LoginDoctor Who - Vengeance on Varos (Episode 139) - Region 1 DVD
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One of the most popular of Colin (the sixth Doctor) Baker's adventures, "Vengeance on Varos" finds the Doctor and Peri (Nicola Bryant) involved with rebels on a 1984-like planet, Varos, where televised torture is used to support and enforce the ruling regime. When first broadcast, the episode aroused condemnation over the violence shown--particularly two men falling into a vat of acid--as well as the implied horror and moral corruption. However, these complaints missed the satiric subtext of a world in which reality-TV suffering pacifies the masses while big business exploits them. While there is too much runn
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Manufacturer: BBC Warner
Release date: 4 March 2003
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0794051171825 UPC: 794051171825
Release date: 4 March 2003
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0794051171825 UPC: 794051171825
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