Doctor Who - The Five Doctors - The Five Doctors

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Peter Davison	The Doctor (Doctor #5)
Jon Pertwee	The Doctor (Doctor #3)
Patrick Troughton	The Doctor (Doctor #2)
Richard Hurndall	The Doctor (Doctor #1)
Tom Baker	The Doctor (Doctor #4) (archive footage)
William Hartnell	The Doctor (Doctor #1) (archive footage)
Janet Fielding	Tegan
Carole Ann Ford	Susan
Mark Strickson	Turlough
Elisabeth Sladen	Sarah Jane Smith
Nicholas Courtney	Brig. Lethbridge-Stewart
David Savile	Col. Crichton
Ray Float	Sergeant

Director	Peter Moffatt; John Nathan-Turner
Producer	Sue Kerr; Paul Vanezis
Writer	Douglas Adams; Terrance Dicks

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