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Post by Cyggy on Mar 3, 2022 5:56:54 GMT
Please rate and discuss this story here.....
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Post by Cyggy on Mar 6, 2022 19:14:37 GMT
A nice two parter.
I have never quite forgiven Barbara for shooting poor Sandy though.
The ending baffles me to this day. Are those ghosts that attack Cocky Lickin' or real people?
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Post by Black Orchid on Mar 17, 2022 18:01:25 GMT
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Post by Black Orchid on Apr 28, 2022 15:41:55 GMT
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Post by Black Orchid on Jun 17, 2022 15:50:31 GMT
"Maureen O’Brien as Vicki, on the crashed spaceship set in Riverside Studio 1 on Friday 4th December 1964 for the first episode of ‘The Rescue’. Sadly, as far as we know, there are NO genuine colour photos of Vicki at all." Clayton Hickman twitter
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Post by sadako on Jun 17, 2022 16:54:37 GMT
I have never quite forgiven Barbara for shooting poor Sandy though. It was sad, but I think it serves the show's point that humans can make terrible mistakes and misjudgments when confronted with the strange and unknown. I've had to rewatch it several times to figure out, but I think the point was they are the original peaceful inhabitants of the planet, and that they all really looked human and the only reason Koquillian looked alien was because sometimes that cloak and mask is worn by the humanoid aliens in ceremonial circumstances. Presumably Bennett assumed Vicki had never seen the aliens and so believed the disguise would work. I voted for an 8, probably only deducting a few points for the stuff like the above that wasn't made lucid, and why the peaceful civilization has death traps for the cliffhanger. Interestingly the story is very much like It Takes You Away, done *right*... in terms of the abandoned girl being a victim of abuse and gaslighting, and the Doctor having to rescue her from that hell and expose the truth. A very progressive story for its time, I'd say. Strong dialogue and characterization and a poignant debut for Vicki.
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Post by Black Orchid on Jun 18, 2022 12:52:07 GMT
Publicity photograph
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Post by Future-Diver on Jun 18, 2022 13:01:26 GMT
Fans often bemoan the sad fates of Katarina, Sarah Kingdom and Adric, but poor Sandy the sand beast receives little sympathy - a victim of Barbara's tragic misunderstanding. I wont be happy until we see the release of an Eaglemoss Sandy the sand beast figurine.
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Post by Cyggy on Jun 18, 2022 13:11:48 GMT
4:50 and a script from this story turns up....
The Doctor Who Antiques Roadshow.....
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Post by Cyggy on Jul 6, 2022 0:50:14 GMT
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Post by Cyggy on Jul 11, 2022 16:36:59 GMT
Was this Vicki's WORST Day Ever?
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Post by Black Orchid on Apr 8, 2023 12:25:08 GMT
"On the Dido cave set in Riverside 1 on Friday 4 December 1964 during camera rehearsals for the first episode of ‘The Rescue’." Colourised by Clayton Hickman
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Post by dsjr on Apr 13, 2023 11:56:54 GMT
Just watched it again and found it enjoyable. Some things not fully explained and it *could* have been expanded to a three parter usefully perhaps?
Again, this couldn't be produced as it was these days - too much nastiness for the current generation of younger people... There did seem a genuine warmth between William Harnell and new girl Maureen O'Brien though...
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Post by Future-Diver on Apr 13, 2023 15:12:38 GMT
Just watched it again and found it enjoyable. Some things not fully explained and it *could* have been expanded to a three parter usefully perhaps? Again, this couldn't be produced as it was these days - too much nastiness for the current generation of younger people... There did seem a genuine warmth between William Harnell and new girl Maureen O'Brien though... We adore The Rescue - I'd probably like it even more as a three (or even four) parter. Last year I showed my wife The Rescue for the first time and at the end of it, she announced that Vicki was now her all-time favourite Who companion, and while I wouldn't go that far myself, I always felt that she was actually more like the Doctor's granddaughter than Susan. TBH, I find Maureen O' Brien more charismatic and simply more likeable than Carole Ann Ford (though I enjoyed Susan very much in the first season of the show, particularly in An Unearthly Child and Marco Polo).
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Post by profh0011 on Aug 7, 2024 21:03:23 GMT
I always liked Vicki more than Susan.
This story always feels to me like the moment when William Hartnell's Doctor finally became the HERO of the show. Before this, it was Ian. But with Susan gone, The Doctor took a nap to relax, maybe for the first time in years, who knows. And when he woke up, and went out to confront the bad guy... it just feels to me like the whole dynamic of the series changed right at that moment.
People who came in with Pertwee or Baker not might understand this, and most people I knew who watched the show in the US NEVER gave Hartnell's run a chance and so completely missed his evolution as a character!
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