Doctor Who: The Time Warrior
As many fan historians have pointed out, The Time Warrior was the beginning of the end of an era for Doctor Who, and it’s that theme which drives the bonus material on this DVD featuring the first appearances of the lovely Sarah Jane Smith (Elisabeth Sladen) and the decidedly less lovely Sontaran warrior (the late Kevin Lindsay). Other DVDs had already used Sarah’s character as a theme (Hand Of Fear, her final appearance as a regular on the show) and Sontarans too (The Sontaran Experiment, which we already reviewed here), so aside of the particulars of this story’s production, the winding down of Jon Pertwee’s stint as the Doctor is a natural theme. (more…)