Rate and Discuss: Terror of the Autons
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Featuring the debuts of Jo Grant and The Master, not to mention Mike Yates, a new lab at UNIT for the Doctor and the start of the UNIT Family, terror of the Autons opened Season 8 forty years ago.
But what do you think of it? Does it stand up well today?
Si xx
Now hands that do dishes.......
Episode three moves on at a cracking pace doesn't it!! I was sat in raptures while watching it with all sorts of memories going through my head, too many to rabbit on about here.
Those daffodils... my mother had a vase full of those on the kitchen window sill around this time, they were there for ages, in fact things like that became everyday items, I think they were given away with Fairy Liquid washing up liquid. Little wonder that the government of the day debated such imagery in Doctor Who. It seems so tame today that with entry into the Common Market just around the corner you'd wonder if the government had anything really worthwhile to talk about.
The cliffhanger ending to this episode is quite enthralling too, more Pertwee gurning as a telephone cord wraps itself around his throat. One wonders how he'll get out of it.:p