The green death was the first story that I saw, at lest in part, in colour. Great memories. I liked Jon Pertwee's serious Doctor. Especially when he was such a capable comic performer.
Season 10 is one of the highlights of the Pertwee era. "Carnival of Monsters" is one of my favorites as well as"Frontier in Space," "The Green Death"and"The Three Doctors."
This season got off to a shaky start, but boy it had one hell of a finale. The Green Death is just great: Jo's departure, the creepy maggots, a corrupt corporation run by a demented Skynet prototype, The Doctor disguised as a cleaning lady... need I say more?
I'm a big fan of the repeated capture and escape, followed by the good guys trusting the Doctor! :) Psychic paper seems like a cop out device to me, I learn a lot about the characters during all those escapes.... I don't mind a slower pace, I'm happily watching Doctor Who, with no major luncheon appointment to run off too, why rush the story?
I learned that "hands up" didn't have to mean "above your head" from Doctor Who. All those repeated captures and he realised that it was far more efficient to simply bend your elbows and hold your hands with your palms forward. So much less effort.
There have now been many Masters, but Roger Delgado was THE Master. What he brought to the role was a fantastically civilised, even understated, villainy.
Actually, I'm not sure The Doctor was surprised to find a Dalek during the first episode of "Planet Of The Daleks" I think he was just surprised to find out they could now turn INVISIBLE!
I had such a massive crush on Jo. Season 10 broke my 9 year old heart. Never trusted men with long hair after that. Those giant maggots scared the living sh*t out of me.
Good point about the psychic paper. Never noticed that difference between Classic and New before. Now I’ll never be able to not notice it every time they get captured throughout the first 26 seasons.
For the opposing view I personally absolutely HATE the Psychic Paper for this very reason! It takes away the Doctor's ability to bullshit people and talk his way out of problems when all he has to do is produce a piece of paper. The writers then decided to have some people not be fooled by the Psychic Paper but then you wonder how all these people who are fooled by it got into positions of power in the first place! It's like Nu-Who's annoying Deadlock Seal that they brought in to stop the Sonic Screwdriver which got overused to hell and back because it was another easy out for the writers rather than coming up with more unique circumstances and better writing. The Sonic Screwdriver itself got upgraded and upgraded and upgraded again in Nu-Who till it could do literally anything!
@@franohmsford7548 Agreed... Psychic paper is a shortcut past conversation so they can go jogging - apparently the kids like it when everyone jogs around urgently... :) More importantly, it makes scripts much easier to write. I loved the sonic screwdriver - back when it was used to unscrew things...
Those gel monsters from the Three Doctors are really freaking me out (in a bad way. Like a visceral reaction to seeing an oversized bug rifling through your wallet and jotting down your social security number)
The first episode of The Three Doctors was shown on the first Saturday after Christmas 1972,with those gel monsters suddenly beseiging a house being defended by UNIT. My parents joked that they'd been made using the remnants of the BBC Christmas dinner.
Just my opinion but I think Frontier In Space was the best story out of this lot and Planet Of The Daleks takes second place. The Dalek costumes are way more beaten up in Destiny Of The Daleks as opposed to this episode by a long shot to such a degree it almost ruins quite a good concise four-part episode but the mining activity they are engaged in sort of covers for it. Carnival Of Monsters was a good attempt at a display of diverse acting styles but it didn't work for me nor did those screaming Drashig dinosaur-type things. But Ian Marter and Clive Sell aka Mr. Bucket from Keeping Up Appearences are good to see in different roles to what many are used to.
I can't believe my memories of the terrifying Drashigs rising from the ocean to attack the ship in a never ending rotation were so vivid in my teenage mind but viewing these clips now as a 62 year old, the effects are mind-blowingly cheesy!!!
To be fair, you probably watched on a really old TV set no where near the quality of a modern monitor. The cheesy effects are easier to hide on those old tvs.
And your memories aren't quite right. It was a plesiosaur that rose from the ocean. It was there to liven up proceedings in the otherwise dull Indian Ocean environment. The drashigs appeared in the hold of the ship after following the Doctor out of their enclosure. "Nothing escapes the drashigs." Proto Harry Sullivan threw sticks of dynamite at them as they emerged, wrecking the sensitive circuitry of the miniscope they were all inside. The effects are awful by modern standards but the imagination of the writers was just amazing.
I was 9 got home from playing out with my mates, no mobiles, watched British wrestling (not good) had diner, we had a venatta for afters it was considered a posh treat at the time. Then settle down to watch Dr Who :
@@rjjcms1 This story is always stated to demonstrate DW was "always left wing" and "always had an environmental messge" but it doesn't feel that way by comparison to the new show. Or when I was 5 years old!
This is by far Pertwee’s best season. I love all the stories except Carnival of a monsters which for me the Aliens on the planet just annoyed the F out of me
Why have "psychic paper" when the TARDIS itself can house an entire fake ID industry? Some writers really think too hard in the wrong directions sometimes. And we all know the Third Doctor wouldn't bother with it anyways because it's more fun to be tied up- I mean it's all part of the adventure.
7:05 The Master's pistol is based on an AR15. A similar prop was used in the Star Wars movie Rogue One. I wonder if that means they are actually set in the same universe lol.
Budgetary constraints led to some sloppiness in the execution,but I personally liked the concept and design,and tried making my own little bit of "Omega world" with bubbly-looking arched passages,doorways and junctions. And any old items found could be used to make,or add bits to,home made blob monsters.
The material used for the costumes of the gel guards are the same as the material on the walls for a reason. They wanted to show that the guards were made of the same material and could appear out of the wall. I thought choice material was brilliant and must have been a nightmare for the costume department bend into a garment.
I know were i was back in 1973 to the date and time, i was visiting my great grandparents on a Saturday evening, and i walked into their living room and startingbup on their new colour tv was The green death, and this was the first time i saw colour tv, and that has basically been burned into my brain, which i wonder is a good or bad thing. Lol
I learnt that Frontier in Space was to have featured the Cybermen as the Masters allies instead of the Ogrons IMO it is a shame millions billions and trillions of ways that the Cybermen were never properly featured in the 3rd Drs tenure and I have this hunch if Jon Pertwee had stayed on beyond season 11 he would have had an encounter with the dreaded Cybermen
I was only 8-and-a-half but really enjoyed Planet of the Daleks. I still enjoyed it when seeing it again as an adult 20 years later,but could see the odd instance of silliness in it then.
