Stars: Peter Davison, Jon Pertwee, Patrick Troughton, Tom Baker, Richard Hurndall

Summary: This film is a DOCTOR WHO fan's fantasy come true. This legendary special is a grand one-time-only reunion of the first five Doctors, as well as a reunion of all their most famous friends, foes, and monsters.

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Reviewed by: davybozal24-7
Posted on May 23, 2006 2:54 PM

The world's longest running science - fiction series celebrated its
20th anniversary with this special feature - length story - a glorious
reunion of all 5 Doctors and many of their infamous enemies and companions . A place of ancient evil feared throughout the universe -
the Death Zone on Gallifrey . Abandoned for centuries it is now
re - activated by someone who dares play the deadly Game of Rassilon once again . The first 5 incarnations of the Doctor have been snatched from their Time - Streams ; the 4th Doctor (Tom Baker) is trapped in the Time/Space Vortex . Old adversaries are
also active . Great stuff .

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Yes, The Five Doctorsis the one that gathers together Hartnell, Troughton, Pertwee, Baker and Davison, dumps them on some moorland and lets some of the Doctor's greatest enemies take potshots at them. Except, of course, that William Hartnell had sadly passed on by the time this series was made in 1983 (although his replacement Richard Hurndall does an excellent job) and Tom Baker was only featured as a patched-in cameo, apparently prevented from joining in by a temporal thingummy. However, this kind of creakiness comes with the territory and is soon forgotten. The assorted incarnations of the Doctor (together with a scattering of assistants) are drawn together through time and space to battle Daleks, Cybermen, Yeti--those weird androids which keep jumping into the air and disappearing--and many other old foes. They realise that they're on their home planet of Gallifrey and must eventually deal with the legacy of Rassilon, founder of the Time Lords. It's all great fun, of course, and the excellent chapter points on this DVD compensate for the rather self-indulgent lack of editing. --Roger Thomas

Aspect Ratio:	4:3 Full Frame
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Extended Scenes, Untransmitted Sequences, New Visual Effects
Subtitles:	Dutch, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish
Year:	1983
Release Date:	November 1, 1999
Runtime:	102 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	B B C D V D 1006
Keywords:	Five, Who, General, Doctor, Doctors, Fiction, Science, Tv, Horror, Sci, Fi
Genre:	Science Fiction