Hot Picks

- There's No Such Thing as Zombies 2020

- Ready for My Close Up 2019

- Maxxie LaWow: Drag Super-shero 2024

- Watch the Skies 2022

- Dream Hacker 2025

- Love and Comminication 2022

- If I Could Ride Again 2025

- Freak Off 2025

- Lavender Men 2025

- Lost Cos 2023

- Sound of the Surf 2022

- The Stillness 2025

- Frankie Freako 2024

- The Texas Witch 2025

- Cannibal Mukbang 2023

- Bleeding 2024

- No Choice 2025

- Nahual 2025

- Bitter Souls 2025

- A Very Long Carriage Ride 2025

- The Matriarch 2024

- Oxy Morons 2025

- Ed Kemper 2025

- Piglet 2025

- Walter, Grace & the Submarine 2024

- Midnight in Phoenix 2025

- Dorothea 2025

- Mauler 2025

- Consecration 2023

- The Death of Snow White 2025

- Franklin 2025

- ApoKalypse 2025

- Live and Die in East LA 2023

- A Season for Love 2025

- The Arkansas Pigman Massacre 2025

- Visceral: Between the Ropes of Madness 2012

- The Darkside of Society 2023

- Jackknife 2024

- Family Property 2: More Blood 2025

- Feral Female 2025

- Amongst the Wolves 2024

- Autumn 2023

- Bob Trevino Likes It 2024

- A Hard Place 2025

- Finding Nicole 2025

- Juliet & Romeo 2025

- Off the Line 2024

- First Moon 2025

- Healing Towers 2025

- Final Recovery 2025

- Greater Than 2014

- Self Driver 2024

- Primal Games 2025

- Grumpy 2023

- Swing Bout 2024

- Dalia and the Red Book 2024

- Project MKGEXE 2025

- Two to One 2024

- Talk of the Dead 2016

- A Killer Conversation 2014

- First Impressions Can Kill 2017

- Star Crash 1979

- Strangler of the Swamp 1946

Doctor Who - The Claws of Axos

episode 57

UK 1971
produced by
Barry Letts for BBC
directed by Michael Ferguson
starring Jon Pertwee, Katy Manning, Roger Delgado, Nicholas Courtney, Paul Grist, Peter Bathurst, Donald Hewlett, David Savile, Derek Ware, Bernard Holley, Tim Pigott-Smith, John Levene, Richard Franklin
written by Bob Baker, Dave Martin, script editor: Terrance Dicks, music by Dudley Simpson

TV-series
Doctor Who, Doctor Who (Jon Pertwee), Doctor Who (classic series), The Master, The Master (Roger Delgado), Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart

review by
Mike Haberfelner

Quick Links

Abbott & Costello

The Addams Family

Alice in Wonderland

Arsène Lupin

Batman

Bigfoot

Black Emanuelle

Bomba the Jungle Boy

Bowery Boys

Bulldog Drummond

Captain America

Charlie Chan

Cinderella

Deerslayer

Dick Tracy

Dick Turpin

Dr. Mabuse

Dr. Orloff

Doctor Who

Dracula

Edgar Wallace made in Germany

Elizabeth Bathory

Emmanuelle

Fantomas

Flash Gordon

Frankenstein

Frankie & Annette Beach Party movies

Freddy Krueger

Fu Manchu

Fuzzy

Gamera

Godzilla

Hercules

El Hombre Lobo

Incredible Hulk

Jack the Ripper

James Bond

Jekyll and Hyde

Jerry Cotton

Jungle Jim

Justine

Kamen Rider

Kekko Kamen

King Kong

Laurel and Hardy

Lemmy Caution

Lobo

Lone Wolf and Cub

Lupin III

Maciste

Marx Brothers

Miss Marple

Mr. Moto

Mister Wong

Mothra

The Munsters

Nick Carter

OSS 117

Phantom of the Opera

Philip Marlowe

Philo Vance

Quatermass

Robin Hood

The Saint

Santa Claus

El Santo

Schoolgirl Report

The Shadow

Sherlock Holmes

Spider-Man

Star Trek

Sukeban Deka

Superman

Tarzan

Three Mesquiteers

Three Musketeers

Three Stooges

Three Supermen

Winnetou

Wizard of Oz

Wolf Man

Wonder Woman

Yojimbo

Zatoichi

Zorro

Available on DVD!

