jarf's - Rented List

The Doctor takes Ace back to her home town of Perivale, only to find that something is very, very wrong. Many of Ace's old friends and neighbours have disappeared, whilst domestic pets become victims unseen killers. Will the hunter become the hunted when only the fittest survive...?

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The Tardis makes an unplanned landing on Manussa, where preparations are underway to celebrate the defeat of the Sumaran Empire five centuries earlier But the ancient evil of the Mara lives on, and Tegan (Janet Fielding), who has been haunted by disturbing dreams since her time under the Windchimes

on Deva Loka, is now a pawn in its plan to re-enter the physical world and subjugate the Manussan people. Only the Doctor (Peter Davison) can stop the Mara - but first he must convince the authorities that he is not just a deluded fool who believes in children's fairytales...

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Earth, 1988: While the Doctor and Ace flee from emotionless men wielding futuristic pistols, neo-Nazi Herr de Flores (Anton Diffring) is intent on heralding the Fourth Reich.

Meanwhile, the villainous Lady Peinforte (Fiona Walker) uses black magic to propel herself forward from 1638 for a final confrontation with her sworn enemy - the Doctor (Sylvester McCoy). And, at the same time, a spacecraft full of Cybermen sets down on Earth...As the Doctor desperately evades multiple enemies, a meteor containing a Gallifreyan super-weapon is hurtling ever nearer to the planet. Whoever controls the Statue will hold the power of life or death over the entire universe...

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This musical movie adaptation of Peter S. Beagle's classic best-seller tells the story of the last remaining Unicorn on earth who sets out from her home in lilac woods in the hope that she will find another of her kind.

A wondrous quest begins with the Last Unicorn meeting many colourful characters along the way, including Schmendrick the Magician, Mommy Fortuna and Molly Grue. Danger Looms, However, with the appearance of the sinister Red Bull.

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England, 1925. The Tardis materialises on a quiet railway platform where the Doctor, Tegan, Adric and Nyssa soon discover they are expected at an afternoon cricket match.

And when the time travellers are invited to stay at Cranleigh Hall for a fancy dress ball, it isn't long before they uncover a terrible family secret. Who is murdering the servants and why? A rare flower may hold the answer...

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Earth, 2084. Two global superpowers hover on the brink of war. When the Tardis is forced to make an unplanned visit to Sea Base Four, the Doctor, Tegan and Turlough find themselves accused of being enemy agents.

Quickly embroiled in a deadly game of paranoid intrigue, it becomes clear that others on the base have sabotage and murder in mind. However, there is a greater threat to Mankind: the Silurians and Sea Devils, prehistoric reptiles seeking to reclaim the Earth. Can the Doctor prevent them implementing their 'final solution' and triggering a war that could wipe out the entire human race?

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Sarah Greene and Craig Charles report from a reputedly haunted London home for the outside broadcast, while Michael Parkinson and Mike Smith stay in the warmth and "safety" of a BBC studio.

The Early family are allegedly being harassed by the ghost 'Pipes', so named as his banging and crashing were initially attributed to bad plumbing. After a deliberately slow start the tension gradually builds, culminating in a terrifying crescendo. Although entirely fictional, the masterly combination of great scripting, intuitive direction and perfect casting made the supernatural pastiche appear frighteningly real.

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The TARDIS lands on the planet Xeros, where a vast museum houses a collection of relics from the galactic conquests of the mighty Morok Empire.

Whilst they are exploring, the Doctor (William Hartnell) and his companions make a disturbing discovery: their future selves are preserved in the museum as exhibits in a display case! Now the time travellers face a terrible dilemma: how can they escape their fate, when every decision they make could be taking them a step closer to their doom?

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New Years Eve 1999. Earth is about to run out of time. Returning home to Gallifrey with the remains of his arch enemy, the Master, the Tardis is forced off course, plunging the Doctor into the middle of a street gang's gun battle in downtown San Francisco.

Critically wounded in the shoot out, the Doctor has to regenerate to save his own life. And he's not the only one - the Master too has a new body with which to wreak havoc, and his ultimate goal is to take the Doctor's own existence. As the clock counts down to the start of a new millennium, the Doctor has to stop the Master destroying all life on Earth. But at what cost...?

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Patrick (Robert Thompson) has been in a coma for four years - ever since the "accidental" death of his mother and her lover. Kept at a small rundown hospital, he is experimented on by the insensitive Dr.

Roget (Robert Helpmann) who describes Patrick as "170lbs of limp meat hanging off a comatised brain". However, Patrick has been slowly developing powerful psycho-kinetic powers...When a new nurse is assigned to him, he falls in love with her, leaving notes on her typewriter using his telekinesis...But she soon realises that Patrick may be using his powers for far more sinister purposes as nurses and doctors at the hospital begin to die under mysterious circumstances...

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A chilling tale of modern day vampires, set loose on a city, free to kill at will. First a brutal terrorist attack on a NASA base takes place deep in the Arizona desert. Then, ten days later the corpse of a CIA man is found floating in the Seine in Paris.

Are the two events connected? Monsieur Lassar of the French secret service thinks so, but can't work out how. To help him he calls in international terrorist, spy and master criminal Kousaburo Kuki. Kuki discovers the key to the mystery is film super-star Lamia Vindaw, who has become the focus of a CIA operation in Paris and more sinisterly, the target of a bizarre vampire cult. Can Kuki get to the bottom of the mystery and save the glamorous Miss Vindaw, or will he too become just another number in the body count?

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It is the late 21st century and mankind is totally dependent on T-Mat, a revolutionary form of instant travel.

The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe arrive to find that the sinister Ice Warriors plan to invade Earth, using T-Mat to transport deadly seed pods full of a fungus that will absorb the planet's oxygen. The Doctor must race against time to defeat the Martian invaders - or condemn the human race to suffocation...

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Brilliant surgeon Ukyo Retsu performs an operation to remove a cancer from a mysterious old woman. The "cancer" turns out to be a 5000 year-old demon, a dark messenger from Japan's ancient past heralding a demonic invasion of the Earth.

Ukyo travels to the remains of an ancient city where he finds a gateway in the fabric of time which enables him to travel back 5000 years. There, in Earth's past, he discovers a Race of Demons who are planning to use the gateway to travel to the present in order to destroy mankind and make the Earth their own. Can Ukyo defeat the ancient Race of Demons and save the Earth, or will mankind be wiped out?

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With a cast headlined by the legendary Bruce Campbell, it is little wonder that Moontrap is considered to be a cult classic among sci-fi fans of the VHS era. In this alien invasion oddity, astronaut and investigator Campbell the charge against an inexplicable extraterrestrial evil.

Joining him on his jolting journey into outer space, and a sustained interplanetary showdown, Walter Koenig returning to boldly go where few men would ever dare!

Hill plays Joe Thanks, a con-artist, pitted against McGoohan's dastardly Major Cabot, a crooked cavalry officer who is planning an Indian massacre in order to line his own pocket.