Doctor Who rewatch (142/365)

[white_hart]

I'd run out of Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, so I decided to subscribe to Britbox so I can watch classic Doctor Who.

So far, I've watched An Unearthly Child (oddly familiar from the Target novelisation though I'd never seen it before), The Daleks, and Edge of Destruction which I thought was terrific.

Well worth the £5.99 a month, and it's going to keep me going for ages.

Comments

[sir_guinglain]

I was just going to post on The Edge of Destruction (or Inside the Spaceship, but only DWM calls it that...) and say something similar. It is determined to be odd and attention-grabbing despite all its disadvantages. David Whitaker knew when writing it he might have been writing the final two episodes of the series. He decided to do his absolute best to serve his colleagues in front of and behind the camera so they had something to point to as they looked for their next jobs, I suspect.

[white_hart]

It is really good.

[sir_guinglain]

Apparently the dates don't quite work for my theory, in that any script would have been written aftet the go-ahead was given to make Marco Polo and what became The Keys of Marinus on 1 November 1963, but concepts in it (see 0tralala) such as the Fast Return Switch (perhaps to be used to take Ian and Barbara home) might remain from ideas when it was conceived as the last story of the series.