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Looking for a movie the entire family can enjoy? Check out our picks for family friendly movies movies that transcend all ages. For even more, visit our Family Entertainment Guide. See the full list. The TARDIS makes an emergency landing on Varos, a planet that used to be a Doctor Who: Vengeance on Varos colony, and where the native Varosians are presently entertained by broadcasts of real violence and death. Written by Daniel Williamson. What is so unutterably good about this Doctor Who: Vengeance on Varos, is the ability the writer had to see how the world was changing, that as a society we were becoming TV obsessed, ratings obsessed, and insensitive to those close to us. I personally rate this very highly, it's well made, fast paced, highly imaginative, and boasts some truly exceptional characters and performances. Geraldine Alexander and Sheila Reid are great, but the standout has to be Nabil Shaban, who's was just terrific, and would gladly return the following season, and should have returned again in the one to follow. Those who dismiss Colin's Doctor, do so wrongly I think, he is very good indeed here. It gets my vote. Looking for something to watch? Choose an adventure below and discover your next favorite movie or TV show. Visit our What to Watch page. Sign In. Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Full Cast and Crew. Release Dates. Official Sites. Company Credits. Technical Specs. Plot Summary. Plot Keywords. Parents Guide. External Sites. User Reviews. User Ratings. External Reviews. Metacritic Reviews. Photo Gallery. Trailers and Videos. Crazy Credits. Alternate Doctor Who: Vengeance on Varos. Doctor Who — Rate This. Season 22 Episode 3. All Episodes Director: Ron Jones. Writer: Philip Martin by. Available on Amazon. Added to Watchlist. Doctor Who Episode List. Underrated Doctor Who Stories. Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Doctor Who: Vengeance on Varos Add Image. Edit Cast Episode complete credited cast: Peri Martin Jarvis Governor Nabil Shaban Sil Nicolas Chagrin Quillam Jason Connery Jondar Forbes Collins Chief Officer Stephen Yardley Arak Sheila Reid Etta Geraldine Alexander Areta Graham Cull Bax Owen Teale Maldak Keith Skinner Edit Storyline The TARDIS makes an emergency landing on Varos, a planet that used to be a penal colony, and where the native Varosians are presently entertained by broadcasts of real violence and death. Edit Did You Know? Trivia The first appearance of Sil played by Nabil Shabanwho became one of the most popular monsters from this era of the series. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Report this. Add the first question. Edit Details Country: UK. Language: English. Runtime: 45 min. Sound Mix: Mono. Color: Color. Edit page. October Streaming Picks. Back to School Picks. Clear your history. Chief Officer. Vengeance on Varos - Wikipedia

Vengeance on Varos was the second serial of season 22 of Doctor Who. It introduced the alien Sil and the Mentor species. Seeking the rare mineral Zeiton-7 to repair his TARDISthe Doctor arrives on Varosa world where political prisoners and their guards are all subjected to sadistic tortures and executions which the colony's inhabitants view and vote on through interactive television. Accused of being alien infiltrators helping the colony's rebel factions, the Doctor and Peri find themselves the latest unwilling subjects in this most extreme form of reality TV. On Varosa planet in the constellation of Cetusthe public torture of the rebel Jondar is broadcast throughout the planet. Citizens Arak and Etta watch the event from their room. Arak complains that they never show anything new to watch. In addition to the lack of new programming, the two must also deal with food rationing. Also, that night will be a punch-in vote ordered by the Governorand voting is mandatory. Peri complains that the Doctor has caused three electrical fires, a power failure, nearly collided with a storm of asteroids, got lost in the TARDIS corridors twice, wiped the memory banks of the flight computer, jettisoned three quarters of Doctor Who: Vengeance on Varos storage hold and burned her "cold dinner", all since the time- travellers left Telos. It has stalled in the middle of deep space and the Doctor can do nothing to fix it. Silthe Mentor representative of the Galatron Mining Corporationis negotiating with the Governor over the price of Varos' Zeiton-7 ore. Their discussion, like many others, ends in stalemate. For many years, the Galatron Mining Corporation has swindled Varos by paying far less for the ore than its market value. To make matters worse, the Chief Officer is in league with Sil. The Governor moves on to conduct the night's vote. He addresses the people, asking for their vote on Doctor Who: Vengeance on Varos they should hold out longer for a fair price on the ore. The process slowly kills the target and is carried out because this is the third time his recommendations have failed to pass. The guard Bax recommends that the Governor Doctor Who: Vengeance on Varos Jondar to please the citizens so he can recuperate before the next vote. He quickly dismisses it. He says that he knows perfectly well what has caused their dilemma. The transitional elements within the TARDIS have stopped producing orbital energy and they need Zeiton-7 ore to realign the power systems. The Doctor explains Zeiton-7 is Doctor Who: Vengeance on Varos rare and only comes from one planet: Varos. They arrive right before the execution of Jondar is to take place. With some help from the chained Jondar, the guard is incapacitated. They are rescued by Rondel. He has defected after speaking with Areta and decided to help them. But he is killed shortly thereafter by pursuing guards. During a run-in with another group of guards, the Doctor is separated from the others, who are arrested. He