Product ReviewsDoctor Who - Four To Doomsday (DVD, 2008)

Four to Doomsday.

As described. Arrived on time. Enjoyable story.

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Not a classic but has its moments

1980s camp silliness which is rather slow but has some interesting villains and there are a few fun moments.

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Excellent

Very quick delivery and DVD was in excellent condition, very impressed

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Doctor who four to doomsday dvd

Really good thank you

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Bruv 👍

My brother would recommend this to any Dr who fan .

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Great, many thanks

Great, many thanks

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Four to Doomsday

My son is an avid collector of the Dr Who genre. We started with the odd car-boot sale VHS purchase; gradually his collection expanded and the tapes and DVDs became harder and harder to acquire as we 'hit' a wall comprising the rarities and unusual stories that are much more difficult to obtain. We're down to the last twenty or so now, having collected around 160+ of the 'original series' stories. Imagine my delight to find Four to Doomsday from the Peter Davision epoch on DVD and at such a modest price..... Oh, and it's a good story too...... And it was delivered speedily and without fuss. Ahhhhhhh.....Read full review...

The best and worst of Peter Davisons era all in one

"Four to Doomsday" is something of an odd beast. There are parts of it (mostly episodes one and two) that are up there with the best "Doctor Who" serials made by Peter Davison, and yet there are other parts that are right down there as the worst things produced during the 1980s.

Maybe most of the problems begin and end with Matthew Waterhouse (Adric). Fan legend has it that he was working as an office boy at the BBC when producer John Nathan-Turner invited him to an open audition for the new young teenage male companion. His only serious acting credit before winning the role was in the 1980 adaptation of the book "To Serve Them All My Days" as a schoolboy. He was apparently the best of those who auditioned, which doesn't say much for Britain's acting talent back then, but then again, many of the Doctor's companions had done very little acting work before working on the program. Waterhouse was a fan of the show, and I guess in some ways was one of the few people to live their dream and actually get to star in it. Maybe I was jealous at the time and I wanted to be there on-screen squeezed between Janet Fielding (Tegan) and Sarah Sutton (Nyssa), but I just never liked him. He was just an unlikeable petulant teenager, and - in this story - a sexist unlikeable chauvanist pig of a teenager. I spent most of its ninety minute running time wishing Adric dead. The only good point is that the episode "Earthshock" was only a few weeks away and although I didn't yet know it at the time, I would indeed get my wish! Sad to say, but Matthew Waterhouse just can't act.

This was Peter Davison's first filmed episode, even though "Castrovalva" eventually went out in the running order before it, so one can forgive him a lot as he tries to bed himself down into the role. Fielding and Sutton are probably also not so sure how they should be playing their characters now that Tom Baker had left, with the end result being that only guest star Stratford Johns as "Monarch" really seems to stand out from the crowd. He is certainly a good villain, at least until things start to fall apart in the script midway through part three, while the less said about the Doctor floating around in space without an EVA suit in part four the better - the idea that he can breathe for about six minutes in sub-zero temperatures is one that is best forgotten, while the Doctor again directly takes the life of his enemy by exposing him to his own poison that he planned to use to invade Earth - something again that didn't happen often in the show back then.

The full complement of Davison, Fielding, Sutton and Waterhouse are all present for the customary audio commentary, although the rest of the special features are somewhat light considering some of what has been put together for other DVDs in the series. Maybe there's just not that much about "Four to Doomsday" that needs to be said - certainly with studio-bound stories like these there is no chance of a "Now and Then" feature.

There's good bits in this story, and there's also bad bits, which at the end of the day, makes this pretty average for an eighties "Doctor Who" episode. It's not really a "must have" unless you are a fan who is collecting the whole set, which for people like me means taking the good with the bad. For every "Genesis of the Daleks" there is a "Horns of Nimon" just like for every "Caves of Androzani" there is a "Time-Flight". That's just the way it is.Read full review...

Doctor Who - Another must buy on DVD 10 out of 10

Hello there everyone,

Yes me again folks. This is the second Doctor Who DVD which I purchased here on EBay, I must say another classic story this time it's Peter Davison's turn as The Doctor. He's just settling into the role in this 4 part story I recommend this DVDRead full review...

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as a dr who fan any dr who dvd is execelent news,so watching it gives me great pleasure.i do mean to purchase as many as i can. this dvd is one i have wanted for some time.