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Post by Cyggy on Mar 4, 2022 22:07:29 GMT
Please rate and discuss this story here.....
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Post by Cyggy on Mar 11, 2022 19:07:25 GMT
Another one ruined by the Target book. ... ... How can you stick a creature like that on the front cover - and inside - of the novelisation and not expect the reader to be disappointed when they finally see just a kind of hint of a starfish colour shape in the sky when the story is released on VHS? As for the televised story, I think Delgado is superb from the outset. Also like the Doctor's cowardice when the Brigadier tells him that he will have to fire Jo himself to her face and he backs down. Also love the whole concept of plastic coming to life anyway. I love how Robert Holmes told the tale of how he was called in a few years later by BBC bosses and they went on about this story to him, saying how "some idiot" had had shop window dummies as policemen some years before and to watch out for that kind of thing on his watch as script editor.
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Post by Black Orchid on Mar 12, 2022 12:56:16 GMT
I can see why this was excised from the Target book:
DOCTOR: Who's in charge of you pen pushers these days Old Tubby Rowlands isn't it?
BROWNROSE: Lord Rowlands is head of our department, yes.
DOCTOR: I was saying to him in the Club only the other day, wrong sort of chap is creeping into your lot, Tubby, I said.
BROWNROSE: Well, of course, I didn't mean to imply anything offensive.
DOCTOR: No. No, of course not. Say no more about it.
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Post by Black Orchid on Mar 12, 2022 12:58:39 GMT
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Post by Black Orchid on Mar 12, 2022 12:59:15 GMT
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Post by Black Orchid on Mar 12, 2022 19:12:19 GMT
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Post by GC on Apr 5, 2022 20:50:35 GMT
Thought this was a pretty decent story apart from a bit of ropey CSO and music (sorry Dudley). Loved that troll doll and the death by plastic chair stuff.
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Post by GC on Apr 5, 2022 20:57:07 GMT
Might hold some interest.
Doctor Who on BBC Video Ep.2: Terror of the Autons
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Post by Black Orchid on Jun 6, 2022 10:53:13 GMT
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Post by GC on Jun 29, 2022 4:25:06 GMT
Doctor Who Business as Usual
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Post by Future-Diver on Jun 29, 2022 10:45:50 GMT
Good old Robert Holmes! That hideous troll doll and the living plastic chair near frightened me to death when I was 7 - but that's why I watched Doctor Who back then - to be scared witless. On the Terror of The Autons DVD documentary 'Life on Earth', NuWho Series Producer Phil Collinson calls the inflatable chair death scene "absolutely terrifying" (he seems visibly shaken after watching it) and further states that in the modern series "You certainly wouldn't see people suffocated in that way". He's only confirming what I've always thought - Classic Doctor Who was more frightening, more shocking and much less compromised than the 21st Century version of the show. As much as I like Terror of The Autons (particularly because it introduces Jo Grant and The Master ), I still prefer Spearhead from Space. Terror saw the start of the 'UNIT Family' era and it would continue that way for quite some time. 8/10
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Post by Cyggy on Jul 4, 2022 16:55:14 GMT
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Post by Cyggy on Jul 10, 2022 14:33:47 GMT
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Post by Cyggy on Jul 11, 2022 14:01:48 GMT
Is This The Creepiest Scene In Doctor Who ?
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Post by Cyggy on Jul 31, 2022 17:16:17 GMT
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