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The Brain of Morbius: The TARDIS is infiltrated by the Swarm--a space-borne intelligence that wishes to spread itself across the universe--and the Doctor is infected by its nucleus. The ship then materializes on Titan, one of the moons of Saturn, where the human occupants of a refueling station have also been taken over. The Doctor eventually collapses as a result of his infection, but first manages to relay to Leela the coordinates of a local hospital asteroid. At the Bi-Al Foundation, based on the asteroid, Professor Marius clones the two time travelers, miniaturizes the clones using the relative dimensional stabilizer from the TARDIS and then injects them into the Doctor's body in the hope that they can find and destroy the nucleus.
K9 and Company: A Girl's Best Friend: Sarah pays a Christmas visit to her Aunt Lavinia's house in the village of Moreton Harwood. She discovers that Lavinia, a noted scientist, has yet to return from a lecture tour of the USA. She does however meet Brendan - Lavinia's ward--and Commander Bill Pollock--her partner in a small market garden business. Also in the house, in a box sent to her by the Doctor, she finds K9.
K9 and Company: A Girl's Best Friend: Sarah pays a Christmas visit to her Aunt Lavinia's house in the village of Moreton Harwood. She discovers that Lavinia, a noted scientist, has yet to return from a lecture tour of the USA. She does however meet Brendan - Lavinia's ward--and Commander Bill Pollock--her partner in a small market garden business. Also in the house, in a box sent to her by the Doctor, she finds K9.
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46 of 51 people found the following review helpful
The Invisible Enemy.
A mysterious cloud is causing havoc in space, infecting all those who pass through it with an intelligent virus, the first victims are a crew of a shuttle heading for Titan base.(One of Saturns moons)
The Doctor and Leela try to come to the rescue, but the TARDIS passes through the cloud itself, leaving the Doctor infected with the nucleus.
He and Leela then try to find help at a medical station situated inside a Asteroid, where they meet the eccentric Professor Marius and his pet robot K-9.
According to this story written English in the future will be spelt phonetically, look at the wall signs. Interesting concept.
(Air date:~01/10/77-22/10/77)
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This was an ambitious story that was unusually given more sfx shots then was usually allowed for a Who story. And once again the Beeb was thankful for it's supplies of old Gerry Anderson models.
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DVD extras.
Commentary. With actors Louise Jameson and John Leeson, visual effects designer Mat Irvine and co-writer Bob Baker.
Dreams and Fantasy - artistes and production crew recall the making of this story and even take the original K9 for walkies. With actors Louise Jameson and John Leeson, director Derrick Goodwin, co-writer Bob Baker, visual effects designers Tony Harding and Mat Irvine, K9 operator Nigel Brackley, journalist Gary Gillatt.
Studio Sweepings - a rare opportunity to go behind the scenes on the recording of this story, courtesy of a timecoded Shibaden videotape recorded for production use.
Visual Effect - Visual effects designer Mat Irvine meets up with his old colleague Ian Scoones at Bray Studios to talk about the visual effects for 'The Invisible Enemy' and other stories.... Read more ›
A mysterious cloud is causing havoc in space, infecting all those who pass through it with an intelligent virus, the first victims are a crew of a shuttle heading for Titan base.(One of Saturns moons)
The Doctor and Leela try to come to the rescue, but the TARDIS passes through the cloud itself, leaving the Doctor infected with the nucleus.
He and Leela then try to find help at a medical station situated inside a Asteroid, where they meet the eccentric Professor Marius and his pet robot K-9.
According to this story written English in the future will be spelt phonetically, look at the wall signs. Interesting concept.
(Air date:~01/10/77-22/10/77)
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This was an ambitious story that was unusually given more sfx shots then was usually allowed for a Who story. And once again the Beeb was thankful for it's supplies of old Gerry Anderson models.
~~~~
DVD extras.
Commentary. With actors Louise Jameson and John Leeson, visual effects designer Mat Irvine and co-writer Bob Baker.
