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Post by number13 on Jun 12, 2018 19:46:25 GMT
Inferno There are many parallel universe stories in science fiction, but none of them are a patch on Inferno! ( patch, geddit? ) The stunts are splendid and it's priceless watching Caroline John and Nicholas Courtney play evil Liz and evil Brig.(ade Leader)!
But for me, this story also stands out for its sheer tension, a countdown plot (actually two countdowns of course) which really works. With no background music to distract, the relentless sound of the drilling rig grinds away as the clock ticks down, raising the tension higher and higher to a gripping peak at the episode 4 cliffhanger, one of the all-time greats: 'Listen to it! That's the sound of this planet screaming out its rage!'. Crikey! It raises the hairs on the back of my neck every time!
And then, when we've had a chance to come down from that, the plot starts to tighten again until we hit another of the classic cliffhangers, two in one story! An unstoppable wall of lava and the actual End of the World. OK it's not our world, but still, it's a gripping scene and sets up the final episode perfectly. Back in our universe for episode 7, we really know what the stakes are if the Doctor fails...
Another classic to end a unique season, a season in a style they would never quite do again - but I'm so pleased they did it once.
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Post by number13 on Jun 12, 2018 20:06:24 GMT
Terror of the Autons This is where I came in the first time round, in 1971, aged 6-and-a-bit. When Robert Holmes scared the socks off me and made me a fan for life! It's a 'soft reboot' which isn't that soft - seeing it back-to-back after 'Inferno' last night, the transformation is almost complete, from 'Quatermass' to a colourful "live-action cartoon" of non-stop action, melodrama, heroes and villains. It's brilliant! The UNIT family is complete (hi Mike! - and Jo, my heroine!), the master of all Masters arrives on Earth, Robert Holmes' script is full of humour and horror and (apart from some over-optimistic bits of CSO) it looks excellent too. If I had to pick one highlight, it's something that did continue from season 7 - the amazing HAVOC stunt team and especially that moment when Yates rams the Auton sending it cartwheeling down the quarry face and everyone thinks 'clearly a dummy'. And then, with no cut, the "dummy" starts to climb back up the cliff... Respect! (The Twitch chat was very impressed by that bit and so they should be! ) Many, many years later I learned about the row this story caused by being so scary, even questions asked in Parliament. They should have asked me and my friends at school instead! We loved it even though - because - it was so scary and here I am almost fifty years later still watching my Doctor take on the Terror of the Autons and still loving it. Obviously it doesn't scare me any more, of course. But I'm not sitting in any squishy black armchairs... obviously...
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Post by number13 on Jun 13, 2018 0:38:13 GMT
The Mind of Evil I didn't see this one the first time round (the only story after TOTA that I missed until the 80s), either because my parents decided it was too 'grown-up' for me or because I couldn't understand it and stopped watching. And this is another 'grown-up' story, an early 1970s UNIT thriller ( broadcast date I mean:let's not go there... ) sitting neatly between the styles of seasons 7 & 8. It has the action, pace - and fabulous Master - of 8 but with themes and a sense of realism which would have fitted neatly into 7. If the mysterious alien 'mind' had been a brainwashing techno-gadget, this story could easily have been 'The Avengers' or another adventure for Mr. Bond. It's a great story, a six-parter which for me never outstays its welcome, with two parallel strands which don't link up until the very end and quite tough action scenes by 'Doctor Who' standards - humans shooting humans at point-blank range seems quite shocking now for 'Doctor Who' but the storming of Stangmoor is one of UNIT's finest hours. The UNIT 'family' and their interactions are all written superbly - and the Brig. is brilliant as 'van man' in that cap! But he still looks like a posh army officer! My only regret (apart from "Puff, the Magic Dragon" ) is that Chin Lee wasn't seconded to UNIT once they discovered the Master had been setting the two sides against each other at the peace conference. A combined East-West mission to defeat him would have been a fine response and no doubt Chin Lee and Jo would have found they had a surprising amount in common. Highlights? The locations and stunts and impressive hardware (again; yes, that's a real RAF missile!), the insights given by the Keller Machine into the Doctor's and Master's deepest fears, and the top highlight for me - Jo Grant. This is one of Jo's very best stories and Katy Manning is excellent as Jo saves the Doctor, foils a riot and is kind to the 'processed' convict Barnham. Wonderful Jo!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2018 2:07:25 GMT
