John Nathan Turner had the chance to cast Peter Cushing in The Arc of Infinity, but decided he was "too passé". So, instrad, he cast Leonard Sachs, the host of "The Good Old Days" set in 1900. He thought fans of the Music Halls would tune in and become Who fans. The 80s were a peculiar era.
@@thewhoview Yes, she needed a lot more screen time, it was bit of a waste of her really. And since Sugar Puffs (own by Quaker Oats back then) helped finance the film, it's hardly surprising they appear in it via adverts.
@@martinhavelock5106I think it was one of, if not the, first instances of Product Placement in movies. I'm sure I read that in an SF magazine a long (LONG!) time ago 🙂
Both films are very entertaining and had a big impact on me as a child. I have both on DVD and watch them every now and then. It is sad that these Dr Who films from the 1960s are so much better than the TV series airing in 2024
LOVE them both, but this is my favourite. that Spaceship of the daleks alone and the practical effects which are amazing is worth the price ofthe ticket alone.
I think this is the better of the two films. The scene where the Dalek spaceship fires its weapon at the van is well done with a nice sound effect. The Robomen canteen scene - look at the wonky goggles on the one, it's hilarious. Jill Curzon - wow!
My Father who was the Production Designer on the original TV Series got a phone call from the film makers to use some of the Daleks from the TV Series in order to get enough Daleks for the film. In the TV series some of the Daleks are actually card cut outs in order to have enough Daleks.
Hi! Your review of the first film was recommended to me and I really enjoyed it (your review). But I also remembered that I enjoyed 2150 more (both the film and TV) than 'The Daleks', so I bought it on streaming and watched it this weekend - just before your review! Totally agree it's great fun, Cushing is great, and I love the scale of the movie compared to the TV version. (Your review the colourised TV 'Daleks' story also completely hit the spot, even down to matching my own view that The Invasion would be an ideal candidate for colourising, if all episodes were intact) Looking forward to your future reviews!
I saw this film when it first came out with my brother and I've seen it a few times since. Some great stuff - mountains just north of Watford ! 2150 and they are using an old Morris GPO van + Peter Cushing, Bernard Cribbins and Daleks what is there not to like. I once saw a Dalek with my father and brother a one of the 'Boys and Girls' Exhibition at the Earls Court Olympia so I know they exist - "exterminate" - I love it.
This movie was set almost two centuries into the future (1966 then 2150), but it went against the trend that settings in the future had to look futuristic. This England in 2150, if it weren't for the Daleks, looks ordinary, just as ordinary as the mid-20th century. This speculation seems realistic. Despite all the scientific discoveries and inventions, Earth will still be our good old Earth, people will still have their identity, culture, and ordinary, practical lives.
When I was a kid, me and my friend thought that by the year 2000 we'd all be wearing silver suits with diagomal zips down the front and be driving flying cars. But no, we still have gas guzzlers and normal clothes, normal houses, normal jobs and no moonbase 😞
The Daleks appear to have landed somewhere in the vicinity of Sloan's Square. This film and the first one are two of my favourite films of all time. Peter was brilliant as Doctor Who.
Good fun. But in the future of 2150 they are still wearing 1960s clothes and driving 1960s Royal Mail vans:) However, the scene where the dalek ship descends and totally incinerates the fleeing van is actually pretty scary and creepy.
Enjoyed this film. I miss Bernard Crimmins. My wife was watching a Midsomer Murders he was in as I type this. Coincidence. Keep up the content. I enjoy what you present.
@@taliesinllanfair4338 Thanks for watching. Bernard Cribbins was simply brilliant. All I have to do is watch that clip from journey's end where the doctor says goodbye to Wilf & I tear up.😭
I was in Nigeria once and some Daleks came up on the TV which naturally I watched, I had to explain to my Nigerian wife what Daleks were, that took some explaining.
I love how coincidentally the fashions of 1966 when this was made are by chance back in style in 2150 AD therefore considerably reducing the wardrobe budget. I'm a fan of this film and the model of the Dalek spaceship was really impressive for the time.
@@britman1966 It is dark, but the original TV story is much more bleak, & I love it. The movie is great; it's the same plot but presented with a different flavour.
