVD). It's best to switch off your brain and let the images hit you. All of the Doctors are in fine form, and it's especially nice to have the lovely Patrick Troughton recreating the 2nd Doctor, since there is so little that exists from his original run as the Doctor in the late '60s. It's just a big celebration of Doctor Who and all (well, many) have been invited.
The Special edition works just fine and the new visual effects are a real enhancement to the story, in my opinion. None of the changes have drastically altered the story. In some cases, they have improved the feel of the story. For example, the voice of Rassilon has been enhanced in such a way that one believes that he is the most important figure in Time Lord history, rather than the game show host that was in the original version.
This first DVD is light on features, like the UK release. I was rather pleased that the US release got the commentary with Peter Davison and Terrance Dicks. They seem to have fond memories of the program, along with a few disappointments and frustrations.
I enjoyed the DVD enormously and hope that the Doctor Who releases on DVD continue.
2716162
This two tape set is a great place to start into Doctor Who. First, you get the Sontaran experiment. The story is short, interesting, and good enough to "whet the appetite," so to speak. And the  Harry/Sarah/Doctor combination is excellent.
Genesis of the Daleks is a  fabulous story to be caught up in. An intricate tale that is both brutal  and sophisticated. Michael Wisher as Davros and Peter Miles as Nyder play  their parts to perfection, able to convey their manipulative characters  with authenticity. This is also a great place to learn of the Daleks as  this is perhaps, without a doubt, their best story. Buy this one with  confidence!
1875504
"The Ark in Space" is one of those stories I watched at age 11, only a couple of months after discovering "Doctor Who" on PBS.  It instantly became one of my favorites, and remained so even after I'd seen the other 26 years' worth of stories.  What makes "Ark" a great "Doctor Who" story is the list of usual suspects: small cast, claustrophobic setting, some moments of real horror (1974 special-effects style) as the Ark commander is turned into a 6-foot-tall fiberglass wasp, after becoming gradually encased in green bubble-wrap.  And, of course, Tom Baker's larger-than-life performance as the Doctor.
The "Doctor Who" DVD releases have been of uniformly high quality.  Each episode comes with a pop-up track of subtitled production notes, and an audio commentary by the cast and crew.  The "Ark" production notes include details on the original script for the story, and memorably inform us that bubble wrap was not as common in 1974 as it is today!  The commentary track is one of the better ones: Elisabeth Sladen, who played companion Sarah Jane, has terrific recall and some intriguing insights into the original production that I hadn't read or heard elsewhere.  Series producer Philip Hinchcliffe supplies enough inside information into the sets, lighting, and script editing process to be informative without ever getting stuffy -- and his recall is excellent, too.
The star of the commentary track is, naturally, Tom Baker.  Tom's involvement with DW since leaving the role has been infrequent and bizarre.  His contribution to the track involves frightening barks of laughter at lingering shots of the male actors' physique, or double entendres in the script (intentional or otherwise).  He confesses from the opening seconds that he "can't recall a single thing" about the story, and this frees him up to be the irreverent, unpredictable voice circling effortlessly around Sladen and Hinchcliffe's scholarship.
There are other extra features -- an informative, current interview with the episode designer, and a vintage, bizarre interview with Baker in costume.  There are 7 minutes of original (silent) model test footage.  Help yourself.  I fast-forwarded through this after my resolve was defeated somewhere around Minute Three.  The 3D Ark schematic is brief, and thus cute.  The redone CGI effects work better than you might expect when viewed as part of the story via seamless branching, and of course you can always turn it off.  The "unused title sequence" has some interesting outtakes, but the final 30 seconds are, in fact, the used title sequence.  The photo gallery is a must-skip.  There's a strange "TARDIS-cam" view which appears to be a new creation; this is atmospheric, if pointless.
There are reportedly three hidden easter eggs, of which I've only found one.  Again, it's Tom Baker, in costume, being bizarre.  I can't wait to find the other two.
2073355
Dr Who has been a favorite series of many a sci-fi fan for over fifty years now. The new series of Dr Who is better in that it's more emotionally gripping, faster paced, more satisfying, and is just better all around in every conceivable respect. Please don't think I am trying to degrade classic Who, because classic Who is part of the legacy that has led us to this wonderful and thrilling season.