The Mind of Evil I didn't see this one the first time round (the only story after TOTA that I missed until the 80s), either because my parents decided it was too 'grown-up' for me or because I couldn't understand it and stopped watching. And this is another 'grown-up' story, an early 1970s UNIT thriller ( broadcast date I mean:let's not go there... ) sitting neatly between the styles of seasons 7 & 8. It has the action, pace - and fabulous Master - of 8 but with themes and a sense of realism which would have fitted neatly into 7. If the mysterious alien 'mind' had been a brainwashing techno-gadget, this story could easily have been 'The Avengers' or another adventure for Mr. Bond. It's a great story, a six-parter which for me never outstays its welcome, with two parallel strands which don't link up until the very end and quite tough action scenes by 'Doctor Who' standards - humans shooting humans at point-blank range seems quite shocking now for 'Doctor Who' but the storming of Stangmoor is one of UNIT's finest hours. The UNIT 'family' and their interactions are all written superbly - and the Brig. is brilliant as 'van man' in that cap! But he still looks like a posh army officer! My only regret (apart from "Puff, the Magic Dragon" ) is that Chin Lee wasn't seconded to UNIT once they discovered the Master had been setting the two sides against each other at the peace conference. A combined East-West mission to defeat him would have been a fine response and no doubt Chin Lee and Jo would have found they had a surprising amount in common. Highlights? The locations and stunts and impressive hardware (again; yes, that's a real RAF missile!), the insights given by the Keller Machine into the Doctor's and Master's deepest fears, and the top highlight for me - Jo Grant. This is one of Jo's very best stories and Katy Manning is excellent as Jo saves the Doctor, foils a riot and is kind to the 'processed' convict Barnham. Wonderful Jo! My first Pertwee. Because colour television didn't arrive to Australia until Tom's debut in 1975, a large chunk of it was in monochrome (although because of censoring, it didn't actually air until 1986). Puff's a bit more forgiving and there's one particular shot that's always stuck with me: The scene with the dragon has to be one of my favourite cliffhangers. Positive proof that the Doctor's presence on Earth is doing some good. If he hadn't been there, Alistair would have shot Captain Lee in front of Fu Peng and that would have been the end of it. Britain and the West would never have been trusted again. (It's left ambiguous, but I have to wonder if the first Chinese delegate thought he saw an eagle before he died?) Because he's there, the Master has to move up his assault of Stangmoor. It's kind of amazing how many plates he's keeping spinning during this story. Between Terror and this, he's somehow managed to set himself up with a chauffeur and a very nice car (a Rolls?). He doesn't hang about, does he? There's a very cute piece of continuity come Day of the Daleks coming from this story. The Chinese delegation there is mentioned as being rather wary of attending Styles's conference. It's not stated why, but given what happens here -- yeah, that seems an appropriate response.
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Post by number13 on Jun 13, 2018 8:47:32 GMT
The scene with the dragon has to be one of my favourite cliffhangers. Positive proof that the Doctor's presence on Earth is doing some good. If he hadn't been there, Alistair would have shot Captain Lee in front of Fu Peng and that would have been the end of it. Britain and the West would never have been trusted again. (It's left ambiguous, but I have to wonder if the first Chinese delegate thought he saw an eagle before he died?) Because he's there, the Master has to move up his assault of Stangmoor. It's kind of amazing how many plates he's keeping spinning during this story. Between Terror and this, he's somehow managed to set himself up with a chauffeur and a very nice car (a Rolls?). He doesn't hang about, does he? There's a very cute piece of continuity come Day of the Daleks coming from this story. The Chinese delegation there is mentioned as being rather wary of attending Styles's conference. It's not stated why, but given what happens here -- yeah, that seems an appropriate response. It's one of those key 'what if' moments that might have been mentioned in 'Sympathy for the Devil', though I don't remember if it was or not. I've imagined the first Chinese delegate saw an evil version of 'Uncle Sam' coming to get him, much as the Master saw an evil Doctor laughing at him. A caricature seen through their personal biases. Yes, the Master has 'acquired' a Rolls-Royce and its chauffeur! Somewhere there was probably a toff with a glazed expression walking home muttering 'I must obey...' - if they were lucky. If not, TCE'd.