I was 5. I was in the cinema, slightly puzzled about who Who is, but... never mind. Also, being used to Fireball XL5 (needs a remake) and Stingray (ditto), I knew about puppets, models and visual effects of the time. I could see wires, I could see thick matte lines, wobbly optical printing - yadda yadda yadda. The Dalek saucer blew my mind! On film, on the big screen, in colour, and... HOW did they do that? Outside? It looks like they did it outside? How big or small was the model? WOW THAT's just... WOW! I paraphrase, of course, I was mostly a gurgling incoherent mess of excitement. Even a couple of years later, on tv, some of the more family friendly aspects I found not amusing or cute but a bit annoying - THAT ROBOMAN's REFLECTIVE GLASSES ARE CROOKED! - but even that lengthy bit of business with Bernard Cribbins is now to me quite charming. Then in my teens, having discovered Amicus and Hammer Films (Tygon, too), I grew to love the certain breathless pace the always rushed productions the UK film industry imbued with their movies back then. To me, it lent a certain reality to proceedings. So when the NuWho started way back when, this was the standard I was hoping for, and we had that for a few seasons until someone let Murray Gold off the leash and he ran amok with way too many music cues - which now make the tv unwatchable for me (aside from the constant running away from everything! Oh for a Doctor to turn around like Jon Pertwee did and square off to foe, saying, "I've learned a few new Venusion Karate moves since we last met..." And as for Peter Cushing as Dr Who... one of my favourites.
Loved it and still do, recall recording a copy off the telly onto Super Beta and much more recently the 4k blu - yes those wires are way too clear and it wouldn't have taken much in a modern edit suite to remove them completely....perhaps on the 8k version ?????
Love this movie but even as a kid it bothered me that it was set SO far in the future but people still wore Donkey jackets and drove 1950's Morris vans. 😊
@@philb2085 I think if the movie wasn't rushed & they had more time that might of been rectified. Like in the original tv story, Barbra & Jenny stole an antique Lorrie from a vehicle museum. I wish they would of done something like that for the film. 🙂
There is a theory that these movies actually take place within the television series world because Ian and Barbera write popular books about their adventures and the most successful are turned into these movies.
I think THIS should have been set in 2000....akin to Tom saying "The Dalek invasion of the earth in the year 2000 was..." in Genesis of the Daleks. Also, the preview of the original Dalek Invasion TV story in '64, the narrator said, "The year is 2000....." I could accept what we see here in this movie AS 2000 or 2010....since I could accept old ass cars, as well as Sugar Puffs and Delmonte being all about, not to mention the old buildings and fashions.
This is my favourite film and it's great to have Bernard Cribbins in it. I do like the BBC serial but this is better for me as it condenses the plot and has more action because of it. I've got my DVD set but Talking Pictures like showing this every now and again, which is great
These 2 films are a very entertaining look at an alternate universe Doctor. Or should I say Doctor Who? Lol. Great fun family friendly films. Love them!
@@thewhoview yeah, Cribbins is charming. Roy Castle's character in the first one is borderline disturbing; I was surprised to learn that he was a popular children's tv host. I've found him funny in other stuff - notably Legend of the Werewolf, which I watched before Dr Who and the Daleks and somehow could immediately tell he and Cushing had worked together before! Something about the vibe...
Obviously, I love the Dalek Movies, but what I love most about "Daleks' - Invasion Earth 2150 AD" are the shiny black PVC uniforms of the Robomen! ... I love wearing shiny black PVC! ... I'd love to be captured by the Daleks and be Robotised! ... I wouldn't be able to get into the changing room quick enough! 🤣 One wonders what the Daleks were thinking, when designing the Robomen's uniforms? ... Were they expecting a lot of rain on Earth? ... Or, were the uniforms designed to appeal to kinky boys, like myself? ... And, exactly HOW did the Daleks manufacture the shiny black PVC jumpsuits, with just a claw to work with? DALEK: "Robo-Slave Unit desig-nation 115, why are you smi-ling? Be-ing Robo-tised is a pun-ish-ment! Robo-Slave Units are for-bid-den from en-joy-ing their PVC uni-forms! Robo-Slave Unit desig-nation 115 will de-sist. Rogue Robo-Slave Units will be ex-ter-min-ated!" ROBOMAN: "I am a kinky Robo-Slave Unit, master!" DALEK: "Has your pro-gram-ming mal-func-tion-ed? What is this word, kin-ky? Is it a wea-pon? Do you mean to des-troy your mast-ers, the Da-leks?" ROBOMAN: "Kinky is why I am smiling, master!" 😜 DALEK: "Si-lence! ... You are de-fect-ive! ... Ex-term-in-ate rogue Robo-Slave Unit!" The Dalek exterminates the rogue Roboslave Unit, and he falls to the ground dead, accompanied by the squeak and crackle of his heavy shiny black PVC uniform.
