13.05.03
Doctor
Who: The Horns of Nimon
VHS
released 2 June 2003
Starring
Tom Baker as the fourth Doctor, Lalla Ward as Romana and David Brierley
as the voice of K9, the Horns of Nimon is the last of the Tom Baker
stories to be released on video, enabling fans to complete their
collections of the fourth incarnation. It is also the first time
that the Horns of Nimon has been released on video since it was
first transmitted in late 1979.
Watch
out for Janet Ellis, who also makes an appearance.
Planet Skonnos: the inhabitants have been promised that their civilisation
will be restored to greatness if they provide young sacrifices and
crystals. Their "benefactors"? The Nimons, aliens with
the heads of bulls. The Nimons also require radioactive hymetusite
crystals, which, along with the sacrifices, are obtainable from
the nearby planet Aneth.
The
Doctor and Romana come across a spaceship from Skonnos while their
TARDIS is immobilised for repairs. The spaceship has a gruesome
cargo: the latest batch of sacrifices from Aneth.
Romana is captured and taken to Skonnos on board the spaceship,
while the Doctor follows in the now semi-repaired TARDIS. Once there,
the Skonnons' leader consigns them into the Nimons' labyrinthine
power complex.
Meanwhile,
the Doctor discovers that the Nimons weave their duplicitous deceptions
by sending a lone emissary to each planet, gaining the trust of
the populace before draining it of its resources. This is what the
Nimons are doing to Skonnos.
Will the Doctor stop them in their tracks? More importantly, can
he rescue Romana from the seat of the Nimons' power, where she is
still trapped?
With
thanks to the Doctor Who: The Television Companion by David J Howe
and Stephen James Walker.
Title:
Doctor Who - The Horns of Nimon
Price:
Β£12.99
Catalogue no: Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔV7334
Running time: 100 mins
Release date: 2 June 2003
Certificate: U
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