Why do the two villainous rogues, Glitz and Dibber, want to destroy the totem to the Free's god? And who or what is the god-like immortal of whom or of which the underground dwellers speak? As these questions and others are answered, the Doctor realizes he might be the only one capable of saving Ravalox from becoming the flash point of universal destruction. Adventure Drama Family Sci-Fi. Add content advisory. Did you know Edit.
Quotes Perpugilliam 'Peri' Brown : Is there any intelligent life here? User reviews 9 Review. Top review. The Mysterious Planet - Part 1. These first 4 episodes are known as the story The Mysterious Planet and are mainly written by the great Robert Holmes. His quality writing, whilst not at all at its peak as he neared the end of his life with very ill health, shines through and lifts this story with a good level of storyline and some very good dialogue and character interactions.
The trial element is written by Eric saward, script editor, and it is inserted in linking all segments of the 14 part arc. It involves the Doctor being summoned by the Timelords and put on trial for his interference in other worlds during his travels. This idea sprang from the fact the show itself seemed under trial as BBC bosses were on the brink of cancelling it and had forced a hiatus with a long gap between the previous season and this one. The wish to make the season an overarching story was an effort to bring a positive change but is not entirely a positive thing overall.
The story is shown as 'evidence' with us watching it unfold in pieces, interrupted as the 'video is stopped' for debate in the courtroom. The trial scenes disrupt the flow of the story and can at times be irritating.
They are far from all bad though as well known actors Lynda Bellingham and Michael Jayston are high quality as The Inquisitor and The Valyard and provide some amusing and interesting exchanges with The Doctor. The Mysterious Planet story written by Holmes is interesting and thoughtful. The Doctor and Peri arrive on Ravolox but see indications that it is, in fact, a future post apocalyptic Earth.
They encounter different groups of humans and a robot that is in charge of the main society. For one thing, the model shot of the space station was, at the time, the most expensive special effect the series had ever done, and it still looks pretty impressive.
One thing that is a huge improvement, though, is that the Doctor and Peri are are now actually friendly to each other, thanks to Baker and Nicola Bryant deliberately going against the tone of their written dialogue. If only that had been the way their story kept going…. Ravolox is also supposedly lifeless thanks to a fiery catastrophe centuries earlier, but they arrive in the middle of a forest. Others on the planet are after more than just scientific curiosity.
All that is viewed and argued over on the space station by the Doctor and the Valeyard, who seems convinced that the Ravolox story is damning enough for the Doctor not only to be convicted, but executed.
The trial segments are sloppily written, badly and statically staged, and something of a chore to watch. Worse, both the Doctor and the impartial Inquisitor repeatedly object to watching the Ravolox sections, which only calls attention to how boring and poorly done it all is— even the characters in the story itself can barely stand to watch it.
Glen McCoy came up with the idea of The Doctor being on trial. This 14 Part Epic takes on a style reminiscent of a Christmas Carol, Episodes are similar to the ghost of Christmas past, These episodes take place in the Doctor's history, Episodes are the Ghost of Christmas present they take place immediately prior to the Courtroom segments, and episodes are the Ghost of Christmas Future, they take place after the trial and haven't happened yet for the Doctor.
Eartha Kitt was offered the Joan Sims role. Graeme Harper was asked to direct, but was not free. The Doctor chooses to be his own lawyer. Colin Baker had studied to become a solicitor before deciding to become an actor. Fans voted this number in a countdown of the Doctor Who stories in Outpost Gallifrey's 40th anniversary poll in Aired on the BBC on the same date as Casualty: Gas , the premiere of a massively successful medical drama. A new version of the theme tune arranged by Dominic Glynn was used for Season This is the last story which Robert Holmes finished for the show, he was due to write the final two episodes of the overarching serial unfortunately he was only able to finish the first episode before sadly passing away leaving Pip and Jane Baker to finish the story, Holmes is often fondly remembered as Doctor Who's greatest writer.
He has freed the humans from Drathro and prevented the black light converter from exploding. It all makes the Valeyard's case look weak. That is the problem with the trial concept. The Valeyard accuses him of interference and causing violence and mayhem wherever he goes. As Doctor Who fans will know. The second Doctor was charged with all this back in The War Games. Here the Doctor has ultimately helped the situation and there is still the mystery of how Earth ended up in the wrong place.
The Valeyard argues there is more evidence to present which leads to the next adventure. Overall the story is better than I remembered from its broadcast back in That is not saying much, I just remembered the whole thing being dreadful.
Now it is just less dreadful. The trial scenes just look so badly directed, almost inert and stagy. Prismark10 Apr 12, Details Edit. Release date September 27, United Kingdom. United Kingdom.
Technical specs Edit. Runtime 24 minutes.
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