@@thewhoview They certainly do! ... And I loved the sniggering Daleks talking about the perks of being a Roboman! ... Namely, the motorcycle helmet, shiny "leather" suit, boots, and whip! 👍🤣 ... Well, it'd certainly tempt me out of hiding! 👍😜
I had an idea on how someone could perhaps make a new sequel (though for obvious reasons, Dr Who would have to be recast with an actor who looks similar enough to Peter Cushing, but that could also be used as a plot point towards the end): Unlike the first two, this film isn't a cinematic remake of a Doctor Who Dalek serial, but rather it's a remake of the first Cyberman story as a retro-style movie cinematic adaptation of 'The Then Planet'... I won't go into the plot itself, which is basically the same as the original serial, but following the main climax of the film and the Cybermen are defeated, Dr Who goes off back to Tardis, looking very ill, much to his new Companions Ben & Polly's confusion (and more based on the novelisation of the serial rather than how it was in the serial) a now sickly Dr Who goes into a rejuvenation machine thing and comes out with a new younger face. (With a subtle behind-the-scenes twist that the new Dr Who is actually the same actor as the recast 'original' Dr Who, but with less make-up to make the actor look like Peter Cushing, and he now has a simpler & slightly scruffier style akin to Troughton's Doctor while somehow wearing almost the same clothes as before). Then, afterwards, as a bit of a teaser, Dr Who the final moments of the film have Tardis materialise within some in the dimly lit, seemingly abandoned cobwebbed chamber and the newly rejuvenated Dr Who calls his companions over and (like that iconic clip from the following TV serial after the original 'The 'Tenth Planet') Dr Who ominously tells the companions "Ben... Polly... meet the Daleks..." and that how the film ends...
Infinitely better than the first. Even with the crazy blanket Product Placement that paid for it's high standard production (a compromise that isn't that noticeable unless you watch it over and over).
This was my 1st exposure to DR. WHO. I loved it. I was very disappointed when I saw the earlier film! These days, I prefer both movies to the original 2 TV stories. And... this movie is MY FAVORITE Daleks story. At the moment, this is also the ONLY "Doctor Who" I have on DVD. But i need to upgrade it. The version I have has the opening credits at the beginning... instead of after the jewelry store robbery, where they belong. I like to joke, a story about Earth being invaded, destroyed, and Earth's population killed & enslaved... should not be this much FUN. 😆 By the way... it strikes me... that with advancing technology, they damned well ought to be able to VISUALLY REMOVE "the strings". (That sort of thing never bothers me... but, really, if they can remove "damage" from old films, WHY NOT "strings"?
I preferred the more fairy tale vibe of the first one; to the second one being the Brits basically congratulating themselves on what an awesome resistance movement they'd have been if Hitler had invaded. Cushing's part was scaled down due either to physical health problems or some kind of nervous breakdown, depending on who you ask, but although I know *why* it happened I still feel kind of cheated by how little he is in it.
WELL yes fun see but ok like see a re do with CGI and well to day stuff and THE DR who and the galfan hes is thats me but if can find a DVD i see it be fun to see both
A bit of the story doesn't add up to me. After the failed attack on the saucer, Susan, Wyler and wheelchair scientist say they are fleeing central London and go to Watford ( on the outskirts of the city) They get to a van ( somewhere else, a pub there is called Watford Arms, but is it Watford ?) and get attacked by Daleks. Later when Susan and Wyler come across the women in the woods, Susan tells them they want to go to the mine ( how does she know about this ?) and Wyler says that he thought they were going to Watford ? ( so they haven't been there yet ?) but she says the Doctor won't go there now it's full of Daleks. If they haven't been there, how does she know it full of Daleks ? When the Doctor gets back to the rebel hide out, missing the message, Mr.Ben points out that Watford is full of Daleks so should avoid it. I'm confused ! What is this like in the series, if that is in it ?
@@adrianparker-e9f Yeah, that's a plot hole, & Susan knowing that the doctor was heading for the mine doesn't make sense either. In the original tv story, Barbra, Jenny & Dortmun are heading for the civic transport museum to get more supplies & so Dortmun can finish working on his explosives. The transport museum also happens to be one of the old resistance bases. They steal a truck after Dortmun gives Barbra the newly completed formula for his Dalek explosives. Knowing that he will slow them down & wanting to ensure they have a fair chance of escaping the Daleks, Dortmun destroys himself & the patrolling Daleks. Barbara & Jenny escape in the truck, ramming Daleks & heading for Bedfordshire. Watford I don't think is even mentioned anywhere in the original.