enters a corridor that appears a desert. A mirage of Peri taunts him as he suffers. With all of Varos watching, he succumbs to the heat and collapses with his end as a close-up. During the ordeal, Peri has been brought to the control centre in the company of Sil and Doctor Who: Vengeance on Varos other officers. They question her as she watches them bring the Doctor's body to an acid bath for disposal. It turns out he is not dead; his mind was influenced to make him believe he was dying of thirst in a desert. The Doctor suddenly stands up and walks over to the attendants while their backs are turned. The surprise makes the first attendant jump, pushing the second into the bath. A struggle ensues. The first attendant is pulled into the acid bath by the second attendant. The Doctor strolls out, saying, "You'll forgive me if I don't join you. After making his way from the acid baths, the Doctor is cornered by QuillamVaros' chief scientist, and taken away. Back in the control centre, it is decided the Doctor and Jondar will be executed in a good "old-fashioned" way, while Peri and Areta will be Doctor Who: Vengeance on Varos with a cell mutator. The Doctor and Jondar are Doctor Who: Vengeance on Varos in the nooses while the Governor and Sil watch. At the last moment, the Doctor asks the Governor about Sil and his extortion. Sil's bodyguards rush the platform and pull the lever. The two simply fall through the holes, the rope coming right off the support. As it turns out, there was to be no execution — it was all to get information out of the Doctor. The Doctor suspected this when he noticed that they were not being filmed. The group tries to stop the cell mutator on Peri and Areta, but they are told it's at too advanced a stage. The Doctor and Jondar grab the weapons of nearby guards to intimidate Quillam to deactivate the mutator, but it fails. The Doctor resorts to shooting the entire control panel. The process has stopped in the nick of time and Peri and Areta return to their original form. The four escape back into the depths of the Punishment Dome towards a possible escape route. Peri, still in a stupor from the mutator, is recaptured and taken to the control centre. The Chief and Sil make their final move on the Governor, hoping he will be killed in the next vote, securing their control of Varos and the Zeiton-7 ore. Meanwhile, the Doctor, Jondar and Areta make their way into the End Zone of the Dome, where the exit is supposed to be. The vote starts and the bombardment begins, but the guard Maldak has a change of heart and shoots the device to stop the bombardment, saving the Governor and Peri. The three make their way through the ventilation ducts to meet with the Doctor. The Doctor's group is chased by two cannibals and loses them in some poisonous tendrils. The Doctor Who: Vengeance on Varos, Quillam, and two guards arrive on the scene but are ambushed and entangled in the tendrils, killing them. The Doctor's group meet with Peri, the Governor and Maldak. They all make their way back to the control centre and put an end to Sil's plans of controlling Varos. The Galatron Mining Corporation also began to side with Varos; a second source of Zeiton-7 ore has been found and Sil is ordered to obtain the Varosian ore at any price. The Doctor and Peri bid the Governor farewell, taking Doctor Who: Vengeance on Varos replacement ore with them. The Governor issues a message to the citizens Doctor Who: Vengeance on Varos that there will be no more injustice, torture and executions. Arak and Etta watch in disbelief, wondering what they'll do with their new-found freedom. 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Vengeance on Varos is the second serial of the 22nd season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Whowhich was first broadcast in two weekly parts on 19 and 26 January The serial is set on the planet Varos, where Doctor Who: Vengeance on Varos Sixth Doctor Colin Baker and Peri Nicola Bryant find themselves in a dystopian world in which torture and executions are broadcast to the public as entertainment, and the alien mining representative Sil Nabil Shaban is extorting the planet's Governor Martin Jarvis into selling the valuable ore Zeiton-7 to his company cheaply. But as the Doctor explains, Zeiton-7 is exceptionally rare and only comes from one planet in the Cetes constellation: Varos. On Varos, originally a prison planet that now functions as a government system where voting is mandatory and torture and executions are televised, the Galatron Mining Corporation's swindling Mentor representative Sil is negotiating with Varos's Governor over the price of Zeiton-7 ore. Wanting a fair price for his people, and unaware that his Chief Officer is in league with Sil, the governor addresses his people to vote if they should hold out longer for a fair price. However, the popular vote is against the Governor, and as a consequence, he is subjected to exposure to potentially lethal Human Cell Disintegration Bombardment. As losing a subsequent vote will almost surely kill him, the Governor is forced to please the citizens by ordering the execution of a rebel leader named Jondar. The guard stationed at the execution believes Doctor Who: Vengeance on Varos TARDIS and its occupants are a hallucination resulting from the psychological effects of the Dome, which allows the Doctor and Peri to incapacitate the guard and free Jondar. With his attempt to escape now being broadcast as entertainment to all of Varos, he enters a corridor that appears in his mind as a desert, and due to its psychological effects, begins to die from thirst. By this time, Peri has been brought to the control centre in the company of the Governor, Sil and the other officers. They question Peri as she watches the Doctor's body being taken away to an acid bath for disposal. However, the Doctor has survived, and though he escapes, causing