To buy, click on link(s) below and help keep this site afloat (commissions earned)

Always make sure of DVD-compatibility!!!

Chinn (Peter Bathurst), a pompous patriotic politician, tries to take over UNIT (United Nations Intelligence Task force - the arm of the UN that deals with alien invasions) & basically debase their scientific advisor, Doctor Who (Jon Pertwee), when a UFO shows up over England that seems to have no problems evading the missiles shot at it & lands near a nuclear powerplant.

Chinn, the Doctor & UNIT's commander, brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart (Nicholas Courtney) soon follow an invitation of the UFO's crew, the Axons & soon find themselves inside the spaceship, an organically grown machine called Axos that, so the Axons say, did run out of fuel. And as exchange for a permit to stay and refuel, the Axons offer the world Axonite, a miraculous material that can reproduce and multiply any kind of matter needed - which would essentially end all the world's food problems ... Chinn is fascinated by this proposal & desperately wants to secure the world rights to Axonite for Britain, only the Doctor wonders how a spaceship with such a mineral aboard can possibly run out of fuel ...

Of course, the Axons motives are ulterior, they just want to suck the earth dry of any energy, any life, & for that need to cover the world in as much Axonite as possible ... & who has suggested earth as a prime victim to suck dry to them ? Why, the MAster (Roger Delgado), Doctor Who's arch-nemesis of course ... but unfortunately, the Axons dont treat their allies all that well & have made him their prisoner ...

After much ado, the Doctor has found out that the Axons, Axonite 6 the spaceship Axos itself are all one and the same thing, & this thing, under a friendly pretense, builds a ring around the world to suck it dry, banking on mankind's greed for Axos, and now, with the Doctor & the Master both being Time Lords (an alien species that is able to timetravel) they figure they can find out the principles of timetravelling to have access to more planets, in all different times ...

The Doctor & the Master soon form an uneasy alliance against Axos, but eventually the Doctor pretends to switch sides & in his timemachine, the TARDIS (Time And Relative Dimensions In Space), he sends Axos into a timeloop - earth saved, only the Master has somehow managed to escape.

Katy Manning as the Doctor's assistant Jo Grant is relegated to a mere supporting role, Paul Grist plays an American agent trying to capture the Master, but has little to do with the actual plot.

 

A Doctor Who story that somehow falls in two: On one hand there's some quite biting political satire (in the conetext of a kids sci-fi-series that is) about a pompous politician - Chinn - who is self-absorbed enough to make a mess out of everything without understanding in the slightest. And then there's of course another wonderfully camp performance of Roger Delgado as the Master ... but on the other hand there's a terribly messed up script that seems to take a different direction every few minutes, & dropping narrative threads rather at will, which every now & again makes one wonder how difficult it can be to tell an alien invasionn story ... a pity rather because the episode had its promises.

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

Feeling lucky?
Want to
search
any of my partnershops yourself
for more, better results?
(commissions earned)

The links below
will take you
just there!!!

Find Doctor Who - The Claws of Axos
at the amazons ...

USA  amazon.com

Great Britain (a.k.a. the United Kingdom)  amazon.co.uk

Germany (East AND West)  amazon.de

Looking for imports?
Find Doctor Who - The Claws of Axos here ...

Thailand  eThaiCD.com
Your shop for all things Thai


Thanks for watching !!!

 

 

In times of uncertainty of a possible zombie outbreak, a woman has to decide between two men - only one of them's one of the undead.

 

There's No Such Thing as Zombies
starring
Luana Ribeira, Rudy Barrow and Rami Hilmi
special appearances by
Debra Lamb and Lynn Lowry

 

directed by
Eddie Bammeke

written by
Michael Haberfelner

produced by
Michael Haberfelner, Luana Ribeira and Eddie Bammeke

 

now streaming at

Amazon

Amazon UK

Vimeo

 

 

 

Robots and rats,
demons and potholes,
cuddly toys and
shopping mall Santas,
love and death and everything in between,
Tales to Chill
Your Bones to

is all of that.

 

Tales to Chill
Your Bones to
-
a collection of short stories and mini-plays
ranging from the horrific to the darkly humourous,
from the post-apocalyptic
to the weirdly romantic,
tales that will give you a chill and maybe a chuckle, all thought up by
the twisted mind of
screenwriter and film reviewer
Michael Haberfelner.

 

Tales to Chill
Your Bones to

the new anthology by
Michael Haberfelner

 

Out now from
Amazon!!!