It begins with a shocking event that leads Dr Who and his companions back to 1969 and some unexpected... Alien visitors who are oddly not the least bit memorable(That's a joke, you'll get it when you watch it). The season continues with the Doctor, Amy and Rory encountering pirates and a Siren who kills off their crew one by one. We then go into curiously surreal territory with the highly loved and acclaimed episode "The Doctor's Wife". The next two-parter The Rebel Flesh and Almost people leads us to a shocking twist for the monumental mid-season cliffhanger "A good man goes to war". I've said before that A good man goes to war is basically the Dr Who equivalent of The Empire Strikes back. I stand by that statement.

This season is a must have, and you can't have one without the other.
2137369
I hadn't seen this one in years!  But after watching it, Icould see it was still one of the best Doctor Who stories of all time. Probably in the TOP 5 Dalek stories as well.  The doctor and his partyarrive on a seemingly "dead" planet, which after a little investigation, is not so dead.  They discover a fantastic city, and the Doctor (curious as always) just has to take a look.  It doesn't take long to discover what lurks beneath the city....DALEKS...don't be fooled because this series is over 37 years old!  And don't let anyone tell you the effects are cheesy...This is CLASSIC WHO, and any true fan should watch!  And the effects are still pretty good, even by todays standards.  And the story is great!  A must have for any Dalek fan (like myself) and Who fan in general.  A Highlight.... Dalek's first use of their now historical punchline "E-X-T-E-R-M-I-N-A-T-E"....
4021540
If you do not understand the title all I can say is see it because I will not reveal it here. This is the crowded time in the Tardis as there are 3 companions and the Doctor. The cybermen are present and the story moves along at a good clip.
Peter Davidson had a good run as the lead and his Doctor was a good departure from the last Doctor. He was the youngest Doctor at his start at that time and he is very credible in the role. He grew into the part and finished in fine style.
This episode is one of the better ones and the cast and writers did a fine job on what has become a classic episode.
2780629
We never got a lot of background of the War Doctor, and George Mann faithfully and impeccably delivers an amazing background story to John Hurt's Time War Doctor. You get to see a very different version of our favorite Time Lord, one who has fought years in the Time War, one who is battle weary, angry, somewhat dark and does not see himself worthy of his title "The Doctor". Then comes in a young human Dalek Hunter named Cinder, who is seeking vengeance against the Daleks for killing her family when she is a child and wants to get away from her world. The first meeting between her and the Doctor was almost very smashing, and I mean that literally. Thru the story Cinder manages to get thru to our Doctor, and brings back sparks of the old Doctor back to life and a bond is formed . It is a story that will you not be able to put down from start to finish and is a an amazing and worthy prequel to the events of the War Doctor before he appears in the "Day of the Doctor" Special.
4940978
This story was a real treat. I had never seen it before, but I have seen most of the 3rd Doctor's stories, so I have a pretty good idea of how the series developed during the early 70's. This one just might be my favorite so far. The acting is very strong, with distinctive personality differences between the characters in our Earth, as well as the parallel Earth featured in the story. You can tell Nicholas Courtney (The Brigadier) had fun making this, as he plays a hilariously rascally villain on the alternate Earth. One of the strongest performances, however, was by Derek Newark for the character of Greg Sutton, an engineer who had been called in to assist with the drilling project. The intensity and dynamism of his delivery really took you into the story.

I won't go into the special features here, because other reviewers have probably done that already, and they're easy to look up for anyone curious. However, I will mention that the overall quality of this release was most excellent.

I can't really find anything to complain about on this one. Easy 5 stars.
1536152
Whether you judge a show by the acting or the storyline, this is by far one of the best shows I have seen in a long time.  James Nesbitt is incredible as the "two" main charactors.  The story has many twists and turns right up to the last minute of the last episode.  One of the things that I like about the story is after you watch all 5 episodes, everything is explained making you want to watch it again to see all the things you missed the first time around.  I am not going to give away the story line, it is a "Dr Jeckyll and Mr Hyde" type story, but not a re-telling of that story.  It takes place in modern day England and acknowledges that the original J&H story exists, if that makes sense.  If you enjoy BBC series such as Doctor Who (the first season, second season was disappointing)and Hex, then this is as well if not better written.  I hope this was helpful.