You know, that makes perfect sense about the second conference but I'd never made that link to 'Day of the Daleks'! Probably because that's a story I've known and loved since 1972 and 'Mind' was one I didn't see until decades later - my last Pertwee story, as it turned out. So I never thought about its place in the sequence. I vaguely remember Barry Letts saying on a commentary track/extra that they wanted to make them West/China stories rather than West/Russia because there had been concerns about China in the West at that time??? Certainly China were 'stock villains' in U.S. spy films - British spy thrillers typically involved tensions with the Soviet Union, so maybe DW wanted to do something a bit different for British audiences? But I wonder if there was a more hopeful reason too; that the writers were picking up on the signs of a thaw between China and the West, hence the peace conference storylines? Only a few weeks after 'Day of the Daleks' was broadcast here, Nixon made his famous visit to China and relations between the West and China became vastly improved. A controversial Republican President and an isolated Communist leader surprise the world by talking peace! (Are we in a 'Day of the Daleks'-style temporal paradox now because I'm sure I've seen this happen more than once... No, I probably just imagined it... )
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Post by thethirddoctor on Jun 13, 2018 9:14:36 GMT
Hopefully, these viewers will see how good Roger Delgado was.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2018 11:01:18 GMT
The scene with the dragon has to be one of my favourite cliffhangers. Positive proof that the Doctor's presence on Earth is doing some good. If he hadn't been there, Alistair would have shot Captain Lee in front of Fu Peng and that would have been the end of it. Britain and the West would never have been trusted again. (It's left ambiguous, but I have to wonder if the first Chinese delegate thought he saw an eagle before he died?) Because he's there, the Master has to move up his assault of Stangmoor. It's kind of amazing how many plates he's keeping spinning during this story. Between Terror and this, he's somehow managed to set himself up with a chauffeur and a very nice car (a Rolls?). He doesn't hang about, does he? There's a very cute piece of continuity come Day of the Daleks coming from this story. The Chinese delegation there is mentioned as being rather wary of attending Styles's conference. It's not stated why, but given what happens here -- yeah, that seems an appropriate response. It's one of those key 'what if' moments that might have been mentioned in 'Sympathy for the Devil', though I don't remember if it was or not. I've imagined the first Chinese delegate saw an evil version of 'Uncle Sam' coming to get him, much as the Master saw an evil Doctor laughing at him. A caricature seen through their personal biases. Yes, the Master has 'acquired' a Rolls-Royce and its chauffeur! Somewhere there was probably a toff with a glazed expression walking home muttering 'I must obey...' - if they were lucky. If not, TCE'd.
You know, that makes perfect sense about the second conference but I'd never made that link to 'Day of the Daleks'! Probably because that's a story I've known and loved since 1972 and 'Mind' was one I didn't see until decades later - my last Pertwee story, as it turned out. So I never thought about its place in the sequence. I vaguely remember Barry Letts saying on a commentary track/extra that they wanted to make them West/China stories rather than West/Russia because there had been concerns about China in the West at that time??? Certainly China were 'stock villains' in U.S. spy films - British spy thrillers typically involved tensions with the Soviet Union, so maybe DW wanted to do something a bit different for British audiences? But I wonder if there was a more hopeful reason too; that the writers were picking up on the signs of a thaw between China and the West, hence the peace conference storylines? Only a few weeks after 'Day of the Daleks' was broadcast here, Nixon made his famous visit to China and relations between the West and China became vastly improved. A controversial Republican President and an isolated Communist leader surprise the world by talking peace! (Are we in a 'Day of the Daleks'-style temporal paradox now because I'm sure I've seen this happen more than once... No, I probably just imagined it... ) I have this sneaking suspicion the Master materialises in places and just serendipitously pinches anything that takes his fancy. The ringmaster in Terror? A useful slave. The patrol ship in Frontier? Well, those list of crimes had to come from somewhere. The Adjudicator uniform from Colony? Chap wearing it is... indisposed. And so on. I think his approach to travelling is meet interesting people, destroy them and take their stuff. Mainly because it's convenient. Yeah, history is full of interesting reruns. Like the Seventh Doctor's "End the madness" speech to Morgaine at the end of Battlefield in 1989, there were definitely signs and portents on the horizon in regards to what would happen in 1972 between Mao and Nixon. The use of China here is an interesting one. Mainly because it rubs shoulders with what's been going on in the Vietnam War at this point. Nixon's government were in the midst of "Vietnamisation" at that time, a policy to end American involvement in that region of the world that had been going on since 1969. Very different from their predecessors who were all about "containing communism" in the region. The ethos now wasn't winning the war, but winning the peace and The Mind of Evil grabbed that with both hands.
