179 Smith and Jones

Watched 26-Jul on Bluray

Freema Agyeman as Martha makes a breezy and impressive debut. Where do they find these great DW girls?

The plot is usual RTD ODTAA (one damn thing after another). The events are lacking any credibility... again.

The characters are soap (Martha's fam) and campy (Stoker especially). Anne Reid (out of Curse of Fenric) makes a solid reappearance. The Judoon are good original monster suit aliens.

It's a very competent serial adventure ep. Good enough to open a new series and memorable too.

David T is actually hamming some of this up. The ruse with Anne about the bunions was delightful. The submission to "strawing" was less than satisfactory.

ABM Rating 3.15/4.00
LJM Rating 3.97/5.00
SPJ Rating 9.35/10   

No. 49 (out of 188)


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