Part One:
1)Ah, Romana in her "seaside" outfit...
2)Baker looks a bit guant, here. Apparently, he'd been ill.
3)Ooh, pageboys - generally a bad idea.
4)Ah, the old "science vs. religion" bit.
5)When I first saw this, I did not make the connection that Lexa was the same actress who'd played Barbara Wright - I think it's quite possible I hadn't seen any First Doctor stories yet.
6)"He sees the threads that join the universe together, and mends them when they break."
7)"Brotadac" is an anagram, a little joke by the writers. Terrance Dicks changed it to "Brotodac" in the novelization to make it less jokey.
8)I like the idea of an evil cactus.
9)"Chronic hysteresis?" I think there's surgery they do for that now.
10)Cliffhanger #1: Meglos has turned into a duplicate of the Doctor.
Part Two:
11)I wonder if they save dmoney using the same scene over and over.
12)"Don't think too haard, you'll burst something." "I like his coat."
13)I'm extremely dubious that their method for escaping form the time loop would work.
14)K-9 must get his batteries the same place the Quarks do. You'd think that by the year 5000 they'd have longer-lasting power cells.
15)Cliffhanger #2; "She's seen too much! Kill her!"
Part Three:
16)"Let's hope that many hands make the lights work."
17)Ah, the infmaous kicking of K-9!
18)Cliffhanger #3: The Doctor's suit is about to be pressed - with him in it!
Part Four:
19)"That could've been me." and then it was.
20)"Haven't I seen you somewhere before?"
21)"Well, why would a good-looking chap like you want to control the universe?"
22)"Gallifrey - they want us back immediately." Never did find out what they wanted.
Another OK but not extraordinary story, redeemed by a few interesting character bits. I question how cactuses could have built a civilization.
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Frederick Treves appeared with David Suchet in the Poirot episode "The Theft of the Royal Ruby."
David Suchet appeared with Kurt Russell in "Executive Decision."
Kurt Russell starred with Robert De Niro in "Backdraft."
And Robert De Niro starred with Kevin Bacon in "Sleepers."
Frederick Treves has a Bacon Score of 4.
7)"Brotadac" is an anagram, a little joke by the writers. Terrance Dicks changed it to "Brotodac" in the novelization to make it less jokey.
To be precise, it's an anagram of "bad actor".
At an earlier stage of their evolution the Zolfa-Thurans were ambulatory. Gradually they developed two castes: ruling, non-ambulatory cacti like Meglos, and ambulatory servants (second from left). When the rulers had to retreat into underground bunkers to escape the exhaustion of their planet's water resources they didn't bother to save the ambulatory caste.
The Baron said:
That about sums it up.
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