@@thewhoview Thanks for that ! At one time, i would never have spotted something like that, but it's becoming a bit of a habit now with me ! ( it's a useful skill to have in everyday life though, to be able to detect the holes in peoples stories !) I would be interested to know how the movie's story became 'jumbled up'. Maybe there were scenes that they decided to not film ?
The entire idea of there being purists for a franchise whose creative talents were as indifferent to continuity and plot logic as this one always baffles me.
@@Benjiesbeenbetter. That's scary. I know I occasionally flag people for being obvious jerks in the comments (not this vid) and I've sometimes deleted my own comments because I thought I was out of line, I haven't seen you say anything that would give offense.
I prefer this one to the first. It is absolutely brutal, the robotisation process really disturbed me as a kid. Still does 🙂
@@newsbender yeah, it's kinda like becoming a Cyberman. 🤖
It's like a lot of modern movies; you think the first film is great UNTIL you see how good the sequel is?
@@philb2085 No, I pretty much think all modern (post circa 2010) movies are dogshit.
@@philb2085 I have always preferred the first film. It has such an infectious fun, adventurous feel to it. 😊
I am very fond of the two Peter Cushing movies. They were often on TV when I was a kid.
@@jabbawonger6572 awesome 😊
Cushing was great (in this and everything else)
I recently watched this film on BBC Britbox.
John Nathan Turner had the chance to cast Peter Cushing in The Arc of Infinity, but decided he was "too passé". So, instrad, he cast Leonard Sachs, the host of "The Good Old Days" set in 1900. He thought fans of the Music Halls would tune in and become Who fans.
The 80s were a peculiar era.
@@Benjiesbeenbetter. 😂😂
The two things I love about this film are Jill Curzon (who's bloody gorgeous), and the fact Sugar Puffs still apparently exist in 2150.
@@martinhavelock5106 she is, it's just ashamed that she has nothing to do. As for sugar puffs, it's gotta be manufactured by Daleks right. 😆😆
@@thewhoview Yes, she needed a lot more screen time, it was bit of a waste of her really. And since Sugar Puffs (own by Quaker Oats back then) helped finance the film, it's hardly surprising they appear in it via adverts.
You said "Puffs", you're on a list now.
@@onastick2411 No, the word you're thinking of is spelt with a double 'o', so I'm safe.
@@martinhavelock5106I think it was one of, if not the, first instances of Product Placement in movies. I'm sure I read that in an SF magazine a long (LONG!) time ago 🙂
Both films are very entertaining and had a big impact on me as a child. I have both on DVD and watch them every now and then. It is sad that these Dr Who films from the 1960s are so much better than the TV series airing in 2024
100% agree. Peter Cushing was a Dr, with gravitas, who I could get behind. Ncunti is just some guy who wants me to get behind him and touch his grass.
LOVE them both, but this is my favourite. that Spaceship of the daleks alone and the practical effects which are amazing is worth the price ofthe ticket alone.
@@harveydents awesomely put 😁
I LOVE this film. It scared me and excited me when I was 8.
@@ziggurat-builder8755 Daleks tend to do that to you as a kid. 😄
The Robomens uniforns are awesome in billions, of ways and really smart
And possibly ripped off from a Belgian comic book (look up Z Comme Zorglub sometime.)
Absolutely adore this film.
There's a great documentary on TH-cam about the making of this film how the film was shot in a stone throw of each other
@@neiltaylor6645 thanks for the info. I'll have to check that 1 out if I haven't watched already.
@@thewhoview channel Dalek 63.88 from 5 years ago
@@neiltaylor6645 Ok, yeah, I've seen it. They do some really good doco-style videos that are very thorough.
Anyone else but myself think Cushing looked pretty cool in the roboman suit? Like Jedi lord Cushing or something.
I had fond memories of this, and its predecessor, on TV as a kid. Last year I picked it up on 4K Blu ray and it looked amazing.
@@loftlegacy The 4k remasters are absolutely fantastic! 😁
One of my all time favourites
Great entertainment. Head and shoulders above the first one
@@SimonLeicester I prefer the first 1, but have a good time with this 1
I enjoyed both.of these films as a kid in the 70s and 80s, both really entertaining mate, liked and subbed 👍
@@Pauls2006 brilliant 😁
I think this is the better of the two films. The scene where the Dalek spaceship fires its weapon at the van is well done with a nice sound effect. The Robomen canteen scene - look at the wonky goggles on the one, it's hilarious. Jill Curzon - wow!
