Monday, 24 October 2016

The Chase

(Series 2, Episodes 30-35)

Summary: Doctor Who on LSD.  A bunch of vengeful Daleks chase the Doctor and his friends through time and space, where they encounter the crew of the Mary Celeste, a haunted house of horror clichés and a wildly imbecilic American tourist.  Ian dad-dances to the Beatles and destroys yet another of Barbara’s cardigans, the Doctor gains a suspiciously dissimilar lookalike and we meet Steven Taylor, an astronaut from the future, who has been sent so crazy by his years of isolation that he rushes back into a burning building to save a toy panda.  Most importantly, Barbara and Ian finally find a way back home - to 1965, but what’s two years between friends?

Watch it because: “I shall miss them. Yes, I shall miss them. Silly old fusspots.”


Original Air Date: 22 May – 26 June 1965.
Doctor: William Hartnell.
Companions: Ian Chesterton (William Russell), Barbara Wright (Jacqueline Hill), Vicki (Maureen O’Brien) and Steven Taylor (Peter Purves).
Writer: Terry Nation.
Director: Richard Martin.
Producer: Verity Lambert.

Available on DVD? Yes.

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