The Doctor and Jamie investigate Waterfield's antiques shop, where they are knocked unconscious and transported back to the 19th century.The Doctor and Jamie investigate Waterfield's antiques shop, where they are knocked unconscious and transported back to the 19th century.The Doctor and Jamie investigate Waterfield's antiques shop, where they are knocked unconscious and transported back to the 19th century.
Peter Hawkins
- Dalek
- (voice)
Roy Skelton
- Dalek
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- David Whitaker
- Sydney Newman(uncredited)
- Donald Wilson(uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaThis is the only episode of this seven part serial that still exists in the BBC archives.
- GoofsIn the scene in Maxtible's laboratory, Maxtible, when talking to the Doctor, refers to Mr. Waterfield as "Whitefield".
- ConnectionsFeatured in Bite Back: Episode #1.19 (1993)
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S4: Troughton – an abrupt but positive change which is annoyingly mostly lost in season 4
With the (annoyingly unseen) regeneration of Hartnell, I was keen to see what the series did with the new Doctor; after all, this wasn't a change that was because they wanted to take the character a new direction – it was more that Hartnell physically was not able to carry the role on for much longer and needed to step out. As a result of this I wondered if they would try to keep the Doctor roughly the same to ease the transition. Whether they did this initially or not is hard to judge because so many of the episodes from Troughton's half of season 4 are missing. It is 2 serials (one a Dalek one) and 11 whole episodes before the first survives, and then of the remaining 6 serials only 7 of the 25 episodes remain. So basically of the change to Troughon in this season, he has only 7 episodes out of 35.
This is a real shame because from what little I saw here, he is a good change and there is no risk of viewers getting hung up looking back because Troughton does a good job of rushing us forward. Where Hartnell was more of a grandfather type and the companions often were left to the emotional or action material, Troughton seems a lot more active. His Doctor is determined, animated and urgent – and he plays these qualities quite seriously in a manner which adds to the dramatic tension of the episodes. The downside of this is that his companions feel very much supporting characters – nothing like the equals that Ian, Barbara and Susan once felt. In all the missing episodes we lose Ben and Polly – who I did like in the brief moments of seeing them. Scottish Jamie is added somewhere but he feels like a caricature and, considering his character is meant to be from some old clan, he seems to know a great deal and pick up on sci-fi concepts very easily – he doesn't ring true but as always, I had very few episodes for him to settle in.
In terms of serials it is hard to say much because all you get is snapshots. The underwater menace is all a bit shouty and dramatic which seemed to have energy, but the fish people just look daft. The Moon Base episodes showed a much improved cyberman and they look more menacing with metal faces. However for these episodes I didn't really follow the story and, when I saw the vacuum of space kept out of the moon base by using some rags and a domestic tea-tray, it did make me wonder what the rest of the narrative had been like! The Faceless Ones sounded like a good idea but I never got a consistent tone to it and the "human" monsters didn't work in terms of real threat – not helped by them calling their shadow company "Chameleon", which is a bit smug if you ask me. The second Dalek story is also mostly gone, which is a real shame as I liked their manipulative role and in particular I liked Troughton's reaction when he finds it is them behind his situation. So I guess some gold lost but also some weaker stories – but the sad thing is that there is too little left to really judge.
Anyway, of the 7 episodes remaining in Troughton's half of the fourth season, I must say I found enough to be encouraged. The show seemed to have been energized by the new Doctor's active performance. That he also carries a bit of dramatic weight throughout also holds out good hope. So the question of whether I will like the second Doctor appears to be answered so I guess the next question is whether or not enough of his episodes in season 5 survived for me to actually see him in the role?
This is a real shame because from what little I saw here, he is a good change and there is no risk of viewers getting hung up looking back because Troughton does a good job of rushing us forward. Where Hartnell was more of a grandfather type and the companions often were left to the emotional or action material, Troughton seems a lot more active. His Doctor is determined, animated and urgent – and he plays these qualities quite seriously in a manner which adds to the dramatic tension of the episodes. The downside of this is that his companions feel very much supporting characters – nothing like the equals that Ian, Barbara and Susan once felt. In all the missing episodes we lose Ben and Polly – who I did like in the brief moments of seeing them. Scottish Jamie is added somewhere but he feels like a caricature and, considering his character is meant to be from some old clan, he seems to know a great deal and pick up on sci-fi concepts very easily – he doesn't ring true but as always, I had very few episodes for him to settle in.
In terms of serials it is hard to say much because all you get is snapshots. The underwater menace is all a bit shouty and dramatic which seemed to have energy, but the fish people just look daft. The Moon Base episodes showed a much improved cyberman and they look more menacing with metal faces. However for these episodes I didn't really follow the story and, when I saw the vacuum of space kept out of the moon base by using some rags and a domestic tea-tray, it did make me wonder what the rest of the narrative had been like! The Faceless Ones sounded like a good idea but I never got a consistent tone to it and the "human" monsters didn't work in terms of real threat – not helped by them calling their shadow company "Chameleon", which is a bit smug if you ask me. The second Dalek story is also mostly gone, which is a real shame as I liked their manipulative role and in particular I liked Troughton's reaction when he finds it is them behind his situation. So I guess some gold lost but also some weaker stories – but the sad thing is that there is too little left to really judge.
Anyway, of the 7 episodes remaining in Troughton's half of the fourth season, I must say I found enough to be encouraged. The show seemed to have been energized by the new Doctor's active performance. That he also carries a bit of dramatic weight throughout also holds out good hope. So the question of whether I will like the second Doctor appears to be answered so I guess the next question is whether or not enough of his episodes in season 5 survived for me to actually see him in the role?
- bob the moo
- Dec 17, 2013
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