.I like doing the impossible.. Social issues have not been immune to Doctor Who, you just have to set them on a space liner and have some monsters involved. Drug addiction and smuggling are given the Who twist thanks to the writer having done research on the subject for another show. The results are given more oomph thanks to Tom Baker. The Doctor (Tom Baker) and Romana (Lalla Ward) arrive on the space liner Empress, captained by Rigg (David Daker), which has become locked together with a private ship, the Hecate piloted by Dymond (Geoffrey Bateman), after colliding with it on emerging from hyperspace. They meet the zoologist Tryst (Lewis Fiander), who has with him a Continuous Event...
- 5/21/2012
- by Jeff Swindoll
- Monsters and Critics
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