Invasion of the Dinosaurs Part 1

[NonnyMus1]

I love how the Doctor has to use a telephone box to contact people -- doesn't the Tardis have technology as simple as a phone?

[ShelltoonTV1]

We open on our adventure only to find that ALL THE COLOR IN THE WORLD HAS BEEN STOLEN!

[NonnyMus1]

@ShelltoonTV1 Black and white are colors.

[neckronn99]

Sarah Jane = smokin' hotness!!!

I was sad when Elisabeth Sladen passed away this year. She was a damn good actress and person.

[MrClassicDoctorWho]

Apparently the colorisation of this hasn't come out very well so they just gave up and what they release will be the best they could do. A pity.

[dra900nka1n]

@MrClassicDoctorWho The BBC wiped numerous of their tapes, and so oftentimes, such as here, the only surviving recordings are black and white. This isn't the only episode where it happened, there are a couple other Pertwee episodes (although I can't come up with the others by name). My mom (I've had to catch up with the retro Whos being only 18) says that she distinctly remembers this one having been in colour when it was originally broadcast.

[masterstarfox]

let's hope legend films or west wing studios recolourize this.

[TheTardisDreamer]

I can't believe Elizabeth is dead.... ;(

[Isarru69069]

RIP Nicholas Courtney!!!

[TheMaxGrody]

This show looks better in B&W. Something about the B&W makes it seem so much more creepy. I never saw this episode either, having seen the rest on PBS around 1985. Good stuff. I love the Doctor-Sarah relationship early on: she's still paranoid about him.

[flanneryged]

The villians in Dr Who were always the same,cloth capped Cockney Wide boys with a Heart of Gold.I must admit I have never heard of this Gem before thanks for the great upload.

[batmanofni]

I love the classic series trunddled along with enough time for the Doctor and Sarah to wait for a bus.

[mnyoung1971]

Great Story! I hope when this is released on DVD they recolour Episode 1 and redo the dinosaur effects. I hope they release Death to the Daleks and Planet of the Spiders as well. Pertwee and Sladen in 1974 - brilliant!

[BigFanofBarnif85]

No bicycles,no pedestrians. But te sound of cars in te background

[eddiefuzz]

I remember seeing this in 1974! Fantastic!!!!

[RamblingReynolds]

somewhere in London... Pah! it's Kingston Upon Thames.

[JuddonPlatoon]

I love this episode for it has everything Dinosaurs, Sarah Jane, The Third Doctor and a mystery oh and UNIT

[raverdeath100]

a morris marina being crushed by dinosaur....even top gear haven't done that! lol

[14DaveHunter]

Our PBS station never showed this. When they showed the "Sarah Jane" companion series, it started with "Time Warrior" and went to the Dalek story. The novelization had Tom Baker's Doctor, but he did Jon Pertwee's karate fighting.

[63DW89]

GREAT story! It gets a bad rap for the limited dino SFX, but that is very misleading. The story, production and characters are otherwise one of WHO's best-ever shows.

[samanthasleights]

in colour ? :)

[kadindarklord]

@samanthasleights

The first episode isn't anywhere on colour.

[massivetime1]

@kadindarklord ...sometimes there arnet any colour eps left because the bbc used the old tapes and taped over them because it was cheaper than buyin a new one and the black and white is all thats left :D

[kadindarklord]

@massivetime1

I was telling the person who was asking for it.

[Rassilon72]

@kadindarklord I think I'm right in saying that this episode alone was the only one that was copied (from the 1974 season) onto monochrome 16mm film as an engineering print. If someone hadn't done that, it would be lost forever. It also has chroma dots, so it should be good to convert back to it's former glory. The BBC have done a similar thing with Ep 3 of Planet of the Daleks>

[kamelion7]

The Doctor's relentless optimism here is very endearing: "Some vandals are very nice chaps.."

" Maybe it's Sunday.."

" Perhaps He doesn't like Hitch-hikers.."

He's definately a glass half full kind of bloke!!!

[flametop93]

@kamelion7 Hi,k7, the reference to the Vandals was meant to be about the group of Goths who were famous for raising Ancient Rome to the ground, if I remember rightly when I read the novelisation of this story.

[randomdave30]

This opening episode which follows the exploration of the scene by the Doctor and Sarah (isn't she beautiful?) reminds me more of the work of Terry Nation rather than Malcolm Hulke particularly with desperate survivors on the loose.

[MilleniumPhoenix91]

Thanks for posting this!

[PapaTango104]

Funny, the novel of this story used the fourth doctor,not the third.

[randomdave30]

Eh?  Why do you say that?

[PapaTango104]

when this story was printed as a novel, it both says at the beginig of the book (in the introduction) "this story contains the fourt incarnation of the doctor famous for his long scarf..." and makes reference to other quirks of his in the story.

[randomdave30]

I do not own a copy of the original edition, however, it's funny you should mention that, because I once came across a copy of a later edition that was signed by Tom Baker. The vendor wanted a fiver for it, and I declined.

[flametop93]

@PapaTango104 , That was "Dr Who discovers the Dinosaurs", an educational effort, although confusingly there were at least TWO diff covers for the book of this story.

[PapaTango104]

I'm afraid not, I've got the book in my hand as I type. says "Doctor who Invasion of the dinosaurs". and the story is IDENTICAL.

[flametop93]

PapaTango, are you saying that the fourth Doctor , Tom Baker, is on the cover of this book? It must be a USA or Oz book then, surely? But there IS the 4th Dr bk I've described, it's in my Mum's attic somewhere!!

[PapaTango104]

The doctor is not portrayed in any incarnation on the cover art, but the inside cover has words to the effect of "This story conains the doctor in his fourth incarnation. while in this body, the doctor was easily recognised by his long scarf and wide grin..." I do beleive it was an american release however.

[flametop93]

Hi PT, thanks for that info, always interesting to hear about differring variations on the books. Believe it or not, there's a novelisation of ROBOT for very young folks called "Junior Dr Who and the Giant Robot", a re-write with extra illustrations that I have! There are also one or two others I hear, like a version of the Brain of Morbius!

[ganon492]

why are like 3 in black and white and theb rest colour

[uncleadolf]

It's a 16mm monochrome telerecording, the 2" colour transmission tapes are missing.

[neutronflows]

keep on adding these episodes on to youtube!! you amazin!!

[BumwhiffleZoopstanky]

Malcolm Hulke was, by far, the best writer of the Target novelizations. (Terrance Dicks, bless his heart, did little more than transpose the scripts and then claim a writer's credit.) And what a treat to see the lovely young Sarah Jane in B/W!! My favourite companion, the little cupcake!

I can remember when this episode didn't exist, and the local PBS station had to run this story with only Episode 2 as the start. Damn the BBC for wiping all those old tapes!!!

[heyarnoldsknee]

Terrance Dicks novelisations always produced a "wheezing, groaning sound"

[randomdave30]

That is the noise he made when he experiences writer's block. God bless him, where would my childhood have been without him?

[kurisutokaochan]

Sarah Jane was cute when younger, but I think Jo/Katy Manning and Romana/Lalla Ward give Sarah a run for her money, don't you?

[TruBeliever4Life]

@BumwhiffleZoopstanky funny thing is i just watched the time warrior along with the behind the scenes stuff and terrance dicks was saying how he preferred jo grant as a companion cause he says the heroins place is tied to the train tracks while the doctor saves her