--- product_id: 79087255 title: "Doctor Who: The Sontaran Experiment [1975] [DVD]" brand: "tom bakerelisabeth sladen" price: "AR$35641" currency: ARS in_stock: true reviews_count: 12 url: https://www.desertcart.com.ar/products/79087255-doctor-who-the-sontaran-experiment-1975-dvd store_origin: AR region: Argentina --- # Doctor Who: The Sontaran Experiment [1975] [DVD] **Brand:** tom bakerelisabeth sladen **Price:** AR$35641 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Doctor Who: The Sontaran Experiment [1975] [DVD] by tom bakerelisabeth sladen - **How much does it cost?** AR$35641 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.com.ar](https://www.desertcart.com.ar/products/79087255-doctor-who-the-sontaran-experiment-1975-dvd) ## Best For - tom bakerelisabeth sladen enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted tom bakerelisabeth sladen brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Tom Baker stars as the enigmatic Time Lord in this classic two-part adventure. Arriving on a seemingly deserted Earth, the Doctor, Sarah (Elisabeth Sladen) and Harry (Ian Marter) soon discover a crew of shipwrecked astronauts from a distant Earth colony. Lured there by a fake distress call, the astronauts are being experimented on by the deadly Sontarans in preparation of a full-scale invasion of the planet. Can the Doctor defeat Sontaran Field-Marshall Styre (Kevin Lindsay) and save the world? ## Product Details - **Genre:** Action & Adventure, Documentary - **Format:** PAL - **Contributor:** Bob Baker, Dave Martin, Elisabeth Sladen, Ian Marter, Tom Baker - **Language:** English - **Number of discs:** 1 ## Images ![Doctor Who: The Sontaran Experiment [1975] [DVD] - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61gXdvG1QbL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars The Dartmoor Experiment *by N***3 on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 April 2015* This story is just like a Sontaran - short, tough and effective. But it won't take over your life or test you to breaking point - a Sontaran would ... 5*** NOTE: You can buy this story as part of the Sontarans four story box set 'Bred for War', which offers good value if you don't already have the four individual DVDs.We're used now to having `Doctor Who' stories that are all done in well under an hour, but in 1975 this wasn't the usual thing at all. `The Sontaran Experiment' only happened because the season-opening six-part story was thought not to be working, and was split into Robert Holmes' four-part classic `The Ark in Space' and this two-parter, written quickly and well by Bob Baker and Dave Martin. Their stories are often full of enjoyably alien weirdness (`The Claws of Axos', `The Invisible Enemy') so this is a contrast. It's a compact and quite brutal action adventure with a straightforward plot and very good dialogue.It was quite controversial as a single story DVD release; my VHS copy sits happily in its double tape pack with `Genesis of the Daleks' and on DVD it could have been combined with `The Ark in Space'. However, the quality of this DVD is excellent, showing off the production to best effect.It was also unusual for being made entirely on location with the new `Outside Broadcast' video cameras and literally miles of cables around Hound Tor on Dartmoor, in weather that doesn't look too bad on screen but was, according to the commentary, cold, wet and very difficult to work in. `Spearhead From Space' was the first all-location story, made five years earlier on 16mm film, but with many interior scenes. Here there is no `indoors' to hide in, not even the TARDIS, as the Doctor and friends have arrived by Transmat from Space Station Nerva. This gives an exposed, almost agoraphobic feel to this story of something alien hunting humans on our own world.The results of this `Dartmoor Experiment' are excellent, the desolate moors and rocky tors making a very convincing deserted Earth, on which a small group of humans from one of Earth's colonies have fallen victim to sinister, cruel Sontaran `researcher' Styre, who, helped by his hunting robot, wants to discover human weaknesses to make invasion easier. It's up to the Doctor, Sarah and Harry to save the world yet again.That's basically the whole plot in two lines, but within that simple outline there's good action and dialogue, some time for characters to develop, great use of the landscape by director Rodney Bennett, a convincing robot and one of the more inventive deaths for any `monster' in the classic series with an impressive special effect.This was the first story (in production order) made under the legendary duo of Philip Hinchcliffe and Robert Holmes, and the new style is clear. There are elements here that would never have been included in the Pertwee