| Doctor Who The Android Invasion [VHS] [1963] | ![Doctor Who The Android Invasion [VHS] [1963]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51D3JZ3AXCL._SL500_.jpg) | Actors: Tom Baker, Elizabeth Sladen, Ian Marter
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Format: HiFi Sound, PAL
Rating: Parental Guidance
Media: VHS Tape
Discs: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 96 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 4.2 x 1.1
EAN: 5024165512258
Theatrical Release Date: September 29, 1975
Release Date: March 6, 1995
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 is that finger loaded? July 8, 2010
James Richardson (UK)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
story 6.5/10
The highlight of this story is the location sequences. I've been there and I'm impressed how Barry Letts make Devensham look like a village.
The first episode is the best, with sinister androids running about. The villagers are very creepy too.
After that it all goes downhill, the script being one of the most childish up this point in the series history.
Still Tom Baker and Liz Sladen give good performances - worth a watch.
 We dont ave no strangers ere June 14, 2009
Mr S. Anderson (Fife)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The traditional English country village has been a popular element
of many a TV/film outing through the years.From the classic Diana Rigg
episodes of "The Avengers" in the 60s to the present day with the massive
body count of "Midsomer Murders".
So its apt that the setting is equally put to good use in another
successful British institution "Doctor Who" in this story from season
13 albeit with a twist!
This story always seems to be forgotten about,nestling amongst other
fan faves such as "Pyramids Of Mars" and "The Seeds Of Doom".I dont
know why because its a little gem of a story.Admittedly,as has already
been pointed out,various plot strands are far too similar to "Terror
Of The Zygons" which had been broadcast just a couple of months
previously,but you still have the iconic pairing of Tom Baker and
Elisabeth Sladen as the fourth doctor and Sarah-Jane respectively.
Yes i know a better title could have been used to obscure the main
thread of the story but it is still consistently entertaining.
We also have a new race of aliens the Kraals(not Thraals as stated
on the video sleeve notes)in another retread of the all too familiar
aliens conquering earth scenarios,but come on thats the essence of
"Doctor Who" isnt it.There is also a swansong of sorts for another
mainstay of Who-UNIT,with the final appearence of Sgt Benton and no
brigadier(away in Geneva...again),Patrick Newell does an admirable
job with his Colonel Faraday substitute but its not the same.
So despite all that this is still(in my opinion)quintessential and
classic "Doctor Who".This story deserves a re-appraisal and a DVD
release so the masses can view it and see for themselves.Highly
recommended,especially for fans of the new TV series.
Underrated May 15, 2009
Mr. J. N. Windsor (London, UK)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This story falls into the shadow of the many Tom Baker greats, but it has some really good elements to it. While it falls flat in some places, there's enough eerie atmosphere of "something's not quite right" to keep the story going for the majority of the time.
There's something lurking in Devesham Woods... April 18, 2009
Captain Pugwash (UK)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
The Android Invasion - a Fourth Doctor and Sarah-Jane Smith adventure from 1975 - would probably not make most Doctor Who fans' top 10 TV stories but it is possibly my favourite ever made.
The story opens with the time travellers arriving in a beautiful leafy English Wood, but The Doctor senses that something is out of place. When the pair witness a UNIT soldier walking to his death over a cliff they decide to investigate, and uncover an alien conspiracy to gradually replace the Earth with android replicas of humans and infiltrate before taking over.
The aliens in question are the fantastically realised Kraals and they are accompanied by faceless automatons in space suits who fire deadly projectiles from their wrists.
The thing that makes this story so memorable for me is its setting in an archetypal English village; little moments like The Doctor ordering Ginger pop in the local pub and the truck arriving in the village square to unload a host of android locals, who wait immobile until a signal is given, then begin to act as if they were the humans they have replaced. It is both eerie and strangely evocative of an England that never was, and despite later flaws it remains a hugely enjoyable and cosily thrilling story that I can watch over and over again. Milton Johns si particularly good, and puts in a typically twitchy and shifty performance as duped astronaut Guy Crayford.
It's criminal that this story still hasn't been released on DVD, as it's an atmospheric and memorable gem of a serial. Hopefully 2Entertain will remedy this soon.
 better than most Tom Bakers May 18, 2004
Adrian Sherlock (Australia)
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is a better than usual Tom Baker story, with fun and atmosphere early on and passable androids and aliens. The rocket is a bad jok, same stock footage as Genesis of the Daleks/revenge of the Cybermen again! Considering it hails from the overrated Gothic horror period, which had as many totally boring stories as cool exciting ones, this then is not bad at all. The ending falls rather flat and looks awful (that freeze frame is yuck!) but I have a soft spot for this one. I liked UNIT, sadly this is its last breath. Criminal! And fat comedy guy who stands in for the Brigadier is an insult to the show's past! But, for the eerie village scenes, this is worth a look!
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