Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Universal, suitable for all
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 5014503474225
Format: Colour, Full Screen, HiFi Sound, Mono, PAL
Label: 2 Entertain Video
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageAnalog
Manufacturer: 2 Entertain Video
Number Of Discs: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 2 Entertain Video
Release Date: January 24, 2000
Running Time: 97 minutes
Studio: 2 Entertain Video
Theatrical Release Date: September 29, 1975

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Rating: - Claws of Axos
This story is wonderful. The effects are pretty good considering the budget and the storyline is a strong one.
Jon Pertwee and all involved give charged performances and the location work is very good. I would recommend this story to any Doctor Who fan. 5 out of 5!

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Rating: - Doctor Who's answer to Psychedelia!
I will have my critics, but I just can't get enough of this Doctor Who adventure!

Ok, so it is flawed, but that does not stop this story being enjoyable. I find the overall visual aspect of the adventure to one of the best on offer.

The alien spacecraft 'Axos' was not built, but grown! It is an organic entity, and the scenes inside the spacecraft are particularly well realised.

The use of the very 70's C.S.O. (Colour Separation Overlay) 'blue screen' effects work ... Read More

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Rating: - Look back in affection.
If you're familair with the Pertwee era Dr Who, you'll know what to expect.

An Earthbound adventure, with Jon Pertwee shouting how much he hates it here, but moved to fight humanities corner against some unexplained threat? Check.

Katy Manning in a short skirt as the Doctors, ahem, 'companion,' screaming, falling over, generally getting in the way? Check.

Bizarre, disorientating music from the BBC radiophonics' workshop? Check.

Non-speaking extra, swiftly ... Read More

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Rating: - Okay.
Despite a strong cast of David Savile, Donald Hewlett and Tim Pigott-Smith, the scene-stealer here is the excellent Peter Bathurst as the interfering beaurucrat Chinn. Certainly worth watching if you liked the Pertwee era, and the Axons are well realised when one considers it was made in the early seventies.

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Rating: - The Master in his element.
'The Claws of Axos' is saved from being a terribly mundane adventure by the contribution of Roger Delgado, by far the best Master. The concept of monsters that change from being attractive to hideous was good but in the end not particularly well realised (the hideous version looks like it's made out of old curtains). Chinn is a good character, though, and it's a shame Peter Bathurst never returned to the series to reprise this role.

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