My Father who was the Production Designer on the original TV Series got a phone call from the film makers to use some of the Daleks from the TV Series in order to get enough Daleks for the film. In the TV series some of the Daleks are actually card cut outs in order to have enough Daleks.
@@barneyrubble1964 that sounds really cool. There's a few stories in the B&W era where they use cardboard cutouts for background Daleks.
That's because Davros refused to start the dalek production lines
@@onastick2411 😂
Hi! Your review of the first film was recommended to me and I really enjoyed it (your review). But I also remembered that I enjoyed 2150 more (both the film and TV) than 'The Daleks', so I bought it on streaming and watched it this weekend - just before your review! Totally agree it's great fun, Cushing is great, and I love the scale of the movie compared to the TV version.
(Your review the colourised TV 'Daleks' story also completely hit the spot, even down to matching my own view that The Invasion would be an ideal candidate for colourising, if all episodes were intact) Looking forward to your future reviews!
@@DeanTaylor38 Well, thanks. That's very kind of you to say, & it's awesome to hear you enjoyed the Dalek movies.😉👍👍
I saw this film when it first came out with my brother and I've seen it a few times since. Some great stuff - mountains just north of Watford ! 2150 and they are using an old Morris GPO van + Peter Cushing, Bernard Cribbins and Daleks what is there not to like.
I once saw a Dalek with my father and brother a one of the 'Boys and Girls' Exhibition at the Earls Court Olympia so I know they exist - "exterminate" - I love it.
I saw one there too. I must admit as a 12-13 year old boy my main interest in this film on release was Roberta Tovey.
This movie was set almost two centuries into the future (1966 then 2150), but it went against the trend that settings in the future had to look futuristic. This England in 2150, if it weren't for the Daleks, looks ordinary, just as ordinary as the mid-20th century. This speculation seems realistic. Despite all the scientific discoveries and inventions, Earth will still be our good old Earth, people will still have their identity, culture, and ordinary, practical lives.
When I was a kid, me and my friend thought that by the year 2000 we'd all be wearing silver suits with diagomal zips down the front and be driving flying cars. But no, we still have gas guzzlers and normal clothes, normal houses, normal jobs and no moonbase 😞
Pretty sure donkey jackets wouldn't have come back into fashion though 😊
@@philb2085 were they ever though 😂
The Daleks appear to have landed somewhere in the vicinity of Sloan's Square. This film and the first one are two of my favourite films of all time. Peter was brilliant as Doctor Who.
@@Dalekzilla He certainly was.
...The current Doctor Who paints series in a different light, this film is like a breath of fresh air!
@@adriantownsend2317 very well put 👌😊
I so agree. 👍
100% agree....there is so much that smells bad about modern Dr Who post 2017.
Good fun. But in the future of 2150 they are still wearing 1960s clothes and driving 1960s Royal Mail vans:) However, the scene where the dalek ship descends and totally incinerates the fleeing van is actually pretty scary and creepy.
@@sdm7372 it looks awesome 😊
1st Dalek: " Is bread not injurious to health? "
2nd Dalek: " it is if is wrapped in a ton and a half of Morris delivery van..."😊😊
Enjoyed this film. I miss Bernard Crimmins. My wife was watching a Midsomer Murders he was in as I type this. Coincidence. Keep up the content. I enjoy what you present.
@@taliesinllanfair4338 Thanks for watching. Bernard Cribbins was simply brilliant. All I have to do is watch that clip from journey's end where the doctor says goodbye to Wilf & I tear up.😭
Cushing AND Daleks in technicolor??!!!! WHAT'S NOT TO LOVE??? 😊😊😊😊😊
I was in Nigeria once and some Daleks came up on the TV which naturally I watched, I had to explain to my Nigerian wife what Daleks were, that took some explaining.
@@anthonycrumb5753 that's cool. 😊
I love how coincidentally the fashions of 1966 when this was made are by chance back in style in 2150 AD therefore considerably reducing the wardrobe budget. I'm a fan of this film and the model of the Dalek spaceship was really impressive for the time.
@@Superbokka I love the uniqueness of the saucer design.
It's just a bit of fun but I try to forget about the Robomen canteen scene.
