Doctor Who Remembrance of the Daleks SE (DVD)
London 1963. The first Doctor is forced to leave Earth, after teachers from his granddaughter's school discover the TARDIS disguised as a police box sitting in a junkyard London 1963: The seventh Doctor returns with new companion Ace in tow and with unfinished business. Not for the first time, unusual events are unfolding at Coal Hill School and at Totters Lane junkyard. The Doctor discovers that his oldest foes - the Daleks - are on the trail of hidden Time Lord technology. Technology that he himslef left on Earth all those years ago. The Daleks are planning to perfect their own time travel capability, in order to unleash themselves across all of time and space. Can the Doctor - with the help of the local military - stop the Daleks stealing the Gallifreyan secrets? Or are things much more complicated? Two opposing Dalek factions meet in an explosive confrontation with the fate of the entire universe at stake.
Amazon.com "Remembrance of the Daleks," the final Doctor Who story to feature the titular mutant cyborgs, is a particularly notable adventure for the way it ties the plot into the very first story, "An Unearthly Child," made 25 years before. It is 1963, and the seventh Doctor, Sylvester McCoy, arrives in London with new companion Ace (Sophie Aldred), where two Dalek factions are engaged in a deadly search for the Hand of Omega. Ace quickly proves herself adept with high explosives, and while there are references to the history of the show, including some nice in-jokes, the drama is played much straighter than in McCoy's first season as the time traveler. This is Doctor Who with a decent budget; the period setting is surprisingly lavish and there are some fairly intense action sequences. The Daleks remain as menacing as ever, the plotting has an intriguing air of mystery, and McCoy injects some steel into his characterization. Aldred serves an ace as a heroine with attitude (very much post-Sarah Connor from The Terminator), and if this really does prove to be the Daleks' swan song, at least they go out with a bang. --Gary S. Dalkin![Doctor Who: Remembrance of the Daleks (Story 152) [DVD]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-t8bvbs505h/images/stencil/500x659/products/27849337/29468865/91fY_3YjydL__74430.1702769964.jpg?c=2 "Doctor Who: Remembrance of the Daleks (Story 152) [DVD]")
