Unique chance to see a classic Doctor Who movie commercial fee. TCM 9:15 Central
Peter Cushing is The Doctor.
Jennie Lindin plays Barbara.
I just realized TCM is running the 2nd movie Daleks Invasion Earth with the same cast. Roberta Tovey plays Susan the granddaughter in both.
Three hours of classic Doctor Who. 
I’ve never seen either movie. I have heard of them and this establishs the Daleks as a major villian in the series.
The riffed version is better, but I may be biased.
but certainly not free.
So, is a Riff trax similiar to Mystery Science Theater 3000? Humorous commentary?
I have seen several classic episodes with William Hartnell. He was very cranky compared to Jon Pertwee and the eccentric Tom Baker.
The films are not in the series and are not canon. There was a fanwank that the films were made by people living in the fictional Who universe- based on what the government couldn’t cover up from the Doctor’s adventures. That fanwank, IIRC was made canon. A poster for the Cushing flm was to appear in The Day Of The Doctor. But they couldn’t afford the rights to do it.
I guess I’ll see it when I return to last month.
Yes, in that it is made up of the ‘Mike’ generation of actors/voice actors. So a large part of the MST3k team, but not all of it.
Thanks. I may get the Riff Trax. Depends on how well I like the movies.
I would have posted yesterday and given a earlier heads up. I lucked out and happened to check TCM’s schedule.
The movies are probably on streaming platforms. I’m a bit old school and still watch cable tv.
I’m a bit bored with Doctor Who and the Daleks. Ths premise of a post nuclear wasteland is interesting. Everthing is burned and there’s radiation.
This Doctor displays no advanced knowledge or even leadetship. He’s mostly a doddering old grandfather.
I did learn the Daleks dialog needs to be short. Their speech patterns gets very annoying when they speaks several pages of story exposition .
The worse, or more nonsensical the movie, the better off it is riffed.
I’ll get the riff track. I agree it would help.
I like some classic Who episodes. But this movie leaves out Hartnells best characteristics.
The early Daleks are interesting. Maybe they’ll be more menacing in the Invasion Earth movie.
Invasion of tbe Daleks is much better. Cushing acts a bit more like the Doctor instead of a doddering grandfather.
The Daleks are more menancing. They actually have a plan that gets executed. The characters are in jeopardy. A few even die.
The Robomen are a bit silly. Nothing sinster like Cybermen. They get in silky movie fights. Punched in the stomach, and pushed to the ground.
There’s some hilarious scenes where men physically fight Daleks. Shoving them across the room and knocking them over.
Classic Doctor Who was intended for 10 year old kids.
The best thing? The movies are only 80 minutes long.
Proving how incredibly padded the TV series was. The two movies manage to tell, in 80 minutes, the same stories which in the TV series needed 169 minutes and 146 minutes, respectively.
Not free, but if you have Amazon Prime already, then you can just watch the videos of these, without any hassle of syncing things up. The downside is that there’s no way to just get subtitles on the content and not the riffs.
There’s a lot of material to parody in these movies. I’ll watch the Riff track on Amazon.
I wish they would have done a 3rd movie with Cushing. He was just beginning to figure out how to play the Doctor in the 2nd movie.
Nice catch! My wife is a huge Misty/Rifftrax fan, so I’m used to having just about everything available on my local Plex server after purchasing, or now, in the Gizmoplex (yes, she is a high level contributor to all the recent fund drives). So I don’t normally look for what’s available on the streaming sites.
I just happened to stumble upon one of them a few days ago, when tapped on the Amazon Video app on my phone. Apparently Amazon assumed I’d like it.
I don’t know which or how many of the RiffTrax they have in this format, but I at least saw both of the movies mentioned in this thread.
(In case it isn’t clear, I’m saying they are free with Amazon Prime. It’s just that Amazon Prime obviously isn’t free.)