@@hopebgood 😆 the comedy in that scene never quite landed for me.😄
@@thewhoview I don't mind it, just feel that it goes on longer than it should.
I loved both these films as a kid but this was my favourite. It’s actually quite dark for kids film.
@@britman1966 It is dark, but the original TV story is much more bleak, & I love it. The movie is great; it's the same plot but presented with a different flavour.
Being a Peter Cushing fan I liked these movies.
I love how a 1950s van survived for two centuries. Built to last.😂😂
Nice review!
@@Michael-v7g6f thanks. Glad you enjoyed it 😊
I was 5.
I was in the cinema, slightly puzzled about who Who is, but... never mind. Also, being used to Fireball XL5 (needs a remake) and Stingray (ditto), I knew about puppets, models and visual effects of the time. I could see wires, I could see thick matte lines, wobbly optical printing - yadda yadda yadda.
The Dalek saucer blew my mind! On film, on the big screen, in colour, and... HOW did they do that? Outside? It looks like they did it outside? How big or small was the model? WOW THAT's just... WOW! I paraphrase, of course, I was mostly a gurgling incoherent mess of excitement.
Even a couple of years later, on tv, some of the more family friendly aspects I found not amusing or cute but a bit annoying - THAT ROBOMAN's REFLECTIVE GLASSES ARE CROOKED! - but even that lengthy bit of business with Bernard Cribbins is now to me quite charming. Then in my teens, having discovered Amicus and Hammer Films (Tygon, too), I grew to love the certain breathless pace the always rushed productions the UK film industry imbued with their movies back then. To me, it lent a certain reality to proceedings.
So when the NuWho started way back when, this was the standard I was hoping for, and we had that for a few seasons until someone let Murray Gold off the leash and he ran amok with way too many music cues - which now make the tv unwatchable for me (aside from the constant running away from everything! Oh for a Doctor to turn around like Jon Pertwee did and square off to foe, saying, "I've learned a few new Venusion Karate moves since we last met..."
And as for Peter Cushing as Dr Who... one of my favourites.
Quatermass auditioning for a staring role here where he expanded on his many facial expressions when possessed by an evil alien presence.
@@tonymannion5743 Andrew Keir is my favourite Quatermass 😊😄
Loved it and still do, recall recording a copy off the telly onto Super Beta and much more recently the 4k blu - yes those wires are way too clear and it wouldn't have taken much in a modern edit suite to remove them completely....perhaps on the 8k version ?????
@@michaelwhiles5282 I was surprised they didn't remove them for the 4k.
Love this movie but even as a kid it bothered me that it was set SO far in the future but people still wore Donkey jackets and drove 1950's Morris vans. 😊
@@philb2085 I think if the movie wasn't rushed & they had more time that might of been rectified. Like in the original tv story, Barbra & Jenny stole an antique Lorrie from a vehicle museum. I wish they would of done something like that for the film. 🙂
There is a theory that these movies actually take place within the television series world because Ian and Barbera write popular books about their adventures and the most successful are turned into these movies.
@@richardoverton4425 yeah the first doctor actually meets Peter Cushing in the day of the doctor target novelisation.
I think THIS should have been set in 2000....akin to Tom saying "The Dalek invasion of the earth in the year 2000 was..." in Genesis of the Daleks.
Also, the preview of the original Dalek Invasion TV story in '64, the narrator said, "The year is 2000....."
I could accept what we see here in this movie AS 2000 or 2010....since I could accept old ass cars, as well as Sugar Puffs and Delmonte being all about, not to mention the old buildings and fashions.
This is my favourite film and it's great to have Bernard Cribbins in it. I do like the BBC serial but this is better for me as it condenses the plot and has more action because of it. I've got my DVD set but Talking Pictures like showing this every now and again, which is great
@@autumnmatthews3179 that's awesome 😊
These 2 films are a very entertaining look at an alternate universe Doctor. Or should I say Doctor Who? Lol.
Great fun family friendly films. Love them!
@@EddieBloecher sooo much fun😊
Defo better than the first one - plus it had Cribbins!
@@Paul_1971 I much prefer the first, but we're all different. Tom Campbell is superior to Ian from the first film. 😄
@@thewhoview yeah, Cribbins is charming. Roy Castle's character in the first one is borderline disturbing; I was surprised to learn that he was a popular children's tv host. I've found him funny in other stuff - notably Legend of the Werewolf, which I watched before Dr Who and the Daleks and somehow could immediately tell he and Cushing had worked together before! Something about the vibe...
