The Doctor Who Thread

[Demoncrat]

Originally Posted by trebor8273

The Daemons

i love this episode has too be one of my favourite, great story, atmosphere and acting. has a great hammer feel and easy too see the story has similarities to those great hammer films the devil rides out and Quatermass and the pit, with a few tweaks it could if easily been a Quatermass story. a true classic of the show.

Stephen Thorne who plays Azael in this also played Omega in The Three Doctors

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Demoncrat

Stephen Thorne who plays Azael in this also played Omega in The Three Doctors

And Eldrad in The Hand of Fear.

[Susan Foreman]

Originally Posted by trebor8273

The Daemons

Originally Posted by Demoncrat

Stephen Thorne who plays Azael in this also played Omega in The Three Doctors

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

And Eldrad in The Hand of Fear.

And, most impressively, he was First Ogron in episodes 5 & 6 of 'Frontier In Space'!

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Susan Foreman

And, most impressively, he was First Ogron in episodes 5 & 6 of 'Frontier In Space'!

First Ogron eh? Had he been first whatever in The Sensorites he's have probably got a commentary gig.

Originally Posted by Susan Foreman

#91: The Sensorites

Special features:

• Commentary with William Russell (Ian Chesterton), Carole Ann Ford (Susan Foreman), Joe Grieg (Second Sensorite), Martyn Huntley (First Human), Giles Phibbs (Second Human), Frank Cox (Director), Raymond Cusick (Designer) and Sonia Markham (Make-Up Design). Moderated by Toby Hadoke

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The Empty Child (2005)

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Started The Sarah Jane Adventures with Invasion of the Bane.

I watched this on it's original transmission (i think it was a Sunday afternoon) and was a little underwhelmed but i thoroughly enjoyed it last night.

The reason being that despite some ropy effects the whole thing felt natural. The dialogue from Russell T Davies is a great improvement on Steven Moffat's 'every line must be a quip' style of speech which feels is often amusing but isn't how people speak. Davies nails it beautifully. I know many grumble that his series of Doctor Who are too 'soap like' but to me it's his natural writing style and brilliance at capturing a character with a single line of dialogue that made the pre-Moffat years special. The scenes featuring Sarah in showdown with Mrs Wormwood (an excellent Samantha Bond) were also a joy to watch.

The story was a simple beginning and not too far removed from his later Doctor Who story Partners in Crime ,but as an introductory piece it was excellent and a lovely way to bring back the wonderful Elizabeth Sladen after her standout turns with Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker in the 70's and bang up to date in the previous years David Tennant episode School Reunion. As a final thing i loved the photos in her attic of the Brigadier, Harry and other people from her time on Doctor Who.

[Susan Foreman]

Glad you enjoyed it, Mr. Dike

I love the 'Sarah-Jane Adventures'. It takes me back to the Golden Age of 'Doctor Who', and has the same feeling as the Jon Pertwee/Tom Baker stories. I also felt that the running time of 25 minutes was just right

In my opinion, many of the SJA stories from its 5 year run totally eclipsed the episodes of the parent show that were being screened at the same time

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Susan Foreman

Glad you enjoyed it, Mr. Dike

In my opinion, many of the SJA stories from its 5 year run totally eclipsed the episodes of the parent show that were being screened at the same time

Thank you.

We'll have to see about that.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

I rather enjoyed Smile.

Loved the Chumblies, er' Emojibots, really sweet faces. The story stood up well was beautifully filmed and made great use of the location but i'm not sure if it has that much of a re-watch factor. What a great remark about the Scots.

It actually felt like a classic Who story.

[Susan Foreman]

*Cough* The Happiness Patrol *Cough*

'Smile' was fun - a good, simplistic story. One of my problems with Nu-Who was the fact that it had become very complicated. The Peter Capaldi adventures, however, are back to the basic and easy stories of old