#koquillion

[dailyclassicwho]

We can travel anywhere and everywhere in that old box, as you call it, regardless of space and time! Then is it a time machine? And if you like adventure my dear, I can promise you an abundance of it! Apart from all that, well you’ll... you’ll be amongst friends. Hm? Well? Now, suppose I leave you here for a moment to think about it.

DOCTOR WHO STORIES 011. THE RESCUE

[thekinglemingle]

The thing that gets me about The Rescue, the thing I am absolutely obsessed with, is that in 1965 Doctor Who was already self aware enough to do the twist that the monster that looks like a man in a naff alien costume, is actually just man in a mask and gloves. Nineteen flipping sixtyfive!

[kcdahippie]

I hope whoever designed the Koquillion was okay because this costume is nightmare fuel.

[6-and-7]

The Rescue The Doctor, Ian and Barbara arrive on the planet Dido. They find a crashed spaceship, the only two survivors of which are terrorised by the monster Koquillion. But who is Koquillion?

The Christmas Invasion It's Christmas Eve and high above London, the alien Sycorax are holding the Earth for ransom. The Tenth Doctor must recover from his regeneration in time to save the human race from slavery.

[adventure-showdown]

What is your favourite Doctor Who story?

The Rescue and The Ice Warriors tied. These are the 10 stories that were closest to making it through and so have been given a second chance

ROUND 2 MASTERPOST

synopses and propagnada under the cut

Marco Polo

Synopsis

Arriving in Central Asia in 1289, the Doctor and his companions join the caravan of the famous Venetian explorer Marco Polo as it makes its way from the snowy heights of the Pamir Plateau, across the treacherous Gobi Desert and through the heart of imperial Cathay.

Propaganda no propaganda submitted

The Keys of Marinus

Synopsis

The TARDIS arrives on the planet Marinus on an island of glass surrounded by a sea of acid. The travellers are forced by the elderly Arbitan to retrieve four of the five operating keys to a machine called the Conscience of Marinus - a machine capable of influencing all minds on the planet - of which he is the keeper. These have been hidden in different locations around the planet to prevent them falling into the hands of the evil Yartek and his Voord warriors, who plan to seize the machine and use its originally benevolent mind-influencing power for their own sinister purposes.

Propaganda no propaganda submitted

The Rescue

Synopsis

The Doctor, Ian and Barbara arrive on the planet Dido. They find a crashed spaceship, the only two survivors of which are terrorised by the monster Koquillion. But who is Koquillion?

Propaganda

god I love this story, its short and sweet, but the implications, the everything of vicki’s life before the doctor, the firey passion with which I hate bennet is boundless, as is my love for sandy. ITS SO GOOD! VOTE FOR IT! (@sandymybeloved )

The Space Museum

Synopsis

The TARDIS jumps a time track and the travellers arrive on the planet Xeros. There they discover their own future selves displayed as exhibits in a museum established as a monument to the galactic conquests of the warlike Morok invaders who now rule the planet. When time shifts back to normal, they realise that they must do everything they can to avert this potential future.

Vicki helps the native Xerons obtain arms and revolt against the Moroks. The revolution succeeds and the travellers go on their way, confident that the future has been changed.

Propaganda no propaganda submitted

The Massacre

Synopsis

The TARDIS materialises in Paris in the year 1572 and the Doctor decides to visit the famous apothecary Charles Preslin. Steven, meanwhile, is befriended by a group of Huguenots from the household of the Protestant Admiral de Coligny. Having rescued a young serving girl, Anne Chaplet, from some pursuing guards, the Huguenots gain their first inkling of a heinous plan being hatched at the command of the Catholic Queen Mother, Catherine de Medici.

Propaganda no propaganda submitted

The War Machines

Synopsis

The TARDIS arrives in London in 1966 and the First Doctor and Dodo visit the Post Office Tower. There they meet Professor Brett, whose revolutionary new computer WOTAN (Will Operating Thought ANalogue) can actually think for itself and is shortly to be linked up to other major computers around the world — a project overseen by civil servant Sir Charles Summer.

