Two interesting old Doctor Who stories come out today.
Doctor Who: Invasion is a Patrick Troughton’s Doctor (the second) is up against his old enemy the Cybermen, who probably rank right after the Daleks as the Doctor’s greatest foe. Two of the chapters are missing (a recurrent problem with these old shows), but apparently are filled in with animated versions matched to the episode soundtracks.
Doctor Who: The Sontaran Experiment is a rare two-parter that sees Tom Baker’s Doctor up against another old alien enemy. Lots of extras are added to make up for the shorter story.
Fans of classic TV shows will also want to consider the set for Hawaii Five-Oh, Season 1.
Other television fare this week includes Dracula (the awful sounding version that recently played on PBS); The Loop S1; Moonlighting S5; Northern Exposure S6; SNL The Best of Steve Martin Vol. 2; South Park S9; and Stargate Atlantis S2.
On the movie front:
Decoys: The Second Seduction A sequel to the intermittingly interesting hot college chicks are actually deadly aliens movie.
Euro Fiends from Beyond the Grave collects three previously released Euro-horror pics into one budget package. The featured films include The Faceless Monster, Satanik and The Red Headed Corpse.
The Manitou Beloved ’70s cheese about an American Indian spirit wreaking havoc. The last film by rising cult director William Girdler (Grizzly, Day of the Animals), who died shortly after this, while scouting locations for what would have been his next movie. Tony Curtis and Michael Ansara lead a great b-movie cast.
Monster of Phantom Lake Another in the growing list of affectionately chiding movies that seek to recreate ’50s and ’60s junk horror movies. A surprising number of these have been pretty good, so hopefully this will too.
Night of the Comet Fondly remembered ’80s zombie film that basically smooshes together Valley Girl and The Omega Man. Essential viewing for ’80s buffs.
Private School Phoebe Cates, Sylvia Kristel One time cable perennial whose popularity rested on the numerous nude scenes featuring Ms. Cates and Betsy Russell.
Solarbabies Aside from Prayer of the Roller Boys, the other awful, theatrically released “skateboarding in the future Dystopia” movie. I haven’t seen this one, but I should probably give it a look.
