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Doctor Who: The Claws of Axos
 
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Doctor Who: The Claws of Axos

Jon Pertwee , Katy Manning    NR (Not Rated)   DVD
3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
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A podlike spacecraft is on an intercept course for Earth, and nervous humans' first instinct is to shoot first and ask questions later. Instead, they discover a race of golden, beautiful aliens asking for help and offering an unlimited source of energy--with a catch. Originally this 1971 adventure was to be called "The Vampire from Space," but that was too obvious, particularly when the villainous Master (Roger Delgado) is really behind this latest threat to Earth. Can the Doctor (Jon Pertwee) discover the awful truth about Axos in time, or will his desire to free himself from the planet overcome his better judgment?

A fabulous sense of Englishness permeates this era of the series, with pretentious bureaucrats, overzealous army officers, and comic poachers among others reacting to aliens in their own backyard. And despite being the Doctor's main adversary at the time, the Master gets all the best lines, including his comment about the repairs to the TARDIS being a "botch up," and suggesting to the nervous Englishmen that "putting sticky tape on the windows" might be a good defense against a nuclear explosion. Watch for an early appearance by Tim Piggot-Smith (The Jewel in the Crown) as an army officer, as well as a sudden snowstorm during filming that is explained away as "freak weather conditions" caused by the aliens! Episodes 2 and 3 appear a bit murky due to the original British copies having to be remastered. With lots of monsters, action, and high-tech sets, stories like this were the backbone that Doctor Who's reputation in the 1970s rests on. --Ryan K. Johnson


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2.0 out of 5 stars Instant nostalgia - even in 1971!, July 17 2006
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This review is from: Doctor Who: The Claws of Axos (DVD)
The Claws of Axos is a decent story but that's about it. If your a huge Pertwee UNIT era fan it's something you would buy simply because there are few stories from that era out on DVD at this time. It has UNIT, the Master and and an alien invasion. If you were to make a pastiche of this era of the series this would be the story you'd come up with. It's not really bad but not particularily good either and the over-all story just doesn't come together.

The main reason for it's release was to test the RSC (Reverse Standards Conversion) process whereby tapes of the show that were recovered from North America in the NTSC standard could be reprocessed back to the PAL standard and be of higher picture quality for DVD release. This disc of course is in NTSC but the picture will be higher quality then if they had used the original NTSC picture. The best thing about this release is that it paved the way for Inferno on DVD.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Psychedelic Spaghetti Monsters-a-Go-Go!, Nov 25 2005
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Jeremy Morrow (Hamilton, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews
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How can anybody not fall in love with this psychedelic Who classic? It's got gooey spaghetti monsters in it! A must have for any Who fan.
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4.0 out of 5 stars All that glitters is not gold, Oct 9 2002
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Junglies (Morrisville, NC United States) - See all my reviews
This is an intersting Third Doctor tale starring Jon Pertwee first broadcast between 13 March and April 3 1971.

Beware of Greeks bearing Gifts is the old saying, but in this case it is the Autons, with a material called Axonite which brings with it the promise of solving all the earth's problems of food shortages.

Before you know it of course, there is more to it than that and soon the Axon plot is uncovered. The Master too, has a role to play as the two-faced, double-crossing, Timelord wriggles from his situation as a captive of the Axons and ultimately makes good his escape.

The Axons, similar to the Autons as part of a single entity are looking for an energy source and earth just fits the bill. The story highlights the fact that appearances can be deceptive as the Axons adopt a beautiful gold form which transfixes their human hosts and undermines their natural hostility and suspicion. The other human trait of greed, particularly when confronted with getting something for nothing, is also highlighted by this story as well as the ruthlessness which humans adopt when trying to get what they want.

However, the adage of all that being glitters is not gold holds up when eventually the humans find that they have been sold a pup. Almost too late, they fight to defeat the Axons who have reverted to their natural form with more than a little bit of help from the Doctor.

The moral of the story clearly is that we can get by without a little bit of help from our friends (or otherwise).

My only complaint about this story is the way in which this, and other third doctor stories, is another one of those 'the biggest threat to the human race than the world has ever seen'. Other than that it is a preety good well worth watching adventure.

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