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Post by Cyggy on Mar 5, 2022 4:07:29 GMT
Please rate and discuss this story here.....
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Post by Cyggy on Mar 8, 2022 17:11:45 GMT
Well, it's difficult to know what to say....
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Post by Black Orchid on Mar 13, 2022 15:36:08 GMT
Haven't seen this for a few years and I have no intention of seeing it again but I remember thinking that episode 1 was surprisingly quite good - the jungle sets and the wolf weeds worked well and Lady Adrasta was an effective villain.
However Erato is a design catastrophe that does not convince in the slightest. Another big mistake is to have Lady Adrasta die so early in episode 4 - the remainder of episode sees Erato weaving a thread around an oncoming planet or something? Bizarre.
5.5/10
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Post by Cyggy on Jul 8, 2022 0:50:45 GMT
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Post by GC on Sept 19, 2022 18:46:24 GMT
Well, it's difficult to know what to say.... "The Creature is the pits?"..
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Post by GC on Sept 19, 2022 18:46:33 GMT
Animal Magic - Tom Baker - Classic Who - HD
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Post by Future-Diver on Sept 20, 2022 6:45:51 GMT
"The future foretold, the past explained, the present... apologised for"
I have a great fondness for Season 17 and despite a few obvious flaws (Erato, a weak early performance from Lalla Ward and the pantomime gang of scavengers), I find The Creature from The Pit to be a likeable, odd but fun serial. It features a great cast - the very lovely Myra Frances, Geoffrey Bayldon (the man who should have been the Doctor but sadly never was*) and old woman from the Tribe of Gum (Eileen Way). I particularly like the Adams-y humour in this story and don't mind the 'Teach Yourself Tibetan' gag at all. Though we do see Doctor Who ripping off a Star Trek TOS episode again ('Devil In The Dark').
*Aside from voicing an alternate version of the Doctor in the Big Finish 'Unbound' series ('Auld Mortality' and 'A Storm Of Angels').
7/10
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Post by profh0011 on Nov 3, 2023 3:47:01 GMT
Over many years, Geoffrey Bayldon became one of my favorite character actors. I believe my first exposure to him may have been THE HOUSE THAT DRIPPED BLOOD, where, insanely enough, he sells a haunted cloak to... Jon Pertwee. Bayldon reminded me of "Uncle Creepy" in that bit.
When I write stories (or sometimes draw comics), I love to "cast" people in them (it makes it easy to write individual speech patterns, as well as draw different faces). In one of my (maddenlingly still-unfinished) comics, I "cast" him as the doctor at a military base. I wrote him to be as snide & sarcastic as William Hartnell sometimes was, but, for laughs, I had him wearing Peter Davison's long jacket. Some people are easier or harder to capture on paper, but Bayldon proved VERY easy to capture his likeness.
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Post by profh0011 on Nov 3, 2023 3:48:41 GMT
The barbarian group in this story always felt to me like they wandered in from a MONTY PYTHON movie.
Despite its many flaws, these days I find Season 17 FAR MORE entertaining to watch in general than the supposedly "upgraded" Season 18!!! A crime "Shada" was never finished.
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Post by Future-Diver on Nov 3, 2023 10:54:24 GMT
Over many years, Geoffrey Bayldon became one of my favorite character actors. I believe my first exposure to him may have been THE HOUSE THAT DRIPPED BLOOD, where, insanely enough, he sells a haunted cloak to... Jon Pertwee. Bayldon reminded me of "Uncle Creepy" in that bit.
When I write stories (or sometimes draw comics), I love to "cast" people in them (it makes it easy to write individual speech patterns, as well as draw different faces). In one of my (maddenlingly still-unfinished) comics, I "cast" him as the doctor at a military base. I wrote him to be as snide & sarcastic as William Hartnell sometimes was, but, for laughs, I had him wearing Peter Davison's long jacket. Some people are easier or harder to capture on paper, but Bayldon proved VERY easy to capture his likeness.
"Over many years, Geoffrey Bayldon became one of my favorite character actors."One of my favourites, too. I think Geoffrey Bayldon would have made a smashing Doctor (have you listened to the Doctor Who Unbound Audio plays - 'Auld Mortality' and 'A Storm Of Angels'?). And as much as I liked Bayldon as Catweazle (1970 - 71), to me he will always be the Crowman, the maker of scarecrows ( Worzel Gummidge 1979- 1981).
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Post by profh0011 on Nov 6, 2023 16:56:27 GMT
I got this funny idea about this story some years ago. IMAGINE if... The Doctor jumps down into the pit, to make it look like he just killed himself, to get away from Lady Adrasta, and save Romana from being used as a threat against him.
So he's down there in the pit, wandering around, trying to figure out what's going on... and he runs into Geoffrey Bayldon. AS The Doctor. (William Hartnell's Doctor.) And Baker's Doctor is just completely stymied... because he has NO MEMORY of this incident.
And by this time, in the show's run, The First Doctor would probably be the ONLY character imaginable who could PUT BAKER in his place!
"Now, now, dear boy, we're not having any of THAT nonsense! We've got to focus on the problem at hand."
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