74. The Death of Doctor Who

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TheDeathofDoctorWho1Doctor Who, season 2 continued …

Landing at last on Mechanus, the TARDIS crew encounter a planet of living plants – not too dissimilar to one of the locations from back in The Keys of Marinus.

Not entirely convinced by the “light stick”, but more confused that the Doctor’s own stick wasn’t sufficient (doesn’t that have a light at the end of it?).

Vicki’s confusion of the two Doctors, and the clever filming of the Doctor and his robot, are highlights of the episode.  Today they’d handle it in edits and cuts, but that couldn’t be done back in the day of this story.  Even so, this is very well done with a good fight sequence and the clever revelation (the robot thinking Vicki is Susan).

Next time … The Planet of Decision