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The Doctor and his friend Romana are on holiday in Paris, France in 1979 when they begin experiencing fluctuations in time which no one else seems to notice. At the Louvre, the Doctor observes a mysterious woman scoping out the Mona Lisa, and then he and Romana are followed by a man in a trenchcoat. The coated man turns out to be an English detective named Duggan, who is hot on the trail of the enigmatic Count Scarlioni, who has been selling priceless works of art on the black market. The three are taken prisoner by some goons and brought to Scarlioni's mansion, where they learn that the woman from the Louvre in the Count's wife, and that the two are planning to steal the Mona Lisa. In the meantime, the Count and a scientist named Professor Kerensky are conducting dangerous time travel experiments in the cellar, which is conveniently where Scarlioni has the Doctor and friends locked up. While trying to escape, they discover a hidden room containing six Mona Lisas... and they're all the original! The Doctor dispatches Romana and Duggan to try and prevent the Countess and her men from stealing the Mona Lisa at the Louvre, while he uses the TARDIS to travel back in time to 1505 to ask Leonardo Da Vinci why he painted six extra copies of the Mona Lisa... only to be captured by an exact double of Count Scarlioni, who calls himself "Captain Tancredi," and is holding Leonardo prisoner and is the one who forced him to paint duplicates of the portrait. Back in 1979, Romana and Duggan fail to stop the theft of the "real" Mona Lisa and in trying to get it back are captured again. The present day Count Scarlioni reveals what he is attempting to do - go back and time and prevent the extinction of his people, the Jagaroth, during prehistoric times. Scarlioni is an alien! He demands that Romana assist him or else he'll use Kerensky's time machine to trap Paris in a gigantic time bubble and cause everyone in it to die of rapid old age, transforming Paris into a city of death. Will Romana cooperate? Can the Doctor escape from the Count's other self in 1505 and make it back to the present to stop him before all of Paris, and maybe even all of human history, is destroyed forever? One of my favorite Tom Baker era stories and indeed the first classic Doctor Who serial I ever watched and what got me interested in it. This DVD has quite a lot of nice extra goodies including fun audio commentaries by the cast and crew for each of the four episodes which comprise the story.Read full review
Collecting the Tom Baker years as Doctor Who randomly, this turned out to be the final serial I bought, and I can see why it's so beloved. Not only do the Doctor and Romana seem to be having a wonderful time in Paris, but it has a great villain, Julian Glover as Count Scarlioni. I kept looking at him and thinking he looked familiar . . . look no further than Grand Maester Pycelle in "Game of Thrones." The extras with this series are also much better than some others. Now I need to watch all of them in order - what a treat those innocent years were.
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Typical Doctor Who, 4 episode, story from the Tom Baker years. The set includes a second DVD dedicated to special features. The Doctor and Romana have a 1970's detective tagging along with them for this adventure. 400 million years ago, a conveniently humanoid green cyclops gets copies of himself scattered through Earth history when his warp drive explodes. He shapes all of human history by sharing thoughts with his copies to finally achiever time travel technology so he can go back and prevent the explosion. The Doctor must stop him to prevent humanity from being erased from history. The conclusion is a bit abrupt and anticlimactic.
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City of Death is a Doctor Who episode I've long wanted to include in my DVD library, but was never able to find. . .UNTIL NOW! The plot itself concerned the future destiny of Earth, and Doctor Who's efforts to stop an alien from altering to course of history. . .and possibly preventing humankind from ever existing on this planet. (The was a minor problem with the DVD, in that it froze about twenty minutes into the story, but fortunately I was able to fix the problem with some DVD cleaning/repair spray, so the whole DVD works perfectly now). This is, without question, the best Doctor Who episode, possibly out of the whole series. I've ever seen and enjoyed.
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I am personally a Whovian. sure there are Star Wars fans, and Star Trek fans, but I have always found Doctor Who to be the greatest of them all, especially with over 15 years of episodes to watch. here is a time Lord with the power to do anything he wants, and he goes around the galaxy saving the universe, and his pet people us earthlings as well. of course the quality of action is not what you expect in today's movies, but overall these are some great classics and I suggest you add them to your archive today, and help the tradition continue.