Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD Brand: Warner Brothers EAN: 0883929026081 Format: Color, DVD-Video, Original recording remastered, Subtitled, NTSC Label: BBC Warner Manufacturer: BBC Warner Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: BBC Warner Region Code: 1 Release Date: October 07, 2008 Running Time: 99 minutes Sales Rank: 6874 Studio: BBC Warner Theatrical Release Date: 2008
Editorial Review:
Product DescriptionStudio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 10/07/2008 Run time: 100 minutes Rating: Nr
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - "Morbius's brain... on the floor!"
I out-and-out love this story. I've taken the typical "Doctor Who" fan's path to this point of view, however. I was riveted at age 11, embarrassed at age 16, and now celebrate it in all its campy glory. When the disembodied brain of Morbius fell onto the floor with an audible "splat!" late in Part Three, I actually cheered.
What's most impressive about the DVD release is the Restoration Team's attitude to the story. Now that the classic series DVDs have been coming out for almost ... Read More
Rating: - I was waiting for this one...
It's the mad scientist and Rocky Horror (w/o the sex) meets Dr. Who and the BBC. There's something for everyone! Cult worshippers, Sara Jane goes blind, the Dr. almost gets his head cut off... there's large insects combined with humans.... it's lots of fun!
Rating: - "The impossible dream of a thousand alchemists, dripping like tea from an urn."
It doesn't take long until the viewer realizes that "The Brain of Morbius" is an unlikely concoction, a hodgepodge homage to any number of classics and not-so-classics, the chief ingredient being of course one of the key progenitors of the science fiction genre, Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein"--with a dash of late 20th-century paranoia, "They Saved Hitler's Brain" tossed into the brew for good measure. The risks taken here by the show's writers and producers, namely that the story collapse into a muddied ... Read More
Rating: - 30 years ago
It's hard to believe it's been 30 years since Doctor Who came back to America in the form of Tom Baker, I missed the Pertwee episodes from their 1973 run (and in DC they were preempted that summer by the Watergate hearings).
I'd rush home from high school to see the show, a little fuzzy from the station in Baltimore.
But I was captivated.
This episode was one of the many great ones. Great mood that overcame any small defects.
I wonder if for this DVD they fixed the ... Read More
Rating: - awsome
what can I say, the more Doctor Who that is released the better the world is.
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