8:25 Worked on Biff, why not Daleks?
Obviously, I love the Dalek Movies, but what I love most about "Daleks' - Invasion Earth 2150 AD" are the shiny black PVC uniforms of the Robomen! ... I love wearing shiny black PVC! ... I'd love to be captured by the Daleks and be Robotised! ... I wouldn't be able to get into the changing room quick enough! 🤣
One wonders what the Daleks were thinking, when designing the Robomen's uniforms? ... Were they expecting a lot of rain on Earth? ... Or, were the uniforms designed to appeal to kinky boys, like myself? ... And, exactly HOW did the Daleks manufacture the shiny black PVC jumpsuits, with just a claw to work with?
DALEK: "Robo-Slave Unit desig-nation 115, why are you smi-ling? Be-ing Robo-tised is a pun-ish-ment! Robo-Slave Units are for-bid-den from en-joy-ing their PVC uni-forms! Robo-Slave Unit desig-nation 115 will de-sist. Rogue Robo-Slave Units will be ex-ter-min-ated!"
ROBOMAN: "I am a kinky Robo-Slave Unit, master!"
DALEK: "Has your pro-gram-ming mal-func-tion-ed? What is this word, kin-ky? Is it a wea-pon? Do you mean to des-troy your mast-ers, the Da-leks?"
ROBOMAN: "Kinky is why I am smiling, master!" 😜
DALEK: "Si-lence! ... You are de-fect-ive! ... Ex-term-in-ate rogue Robo-Slave Unit!"
The Dalek exterminates the rogue Roboslave Unit, and he falls to the ground dead, accompanied by the squeak and crackle of his heavy shiny black PVC uniform.
@@marcse7en I think these Daleks just have a flare for fashion. 😆
@@thewhoview They certainly do! ... And I loved the sniggering Daleks talking about the perks of being a Roboman! ... Namely, the motorcycle helmet, shiny "leather" suit, boots, and whip! 👍🤣 ... Well, it'd certainly tempt me out of hiding! 👍😜
I went to see both films at the Maxime Cinema in Blackwood, Wales in July 2022. Dalek Allan was there. Check It out. It was in 4k.
@@thecelticdruid7707 awesome
Loved both films. Shame the 3rd one which I believe would have been based on "The Chase" was never made
@@stephenclaridge1896 it definitely would of been cool to see that third film.
I had an idea on how someone could perhaps make a new sequel (though for obvious reasons, Dr Who would have to be recast with an actor who looks similar enough to Peter Cushing, but that could also be used as a plot point towards the end): Unlike the first two, this film isn't a cinematic remake of a Doctor Who Dalek serial, but rather it's a remake of the first Cyberman story as a retro-style movie cinematic adaptation of 'The Then Planet'...
I won't go into the plot itself, which is basically the same as the original serial, but following the main climax of the film and the Cybermen are defeated, Dr Who goes off back to Tardis, looking very ill, much to his new Companions Ben & Polly's confusion (and more based on the novelisation of the serial rather than how it was in the serial) a now sickly Dr Who goes into a rejuvenation machine thing and comes out with a new younger face.
(With a subtle behind-the-scenes twist that the new Dr Who is actually the same actor as the recast 'original' Dr Who, but with less make-up to make the actor look like Peter Cushing, and he now has a simpler & slightly scruffier style akin to Troughton's Doctor while somehow wearing almost the same clothes as before).
Then, afterwards, as a bit of a teaser, Dr Who the final moments of the film have Tardis materialise within some in the dimly lit, seemingly abandoned cobwebbed chamber and the newly rejuvenated Dr Who calls his companions over and (like that iconic clip from the following TV serial after the original 'The 'Tenth Planet') Dr Who ominously tells the companions "Ben... Polly... meet the Daleks..." and that how the film ends...
Just leave it well alone, I say. Haven't they ruined enough classics in the last ten years?
@@owenwildish331 I don't know if a lot of people would be interested in a remake, but hey your idea is cool nonetheless. 😉👍
Infinitely better than the first. Even with the crazy blanket Product Placement that paid for it's high standard production (a compromise that isn't that noticeable unless you watch it over and over).
This was my 1st exposure to DR. WHO. I loved it. I was very disappointed when I saw the earlier film! These days, I prefer both movies to the original 2 TV stories. And... this movie is MY FAVORITE Daleks story.
