Carole Ann Ford

Domain of the Voord continues in the same way as the first episode and played out largely like a typical “First Doctor Adventure”.  We do lose Barbara and the Doctor for the biggest chunk of the middle of the story, and Ian and Susan are separated.  Ian gets thrown in […]

EDA1.01 – Domain of the Voord, episodes 2-4

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The TARDIS lands on a sailing ship on an alien world that is mostly ocean, with one major land mass (this isn’t Marinus).  At first taken for stowaways, and then spies, and then sources of information, The Doctor, Barbara, Ian, and Susan become separated from the TARDIS when they’re taken […]

EDA1.01 – Domain of the Voord, episode 1

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Previously … Crisis (extended version) … The DVD release of Planet of Giants included a reconstructed 4-part version.  It was originally intended to be broadcast as a four-part story, but was trimmed down to three parts, presumably because it didn’t have enough story to make it to four full episodes.  […]

43b. The Urge To Live

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Previously … Crisis (broadcast version)… The DVD release of Planet of Giants included a reconstructed 4-part version.  It was originally intended to be broadcast as a four-part story, but was trimmed down to three parts, presumably because it didn’t have enough story to make it to four full episodes. In […]

43. Crisis (extended)

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Previously … Dangerous Journey … In the style of the old serial cliffhangers, it turns out that the Doctor and Susan had already hidden in the overflow pipe.  Funny how this wasn’t seen last week. Is the episode call “crisis” because “The Dangerous Telephone Receiver” wouldn’t have given the same […]

43. Crisis

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Previously … Planet of Giants … The Doctor and Susan climb through a plughole, Barbara faints at the sight of a fly, and Ian opens a briefcase. Some of the sets/props are fantastic (the plug & plughole, the briefcase, etc), while others are less successful (the rack of testtubes). Planet […]

42. Dangerous Journey

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Doctor Who, season 2 begins … The second season begins with a good opening to the first of a three-part story.  Hartnell continues on fine form.  Ian & Barbara have pretty much been reset to how they were at the beginning, and Susan provides her usual array of screams. The […]

41. Planet of Giants

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Doctor Who continued … The final episode of this serial, and the first season of Doctor Who, is a fast-paced piece with revelations that resolve the plot and plot turns that sync with established history. William Hartnell again has a great scene as the First Doctor rescuing Susan from the […]

40. Prisoners of Conciergerie

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Doctor Who continued … The second animated episode of The Reign of Terror. At last the plot really moves on apace.  Ian is captured and shackled for information.  Barbara is allowed to speak to the Doctor so that they can be overhead.  Oddly, Barbara says that Susan had a fever […]

39. A Bargain of Necessity

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Doctor Who continued … Some of the early episodes of Doctor Who are missing from the BBC archives.  For this serial, The Reign of Terror, the BBC had the missing episodes animated.  This is the first of those animated episodes. The plot again doesn’t go anywhere.  Ian (back from William […]

38. The Tyrant of France

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Doctor Who continued … Ian escapes thanks in part to a convenience of a key being left in the lock and also by intention of being allowed to escape. Again it’s Hartnell that steals the show, both in bluffing the shopkeeper and then at the jail carefully taking things in […]

37. A Change of Identity

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Doctor Who continued … An episode that doesn’t really further the plot much.  Susan devolves back into the screamer with alarming ease, apparently not being able to do anything without the men being there.  I rather felt for Barbara at the time, particularly the expression on her face when Susan […]

36. Guests of Madame Guillotine

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