 "The Doctors meet Omega" | 2009-08-22 |
| - Reviewed By User: A2P7IUWB6K7907 |
This episode starred the first three Doctors. William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton and Jon Pertwee. When I first watched it in 1986, it ticked me off. I got mad because Hartnell was only shown in it for a few minutes instead of being in the whole show like Troughton. But at the time I didn't know that Hartnell was ill and couldn't perform in the whole show.
The Doctors had to battle another Time Lord named Omega who was sucking all of the energy from Gallifrey. They eventually defeated Omega and Gallifrey got a new power source. The Time Lords were so grateful that they gave the Doctor a new dematerialization circuit and freed him from his exile on Earth.
This wasn't the greatest Pertwee episode but it was good. Buy it today. You won't be sorry. |
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| "It's fun, not the best but still fun." | 2009-06-06 |
| - Reviewed By User: A36SZ95UZYWP55 |
| The Three Doctors was a 10 year reunion show of sorts, Unfortunatly it suffers from a couple of probloms, William Hartnell was too ill to do more then feed lines to a moniter in the Tardis, his semi there semi not there state is similer to Tom Baker's absence in the 20th anniversry, The Five Doctors and leaves you wondering if it would have been better to simply not include him at all, though at the end of the day I'm sure that most all would agree that it was good to see him one last time. Fortunatly Patrick Troughton makes it alot easier to forget about the missing Doctor and the best part of the show is undoubtly watching him and Jon Pertwee try to steal the show from one another. Omeaga is not the most frighting of villians but fortuantly he's not the worse either though his blob like minions are about as scary as the ant's in "The Web Planet". The other problom comes in with both the aniversery shows, to many charecters and not enough to do. With effectively 2 Doctors and 3 companions and another doctor (no not the original just a plain old doctor of science) and a hunter along for the ride the show easily feels crowded. To often the only thing for everyone to do is stand behind Jon and Pat while they figure everthing out by themselves. Dispite it's shortcomings the show is still a fun ride and adventure for the 3rd Doctors era. |
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 "Doctors flute canceling out Omega's will and restoring everything back to its proper frame" | 2009-04-27 |
| - Reviewed By davepamn |
1. Cosmic ray monitor device creating readings using hot air balloon
2. A wormhole allows travel faster than light between the earth and a black hole.
3. The Time Lords must use their energy to bring a doctor from the past into the present.
4. Dr. Taylor, Joe, Brigadier, soldier, and Doctors are transported to a black hole, into an anti-matter world
5. The Time Lords violate their first rule and bring a Doctor from the past to assist the doctor in the present to fix the cosmic drain caused by the black hole.
6. Doctors meets Omega. The Doctor believe Omega was destroyed in his assignment to find a power source for the Time Lords. Omega says, "No, I am not destroyed, as you can see." Omega wants revenge against the Time Lords feeling he was abandoned and wronged.
7. Omega says, "without Omega there would be no Time Lords." The Time Lords are the villains who abandoned Omega.
8. Omega found the power source to give Time Lords power over time.
9. Omega is abandoned in a black hole, a singularity.
10. Omega is causing cosmic energy drain threatening to destroy the Universe.
11. If the cosmic drain is not stopped, it will tear about the known universe. The Doctor encourages Omega stop the cosmic drain and join the High Council. Omega figures out "two time Lords, the same Time Lord". The doctor is facing death.
12. Omega is the greatest Time Lord. Omega provided the power through solar energy that allowed the Time Lord to travel through time.
13. The two Doctor time Lords use their will to modify Omega reality creating a door for escape. Omega uses his will too create a world in the anti-matter. The doctors combine their wills against Omega proving that he is not a God.
14. The Time Lords send the last of their energy to send the third doctor into the black hole.
15. Omega forces the doctor into submission in a strangulation hold. Omega spares the Doctor from death.
16. The singularity created the light source between the black hole and the earth. Omega is still trapped in the black hole. Ironic.
17. Omega controls the singularity. Omega's will of creation is made possible by the singularity. Omega can not escape without losing control. The doctors must take over the work Omega started so Omega can escape.
18. The doctors have no choice but take Omega's place. Beneath the mask there is nothing. You only exist because of your will. Omega has nothing left of physical self. Omega can only in the black hole. Omega lacks self-control. Omega becomes enraged and wants to destroy all things.