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Post by number13 on Jun 13, 2018 18:11:12 GMT
Here goes then for an evening of three classics imo. The Wild West in space, witchcraft in the West Country, and The West Wing of Peladon, sort of! And starting with the best quarry in the history of 'Doctor Who'. (I'm a Pertwee fan, I know my quarries!)
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Post by pazzer on Jun 13, 2018 19:11:33 GMT
Terror Of The Autons The Autons are just as scary as in Spearhead. While the Master is simply amazing. Jo has a good rapport with the Doctor. Thought the cliffhangers were great though the ending was poor.
The Mind Of Evil There is lots going on, the peace conference, stuff at the prison and transporting the missile. But it doesn't get confusing. Found it really engrossing.
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Post by number13 on Jun 13, 2018 21:25:20 GMT
The Claws of Axos After the serious 'season 7' style of 'The Mind of Evil', a full-on return to the new style in a psychedelic whirl of weirdness and big monsters! It's a strong 'trojan horse' story and adding the Master to the mix halfway through gives a big boost of energy. The Axos set and CSO effects (all of which had to be performed or 'played in' during the studio recording of course) are a design triumph - and those are proper monsters, big lumbering things with a great trick in explosive tentacles! I love the contrast between the organic strangeness of Axos (and that they/it are all Axos) and the austere coastal landscapes in their 'freak weather conditions' with the genuine nuclear power station - and getting permission to film in there shows how highly regarded 'Doctor Who' and the BBC were. Cracking location work, again.
There's a lot going on in this story - Bill Filer from the States, terminally irritating little-Englander Mr. Chinn from the Ministry (who wins the prize for 'most annoying pen-pusher of the Pertwee era' for me!) and this means the UNIT regulars get a bit squeezed out of the picture at times, which is a pity and I think especially obvious when watching straight after 'The Mind of Evil' where they were all so strongly written.
Superb Roger Delgado steals the show the moment he arrives - as usual; what a Master! One regret I do have about this fun & technically impressive story is that the Master+Doctor sub-plot (one of the best parts imo) also gets rather squeezed. This was just early enough in her time with him for Jo not to be 100% sure about the Doctor's reliability (and he does want to escape from Earth, she knows that), and it would have been great to see the Doctor's scheme play out for rather longer before (phew!) we learn that he has in fact saved the Earth yet again. In the novelisation, this part of the story does get more space and I think works very well.
But it's fun, a proper Third Doctor story - and is anything on TV more fun than the sight of an Axon coming down stairs?!
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Post by number13 on Jun 13, 2018 22:01:15 GMT
Colony in Space
Now I know I'm in something of a minority here, but I think this is yet another top story by Malcolm Hulke - for me, he never wrote a bad one; they're all thoughtful and packed with ideas, even if the effects sometimes don't quite live up to the vision. (Oh, that not-at-all-deadly robot! And just wait for the rubber T-rex...)
But apart from that, this story works very well imo. It's a Western, obviously, and a pretty hard-boiled Western too, with fights and gun battles at close range where actual people kill each other over land and survival and greed.
And Malcolm Hulke pulls what I think is a great plot trick on us as the Doctor and Jo quickly take the colonists' side (they are obviously the good guys against the corporate vultures of IMC) which hides the truth that is there in plain sight. Colonists and IMC are all in the wrong - this planet is inhabited and neither side in the 'range war' cares less about the indigenous people - they're just 'primitives'. Even though they once constructed buildings and wear electronics for jewellery, they carry spears so to the new arrivals from Earth they're just 'primitives' and nobody thinks twice about the assumptions they've made. This is done very well, and it's deeply ironic that to begin with only the Master is interested in them, because he knows their great secret... Only the Doctor really takes the time to understand them - and finds they are already doomed, slowly poisoned by their own evil technology. And then the city goes up with the sort of bang you can do if you film in a china-clay quarry!
I think it's another great story in this excellent season and harks back in some ways to the serious tone of season 7. And it's also full of zooming vehicles, punch-ups and gunfights and all that Western stuff - and for a bleak, poisoned planet they couldn't have done much better for the location. My favourite moment is when the Master's scheme is going so well - and the Doctor and Jo just stroll in. He nearly chokes and who can blame him? Is there no planet where a villain can scheme in peace without this meddling Doctor turning up and spoiling everything?!
