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Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9780790757117 Format: Color, NTSC ISBN: 0790757117 Label: BBC Warner Languages: Manufacturer: BBC Warner Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: BBC Warner Release Date: October 10, 2000 Running Time: 60 minutes Studio: BBC Warner Theatrical Release Date: 1999 Editorial Review: Amazon.com: For an entire generation who hid behind the sofa during the scary bits, jokes about Doctor Who are almost inescapably funny. "The Curse of Fatal Death," an extended sketch for Comic Relief, stars more unlikely actors and comedians as the Doctor than anyone could have imagined plausible--Rowan Atkinson, to begin with, and both Hugh and Richard E. Grant. The last-named performance indeed gives one uncomfortable thoughts about roads not taken, as does Jonathan Pryce's remarkable tribute to Roger Delgado as the Master. The tape is filled out with an informative behind-the-scenes documentary and three Doctor Who-related sketches by Victoria Wood and Jim Broadbent, by Lenny Henry, and by French and Saunders. This last sketch, never before shown, with French and Saunders as extras playing reptilian aliens, is particularly hilarious. --Roz Kaveney Average Rating:
 Rating:  - this needs to be released on dvdrowan atkinson should have played the doctor in one of the real series. he's wonderful even if much of the writing depends on flatulent humour. regardless, with this cast, a dvd is really required. get to it, auntie beeb! Rating: - Definitely worth a DVD release.Maybe a DVD release would be a great time to release this show unedited? Since the VHS copy is butchered it would make sense now that this is rereleased in a new unedited DVD. If someone needs me to sign a petition please email me. I'll gladly sign. Rating: - The Sofa of Reasonable ComfortRowan Atkinson stars in this parody of the long-running Doctor Who. Joanthan Pryce makes an execellent Master. The Doctor meets with the Master and tells him he has fallen in love with his lovely companion and says he will travel in time no more. The laughs come fast in this parody! Also on the tape are behind-the-scences taping of the parody and 3 comedy sketches. Rating:  - The Curse of Fatal EditingThe earlier reviews posted here have pretty well covered the merits of the plot, but a brief note is needed on the technicalities, as this story has been re-edited for video. When it was shown on television, "The Curse of Fatal Death" was in four parts, each one ending in a cliffhanger. But BBC Video, always happy to throw in a spoiler where it can, has chosen for no good reason to pointlessly spoil this story by re-editing it into a 2-parter. So do be aware that this video ... Read More Rating: - I'll explain later--just watch this video.OK, they had The Three Doctors, the Five Doctors, and The Two Doctors, not to mention pairings of Doctors in the New Adventures and Missing Adventures. Well, how does five Doctors in a short comic special sound, especially if one of those Doctors is Rowan Atkinson? The show mentions a lot of the cliches that made Doctor Who the show it was. To avoid program discontinuity or lengthy answers to questions, there's "I'll explain later." Then there's the escape up the ventilation shaft, endless ... Read More |
