Doctor Who - Season 13 40th Anniversary: Terror of the Zygons Review

Yesterday was the 40th anniversary of the beginning of Tom Baker's second season as The Doctor. Season 13 had a lot of memorable stories and not a weak one in the bunch.  It gave us one of the more popular villains that have only just recently made a comeback and will be featured in Series 9 with Peter Capaldi. Here is what we thought of Terror of the Zygons.

Doctor Who:
Terror of the Zygons
By Robert Banks Stewart

“This one they call the Doctor is a threat to us. Already he has found out too much. He must be destroyed.”

Responding to the message from The Brigadier from the space/time telegraph he left him The Doctor, Harry and Sarah find them in present day Scotland.  Apparently something is destroying oil rigs off the coast of Scotland and causing alarm as these rigs are huge and supposedly are unsinkable.   The Doctor examines some of the wreckage that has washed ashore and found one particular piece of steel interesting.  After using some plaster and making a mold The Doctor shows The Brigadier that the mold is of a giant tooth.  What makes it impressive is that whatever is the owner of the tooth is strong enough to eat through steel as if it was paper.

Terror of the Zygons DVD Review

by Ken Parker

I have been watching a fair amount of Doctor Who this year and watching this latest DVD release has certainly been one of the many highlights for me. “Terror of the Zygons” is one of the earliest stories I had seen and during the late 70's to early 80's it was one I had seen quite often. Since then though I had not seen it until this month and I was happy to see that it has held up fairly well. Known for the first and up to this point, the only appearance of the Zygons, this story is also famous for the not so great effect of the Loch Ness monster creature. So does the excellent story and acting off set the poor effect or other short comings?

The Fourth Doctor Time Capsule

A special gift set containing the new Terror of the Zygons DVD, exclusive interviews, an audiobook, an action figure and more is being released.  The set is limited to 1963 units (although elsewhere the number 5000 is being batted around) and was recently advertised with this slightly cryptic video that seemed to get some fans frantic on what it could be.

Anyhow here is the set which is available in the UK on July 29 for 62.99 pounds.

Doctor Who 50th Anniversary: Terror of the Zygons

Doctor Who:
Terror of the Zygons
By Robert Banks Stewart

“This one they call the Doctor is a threat to us. Already he has found out too much. He must be destroyed.”

Responding to the message from The Brigadier from the space/time telegraph he left him The Doctor, Harry and Sarah find them in present day Scotland.  Apparently something is destroying oil rigs off the coast of Scotland and causing alarm as these rigs are huge and supposedly are unsinkable.   The Doctor examines some of the wreckage that has washed ashore and found one particular piece of steel interesting.  After using some plaster and making a mold The Doctor shows The Brigadier that the mold is of a giant tooth.  What makes it impressive is that whatever is the owner of the tooth is strong enough to eat through steel as if it was paper.

There are strange things going on around the inn that UNIT is using as a base when Harry finds on of the oil riggers workers have come on shore they are both shot at killing the worker and grazing Harry on the head.  Sarah does some investigating in the town and then informs The Doctor that Harry has been shot and goes and sees if he is ok at the infirmary at the Oil Company’s buildings.  While there Harry starts to regain conscious Sarah goes and calls The Doctor. Sarah is telling him what Harry has been mumbling when she is attacked by an alien creature.  It is a Zygon and they want to turn the Earth into a new home world for them to replace theirs which it was destroyed.  So it’s up to The Doctor and UNIT to prevent this from happening and to find a way of stopping the Zygons and the Skarasen.

Doctor Who DVD Releases Announced. Kind Of Disappointed With One

The Doctor Who website has announced a list of upcoming DVD releases.  While some good news I was greatly disappointed with one and surprised by another.  We finally have confirmation for the last two complete Doctor Who stories Tom Bakers "Terror of the Zygons" and the colorized Jon Pertwee story "The Mind of Evil" which also has a great performance by Roger Delgado as The Master.

In what was a surprise they are releasing the web story "The Scream of the Shalka' which stars Richard E. Grant as The Doctor and quite before Utopia  Derek Jacobi as The Master.  This was an animated web episode that aired on the Doctor Who website back in 2003.

What I find to be greatly disappointing is the release of "The Ice Warriors".  Apparently they will not be animating the missing episodes 2 and 3 like they have before with "The Invasion" and this months release of "The Reign of Terror" but instead are reconstructing them with telesnaps and audio.  This is BS and inexcusable.  Why bother releasing it at all.  You take the time to animate the other two releases but go half ass with The Ice Warriors. Shame on you Doctor Who Restoration Team and BBC DVD.  That is just poor judgement on your part and I'm sure I'm not the only one who is pissed and disappointed with this news.

Plus of course we have the typical special editions along with the "Spearhead from Space" Blu Ray which will be the only classic blu ray release.  Here is the full list of releases and UK dates.

February 25: The Ark in Space: Special Edition
March 11: The Aztecs: Special Edition (plus Galaxy 4 reconstruction)
May 6: The Visitation: Special Edition
May 27: Inferno: Special Edition
June 3: The Mind of Evil
June 24: Terror of the Zygons
July 15: Spearhead from Space Blu-Ray
August 5: The Green Death: Special Edition
August 26: The Ice Warriors
September 16: Scream of the Shalka