Monday, December 5, 2022

Doctor Who (1963) 11.02.04

Invasion of the Dinosaurs - Part Four

Sarah learns more about the spaceship that she is on and meets a couple more of the passengers. They insist that she has been there on board for three months but she has doubts. When she starts to argue with them and insist that she didn't choose to come aboard the spaceship they insist that she be re-educated.

The Doctor drives around London with a geiger counter looking for the nuclear reactor and the time travel machinery which it powers. He finds the bunker where Whitaker and Butler have been working. It is beneath a subway station. There are surveillance cameras and they see him coming. They bring in a pterodactyl to attack him bu the Doctor escapes the beast.

The Doctor leaves the subway station and finds the Brigadier. He brings him down into the subway station but something has changed. They go to see Sir Charles Grover. He laughs at the Doctor's story and acts as though he must have imagined it all.

The Doctor gets a call from Whitaker who asks the Doctor to meet him in the warehouse. The Doctor arrives at the warehouse just in time to see a dinosaur materializing. General Finch and the Brigadier aren't far behind. The general takes one look at the Doctor and the dinosaur and accuses the Doctor of being the mastermind behind the dinosaur invasion.

Thoughts

Sgt Benton and Captain Yates are in this episode but they don't get much screen time.

I like how Sarah continues to have her own arc in this story. It's pretty clear that she hasn't been on the spaceship for 3 months but I'm not sure exactly where she is. I seriously doubt that she has left the Earth.

There are just two people on the commentary track for this episode: Toby Hadoke and director Paddy Russell. 

I liked this episode for the most part but the cliffhanger at the end was a bit weak.

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