Dreams and Fantasy - artistes and production crew recall the making of this story and even take the original K9 for walkies. With actors Louise Jameson and John Leeson, director Derrick Goodwin, co-writer Bob Baker, visual effects designers Tony Harding and Mat Irvine, K9 operator Nigel Brackley, journalist Gary Gillatt.
Studio Sweepings - a rare opportunity to go behind the scenes on the recording of this story, courtesy of a timecoded Shibaden videotape recorded for production use.
Visual Effect - Visual effects designer Mat Irvine meets up with his old colleague Ian Scoones at Bray Studios to talk about the visual effects for 'The Invisible Enemy' and other stories.... Read more ›
13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
By Erik Runnels
Look, Doctor Who is never going to win any awards for special effects. In addition, the fight sequences occasionally leave me in stitches; I'm afraid everyone in the Doctor Who universe is easily felled with a stiff kick to the shins or a slight nudge to the back of the neck.
Once one gets past these rather inconsequential shortcomings, however, Doctor who is generally a combination of both acting and teleplay brilliance!
The Invisible enemy is no different. Amongst the excellent focal points of this "episode" are: the introduction of K-9 (who preceded even R2-D2 in the cute robot milieu), Leela at the top of her form, Tom Baker - brilliant as always, and a rather interesting plot involving a microorganism with intelligence.
Furthermore, this DVD includes K-9 and Company. As a kid, I always wanted, but was never able to see this quirky chapter in the Doctor Who canon. To be honest, I thought it was quite fun. The theme song, by the way, hilariously embraces the kitzchy-ness of 1970's techno-disco. All in all, Sarah Jane is always fun, K-9's neither over or under-utilized, and the side characters are more than adequate.
My verdict? A fantastic introduction to the Doctor Who collection of DVD's!
Once one gets past these rather inconsequential shortcomings, however, Doctor who is generally a combination of both acting and teleplay brilliance!
The Invisible enemy is no different. Amongst the excellent focal points of this "episode" are: the introduction of K-9 (who preceded even R2-D2 in the cute robot milieu), Leela at the top of her form, Tom Baker - brilliant as always, and a rather interesting plot involving a microorganism with intelligence.
Furthermore, this DVD includes K-9 and Company. As a kid, I always wanted, but was never able to see this quirky chapter in the Doctor Who canon. To be honest, I thought it was quite fun. The theme song, by the way, hilariously embraces the kitzchy-ness of 1970's techno-disco. All in all, Sarah Jane is always fun, K-9's neither over or under-utilized, and the side characters are more than adequate.
My verdict? A fantastic introduction to the Doctor Who collection of DVD's!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
By Wes Ramsey
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typically hokey, fun, wonderful dr who in the classic Baker style. The introduction to k-9, with lots of overacting and cheesey special effects - its great
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
The first adventure with K9!!! you can see the origins of this lovely character in a adventure similar to Fantastic voyage.
as a bonus, you can see the pilot of the spin off of K9 and Sara Jane Smith...way before her current CBBC show!!!
If you like K9 team up with the Doctor this is a must have item.
as a bonus, you can see the pilot of the spin off of K9 and Sara Jane Smith...way before her current CBBC show!!!
If you like K9 team up with the Doctor this is a must have item.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Can the Dcotor stop a parasite from space? And what happens when two freinds of the doctor team up?
December 2, 2011
By Jacob
The Tom Baker era story entitled "The Invisible Enemy" takes place thousands of years into the future. Mankind has just begun to explore the solar system and beyond. A spaceship from Earth is making its way towards Jupiter's moon Titan where the crew will replace the current staff and help those crafts going beyond. Along the way the ship enters a strange nebula and within seconds the crew of three become infested with a space borne plague and with it the first of many to begin to serve the swarm.
The ship lands and those who were celebrating the arrival and there time spent on Titan was short lived as they themselves become infected and the base controller sends a distress signal to anyone who can help. Meanwhile in the TARDIS the Doctor is moving back into the main control room since they have been in the secondary control room for sometime. Leela watches the Dcotr and for a brief moment she watches as the Doctor becomes infected with the swam parasites. Even worse the swam's leader has taken over the Doctor's body. However due to the fact that the Doctor is a Time Lord and not human it will take more time to take over his body and begin the process to convert to the swarm.