Propaganda no propaganda submitted

The Moonbase

Synopsis

The TARDIS arrives in 2070 on the Moon, where a weather control station under the command of a man named Hobson is in the grip of a plague epidemic — in reality the result of an alien poison planted by the Cybermen. Jamie is knocked unconscious and lapses into a delirium, leaving the Second Doctor, Ben, and Polly to fight off a massive Cyberman attack.

Propaganda no propaganda submitted

The Macra Terror

Synopsis

When the Second Doctor, Ben, Polly and Jamie visit a human colony that appears to be one big holiday camp, they think they have come across a truly happy place. Yet a shadowy presence soon makes them realise that the surface contentment is carefully controlled.

The colony's inhabitants have been brainwashed by giant, crab-like creatures — the Macra. Insidious propaganda, broadcast by the Controller, forces the humans to mine a gas that is essential for the Macra to survive, but fatal to them.

The colony must be saved — but how? The Doctor and his team are up against it, particularly when Ben falls under the influence of the Macra. Can he be rescued from their evil clutches? Can the gas pumping equipment be destroyed, getting rid of the Macra for good?

Propaganda no propaganda submitted

The Ice Warriors

Synopsis

The TARDIS arrives on Earth in a new ice age. The travellers make their way into a base where scientists, commanded by Leader Clent, are using an ioniser device to combat the advance of a glacier.

A giant humanoid creature, called an Ice Warrior by one of the scientists, has been found buried in the nearby glacier. When thawed, it revives and is revealed to be Varga, captain of a Martian spacecraft that landed on Earth centuries ago and is still in the glacier. Varga sets about freeing his comrades and formulating a plan to conquer the Earth — Mars itself is now dead.

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The Seeds of Death

Synopsis

The TARDIS lands in a space museum on Earth in the late 21st century, where the Second Doctor, Jamie and Zoe learn that contact has been lost between Earth and the Moon. In this era, instant travel — T-Mat — has revolutionised the Earth. Its people have lost interest in space travel. The Doctor and his companions travel to the Moon in an old-style rocket and reach the Moonbase, control centre for T-Mat, only to find a squad of Ice Warriors have commandeered the base and plan to use the T-Mat network to their advantage.

Propaganda no propaganda submitted

[madmarkinabox]

Season 2

The Rescue

The TARDIS lands on the planet Dido, and the crew come across a crashed ship from Earth with only two survivors: Vicki, and the crippled Bennett. Will the rescue ship get to them safely in time, or will they fall to the sinister native Koquillion?

This is a harmless enough story. Easily digestible at 2 episodes, but I wonder how it could have gone if it had maybe been stretched into 3. Give us more time to learn about Sandy, a proto-Drashig-ish creature who doesn't get much to do except growl at Ian and the Doctor from the bottom of a chasm, and then get shot by Barbara in an understandable case of misunderstanding (try saying that when you're drunk. I can probably barely say it when I'm sober). Hell, dive into more of the Doctor's history with Dido. That said, they're often talking about places they've visited throughout the show but we've never seen. His reminiscing is a nice little touch.

Ultimately, this story is really a vehicle to introduce Vicki as a companion, recently orphaned, and so far pretty much Susan 2.0, minus the intelligence that led Ian and Barbara to follow her home. I wonder if maybe they should have had another story between this one and The Dalek Invasion of Earth to go further into the Doctor's turmoil. He's clearly pining for Susan in his own way and is a little absent-minded. Because it's such a quick story, it's not hard to immediately work out the twist coming regarding Koquillion either. Incidentally, watching him, I thought "he sounds a lot like Skeletor," then when the credits rolled I realised it was Ray Barrett playing him, and it clicked. He was essentially redoing the voice he developed for Titan as Stingray went on. Less imperial, more just short of cackling. But I digress: Not sold on Vicki just yet, but we shall see how she develops as we go on. A harmless, enjoyable story for me, not going to set the world on fire, but good enough for what it is.

Next time: The Romans.

