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Post by Black Orchid on Apr 28, 2023 15:06:01 GMT
The final appearance of the original Tardis Console Clayton Hickman, twitter
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Post by Black Orchid on Apr 28, 2023 15:06:57 GMT
Clayton Hickman, twitter
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Post by dsjr on Aug 18, 2023 22:20:38 GMT
I loved it so much I bought it twice on DVD.... Seriously, I was troubled once again by the picture quality, so found a cheap used 'Special Edition' set and compared... Got to say I think the SE does have a slightly better picture with less 'red flaring' when a white coated techie moves around early on and a slightly better perceived clarity later on. The poor old Tardis console is really suffering isn't it, the 'time rotor' looking as if it's fallen apart and held back together with sticky tape... Anyway, despite the lengthy story, I don't find it overlong, the story is scripted for a more mature audience and the suspense still grows as the episodes progress. A shame Liz Shaw just disappears after this. I'll leave the critique of the story itself for others
Edit - P.S. I wonder what Hartnell, Troughton and Pertwee would have thought of the current train wreck version of the show they helped establish and consolidate? I don't follow it enough, but has Tom ever ventured an opinion?
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Post by GC on Jan 24, 2024 23:02:42 GMT
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Post by profh0011 on Jan 25, 2024 2:22:51 GMT
I missed the last 3 episodes of "The Silurians". I missed episodes 4-6 of "The Ambassadors Of Death". But "Inferno" was the first of those damnable 7-parters I got all the way through. As a result, it was the first DOCTOR WHO story I saw in its entirety.
3 7-parters in a row was a bit much, but all 3 being set at scientific research facilities made them all too similar. I suppose it was a good (probably necesaary) thing that half the story was set in an alternate universe. How terrifying when it became obvious that ONE-- SINGLE-- HOLE-- in the Earth's crust was going to (somehow?) destroy the ENTIRE world. (Really? REALLY? HOW???) And that everyone was going to die. Well... except... just maybe... The Doctor.
You know, unless I'm mistaken, it seems to me this plot had been done before, as an episode of VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA. Not sure it made sense there, either.
I totally disagree with Jon Pertwee's opinions of Liz Shaw as a companion. I liked her a lot. It was a shock when she suddenly disappeared between episodes. (Here in America in the 70s, that was like the next day in syndication!) It's no wonder I took to Romana the INSTANT she debuted on the show. Baker's Doctor had no choice but to up his game when she was around. You could see, he was competing with her, trying to prove that he was brilliant, and not just getting by on DUMB LUCK as it too often appeared.
I've heard that story about the eyepatches. Nicholas Courtney was really somethng else, wasn't he? As much as the girls grab my attention, I think to this day, he's STILL my favorite supporting character on the series. I really wish I'd have had a chance to see him in person. (The one convention I went to where he was scheduled, at the last minute, he couldn't make it.)
When the Pertwee episodes returned to PBS in the early 80s, they initially only ran complete color stories. So "Inferno" was the "first" Pertwee many saw over here at that time. As a result, I probably saw it more times than any other WHO story, and after awhile, I got sick to death of it.
However, although I have many stories only in "movie" format, the last time I watched, I made a point of shutting off the tapes where the cliffhangers would have been, and continuing THE NEXT DAY. I was stunned at just how much better season 7 worked seeing it that way. The Doctor, especially, had a real "character arc", his attitude developing slowly over the course of the entire season, and that really worked best if seen ONE-- episode-- at a time.
Years later, Caroline John appeared as "Laura Lyons" in the Barry Letts-Terrence Dicks-Tom Baker HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES. The scene where Baker's Holmes tells her she's had a "very close call", walking on the edge of a precipice, and lucky to be alive, is really gripping. There's a nearly-identical scene in the 1968 version with Peter Cushing (also BBC), but I think the Baker version has it over that one if only for that one scene. Baker may have looked nothing like Holmes should have... but, when he was onscreen, he was, if anything, even more mesmerizing than Basil Rathbone!
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Post by profh0011 on Jan 25, 2024 2:29:01 GMT
The other big question about this sotry: HOW did the Doctor get the TARDIS control panel OUT of the TARDIS?
It just occured to me-- "Inferno" was the FIRST TIME I ever saw the TARDIS control panel! It wasn't in the 2 previous stories.
When I first saw this, I was still trying to figure out WHAT connection the show had with the 2 Peter Cushing movies.
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