Story: The Ambassadors of Death
Written By: David Whitaker
Length: 7 Episodes
Year: 1970
This is a fairly good story. Its enjoyable, but these 7 parters of Season 7 all feel rather padded. I haven't seen it, but the synopsis of this and Quatermass are fairly similar, and I hear this took a lot from Quatermass as inspiration. At any rate this story has its moments, but overall isn't terribly exciting.
It is the first Pertwee to be affected by the junking policy, and although the whole story still exists, some of the episodes and/or parts of the episodes remained in black and white only. That has now changed, and the whole story has been restored to full color. The chroma dots recovery process leaves the image a little more murky than other Doctor Who restoration results, but its lovely to not have this story flashing between color and black and white anymore.
Still this is a story that is, at 7 episodes, a little too long. I love the overall feel of the 70s Who, but Pertwee's era really kicked into high gear at the start of his second season. This isn't the worst Who that has ever been, but I won't pretend it isn't too long and a little boring.
NEXT TIME: This Season Comes to an End Already?
Written By: David Whitaker
Length: 7 Episodes
Year: 1970
This is a fairly good story. Its enjoyable, but these 7 parters of Season 7 all feel rather padded. I haven't seen it, but the synopsis of this and Quatermass are fairly similar, and I hear this took a lot from Quatermass as inspiration. At any rate this story has its moments, but overall isn't terribly exciting.
Still this is a story that is, at 7 episodes, a little too long. I love the overall feel of the 70s Who, but Pertwee's era really kicked into high gear at the start of his second season. This isn't the worst Who that has ever been, but I won't pretend it isn't too long and a little boring.
NEXT TIME: This Season Comes to an End Already?
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