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• Doctor Who - The Five Doctors | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £10.49   |  Saving you £9.50 (90.56%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Someone is taking the Doctor's past selves out of time and space placing them in a vast wilderness - a battle arena with a sinister tower at its centre. As the various incarnations of the doctor join forces they learn they are in the Death Zone on their home world of Gallifrey fighting Daleks Cybermen Yeti...and a devious Time Lord traitor who is using the Doctor and his companions to discover the ancient secrets of Rassilon the first and most powerful ruler of Gallifrey. The Five Doctors was originally broadcast to celebrate the Twentieth Anniversary of Doctor Who in 1983. This new version of the story features extended scenes previously unseen sequences new visual effects and a stereo soundtrack. Not intended as a replacement for the original edition of the story this is an alternative version which uses state-of-the-art technology to embellish and enlarge one of the greatest Dr Who adventures ever...

• Doctor Who - The Five Doctors | DVD | (01/11/1999) from £6.22   |  Saving you £13.77 (221.38%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Yes, The Five Doctors is 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