19. The three doctors telepathically conference a plan. A plan to strike a bargain with Omega. Omega realizes he can not escape, but the doctor will keep Omega company. "Be gone and give thanks that Omega is merciful". The brigadier, Dr. Taylor, Mr. Ellis must step into the singularity.
20. The black hole is transformed into a sun. Doctors flute combined with the antimatter canceling Omegas will and all things fell back into their proper place.
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| "The first Doctor Who reunion for the 10th anniversary " | 2009-04-09 |
| - Reviewed By User: A178LLVAZ2B97E |
| This 1973 serial of the Pertwee era, reunites for the first time, the other two Doctors in a single adventure. WIlliam Hartnell participation was more like a cameo because of his healt condiction, but the pair of Jon Pertwee and Patrick Throghton was espectacular and very funny to watch. A must for the reunion doctors DVD's ( The others are The Five Doctors , The Two Doctors and Time Crash), I recomend completly |
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| "Great video!!" | 2007-08-24 |
| - Reviewed By User: A3VNR2XOCMGFEP |
| I got this for my husband who is a long time Dr Who fan. He loved it!!! This is for the really devoted fan!! |
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| ""A hero? I should have been a god! "" | 2007-02-27 |
| - Reviewed By kichigaikitsune |
"The Three Doctors" is something of an ambivalent classic. On the one hand, to be honest, it is riddled with faults, and it kind of feels like the whole crew is coasting a bit in celebration of the show's ten year run (which is certainly worth celebrating, of course). The weeble-wobbly monsters look kind of like congealed jelly or rotten pinecones and amble about bumping into things at a snail's pace--more comical than threatening. The scientific background is ambitious but incredibly shaky, and the idea of a gust of steam being a singularity is unintentionally humorous (not to mention bizarre); the faulty conflation of black holes and antimatter also comes across as goofy (or constantly annoying, in my wife's case), though perhaps this was all so esoteric as to be effective technobabble in the early 1970's. The supporting cast at times seem to be walking through the script without really getting into it, while way too much pointless walking through corridors slows down the plot. And so on and so on, gripe gripe gripe.
On the other hand, to be honest, it's replete with the stuff of greatness, and it rather feels like the crew went all out on this one. The idea of teaming up the current Doctor with his prior incarnations is an incredibly inventive inspiration (inspired from fan letters, we learn in the extras, but anyway), and works perfectly. It could've turned out so cheesy too, but the rivalry and bickering between the three of them gives it just the right chemistry (and is awfully amusing in the bargain). Patrick Troughton and Jon Pertwee both give this performance their all, and the way their Doctors' personalities clash and yet complement each other more than makes up for any gripey nitpicks. It's really too bad William Hartnell couldn't participate more due to his health, but the old boy is doing his level best and hats off to him--since from the start he believed in the show's long-lasting potential when everyone else gave it a season or two at best, there's a certain poetic justice in his being there for the 10th anniversary. To the naysayers, Ha!
Three Doctors against one villain? Ordinarily this would be overkill, but Omega is as formidable and threatening as his jello minions are not. Here's one of those great villains whose anger and resentment seem justified or at least understandable even if their resulting actions must be prevented. A Time Lord from Gallifrey like the Doctor, Omega developed the technology of time travel and in the process was trapped (abandoned, from his point of view) in an antimatter limbo. Now he has the power of a god and the emotional instability of a madman; there is something grand and awesome/aweful about his character, like Satan out of Milton's "Paradise Lost" or Darth Vader from the original "Star Wars" (whose mask and outfit his resembles, retroactively speaking)--and yet the scene when he breaks down in a heartrending wail at the knowledge that he's wasted away to nothing but raw willpower, trapped in a world of his own making for eternity, is, well, heartrending. The actor who plays Omega nails this performance, too--his dialogue is full of the kinds of lines that, depending on the delivery, are either unbelievably hokey or unbelievably dramatic, and he keeps it firmly in the latter register 100% of the way. The ability to convincingly portray such a character and to fully get his range of emotions across while encumbered with a bulky mask and a caped outfit probably deserves some kind of serious award, too.
So, while giving the nitpicks their just due, in the final accounting, 3 Doctors + 1 Unbalanced Demiurge = A Timelord Classic. |
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