the death of two guards in the process, he is quickly arrested by Quillam, Varos's chief scientist. The Governor decrees that the Doctor and Jondar will be executed Doctor Who: Vengeance on Varos hanging, while Peri and Areta are to be subjected to undergo horrific scientific experiments at the hands of Quillam and his cell mutator. At the gallows, at the last moment, the Doctor questions the Governor about Sil and his extortion while offering to help in the Zeiton-7 matter, causing Sil to order his bodyguards to rush the platform to pull the lever Doctor Who: Vengeance on Varos silence the Doctor. But it turns out the execution was actually a farce to extract information out of the Doctor. The Doctor, who suspected this, agrees to help Varos on the condition that Peri and Areta are returned unharmed. However, Quillam refuses, even under duress, forcing the Doctor to resort to shooting the entire control panel. Luckily, the process has been halted in time, and the mutations are only temporary, Doctor Who: Vengeance on Varos Peri and Areta soon return to their original selves. The four then escape back into the depths of the Punishment Dome towards a possible escape route before Peri, still in a stupor after the effects of the mutator, is recaptured and taken to the control centre. The Chief Officer and Sil make their final move on the Governor in hopes that losing the next vote will finally kill him, securing the way for them to control Varos and the Zeiton-7 ore. The vote starts and the bombardment begins, but the guard Meldak has a change of heart and stops the device, saving the Governor and Peri. The three then make their way to meet up with the Doctor. The Doctor's group is then chased by two cannibals, but loses them thanks to some deadly plant tendrils. The Chief and Quillam arrive on the scene but are entangled in the tendrils, killing them. The group then meet up with Peri, the Governor, and Meldak. They all make their way back to the control centre as Sil reveals the invasion force he had dispatched hours earlier to take Varos by force. However, Sil is mortified to learn that the invasion force has been called back, and a second Zeiton-7 deposit has been discovered, so his company has ordered him to obtain the Varosian ore at any price. Soon after, the Governor issues a message to the citizens to abolish their government's injustice, torture, and executions. Citizens watch in disbelief, wondering what they Doctor Who: Vengeance on Varos do now with their new-found freedom. This story was written Doctor Who: Vengeance on Varos a replacement for a serial called Song of the Space Whale by comics writer Pat Millswhich was originally scheduled to be in season 20, before finally being cancelled. The story was first written Doctor Who: Vengeance on Varos the Doctor Who: Vengeance on Varos, but was repeatedly pushed back and re-written. In its final draft, the story had a number of comedic sequences, most of which wound up being cut, and one of which, the acid bath sequence, was played seriously. The result was that the final story Doctor Who: Vengeance on Varos much darker than originally intended. The more grim acid bath sequence was much criticised for its tone and for the Doctor's flippant remark at the end of the scene. During the first recording of the noose execution scene, part of the set collapsed under the weight of the actors. Fortunately, this did not happen when Baker and Connery actually had their necks in the nooses although in that case, for Doctor Who: Vengeance on Varos reasons the nooses were not actually tied up. In his interview for Starburstscript editor said he thought this story was "poorly directed". Jason Connery Jondar is the son of actor Sean Connery. Martin Jarvis makes a guest appearance as the beleaguered Governor of Varos; he had previously appeared in the series in a story in each of the previous two decades: The Web Planet and Invasion of the Dinosaurs Nabil Shaban features as Sil, who would return Doctor Who: Vengeance on Varos the next season's . He also played Hayton in the audio play The Mind's Doctor Who: Vengeance on Varos. Vengeance on Varos provoked considerable controversy for its violent content. The scenes featuring acid bath deaths, attempted hangings and genetic experiments on the female characters were widely criticised in the Radio Times letters page, and the programme Points of View. Reviewing the story in About TimeTat Wood described it as "like Doctor Who: Vengeance on Varos between a radical fringe theatre and children's television". He praised Martin's script and the story's production design, stating the story "gets more marks for effort than anything else this year". Wood also suggested that if someone wanted to understand what it was like to be living in Thatcher's Britainthey should watch Vengeance on Varosthen to "imagine a world where this could be followed by Jim'll Fix It ". He also thought the "notorious acid bath scene" was "deeply problematic". A novelisation of this serial, written by Philip Martinwas published by in January It was originally planned to be released 2 years earlier, but was pushed back after delays in the delivery of the manuscript by Philip Martin. However, it kept its original number of In addition, although Target had launched a new cover design format for the books with the previous volume, Time and the Ranireflecting the new series logo of the Sylvester McCoy era, Vengeance on Varos was published with the earlier book cover format using the neon-tube logo of the Baker-Davison era. Alongside a documentary on the Sixth Doctorthe disc features the serial put Doctor Who: Vengeance on Varos as a single feature in widescreen format with an introduction from current show runner Steven Moffatas well as its original version. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. 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