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Post by Cyggy on Mar 4, 2022 17:03:59 GMT
Please rate and discuss this story here.....
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Post by Cyggy on Mar 6, 2022 1:38:04 GMT
This was, absolutely, one of my favourite Target Books as a kid. I thought that the story came over so much better in print, freed as it was from the silly costumes of the Mandrels and Tom's very silly ad-libs. I still like it as a TV story and don't mind the accent of Tryst, whom I still think is well-played. But this imo was a case of the Target Book having an advantage over a TV production that had gone a bit awry. And the cover art helped a lot in that department, at least making the Mandrels look threatening at last!
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Post by Servo on Mar 6, 2022 10:37:02 GMT
Sadly an average story in an average season.
The Mandrels look silly but I don’t mind Tryst’s weird accent.
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Post by Cyggy on May 31, 2022 14:37:42 GMT
A bit more of what was on BBC1 after episode 4 ended....
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Post by Cyggy on Oct 12, 2022 23:18:01 GMT
A cover from yesteryear..... Doctor Who Weekly, No. 18(Feb 13th, 1980)
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Post by iank on Oct 12, 2022 23:23:43 GMT
It's okay. One of the lesser entries in a generally wonderful season.
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Post by Future-Diver on Oct 16, 2022 16:09:07 GMT
Doctor: Well, I told you. I'm from Galactic. Rigg: Galactic went out of business twenty years ago. Doctor: I wondered why I hadn't been paid.
Like all of Season 17, The Nightmare of Eden is a great deal of fun - the Fourth Doctor, Romana II, K9, the man with the comedy accent (Professor Tryst) and the cute/vicious Mandrells are very amusing. Geoffrey Hinsliff (Corrie's Don Brennan) makes his second appearance in Who as Officer Fisk, and there's lots of jokes and silliness, yet underneath all the tomfoolery, Nightmare features a serious plot about drug-addiction. I particularly like the wonderfully strange idea of two spaceships being fused together - there's even a little something included here for Space 1999 fans.
8/10
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Post by sadako on Oct 22, 2022 1:00:08 GMT
My little music video for the story.
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Post by dsjr on Mar 10, 2024 14:01:02 GMT
I kind of get carried along by the story on re-watch, even the ott acting here and there and until playing the specials, had no idea how awful things were in the production/direction and so on.
They really did so much with so very little... Can't abide the 'new' K9 voice but may well have missed this on first watching - like Peter Hawkins with the Dalek voices, John Leeson IS K9's voice.
Interesting how this most popular era of the show had an awful TARDIS console and seemingly tiny interior set...
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Post by profh0011 on Mar 12, 2024 15:09:23 GMT
To "get" what the actor playing Tryst was doing, you have to watch Peter Sellers in WHAT'S NEW PUSSYCAT.
Honestly, he went thru the entire story acting like he was a guest-star on the Adam West BATMAN.
This was the ONE story where Lalla Ward's costume looked drab. Wonder what happened there?
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