If you get the Paul Temple collection (only episodes in colour, there is a another bos set of the episodes that only exist in BW, though it seems that there colour versions in Germany so using the English soundtrack with the German visuals might be doable). Anyway, late on there is a very Daemons episode, and a superb cost-cutting episode set entirely in a Tv studio where a vengeful main (Joseph Futst) insists thet the panel solve the murder of his wife.
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Episode 3 is simply great.
Superb documentary there, thanks for sharing!
Currently half way through the romans and So far it’s been quite entertaining
Yeah he’s one of my favourite doctors
Pertwee was great. When I get annoyed by Doctors like 10 or 13 being too passive, I think of 3/Pertwee and how he was always going out and getting things done. He's also who I thought of when 10 whined about being "the man who never would" (to be clear I like the 10th Doctor, but he could be a doofus at times).
If we're speaking strictly, "alien" literally means "foreigner" or "outsider;" it's historically been used to refer to people from other countries (as in "illegal alien"), so it could certainly apply to Earth denizens of another species. The usage of "alien" to mean "extraterrestrial" didn't catch on outside of prose science fiction until around the 1960s; before then, they were generally referred to as something like "spacemen" or "creatures from outer space," or with specific demonyms like "Martian" or "Venusian." Even as late as the '80s or '90s, supermarket tabloids tended to use "space alien" to make it clear they weren't talking about immigrants.
Oh yeah, you're right. I guess I should call them creatures then.
"State of Decay" -- lovely little Halloweeny story, this one is. Part 2 really ramps up and with a great cliffhanger. The stitching of the Great Vampire to Time Lord lore (and the E-Space tie-in as well) is deftly handled by story author Terrance Dicks, who also created the Time Lords in 1969.
The thing about Sate of Decay was that Terrance originally wrote it to open season 15. A major producation of Dracula (starring Louis Jordain) meant it was vetoed, with Fang Rock replacing it. So the script sat on the shelf for years, and Bidmead revised it (adding the name shift)
Yup. The BBC didn't want confusion between shows, which made sense at the time. And, decades later, it's sad that only one of the two vampire-themed stories remains talked about on any semi-regular basis. Or both if you consider how one sometimes brings up the other.
Which is sad, Louis was perfect for the titular role! Wasn't Louis also in the James Bond film "Octopussy"?I also liked Bidmead's revisions.
Silver Nemesis (blu-ray extended special edition, probably the definitive and readily watchable version of this story.)
Quite a lot of nice edits of deleted footage and tightening up, as well as new CGI.
The line from Peintforte needing human blood was removed and it's barely noticeable.
The technical trickery used to show Peintforte and Richard arriving in the empty cafe is a great fix as, along with nobody noticing the unusual-for-1988 warm November weather, nobody noticed the duo in the cafe. One small thing - when the TARDIS arrives at the castle, that big long line of tourists didn't notice the ship arriving there either! Nicholas Courtney is also in that list, but he's on screen for 1/2 second... But I do wonder if it was a running gag to have had all those scenes of people appearing out of nowhere and nobody thinks it unusual. Could be a tie-in with "Remembrance of the Daleks" as the Doctor berates humanity in front of Ace over how it can't remember all the invasions threatening it (Daleks, Yeti, Cybermen, etc.) Or I'm thinking into this too much, and the making-of documentary (1988) does remind the hectic nature of the production so some oversights or unwanted bits were inevitable...
Quite a lot of nice edits of deleted footage and tightening up, as well as new CGI.
The line from Peintforte needing human blood was removed and it's barely noticeable.
The technical trickery used to show Peintforte and Richard arriving in the empty cafe is a great fix as, along with nobody noticing the unusual-for-1988 warm November weather, nobody noticed the duo in the cafe. One small thing - when the TARDIS arrives at the castle, that big long line of tourists didn't notice the ship arriving there either! Nicholas Courtney is also in that list, but he's on screen for 1/2 second... But I do wonder if it was a running gag to have had all those scenes of people appearing out of nowhere and nobody thinks it unusual. Could be a tie-in with "Remembrance of the Daleks" as the Doctor berates humanity in front of Ace over how it can't remember all the invasions threatening it (Daleks, Yeti, Cybermen, etc.) Or I'm thinking into this too much, and the making-of documentary (1988) does remind the hectic nature of the production so some oversights or unwanted bits were inevitable...
Just started The Ark in space, and before anyone askes, Yes, it is bubble wrap, but back in 1975 i had no idea what bubble wrap was, and when he pulls his hand out of his pocket it looked like the most amazing horrible thing i had ever seen on the show, wel that and the maggots from the Green death.......and now when i think of it, maybe the colour on that rental 20in crt tv from DER might have been too saturated with green, hence why it seems to have been burned into my brain how vivid the colours were on the show back in the 70s. lol
I'm about 2/3 of the way through The Mutants, and so far it's been pretty good.
You can tell at this point the writers are really starting to have trouble with The Doctor's banishment to Earth, they keep finding more and more ways and reasons to get him off '70s Earth.
You can tell at this point the writers are really starting to have trouble with The Doctor's banishment to Earth, they keep finding more and more ways and reasons to get him off '70s Earth.
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