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Post by Cyggy on Mar 3, 2022 5:36:51 GMT
Please rate and discuss this story here.....
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Post by Servo on Mar 5, 2022 8:28:00 GMT
Great first episode, with a terrific creepy atmosphere, then we get the rest of the story.
The rest is as boring as it gets. By episode 5 I was trying not to go to sleep.
It won’t be the last Doctor Who story to have a great first episode and be a cure for insomnia for the rest.
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Post by Cyggy on Mar 5, 2022 20:35:45 GMT
I keep meaning to get through the entire story sometime in one go without giving up, but must agree that it's hard going.
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Post by Cyggy on Mar 31, 2022 19:10:26 GMT
A thread is now up for the 1959 Hammer Film - "Yesterday's Enemy" - pretty much the only other credit of note for Peter R. Newman? "Yesterday's Enemy" (1959)
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Post by Servo on Apr 3, 2022 11:59:28 GMT
I recently purchased Marcus Hearn's Hammer Vault book.
Under the section of "Unmade Hammer" it seems Peter R. Newman had a script called The Inquisitors all set to be made by Hammer in 1960, but it ran into title and distributor problems and was ultimately dropped for Curse of The Werewolf.
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Post by Black Orchid on Apr 11, 2022 15:56:42 GMT
The Sensorites really isn't that bad, though the first two episodes are painfully slow.
7/10
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Post by Black Orchid on Apr 28, 2022 14:25:28 GMT
This article unlike all the others from this period makes no mention of the new story (The Sensorites) at all:
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Post by Black Orchid on Jun 8, 2022 23:05:54 GMT
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Post by Cyggy on Jul 5, 2022 17:17:32 GMT
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Post by rapscallion on Oct 26, 2022 5:08:18 GMT
I keep meaning to get through the entire story sometime in one go without giving up, but must agree that it's hard going. Yeh, I don't think I can do the whole story in one sitting either, but I do find it entertaining. Certainly the claustrophobia of the first few parts is where the story's strengths are. There are some massive plotholes in the storyline, particularly when the 'action' moves to the Sense Sphere, that are just staring the viewer in the face, but I think it's part of the story's daft charm. Like The Web Planet, The Sensorites goes at such a slow pace, protracted over 6 parts, and yet I can forgive it and find it so watchable because it's a black and white story from the programme's early years. And as of October '22 The Sensorites is actually the most recent story that I've pulled back out and re-watched in its entirety in just under a year.
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Post by Cyggy on Jan 19, 2023 5:25:58 GMT
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Post by GC on Feb 2, 2023 22:13:51 GMT
Next Episode: The Shart in Space...
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Post by Future-Diver on Feb 21, 2023 17:11:10 GMT
I can never make it beyond the 2nd episode ( and I call myself a Hartnell fan... ).
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Post by GC on Apr 28, 2023 21:31:25 GMT
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Post by heccy on Apr 29, 2023 1:28:50 GMT
Paint me pink and call me Samantha, but I think the actual design and execution on the Sensorites themselves, is really rather good.
Would not have looked out of place on Star Trek and far better than most of the aliens/monsters in Lost In Space...
Maybe, instead of creating the Ood, RTD2 could have swapped them out for the Sensorites?
I'll get me coat...
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