Modern day dinosaur - Doctor Who - BBC classic sci-fi

[nitendubsinc]

coment if Nash or doctor who sent you here

[mortalhellion]

Always did like this episode because of the strong script... making a brave twist on the Mike Yates character. Brilliant stuff. Tom Baker/Jon Pertwee was the high time for Doctor Who in the old days.

[nitendubsinc]

@mortalhellion strong script?

[mortalhellion]

@nitendubsinc Uh, yeah. It was writen by one of the better writers of the period being Malcholm Hulke. It displayed a courageous move by making Captain Mike Yates one of the bad guys... as he supported the group who were operating the timescoop. The character was eventually retired from the familair UNIT group.

And the pont of your comment...?

[nitendubsinc]

@mortalhellion this script was really wierd.. for doctor who standereds,.. i mean its one of my favorite shows.. but, some of the lines made no sense..

[mortalhellion]

@nitendubsinc Well, I did prefer the earlier Pertwee shows from the seventh and eighth seasons. The stories were much stronger there with a more quasi-science fiction approach. Certainly inspired by the old Quartermass films and TV shows.

[nitendubsinc]

@mortalhellion understod

[VigilanteAgumon]

It's an anomaly from Primeval!

[63DW89A]

Even with marginal dino SFX, isn't is amazing how this 3min 52 sec slice of Season 11 DrWho, with its intelligent dialog, subtle humor, and subsurface intrigue, blows 95% of New Series scenes away! There's even a hint of subtle sexiness with the cute scene of Sarah Jane hopping off the table, and rubbing her butt while walking away(grabbed every dad's attention!).

Classic Who IS very intellligent, working at many levels.

[jason241972]

this is a great story but the effects are so awfull i hope in the future dvd release they will replace them with cgi ...i would be willing to pay extra for the effort

[EnglishmaninPoland]

Don't trust the general! It's Weng Chiang!

[kwisnothere]

Where also getting "The twin dilemma" this year, before Marinus i think...

though i can see why you might have wiped that particular story from your minds! ;)

[kwisnothere]

"Good Grief! It's a Stegosaurus!"

Amazing classic lines... that could only be found in classic Doctor Who... but i'm going to make a point of saying at least once in my daily going's on.

Only the Doctor could want and imagine studying it under "laboratory conditions"... he's gonna need a very very strong net. Great stuff!

[borgduck]

@kwisnothere Oh my giddy aunt!

[PGPinyourpants]

So this is where they got the idea for "Primeval"?

They even hired the same special effects company! XD

[Exterminate12]

wonder if they could release on dvd

[26QProductions]

yes, its coming out later in the year, along with planet of the spiders.

[thatenglishkid]

Funny, seeing as we don't yet know what's coming out later in the year.

[26QProductions]

i heard from a friend of mine, and i think i read abotu it in doctor who mag...

[thatenglishkid]

It's really not likely. We're getting a Dalek War boxset for Pertwee later in the year.

[26QProductions]

yeah i heard that, along with planet of the daleks, day of the daleks and death to the daleks. cool

[thatenglishkid]

Nope, we're getting "Frontier in Space" and "Planet of the Daleks" :)

[SnakeOnAPlane]

Just to clear all this up, the DVD schedule for the rest of this year is:

Delta and the Bannermen

The War Games

They Keys of Marinus

Dalek War boxset (Frontier in Space/Planet of the Daleks)

That is all until next year.

[thatenglishkid]

Nah, there's something more. A member of the DWRT said so on DWF.

[SnakeOnAPlane]

Well whatever it is, it's probably a 2010 release. I do seem to remember rumours about a new Animation-Restoration project. I personally have hopes for The Tenth Planet.

[tangerinealarm]

Ah the Green Agenda shows its face in Doctor Who once more, about 30 years before it was fashionable.

As for the effects, this is what you get for out-sourcing.

Pertwee does technobabble really well.

[specialkalpha]

"Time Travel is impossible, we all know that"

Now get back to catching the dinosaurs running around London.

[Twilty]

"You're going to tie it up?"

"Yes, that would be my intention."

[vanillaorchid]

I love the way the Brig looks completely unfazed.

[doctorwho1982]

these effects were state of the art for british television back in the day.

[SillyMonkeyProd]

for any tv

[Lordryan102]

wow... if the new seris looks like this doctor who's in trouble...