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Post by constonks on Sept 20, 2018 20:28:21 GMT
If it's any consolation, I only know Roland Rat from this... youtu.be/VUKqalLEhHM...so the Doctor won in the end. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2018 21:14:29 GMT
"Even the dreaded Wogan from the planet Shepherd's Bush," still always gets me.  |
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Post by number13 on Sept 21, 2018 9:46:23 GMT
It was the best part of a year before I knew anyone who had a VHS copy of the episode until I learned the crucial details of part 13. One year? 'Luxury!'  In 1972 the power workers went on strike and we had power cuts which blacked out the second half of episodes 3 and 4 of 'The Curse of Peladon'. Everyone I knew was also blacked out so I had to wait 3 years until the Target novelisation appeared before I could even read what happened. And since nobody in the UK had home videos back then, I had to wait TWENTY-ONE YEARS until the commercial release in 1993 to actually see them. And it was worth it to see my Doctor in action again!
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Post by number13 on Sept 21, 2018 12:11:32 GMT
I had to wait TWENTY-ONE YEARS until the commercial release in 1993 to actually see them. And it was worth it to see my Doctor in action again!
I managed to see the 1982 'repeat' season, and for that reason The Curse Of Peladon remains a favourite. What with that and The Three Doctors, seeing Jo properly on television was a proper treat. I saw 'Five Faces' the year before ('Carnival of Monsters' is my best memory from this and the amazing 'Unearthly Child' (just that first episode)), but for some reason (student summer work by then I think) I missed even the existence of the 1982 season until after 'Curse' had been and gone!
Then I found out about it!  |
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Post by fitzoliverj on Sept 21, 2018 16:07:48 GMT
It's strange... I have no memory of any episodes between "The Two Doctors" (age five) and "The Happiness Patrol" (just before my eighth birthday), but I definitely watched 'Roland Rat' all right! RUN VT!
(I used to have this brilliant read-and-listen book-and-tape set, which was Kevin the Gerbil attempting to tell the story of the Three Little Pigs, with Roland butting in and taking over and ruining it. Wally the Wolf, it transpires, owns the Wally the Wolf Bulldozer Hire Company and demolishes the pigs' house. Kevin goes off in a sulk to soak his feet in his pink bucket).
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Post by doctorkernow on Sept 26, 2018 18:24:56 GMT
Hello again.
Roland Rat? (shudders)
Trial of a Timelord? (shudders, slightly less) Interminable. Those boring trial scenes interrupting the action. It was a very risky idea to use the Doctor's trial to represent the fact that the programme was on trial. In my view it was idiotic, it put constraints on the season.
That said, outside that stupid trial room there were some gems. In Mysterious Planet, Peri's relationship with the Doctor was so much better than it had been in season 22. I enjoyed Mindwarp and the truly bizarre murder mystery with the Vervoids.
Episode 13 was great Robert Holmes. Glitz trying to flog the Inquisitor bits of her courtroom. The Master's dramatic intervention and the reveal of who the Valeyard really was.
That great speech to the court, "I should have stayed here. The oldest civilisation decadent, degenerate and rotten to the core."
Episode 14 did a reasonable job of wrapping things up. As well as could be expected given the behind the scenes problems.
I can't help wondering if they should have used some of the scripts and ideas they had for season 23a that have since been turned into lost stories. The problem was probably budgetary, using a standing set and actors each week no doubt saved money for other things such as location filming and visual effects.
For me, I'm afraid, this season was a bit of a struggle to watch.
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