At the moment, this is also the ONLY "Doctor Who" I have on DVD. But i need to upgrade it. The version I have has the opening credits at the beginning... instead of after the jewelry store robbery, where they belong.
I like to joke, a story about Earth being invaded, destroyed, and Earth's population killed & enslaved... should not be this much FUN. 😆
By the way... it strikes me... that with advancing technology, they damned well ought to be able to VISUALLY REMOVE "the strings". (That sort of thing never bothers me... but, really, if they can remove "damage" from old films, WHY NOT "strings"?
@@henrykujawa4427I'm glad you enjoy both films 😁. I thought they would of removed the wires for the 4k remaster but they didn't. Oh well 😄
I like this film better than the television serial and also I wish a film, of the Chase had been made sadly it was not.
@@Eltonlaleham it would of been definitely interesting to see that third film.
I like this better than the original Doctor Who story.
@@jvblhc that's perfectly fine 😊
I preferred the more fairy tale vibe of the first one; to the second one being the Brits basically congratulating themselves on what an awesome resistance movement they'd have been if Hitler had invaded. Cushing's part was scaled down due either to physical health problems or some kind of nervous breakdown, depending on who you ask, but although I know *why* it happened I still feel kind of cheated by how little he is in it.
@@hcu4359 yeah the first film is more fantastical. It would of been great if Cushing had more to do, but I think the few moments he has are great.
@@thewhoview Agreed, he does very well with what he has.
Why show the entire story and so give plot away? Postscript, it was only time my dad went to the cinema to see this movie in 60s.
@@garyturner5739 it's a review I'm going to show some footage.
WELL yes fun see but ok like see a re do with CGI and well to day stuff and THE DR who and the galfan hes is thats me but if can find a DVD i see it be fun to see both
If only they toned down the music and made the daleks resistant to being hit by a 1950s bread van, this would be a good movie...
Still it's good to know that even in the distant future, there will be classic car enthusiasts, keeping 1950s bread vans on the road.
A bit of the story doesn't add up to me. After the failed attack on the saucer, Susan, Wyler and wheelchair scientist say they are fleeing central London and go to Watford ( on the outskirts of the city) They get to a van ( somewhere else, a pub there is called Watford Arms, but is it Watford ?) and get attacked by Daleks. Later when Susan and Wyler come across the women in the woods, Susan tells them they want to go to the mine ( how does she know about this ?) and Wyler says that he thought they were going to Watford ? ( so they haven't been there yet ?) but she says the Doctor won't go there now it's full of Daleks. If they haven't been there, how does she know it full of Daleks ? When the Doctor gets back to the rebel hide out, missing the message, Mr.Ben points out that Watford is full of Daleks so should avoid it. I'm confused ! What is this like in the series, if that is in it ?
@@adrianparker-e9f Yeah, that's a plot hole, & Susan knowing that the doctor was heading for the mine doesn't make sense either.
In the original tv story, Barbra, Jenny & Dortmun are heading for the civic transport museum to get more supplies & so Dortmun can finish working on his explosives. The transport museum also happens to be one of the old resistance bases. They steal a truck after Dortmun gives Barbra the newly completed formula for his Dalek explosives. Knowing that he will slow them down & wanting to ensure they have a fair chance of escaping the Daleks, Dortmun destroys himself & the patrolling Daleks. Barbara & Jenny escape in the truck, ramming Daleks & heading for Bedfordshire. Watford I don't think is even mentioned anywhere in the original.
@@thewhoview Thanks for that ! At one time, i would never have spotted something like that, but it's becoming a bit of a habit now with me ! ( it's a useful skill to have in everyday life though, to be able to detect the holes in peoples stories !) I would be interested to know how the movie's story became 'jumbled up'. Maybe there were scenes that they decided to not film ?
I think that Dr Who purists are well aware that these films exist but don't like to acknowledge them as they paint Dr Who in a different light.
The entire idea of there being purists for a franchise whose creative talents were as indifferent to continuity and plot logic as this one always baffles me.
@@hcu4359Sshhhh! A purist Doctor Who fan may hear you, and explain in great detail how every continuity discrepancy can be explained.
@@Benjiesbeenbetter. LOL, true.
@hcu4359 I don't believe this. I came here to remind myself what I put, and my comment has vanished. These YT deletions are getting insane.
@@Benjiesbeenbetter. That's scary. I know I occasionally flag people for being obvious jerks in the comments (not this vid) and I've sometimes deleted my own comments because I thought I was out of line, I haven't seen you say anything that would give offense.