Doctor Who is renewed again, for the first time. OK, yes, those choices were made more out of budget necessity than bold storytelling, but the welcome return of the Brigadier reminds us this is still the same show, and it doesn’t hurt that store-window mannequins make for a hella creepy monster. Spearhead From Space boldly tosses out that formula, centers the show on contemporary Earth, and recasts the Doctor as a flamboyant action hero. Sure, Patrick Troughton had taken over from William Hartnell a few years before, but it was very much the same show, following the adventures of a mysterious traveler and his human companions throughout all of time and space. Rebooting Doctor Who is a feature of the show, not a bug, but it was still uncertain territory when Jon Pertwee took over in 1970. Interlude music: Freestylah by Alexander Nakarada Story number: 155, per the The Pull To Open Codex I mean, you’d expect nothing less from the last official appearance of Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, but is it all just smokescreen to keep us from realizing the story - ostensibly about transdimensional Arthurian knights fighting over a magic sword at the bottom of a lake - is complete nonsense? Probably, though did we mention lots of stuff blows up? Summer is peak season for action romps, we’re told, so that must be why the Randomzier plopped us in the middle of Battlefield, the opening story of Classic Doctor Who’s final year, and one that seems to continuously feature guns shooting, swords clashing, and all manner of things blowing up. Outro music: Chronos by Alexander Nakarada Story number: 140, per the The Pull To Open Codexįeedback Loop music: Freestylah by Alexander Nakarada At least we can all agree that we’d watch Patrick Troughton do anything, including wolf down an insanely huge meal in a top hat… just as long as he didn’t do it wearing bright red eyebrows.
In some ways, it’s not the story’s fault - the production was famously plagued with problems behind the scenes - but a misfired location shoot can’t explain away the script’s icky obsession with carnivorism or those utterly extraneous Sontarans.
While that usually applies to something within the show, in the case of The Two Doctors, you might be talking about the show itself. When more than one Doctor is present, you know something’s gone disastrously wrong.
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