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Post by number13 on Jun 14, 2018 1:21:10 GMT
The Dæmons
This is another landmark story for me; not only is it a firm favourite, but the spectacular final episode was the first colour TV I ever saw, at a friend's house - WOW! (And as you can tell, I never forgot how amazing it was! ) I love 'The Dæmons' and it seems such perfect Pertwee - but really, it's an odd one, isn't it? The Third Doctor on Earth was all industrial complexes, hardware and hard science, fifth columnists and mad scientists - and then this! Beautifully imagined, filmed and with impressive sets & effects too, it's England at her most attractive - and diabolical...
The opening episode is among the really great 'Episode One's imo, packed with atmosphere and excellent characters and what a cliffhanger too! This story shows the Doctor and Master as equals and opposites in two superb performances. Roger Delgado was always amazing, but I think this was his very best and Jon Pertwee is on top form. I think it's telling that Azal really sees very little difference between the Time Lords - he's an amoral being so he presumably doesn't understand their stark moral differences - but that's what truly matters, of course.
It's an odd (but excellent) story because although there's plenty of activity and action, very little really happens to advance the plot between that first gripping cliffhanger and the climax. Azal is awake, and waiting to pass on his power. I almost imagine he's spinning out the 'three appearances' stuff because he's already detected the Doctor's mind and wants to meet him before responding to the Master. It's Azal's game, right until the moment that Jo does something so brave, illogical and human that he can't cope and 'blows a fuse'.
This ending gets some criticism and perhaps it doesn't make logical sense - but Jo saves the world by being wonderful Jo, and for me, that's magic!
(And the Twitch chat reaction to 'Five rounds, rapid' was all I expected!)
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Post by pazzer on Jun 14, 2018 18:28:56 GMT
The Dæmons Has lost some of it's magic but still really enjoyed it. Had completely forgotten about the witch and so was surprised by the scene where she defended herself from whatever it was. After which I though she'd have a bigger role to play. So was a bit disappointed when she didn't.
Professor wasn't on screen much but was just great as was the presenter. Not that it really matters but was slightly unclear if it was the Master or Professor or both of them together that freed the Dæmon.
Loved Bok and Azal. The ending fit with the rest of the story and is a great character moment for Jo.
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Post by dasmaniac on Jun 15, 2018 19:13:34 GMT
The Time Monster is simply awful. Roger Delgado gives such a great performance in such a clunker of a story.
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Post by thethirddoctor on Jun 15, 2018 22:03:55 GMT
The Time Monster is simply awful. Roger Delgado gives such a great performance in such a clunker of a story. I love the concept of the same crystal being in two different places. The slow motion etc. And the Professor saying "Interstitial Time Travel".
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Post by number13 on Jun 15, 2018 23:41:32 GMT
The Dæmons Has lost some of it's magic but still really enjoyed it. Had completely forgotten about the witch and so was surprised by the scene where she defended herself from whatever it was. After which I though she'd have a bigger role to play. So was a bit disappointed when she didn't. Professor wasn't on screen much but was just great as was the presenter. Not that it really matters but was slightly unclear if it was the Master or Professor or both of them together that freed the Dæmon. Loved Bok and Azal. The ending fit with the rest of the story and is a great character moment for Jo. Miss. Hawthorne does have more scenes in the novel - she even tries to take on Bok but Jo does her self-sacrifice first. The novel also has the Doctor saying that the Professor is 'possessed' - by the Master presumably but they don't know that at the time. So yes, it was both of them together but the Master pulling all the strings, as usual!
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Post by dasmaniac on Jun 16, 2018 0:10:57 GMT
I adore Carnival of Monsters. It's a really wonderful story that never gets old.
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Post by number13 on Jun 16, 2018 0:14:08 GMT
I'm enjoying this great run of Pertwee stories (yes, even that one, as I will shortly try to convince you between 'now' and 'now' ) but I'm getting behind with the commenting. Musttypefaster...
The Curse of Peladon
Please indulge me while I go all misty-eyed nostalgic about this one - I simply love it. 'Curse' is quite a generally well-regarded story but for me it's one of my top five or so across all of classic Who and I never tire of watching it.