years. I greatly enjoy both eras, but this is where the famous `Gothic' darkness started to creep into `Doctor Who' - Styre is a really malevolent specimen and probably enjoys his `research'. As the enemies became more evil, the Doctor stood up to them as strongly as ever, a true hero and a force for good.Tom Baker was heroic too, carrying on with a broken collarbone after falling on the wet ground; stuntman Terry Walsh was his `double' for the later action scenes. In only his second story (in production order), it's amazing that he is already the Doctor in every detail, with a fresh and energized performance. Ian Marter plays Lt. Harry Sullivan with true-blue Britishness, a totally reliable `lieutenant' for the Doctor while Elisabeth Sladen is excellent as Sarah, as always; her reaction on first seeing the Sontaran is one of the highlights.Kevin Lindsay (who played Linx in `The Time Warrior') returned to play both Styre and his impatient commander, the Marshal. They are identical and meant to be; Sontarans are reproduced by cloning. For me, he's the definitive Sontaran and showed how it should be done, with help from stuntman Stuart Fell in the fight scenes. The Sontaran head is very good, much better than any that followed, although strangely it's still not as good as the superb design used in the earlier story.The colonists are all well played as a group of tough spacemen, stranded on a deserted world and pushed to their limits. I liked the way they have South African accents, it seems from the commentary this was a comment on the way accents might develop over time; however I thought this was also a clever touch to make them contrast with the standard English spoken by the people of Nerva in `The Ark in Space', who they refer to (derisively) here as the `Mother Earth' people.With Styre cleverly defeated by exploiting what a Sontaran would see as his strength and after a bit of quick talking to put off the Marshal, the Doctor and his friends shimmer away by Transmat, back to Space Station Nerva - or so they think ... next stop Skaro, but that's another story ...`The Sontaran Experiment' has been completed and evaluated.Final report: five stars.DVD Special Features:The commentary is very good and informative, with Elisabeth Sladen, producer Philip Hinchcliffe and co-author Bob Baker.`Built For War' - an excellent 40 minute feature looking at the making of this story and the other three classic series encounters with the Sontarans. An excellent set of contributors and well presented, entertainingly intercut by a hitherto unknown Sontaran wandering around yet more moorland (in nice weather this time). He's picking up strange transmissions on his communications unit from such humans as Terrance Dicks, Elisabeth Sladen, Anthony Read and Eric Saward, who seem to know far too much about Sontarans for his liking ...Photo Gallery (5 min) - a very good collection of location pictures plus some design drawings and `behind the scenes' photos showing the paraphernalia then involved in location video `filming' on top of Dartmoor. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars Great little story from Dr WHo *by F***Y on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 14 June 2014* A short story this may be, only two episodes as I remember, but it is a clever one, and introduces us to the warrior race the Sontarans.It picks up directly after the "Ark in Space" which was the second story of the legendary Tom Baker years as Dr Who, and continues onto one of the best Dalek stories ever written "Genesis of the Daleks".The Sontaran's are a war like race, genetically engineered and cloned into a massive army. One is sent to Earth to conduct experiments on Humans to give a better insight into out weaknesses so we can be invaded with more ease. The Doctor then scuppers the plans of the Sontarans and heads onto his next adventure on SkaroThis episode was largely filmed on location and featured no internal of indoor shoots. Tom Baker broke his collar bone during filming so the actor Terry Walsh was used as a double in many scenes where the Doctor fights the Sontaran scientist.An excellent if short story from the early times of the greatest Doctor ever to fly the TARDIS! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent! *by R***. on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 September 2022* Sontarans are back and up to no good. Can't tell you the whole story,Spoilers!But I warmly recommend it. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.com.ar/products/79087255-doctor-who-the-sontaran-experiment-1975-dvd](https://www.desertcart.com.ar/products/79087255-doctor-who-the-sontaran-experiment-1975-dvd) --- *Product available on Desertcart Argentina* *Store origin: AR* *Last updated: 2026-08-25*