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The Doctor (Tom Baker) and Sarah (Elisabeth Sladen) arrive on storm
ridden planet Karn, where mad scientist Dr Solon (Philip Madoc) is
creating a hybrid monster body for the brain of renegade Time Lord
Morbius (voice of Michael Spice). Also on the planet are the
Sisterhood of the Flame, who believe that the Doctor has been sent
by the Time Lords to steal their Elixir of life. The Doctor must
convince the Sisters of his good intentions and prevent Solon from
returning Morbius to life.
"Sing With Me" shows how Carlisle Jacobson, a recent college
graduate beginning a teaching career in the Washington, D.C., area
in 1998, realizes he's learning as much as he is teaching. Carlisle
brings to his work a belief that every student must, without a
doubt have opportunities to achieve anything they imagine, but
before long he's learning, through personal experiences, that many
young people don't have the advantages he enjoyed as a child of
privileged and wealthy society in the horse country of Virginia,
only a day-trip away from Washington but worlds away from its
streets plagued by crime and nearly cut off from hope. And while
Carlisle has enjoyed hunting since he was young, he discovers
firearms are used frequently in D.C. for hunting down other people,
with innocent bystanders shot as frequently as the hunters'
intended targets. His most frequent teacher in learning that he has
a lot to learn is Lucia Sanspeur, a woman unlike any he's known and
anyone he ever expected to meet. Lucia doesn't mince words and
makes clear her ideas, every one of which he hangs on in rapt
attention. Her voice captivates Carlisle from their first
encounter, and almost as quickly her ideas propel him toward
understanding that, even as he professes concern and empathy for
his students and for her, he looks at the world and other people
through a sense of wealth and privilege. The primary tenet of
Carlisle's perspective, which he acknowledges but tenaciously
wrestles to accept, is that as a white man he should exert control
over and receive respect from all other people, particularly blacks
and other minorities. Lucia, as a black woman, makes vividly clear
the problems with his perception. Carlisle's rapid education in
learning about life moves into advanced studies and his stumbling
journey toward accepting the basic prejudices in his regard for
other people nearly tumbles to a complete stop when he experiences
first-hand the violence and crime that victimize many people in the
area daily.
Three digitally remastered Doctor Who episodes from the 1970s, '80s
and '90s. In 'The Talons of Weng-Chiang' (1977), the Doctor (Tom
Baker) and Leela (Louise Jamison) arrive in Victorian London to
find that galactic war criminal Magnus Greel has created giant rats
in the sewers and is sucking the life essence from young girls to
sustain him in his search for his time cabinet. Aided by Professor
Litefoot and music hall proprietor Henry Jago, the Doctor must stop
Greel (masquerading as the Chinese god Weng Chiang) and his
servants Li H'sen Chang and killer doll Mr Sin. 'The Caves of
Androzani' (1984) represents the final outing for the fifth
incarnation of everyone's favourite Time Lord. The Doctor (Peter
Davison) and Peri (Nicola Bryant) become embroiled in an
underground war of gun running and drug smuggling shortly after
landing on the planet Androzani Minor. Apprehended by the military,
they are rescued from execution by the brilliant but horribly
disfigured criminal, Sharaz Jek, whose infatuation with Peri looks
set to be cut short when he discovers that both she and the Doctor
have contracted the deadly disease Spectrox Toxaemia. The only
possible cure is the milk of the queen bat, which dwells in the
caves currently being roamed by the killer Magma Creature... In
'Doctor Who: The Movie' (1996), the Doctor (Sylvester McCoy)
crashlands the TARDIS on Earth in end-of-century San Francisco
while en route to return the Master's remains to their home planet
of Gallifrey. Gunned down by a street gang, the Doctor is rushed to
hospital, where exploratory surgery by Doctor Grace Holloway
(Daphne Ashbrook) triggers a regeneration. The Master has meanwhile
taken over the body of a paramedic and infiltrated the Doctor's
TARDIS, which he plans to use in his latest scheme to take over the
Doctor's new body and destroy the world. Filmed as the pilot for a
revived 'Doctor Who' series - tailored to the American market -
which subsequently failed to materialise, this feature-length
adventure introduces Paul McGann as the renegade Time Lord.
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