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Been missing these comparison videos. Hopefully, they'll be back. Other tapes such as the below would make fascinating pieces. Writing this on Tom Baker MBE's 91st birthday (20 Jan '25), I'd like to point out that The Deadly Assassin omnibus video release from America in 1989 is uploaded on Internet Archive. Alas, I am unable to post links but it was uploaded by The Doctor Who Archive on June 2, 2023.

Nonce

Oh these idiots. And who is that little green fellow? Hmmm? Yoda? Oh dear, dear, dear, I am Not impressed!

I grew up watching this as a kid lol. Loved it! To continue it legacy, I think they should release the same type of show but with the grown up kids of Eddie and Richie in a flat, beating the shit out of each other as well. I'd say that's a perfect honour for Rik and especially Ade as he's getting on now. Anyone like the idea?

Did Geoff ever win a fight?

Mike Pratt was coshed more than Jim Rockford

Doctor, one day you'll laugh so hard you'll regenerate.

I am probably mistaken, but for the 1987 omnibus, i thought they used a composite using both the NTSC copy and censored PAL version?

I watched this last night with the 2 missing episodes ai recreated. Absolutely brilliant piece of writing

Two good reasons to watch The Time Monster - both of which belong to Ingrid Pitt.

Went looking for this supercut and found it. He was saying, "Now listen to me" while dying!

This is brilliant! The Invasion is my favourite story and I loved how Vaughn would say "Packer"! He almost purrs it at times!

Like many others, i used to have the VHS copy of this together with Duel ,Orac and Aftermath. They missed out the best bits in most of them. Great videos for their time though.

The lovechild of mavic chen

To be honest most Dr Who episodes come easy be edited down by half. Especially the six parts stories

That face @0:36 🤣🤣🤣

Did he steal his 3rd joke from Darren? That was his joke

My dear friend misheard it the first time I clipped "affirmative" and she thought he had cutely said "aboppity!"

Yeah Terrance Hardiman was the Demon Headmaster but he was also in an episode of Doctor Who called The Beast Below. R.I.P

You are great- please make longer videos

Your avin a larf ain’t ya?

I'm waiting for the Pat Benatar mix up…Helter Skelter featuring Amy Pond, Rory Williams and River Song

You just know a young Peter Kay watched this the night it went out!

still too good for that b***h 😂

Not a patch on the original series though. I like Vic and Bob but this wasn't the right vehicle for them.

I watched this VHS so many times the “proper” Seek Locate Destroy always feels very flabby in the first half to me.

Would love to see you do Orac and The Aftermath. Also the brief cut to the episodic Space Fall for an encore?

I love watching comparison videos. 👍

anyone else watching these comparisons since Blu-ray was released

This genuinely made me LOL!

The Gunfighters is on a par with The Romans, with the only big exception being narrating the action with that song. Steven going around in the Old West dressed as a TV cowboy is the gag that keeps on giving.

Why is this so funny? 😂

Emmett is looking at Liz like he either wants to die laughing or from embarrassment for his poor sister 😂😂😂

Can you do one of Susan saying Grandfather?

I agree. The high-contrast model shot with the yellow lighting is my second favourite in the show. First being the static slow zoom shot on tape of course, as I imagine most would agree. I swear the scene where Avon finds the jewellery was in the VHS. That's what I grew up watching. Maybe I've mentally rewritten that version though. As for the guards falling over in the reactor explosion, my morbid theory is that they're killed by the radiation burst before the actual kinetic explosion kicks off.

God dammit I can’t stop laughing 😂

He seems to has lost his word…

Brilliant.

loved it! great job. loved them!

Thanks for putting this up, I have the edited vhs but never got around to sitting down and comparing with the re-release or dvd. I watched the edited version when the dvd came out but by the time I got around to sticking the disc on (and having a few wines) I’d forgotten what was snipped. I expect we’ll see this version on the eventual blu-ray release.

good analysis, I've just started going through the dvd's! Brief overviews are the way!

From memory, I think this original release was the first to be available for £9.99. Prior to that, "Doctor Who" releases were priced at £25.

This was the very first commercial VHS of "Doctor Who" I ever bought, back in 1985 for the princely sum of £25! I still remember the magical feeling of being able to watch a vintage "Doctor Who" story, whenever I wanted to. It's hard to comprehend that now, but it was very, very special back in the day. It has to be remembered but (as with all TV output back then) these productions were a "one off" and were never intended to be even repeated, let alone released for on-demand viewing. Huge credit to everyone involved for the sheer amount of work involved in making viewing so good that it still stands up to this day.

Genius

Wow, there are more editing differences than I'd realised. But for me the one that jumped out when I watched the Blu Ray was the Triffid gun sequence, no blade effect leaving the gun and a totally different shot of the Triffid where you don't actually see the 'slice'. This was a really shoddy job

Guys I think he has an idea

Very Good! 👍 Great to see Tom Baker - the GREATEST DR!!

Thank you so much for this.

Brilliant. Now where have I heard that name before? aha! DW magazine.

Sylvester has one of the prop chairs from the gallifrey war council scenes from the end of time and day of the doctor