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When the Famous Five are asked to look after Wilfred, a lonely orphan with a magical ability to communicate with animals, they have no idea of what exciting adventures lie in store.

Wilfred is determined to investigate rumours of dastardly deeds at a supposed animal 'sanctuary' on the mysterious Whispering Island. He sets off to investigate with four-footed Famous Five member Tim the dog, and the rest of the gang are not far behind. But will they be in time to save the day?
In this second splendid 'Famous Five' cliffhanger adventure from the Children's Film Foundation, villainous gamekeepers, perilous cliffs, secret passages, hidden treasure, buns and cocoa await the Kirrin cousins as they join forces with animal-loving Wilfred to explore the mysteries of eerie Whispering Island.

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Violently wrenched out of time, the Tardis is brought crashing down onto the planet Lakertya by the villainous Rani (Kate O'Mara). Caught within the maelstrom, the Doctor (Sylvester McCoy) is farced to regenerate...Imprisoning the Doctor in her stronghold, the Rani seizes upon his vulnerable state.

By impersonating his friend Mel (Bonnie Langford), the Rani deceives the unwitting Doctor into helping her achieve her audacious plan - Just what is she up to? Why has she enslaved Albert Einstein and a host of geniuses? And as an asteroid composed of Strange Matter approaches Lakertya, can a weakened Doctor save the universe when he has little idea of who he really is?

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The Doctor and UNIT are called in to investigate a series of mysterious deaths at a disused mine in South Wales, where all the victims were found with their skin glowing green...

As the Doctor becomes suspicious of the nearby Global Chemicals factory and its mysterious 'Boss', his assistant, Jo Grant, becomes trapped underground - in an abandoned mine infested with deadly giant maggots!

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Responding to a distress signal, the Doctor (Sylvester McCoy) and Ace (Sophie Aldred) arrive near the village of Carbury, where a nuclear missile convoy has run into difficulties.

The peace of the English countryside is shattered as UNIT troops are besieged by armoured knights from another dimension. As the crisis deepens, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart (Nicholas Courtney) is called out of retirement to join the battle. Together, he and the Doctor must face the Destroyer, a fearsome demon summoned by the witch queen Morgaine (Jean Marsh) to devour the world...

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TV movie adaptation of Jack London's classic gold prospecting novel. Buck the dog has not had an easy life; stolen from his original kindly owners in California, he is mistreated and beaten before being sold to French Canadian guide Perrault (Luc Morrissette).

Taken to Yukon, Buck finds a place in Perrault's dog team, delivering messages to Dawson City. It is there that Buck is taken under the wing of John Thornton (Rutger Hauer) and his niece, Helen, who are off to search for gold in the Klondike. They are joined by widowed saloon owner, Maggie (Lynne Adams), and her son, Josh, and together set off to seek their fortunes.

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...