Doctor Who - The Leisure Hive (Episode 110) DVD (Region 1)

Doctor Who - The Leisure Hive (Episode 110) pictures

7.8	Listal rating

Manufacturer : BBC Warner
Release date : 7 June 2005
Number of discs : 1
EAN : 9781419807282
UPC : 794051221728

Sci-fi (1), British (1), Tv (1), Doctor Who (1)

Description

DescriptionThe Doctor (Tom Baker) and Romana decide to forego Brighton beach and take a much-needed holiday on the pleasure planet of Argolis. Ravaged decades before by an interstellar war, Argolis now hosts the Leisure Hive - an ideal retreat for tourists from all over the cosmos. (Episodes 1-4, 86 mins)

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Description
The Doctor (Tom Baker) and Romana decide to forego Brighton beach and take a much-needed holiday on the pleasure planet of Argolis. Ravaged decades before by an interstellar war, Argolis now hosts the Leisure Hive - an ideal retreat for tourists from all over the cosmos. (Episodes 1-4, 86 mins)

DVD Features:
Audio Commentary
Featurette
Interviews
Music Only Track
Other
Photo gallery
Production Notes

Particularly significant in terms of Doctor Who's history, The Leisure Hive marked an end to Who's descent into vaudeville, and heralded the entrance of new hotshot series producer John Nathan-Turner. The opening long, slow pan across a wintry beach, on which an autumnal Doctor sits slumped, immediately declares the show's serious intentions. The narrative itself is an erudite discussion on fascism and racism taking in regeneration, megalomania, cloning, and a series of Agatha Christie-esque murders. It's the style, rather than the story, however, that's most prominent in The Leisure Hive: along with his new sober ambitious approach, Nathan-Turner brought a new theme tune, a new logo, a striking red costume, and a new title sequence--one that, tellingly, moved away from the enclosed time tunnel to show the vastness of space opening up. Productions values are also high: the Quantel effects are impressive even now, and the performances are quite stunning, particularly Baker's as the prematurely aged, infirm Doctor.

By dispensing with the clowning and with what he termed "Douglas Adams's undergrad humor," Nathan-Turner reinvigorated a show that was becoming stale. The diegetic rebirth brought about by the Regeneration Drive at the show's denouement is an apposite motif that was emblematic of the rebirth of the show itself--The Leisure Hive truly represented a new beginning for Who. --Paul Eisinger

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Starring :

Tom Baker

Lalla Ward

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