Saturday, 3 November 2018

The Visitation

(Series 19, Episodes 13-16)

Summary: Tegan is inexplicably still really huffy about not being at Heathrow and Adric bucks stereotypes by tripping and spraining his ankle as the gang meet a gravelly-voiced thespian turned highwayman in 17th Century England where the peasants are being controlled by androids in bejewelled suits.  Rather worryingly, the Doctor’s response to an attempted beheading by an android brandishing a scythe is “not again.”  And it seems that not only is the Doctor responsible for inspiring Nero to burn Rome but may have accidentally started the Great Fire of London.  What a pyromaniac.

Watch it because: “Why not smile and let me go?”


Original Air Date: 15-23 February 1982.
Doctor: Peter Davison.
Companions: Adric (Matthew Waterhouse), Nyssa (Sarah Sutton) & Tegan Jovanka (Janet Fielding).
Writer: Eric Saward.
Director: Peter Moffatt.
Producer: John Nathan-Turner.

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