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The Avengers DVDs and Videos Babylon 5 DVDs Batman Stuff Blakes 7 DVDs & Videos Buffy & Angel Videos Buffy The Vampire Slayer DVDs Captain Scarlet DVDs Doctor Who DVDs Doctor Who Videos Flash Gordon DVDs Joe 90 DVDs Lord Of The Rings DVDs Lost In Space DVDs Quantum Leap DVDs Space: 1999 DVDs Space Precinct DVDs Spider-Man DVDs Star Wars DVDs Stingray DVDs Terrahawks DVDs Thunderbirds DVDs Tomorrow People DVDs Transformers DVDs Twilight Zone DVDs UFO DVDs The X-Files DVDs

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Short Circuit [1986] DVD
The cutest robot in sci-fi history!

SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY DVDs selected by booksmusicfilmstv.com in association with Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com

2001 : A Space Odyssey	Alien	Back To The Future	Barbarella	Batman (1966)
Batman (1989)	Close Encounters Of The Third Kind	Contact	Doctor Who Movies	Dune
E.T. - The Extra Terrestrial	Godzilla	Lifeforce	The Man Who Fell To Earth	Men In Black
One Million Years BC	Scanners	She	Starman	Star Wars
Superman	War Of The Worlds	Willow

Harry Potter DVDs, Books, Audiobooks
The Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy CDs
Hilltop Press - publishers of some very interesting science fiction booklets
Brian Aldiss Books (Brian Aldiss Poetry page) Astronomy and Space Books Doctor Who Books Terry Pratchett Books William Shatner Star Trek Books Jules Verne Books H.G. Wells Books

The Invaders - The First Season on DVD (Amazon.co.uk)
The Invaders - The First Season on DVD (Amazon.com)

Amazon.co.uk Review
"If they’re really after you, you’re not paranoid" is a lesson The Invaders' David Vincent has learned all too well. Vincent (portrayed by Roy Thinnes) knows that aliens from a dying planet have come to Earth and are planning to take over; having lost his way and fallen asleep in his car in the remote woods one night, he saw their flying saucer land. What’s worse, the invaders know he knows. And worst of all, the rest of the world is willfully oblivious, and little interested in the rantings of this madman. That's the premise of this series from producer Quinn (The Fugitive) Martin, and even if the 16 episodes from the show’s first season (1967) don’t always match the promise of the concept, this is still an intriguing, entertaining ride. The aliens, crafty critters that they are, look exactly like us, save for a slight disfigurement of one finger; they also completely disintegrate when killed, a convenient little conceit that prevents anyone from figuring out who or what they really are. Their dastardly schemes for eliminating the Earthlings are many and varied, ranging from nuclear bombs, plagues of locusts (and carnivorous butterflies!), and manufactured hurricanes to brainwashing and mind control experiments.

Standing against this implacable foe is just one man--an amateur (Vincent was an architect before all the craziness began) who works alone (the other true believers he encounters almost invariably end up dead) and is often stymied by his own impetuousness and lack of preparation. Admittedly, the concept doesn’t hold up under close scrutiny; even if the aliens are trying to take over by stealth instead of one massive invasion, it doesn’t make a lot of sense that they can’t eliminate a guy who doesn’t even own a gun. There is no series arc; each episode is stand-alone, so by the end of the season the invaders still have barely established a foothold. Moreover, while there are plenty of fistfights and chase sequences, the special effects are ludicrous, the alien technology looks like something out of a high school play, the stories are obvious, and the acting is melodramatic (notwithstanding guest appearances by the Jack Warden and familiar TV faces like Suzanne Pleshette, Arthur Hill, Joseph Campanella, Jack Lord, Ed Asner, and many others). Nevertheless, with the help of Dominic Frontiere’s music and the portentous narration that begins and ends each episode, The Invaders manages to consistently maintain its paranoid, Kafka-esque vibe, and that alone makes it compellingly watchable. --Sam Graham

Buffy The Vampire Slayer - The Complete DVD Collection

Babylon 5 Movie Box Set DVD - Thirdspace/River of Souls/A Call to Arms

The X Files - Complete DVD Collection

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