More accomplished, better acting, much better set design.The music is brilliant and very memorable. Done by Richard Rodney Bennett (famed for some big film scores Far from the Madding Crowd (1967), Nicholas and Alexandra (1971), and Murder on the Orient Express (1974), each earned him Oscar nominations and some serious modern music after this) and a real set of musicians.
The story is a serious time travel fantasy. 'You can't rewrite history, not one line.'
Proper Doctor Who....
ABM Rating 3.75/4.00
LJM Rating 3.00/5.00
SPJ Rating 7.50/10.00
Peak Ranking No. 1 (out of 6)
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ReplyDeleteBeautifully restored for DVD (see the extra featurette about "Vidfire" on the disc) this is an example of an early DW serial now called "pure historical". The original idea for DW was to show people and places in other times for a kind of educational purpose. This is a great example of originator Sydney Newman's vision therefore. It should be noted that the B.E.M.'s (bug eyed monsters) won out even before this serial made it to air and the last purely historical serial was made in 1967. That explains why there's no aliens or robots in this one... but the history and the costumes and the customs and the characters are all rigi-didge.