The Doctor realzing he needs help tries to fight it and with the aide of Leela travels to an asteroid hospital. There they meet a professor in charge who specialies in exotic diseases and finds what the Doctor has fantasitc. The professor is also aided by his robotic dog K-9 who serves him with logic and a laser that is dead on. The swarm hears the mental commands of the swarm leader they travel there to infect more and retive the leader. The Doctor is losing time with no real help through the professor. So he asks him to clone him and Leela for a plan he has.... Read more ›
The ship lands and those who were celebrating the arrival and there time spent on Titan was short lived as they themselves become infected and the base controller sends a distress signal to anyone who can help. Meanwhile in the TARDIS the Doctor is moving back into the main control room since they have been in the secondary control room for sometime. Leela watches the Dcotr and for a brief moment she watches as the Doctor becomes infected with the swam parasites. Even worse the swam's leader has taken over the Doctor's body. However due to the fact that the Doctor is a Time Lord and not human it will take more time to take over his body and begin the process to convert to the swarm.
The Doctor realzing he needs help tries to fight it and with the aide of Leela travels to an asteroid hospital. There they meet a professor in charge who specialies in exotic diseases and finds what the Doctor has fantasitc. The professor is also aided by his robotic dog K-9 who serves him with logic and a laser that is dead on. The swarm hears the mental commands of the swarm leader they travel there to infect more and retive the leader. The Doctor is losing time with no real help through the professor. So he asks him to clone him and Leela for a plan he has.... Read more ›
Most Recent Customer Reviews
4.0 out of 5 stars
K-9!
Sometimes your memory lies to you, but in good ways. I have such childhood memories of watching the episodes of this particular story. Read more
Published 6 days ago by Maverick DC
5.0 out of 5 stars
Doctor #4 is the best
Love to watch Tom Baker as the Doctor.Handles every situation with intelligence and wit while being able to cope with the problems.
Published 18 days ago by Richard P. Holstrom
3.0 out of 5 stars
The real beginning of the silly era.
And yes I must admit it's a bit silly, & so far my least favorite Tom Baker in my collection. But you know what? I still like it. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Patrick Correa
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great DVD
If you are a Doctor Who fan you will like this DVD story is great but special effects are ok.
Published 5 months ago by Pete
5.0 out of 5 stars
Dr Who
I love Tom Baker as Dr Who and K9 the dog and was glad I was able to purchase this episode.
Published 5 months ago by Janice Klein
4.0 out of 5 stars
Invisible Enemy
K9 & Co.'s theme music make it outdated. Invisible Enemy is a nice story. But, you have to be prepared for a dozen minute count down to last longer than 2 episodes. Read more
Published 17 months ago by JOHN E TRAVER
3.0 out of 5 stars
The Doctor and Leela go on a "Fantastic Voyage" and adopt a dog
"The Invisible Enemy" marked a subtle transition in Doctor Who as producer Graham Williams, still in his first season, was pressured to veer the show away from grittier,... Read more
Published 22 months ago by buckbooks
2.0 out of 5 stars
For completists only
This one is deadly. My sister (who likes new Who and is somewhat familiar with Pertwee & T. Baker stuff) bought it for the K-9 angle. Read more
Published on May 23, 2010 by Byron
5.0 out of 5 stars
"Contact has been made..."
I don't have a lot of time to do this review so I'll make it short.
Doctor Who: The Invisible Enemy
I have the VHS version that only features the original... Read more
Doctor Who: The Invisible Enemy
I have the VHS version that only features the original... Read more
Published on July 28, 2009 by Jero Briggs
4.0 out of 5 stars
one good the other atrociously stupid
Though Invisible Enemy is a good story for the real Doctor Who serie's fans, "K-9" Mach III travel machine "and co" isn't. Read more
Published on March 12, 2009 by Kid Prometheus
