Stars: Peter Cushing, Ray Brooks, Roy Castle, Bernard Cribbins, Jill Curzon, Barry Ingham, Andrew Keir, Jennie Linden, Roberta Tovey, Bernard Cribbins, Bernard Cribbins

Director: Gordon Flemyng

Summary: In 'Doctor Who And The Daleks' the Doctor and his young friends find themselves at the mercy of the menacing Daleks. In 'Daleks Invasion Earth - 2150 AD' the Doctor travels to a future London where the Daleks have enslaved the human population.

Adapted from the British television series, this feature film stars Peter Cushing as the title character, an inventor who has created a time machine known as TARDIS that is disguised as a police call box. When he accidentally turns the machine on, the good Doctor, his two granddaughters, Barbara (Jennie Linden) and Susan (Roberta Tovey), and Barbara's boyfriend, Ian (Roy Castle), are transported to the planet Skaro where they find a race of humans that are being tormented by evil robots known as Daleks.
A sequel to DOCTOR WHO AND THE DALEKS, DALEKS INVASION EARTH 2150 A.D. once again finds Cushing taking over the role of Dr. Who from his television counterpart, William Hartnell. Here, the Doctor and a number of his companions take TARDIS to the year 2150 only to discover that the earth has been ravaged and taken over by the diabolical Daleks. Realising that the Daleks are trying to mine the globe's nuclear core, Dr. Who and company resolve to foil their plan and save the future of humanity.

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In the mid-1960s, with Dalekmania sweeping Britain, BBC TV's Doctor Whomaterialised on the silver screen. Doctor Who and the Daleksreplaced William Hartnell with Peter Cushing and remade the Daleks' TV debut with a much bigger budget in Technicolor and Techniscope. With his two granddaughters, Roberta Tovey and Jennie Linden (and Roy Castle along for comic relief), the Doctor becomes an intermediary in a conflict between the robotic Daleks and angelic Thals on the almost dead world of Skaro. A huge hit on release, the film remains an enjoyable, well-produced family adventure, though somewhat lacking the menace of the TV original.

Daleks: Invasion Earth 2150 ADremakes the second Dalek TV serial and finds the Doctor and companions in a ravaged future London where a resistance movement has literally gone underground to fight the Nazi-like alien invaders. Peter Cushing once more makes a kindly, dependable Doctor, though Bernard Cribbins is given a cringe-making comedy routine impersonating a "roboman", and the jazzy soundtrack is wildly out of place. Nevertheless this is a superior sequel, offering lavish production values, better action set-pieces and a higher suspense and fear factor than its predecessor. The best moments remain surprisingly chilling even today.

On the DVD:Doctor Who and the Daleks--the first disc--has a fun, very well-made 1995 documentary running 57 minutes and recounting the production of both feature films. Included are interviews with various surviving cast members. There is also an affectionate commentary with Roberta Tovey and Jennie Linden, hosted by Jonathan Southcote, author of The Cult Films of Peter Cushing. Sadly Daleks: Invasion Earth 2150 ADhas no substantial extra features, but both discs include the respective trailer, presented anamorphically enhanced, and a DVD-ROM reproduction of the relevant cinema brochure. The mono sound is good and the pin-sharp, vibrantly colourful, anamorphically enhanced 2.35:1 transfers are all but flawless, making both films look good as new. --Gary S Dalkin

Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Documentary - 1. DALEKMANIA, Audio Commentary - 1. Roberta Tovey and Jennie Linden - Stars, Trailer - 1. Original Theatrical, Original Theatrical Campaign Brochure
Year:	1965
Release Date:	July 29, 2002
Runtime:	158 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	D 038470
Keywords:	Earth, Who, Two, General, Doctor, Edition, Daleks, Fiction, Invasion, Science, Tv, Horror, Discs, Ad, Sci, Fi, Collector's
Genre:	Science Fiction