Doctor Who
[netflix: The Three Doctors] [netflix: The City of Death]
I never really followed Doctor Who. It never really captured my fancy, but I do loke the new version, or at least the Eccleston ones I’ve seen so far. But I decided to watch a few as they are also on the December 1 expiry list form netflix.
The first (4 parts) was The Three Doctors which was highly rated (3.8) at netflix. I was unimpressed. The Doctor in this episode was Jon Pertwee. Some evil time lord named Omega is gumming up the works and has thrown the whole time lord aristocracy into a tizzy and, for some unexplained reason (they’re out of power???) they can’t do anything about it. I infer the Doctor is in the dog house with the Time Lords, so he’s more or less marooned on Earth, and is tasked with sorting the whole mess out. To help with that, the Time Lord bureacracy somehow forwards a previous incarnation of the Doctor (Patrick Troughton) to help him out, but they do little but bicker. That is until a third prior incarnation (William Hartnell) radios in to tell them to get their act together.
So they do. Presto chango, zoom to the heart of the black hole, dance with a couple of jelly baby monsters, blow some thing up, and everything’s back to normal. The End.
The second episode (4 parts) was much better. Starring Tom Baker as the Doctor, it takes place in Paris. He and sidekick Romana (Lalla Ward) are visiting the Louvre (“the best museum in all the universe”) when they both get a bit woozy at some disturbance in the space-time continuum. The disturbance is caused by bad guy Count Scarlioni (Julian Glover – known to me as “Christatos” in Bond’s The Spy Who Loved Me), a 400 Million Year old creature single handedly responsible for the creation of all life on Earth. Due to a catestrophic piloting mistake which provided the catylist for the primorideal ooze to spring to life, he was “fractured” into a dozen different versions of himself living at different spots along the time line. The 1979 version is married to a countess (Catherine Schell – known to me as “Maya” the changeling from Space: 1999). There are some clever lines, which research tells me were probably attributed to “Script Editor” Douglas Adams.
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