The other night, when I went down to Kevin's place for fajitas, I returned his copy of Doctor Who: Genesis of the Daleks. In return, he loaned me three more classic Doctor Who DVDs - City of Death, Earthshock & The Two Doctors.
I watched City of Death last night (parts one & two) and this mornin' (parts three & four).
It has Tom Baker as the Doctor and Julian Glover as the Count (aka the villian). In this one, Lalla Ward plays Romana, the Doctor's companion, and John Cleese has a cameo in part four, as a museum patron that refers to the TARDIS as a piece of art.
The story is pretty simple - the Doctor and Romana arrive in then modern day Paris, France for a holiday, but soon experience time skips. The Doctor tries to ignore them, but soon he & his companion are caught up in the intrigue of an alien, the Count, tryin' to steal the Mona Lisa. Turns out, he has six other original Mona Lisa paintings in his basement dungeon, and needs to steal the one on display to sell all seven to individual collectors.
The Doctor travels from the 1970s to da Vinci's era, all the way back to the dawn of life on Earth (much like Q & Captain Picard in TNG 'All Good Things...'). And the Count is in all three eras, as well. Turns out an accident in the ancient past fractured him, and he's been livin' in twelve distinct time periods, from the days of the pyramids bein' built up to the 1970s, and is connected with each part of himself.
Couple of other highlights - the episodes were written by Douglas Adams, usin' a pen name, and the first part of the four-part episode originally aired on my first birthday.
How cool is that?
Overall, I liked this a bit more than I did Genesis of the Daleks. Julian Glover always plays a good villian (For Your Eyes Only & Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade are two good examples). I liked the Doctor's humor in this, and I was kind of intrigued by Romana. Is she a Time Lady? If so, why is she travelin' with the Doctor? Isn't he a troublemaker?
I've got a screenin' to go to tonight, so I'll probably watch Earthshock tomorrow, which, aside from the Children in Need Special, will be the first time I watch the 5th Doctor.
I watched City of Death last night (parts one & two) and this mornin' (parts three & four).
It has Tom Baker as the Doctor and Julian Glover as the Count (aka the villian). In this one, Lalla Ward plays Romana, the Doctor's companion, and John Cleese has a cameo in part four, as a museum patron that refers to the TARDIS as a piece of art.
The story is pretty simple - the Doctor and Romana arrive in then modern day Paris, France for a holiday, but soon experience time skips. The Doctor tries to ignore them, but soon he & his companion are caught up in the intrigue of an alien, the Count, tryin' to steal the Mona Lisa. Turns out, he has six other original Mona Lisa paintings in his basement dungeon, and needs to steal the one on display to sell all seven to individual collectors.
The Doctor travels from the 1970s to da Vinci's era, all the way back to the dawn of life on Earth (much like Q & Captain Picard in TNG 'All Good Things...'). And the Count is in all three eras, as well. Turns out an accident in the ancient past fractured him, and he's been livin' in twelve distinct time periods, from the days of the pyramids bein' built up to the 1970s, and is connected with each part of himself.
Couple of other highlights - the episodes were written by Douglas Adams, usin' a pen name, and the first part of the four-part episode originally aired on my first birthday.
How cool is that?
Overall, I liked this a bit more than I did Genesis of the Daleks. Julian Glover always plays a good villian (For Your Eyes Only & Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade are two good examples). I liked the Doctor's humor in this, and I was kind of intrigued by Romana. Is she a Time Lady? If so, why is she travelin' with the Doctor? Isn't he a troublemaker?
I've got a screenin' to go to tonight, so I'll probably watch Earthshock tomorrow, which, aside from the Children in Need Special, will be the first time I watch the 5th Doctor.
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