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Post by Cyggy on Mar 4, 2022 22:47:56 GMT
Please rate and discuss this story here.....
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Post by Cyggy on Mar 11, 2022 19:18:36 GMT
Just a really clever story. I can see why it was Barry Letts' favourite of his era.
When I saw it during the "The Five Faces of Doctor Who" season, I do remember being shocked that Vorg and Shirna looked nothing like I had imagined - and I was less than impressed with the stupid hat he was wearing for a start.
But otherwise I think this story really holds up well. The Drashigs are fantastic - and so well done!
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Post by Black Orchid on Mar 12, 2022 17:32:11 GMT
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Post by Black Orchid on Mar 12, 2022 19:27:18 GMT
VORG: Our purpose is to amuse, simply to amuse. Nothing serious, nothing political.
A witty, fun, fast-paced story with a good cast. One of the best Pertwees.
8.5/10
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Post by johnnybear on Mar 31, 2022 7:32:32 GMT
Our first and only look of a Cyberman in the Pertwee era with a hood of sorts on his shoulders no less!!! JB
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Post by Servo on Apr 3, 2022 11:44:51 GMT
This was on a million times when I was growing up.
Never got tired of it.
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Post by GC on May 6, 2022 1:34:41 GMT
Doctor Who: Carnival of Monsters - The Five Faces of Dr Who (Continuity Announcements 1981) - BBC 2
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Post by Cyggy on Jul 11, 2022 1:24:10 GMT
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Post by Future-Diver on Jan 11, 2023 6:37:57 GMT
"One has no wish to be devoured by alien monstrosities, even in the cause of political progress."I'm very fond of Carnival Of Monsters, in particular, Episode 1, where we appear to be watching two separate stories- The Doctor and Jo on the SS Bernice, and a flashy showman dealing with grey-faced bureaucrats on the planet Inter Minor. How could these two strands be possibly connected? I love it when Doctor Who gets weird and Carnival of Monsters is very weird - Miniscopes, functionaries, Plesiosaurs and Drashigs, but awfully funny too - this is one of my favourite Holmes quotes: "They've no sense of responsibility. Give them a hygiene chamber and they store fossil fuel in it". When BBC 2 screened Doctor Who Night in November 1999, part of the evening's entertainment was a look at the Doctor's many foes and appropriately, it was entitled Carnival Of Monsters. Quite right. too. 9/10
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Post by iank on Jan 11, 2023 8:11:07 GMT
By far the best non-Earth Pertwee. Feels like a Williams era story five years early.
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Post by Future-Diver on Jan 11, 2023 20:34:22 GMT
By far the best non-Earth Pertwee. Feels like a Williams era story five years early. "Feels like a Williams era story five years early".
I like that idea.
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Post by GC on Jan 11, 2023 20:45:29 GMT
Our first and only look of a Cyberman in the Pertwee era with a hood of sorts on his shoulders no less!!! JB Love that neat little Cyberman cameo. Always thought it was a block of flats (or some building with balconies) behind him...
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Post by johnnybear on Jan 23, 2023 17:07:56 GMT
Maybe it's a section of their tombs? JB
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Post by dsjr on Oct 1, 2023 12:07:02 GMT
This one's slowly growing on me. Got to say I prefer reading of the background to the story and filming currently, but once again (apologising for repeating it), everyone seemed sincere about their job to make the finished story as convincing as possible.
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Post by profh0011 on Aug 14, 2024 3:32:43 GMT
By far the best non-Earth Pertwee. Feels like a Williams era story five years early. YES! And of course, despite its tackiness in spots, I've come to like season 17 WAY MORE than season 18 over the decades.
But on first seeing this (or maybe second), my thought was... this REALLY reminded me of a 2nd season LOST IN SPACE episode. There were all kinds of eccentrics running around the galaxy on that show, especially in season 2. Although, season 3 was when you had "Farnum B.", an intergalactic showman who was kidnapping people for his show, played by the excellent character actor Leonard Stone. (If you saw him in anything else, you would NEVER believe he was the same guy who was in 2 episodes of LIS.) Farnum B. had the added strangeness of coming from a planet where people were apparently born fully grown (or were they cloned?) and if you watch his 1st story, it slowly comes out that the reason he acts so IDIOTIC is because he's really like a 5-year-old KID in a middle-aged adult's body. He's one of the few characters on the show who's actually MORE IMMATURE than Zachary Smith-- so it's hilarious when halfway thru, Smith turns the tables on him and winds up in charge of his "zoo".
Meanwhile, I forget how many times I sat thru this before I realized that the paranoid gray-faced alien was the guy who later played DAVROS. Yikes!!! Michael Wisher was on the show so many times... it's really criminal that he just disappeared after one point, and never came back again.
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