Brian Hayles script is terrific, 'Hamlet' with aliens, full of intrigue and politics as well as the action and aliens and all acted so well. That scene between Peladon, Hepesh and Torbis sets the standard, which never falls. It seems unfair to pick out individuals when the standard is so high across the board, but on a technical level I'm always very impressed by the combined performance of Ysanne Churchman and Stuart Fell as the voice and body of delighful, unforgettable Alpha Centauri. Without post-production sound recording, they had to perform together, one in studio, one in sound booth as the other actors worked around them and they do it so perfectly that it's easy to forget that the “hermaphrodite hexapod” is (very aptly) being played simultaneously by a woman and a man!
And Peladon looks great too - the sets, flaming torches and daringly low lighting create a most atmospheric, gloomy, smoke-filled Citadel, just the place for conspirators to lurk behind tapestries and for monsters - one at least - to hide furrily in the ominous shadows...
It's the perfect story for the Third Doctor - the Time Lords chose their agent well for the required mix of diplomacy and derring-do. 'You're loving all this Chairman Delegate stuff!' says Jo, and he is, deploying tact, charm, Aikido and lullabies with equal skill! Jo has an excellent, adventurous and unusually (for the classic era) romantic story, and it’s no surprise to me that King Peladon falls in love at the first sight of “Princess Josephine of TARDIS”.
I never saw the ends of the last two episodes of this fantastic story in 1972 because of power cuts caused by strikes (so the whole region was blacked out and there was nobody I could ask what happened) and only found out how it finished by reading the ‘Target’ book three years later! But it's a great novelisation and when finally, finally I was able to buy the VHS many years later, in this case the memory did not cheat. Peladon was a royal jewel in the crown of the Pertwee years, just as I had always imagined it. Long live Peladon!
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Post by number13 on Jun 16, 2018 0:49:30 GMT
The Sea Devils This is in many ways the ultimate action story of the Pertwee years and probably, of the entire classic era. There's strong competition from 'The Ambassadors of Death' and a few others, but for the sheer amount of hardware, action 'extras' and battle scenes this one wins out and the location filming is superb. Which was always likely, when the genuine Royal Navy were lending some serious hardware and personnel thanks to great work by Barry Letts. That's what you can do, when you, your writer and your star are all ex-Navy and the star is also starring in a radio show that has fans across the fleet! The sea-fort is one of my favourite locations ever (even if the interiors are studio) and I was delighted to see it turn up in a recent BF story.
And the Sea Devils are brilliant! Finally, 'monsters' who can run, they look great coming out of the sea (when the masks stayed on at last!) and can really move it on land, armed with their 'flash-gun' heat weapons.
Jon Pertwee and Roger Delgado are both magnificent as the equal yet opposite Time Lords, in what for me is their best showdown ever, complete with a sword-fight ("quality footwork" ) and a jet-ski chase. Jon Pertwee was obviously having a great time in full Errol Flynn mode, doing most of his own stunts and with time for a couple of moments of pure comedy. Roger Delgado superbly plays the perfect Master as his charming, sinister and devious opponent. (Twitch chat predictably loved the swordfight and had a huge lol moment at 'The Clangers' That scene still makes me laugh every time!) The music is extraordinary! Malcolm Clarke’s radiophonic score is simply unique and one you’ll either love or hate; I absolutely love it and for me it’s an essential part of this story, which is an essential part of the Pertwee era. Its quality and uniqueness was such that it was repeated more than once after broadcast (which was very unusual; even one repeat was very unusual) and it was the first 'Target' novel I bought too. So 'The Sea Devils' was a most memorable part of my childhood TV and it still looks excellent today. And the Doctor is a personal friend of Horatio Nelson. Who'd have though it, eh?
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Post by pazzer on Jun 16, 2018 1:49:30 GMT
The Sea Devils Was really looking forward to this one as I loved it as kid. Am glad to say it didn't disapoint. The scenes between the Master and Doctor are brilliant. My favorite been the swordfight where the Doctor even makes some bond style quips.
The sea devils emerging from the sea looks amazing. As does the rest and at times though I was watching a movie. Navy did a good job subbing for UNIT and the relationship between Jo and the Doctor is just a joy to watch.
The Time Monster It's a strange one that seems like they just threw a load of ideas together. The whole thing with the machine at the start just feels like filler. Then you get the brilliance of the Tardias's inside one another. Before moving onto Atlantis where I would have quite happily spent the whole story. Still I found it an enjoyable watch.
Carnival of Monsters Really imaginative and fun story.
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