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Doctor Who: The Sensorites
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Genre | Science Fiction & Fantasy/Television, Television/British Television |
Format | NTSC |
Contributor | Jacqueline Hill, Carole Ann Ford, William Russell, William Hartnell |
Number Of Discs | 1 |
Runtime | 2 hours and 30 minutes |
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Synopsis The Doctor, Ian, Barbara and Susan land on a spaceship orbiting a distant and mysterious world, where a human crew lies frozen somewhere between life and death. The planet is the Sense-Sphere, home of the Sensorites, beings of immense intelligence and power. Unable to leave, the Doctor and his companions must deduce the Sensorites' intentions: are they friendly, hostile, or frightened? And what is the deadly secret at the heart of the Sense-Sphere?
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- MPAA rating : NR (Not Rated)
- Product Dimensions : 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches; 2.61 ounces
- Media Format : NTSC
- Run time : 2 hours and 30 minutes
- Release date : July 29, 2020
- Actors : Jacqueline Hill, William Hartnell, William Russell, Carole Ann Ford
- Studio : BBC
- ASIN : B07Y4MSZVP
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #63,983 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #1,398 in Science Fiction DVDs
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There's so much to enjoy about "The Sensorites", and not just the obvious stuff, either. Obviously, we have to deal with the fluffs first. Hartnell had this great habit, in scenes requiring great technical dialogue, of grabbing his lapels, "Hmm!"ing a lot, wandering up to the camera, and squinting his eyes into the distance, in the direction of the Mary Tamm Memorial Cue-Card Boy. Do you think he would have tried, had he known that this story would be sold to the masses 40 years later, to learn his dialogue? But then we would have been denied such great non-sequiturs as "I rather fancy that's settled that little bit of solution." And, of course, the 28th century watches that he finds in "The Sensorites" are of "the non-winding time." They sure are, Bill, they sure are.
Anyway, "The Sensorites" is an astonishingly radical bit of pacifism. Part One concludes with the first-ever "monster face" cliffhanger in "Doctor Who": we'd already seen a Sensorite hand (in an ill-fitting wool glove) and heard how evil they are, but then we see a misshapen face, floating around in Spain, er, space, and the credits roll. But, by the end of Part Six, it's the Sensorites who are the heroes of the day. The villainy is traced back to three Earth soldiers, minds inadvertently warped by Sensorite telepathy, waging a war against an enemy that didn't exist. And yet, the Doctor lures him out into the open not with weapons, but with sympathy -- and with that wicked bit of psychological byplay that helped later Doctors defuse so many villains. The Doctor then carries the story's moral centerpiece when he says, after the Sensorite warrior refuses to kill that insane Earthman who has killed so many : "The fact is, you didn't kill him, shows great promise for the future of your people."
The Doctor's companion, Ian, again shows his natural aggression, which saved the Thal people in "The Daleks". On the Sense-Sphere, however, he's helpless. The Doctor admonishes: "Now let our own intelligence be our own offense, and attack!" Radical, too, is the fact that Earth Captain Maitland -- the first human we meet in the story -- is completely impotent. He can't even cut through a locked door in less than two episodes! Whereas in other stories, Maitland would have been the human hero, in "The Sensorites" it is Barbara and Susan and Carol (and the Doctor, the unpredictable alien) who are the actors, the voices of reason.
Obviously this story has whopping production flaws. Parts One and especially Two are dragged to a near standstill by a script that under-runs: seven whole minutes in Part Two are consumed by a few characters slowly creeping down a dark hallway. Think about that. Seven minutes of nothing. You could watch the Ali-Liston 1965 heavyweight title fight four times in those seven minutes! And, even though it's radical and progressive, "The Sensorites" still has the Doctor being overly protective of his granddaughter, and Carol tells the Sensorites that they all look alike. Actually, that last bit is clever -- on a planet of telepaths, wouldn't facial features be less important? -- but that bit has been laughed at for so long that it's too late to redeem it. And when Part Two ends with a door closing ominously, Part Three begins with Barbara opening the door. Wow. Now that, Peter R. Newman, is top-tier suspense.
In the end, the Sensorites are philosophical monsters who are scared of the dark. In the same year of "Doctor Who" that gave us the Daleks, maybe, just maybe, the Sensorites are the more representative alien species.
The show itself is very daggy old bbc science fiction - very charming. There's a detailed review at the Dr Who part of the bbc.co.uk website. Hartnell fluffs a few lines, all else is entertaining cheapness.
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Aberwitzige Si-Fi mit Zeitreisen, Aliens
und der Geschichte wie ihr sie nie kanntet.
Sehr gute Geschichten mit Englischem Humor
und Action, einfach Klasse
Ian, Susan and the doctor with 2 of the crewmembers from the spaceship accompany the Sensorites down to their planet to help them understand why so many get sick and die whilst Barbara is left aboard with one more crewmember and a Sensorite in good faith!
The Doctor as usual investigates who or what is trying to prevent them from finding a cure specially when Ian suddenly becomes ill and a rogue sensorite seems to think that it is a rouse that he is not sick and just pretending, this sensorite pretends to be the second elder to get his way and the true elder tells him he is a traitor.
This is nice little romp, and we get to see the first doctor wearing a cloak that became so familiar with Jon Pertwees doctor, we even see him doing a little mixing of test tubes in a lab like the 3rd Doctor in his incarnation does rather more of. Must have for any collection of classic who and would prefer watching this over New Who which went off the boil for me anyway when RTD, David Tennant and crew left and Steven Moffat took over.
Sehr gut gemachte und spannende spitzen Serie.