[clueingforbeggs]

Lyrics are in the original description, but in case Tumblr/YouTube doesn't like you clicking on the embed (which it doesn't like me doing), I'll put them below the cut as well.

(opening: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band) It was 60 years ago today Lady Lambert got the show to play And I know it's had its ups and downs But there's a reason why it's still around So let me introduce to you The man who kicked it off in style... Billy Hartnell's Cranky Time Lord Band...

(I Am The Walrus) I am Who and Who are You and where is Sue And take your business elsewhere See how I flick this real specific switch, See how we fly Not lyin'

Prehistoric caveman Fire from the cave of skulls Superstitious witches Never been a hero Funny thing is fear it Makes companions of us all I M not Foreman We're on a tour, man I am the Doctor Hmm? Doctor Who?

Static city, Thals are pretty, Polycarbon mutants run the show See how they talk in adenoidal squawks See how we rise I'm dyin'...

Me and Marco Polo... in the court of Kublai Khan Sacrifical Aztecs, 'nachronistic priestess Open up the door mid-flight And now we're very small

I'm the original (you might say) I am the first one (sort of) I am the Doctor - Hmm? Doctor Who?

Post-apocalyptic London Where a love can bloom One day I'll come back, I really will, Until then have a pleasant time.

Bye Susan Foreman More is in store, man I am the Doctor, Hmm Doctor Who? Hm Doc-

(Eleanor Rigby) Bennett and Vicki Trapped on a planet where no hope for rescue is clear No one comes near 'Cept for Koquillion. He's a big monster who threatens them never to leave Would you believe? They are the same people And Barbara shot your dog

(Tomorrow Never Knows) Relax into the vibe of ancient Rome Such a hot party... fires are starting And float like the Menoptera do at home Flitting smartly... ('no') over Zarbii... The warriors with crosses in their eyes They are crusading... they are crusading So run before the Dalek fleet arrives Evil is scheming... Ian is leaving... Barbara is leaving... someday we'll be memeing

(spoken) 'London 1965!' (someday we'll be memeing) 'London 1965!' (today we are memeing) 'London 1965!'

(Eleanor Rigby) Steven the pilot Stuck on a planet of hostile geodesic domes Heck of a home Hifi the panda His only friend and the only thing helping him deal He's not even real

(paperback writer) Excuse me mister, where did you get that? It's the year 1066 and all that You're gear and fab, but cannot yet fab gears So who brought the watch? well, I doubt it was a Normandic settler it's the time meddler... It's the time of legends, and if we're on course, gonna see a few guys about a horse Vicki's fallen for a boy from Troy She should read a play and that play should be Troilus and Cressida May the gods bless ya... It's the Myth Makers... it's the myth makers...

(Yellow Submarine) Sara Kingdom kept the peace Katarina never saw the like in Greece As companions, they're unmatched But I wouldn't get too attached They won't live through the Dalek's Masterplan The Dalek's Masterplan The Dalek's Masterplan

(I Am The Walrus) Hmm? Doctor Who? Hmm? Doctor Who? Some Caucasian dude with Asian clothes made me play Towers of Hanoi See how they clown, take Billy Bunter down, I'm just a hand... I'm dying...

Where's the nearest dentist? Let's check the OK corral. Steven's going savage, WOTAN in the tower Pleased to meet you, Polly, Ben, won't see this face for long I'm the original (you might say) I am the first one (sort of) I am the Doctor - Hmm what's that who? Hmm what's that who? Quite right... Everybody loves one... everybody loves one... Everybody keep warm... everybody keep warm... Everybody keep warm... everybody keep warm...

(Spoken) 'Oh, Barbara' 'Now you've squashed my favourite Beatles'

[davros42]

Rewatching Classic Doctor Who, some episodes I haven't seen in years, some of the animated reconstructions I haven't seen at all.

The Rescue AKA Serial L

The second production block of episodes starts with a tight little two-parter. We get a new companion, the first that we've seen that The Doctor takes on by choice (presumably Susan came by choice as well, but we never actually see that). The TARDIS gets it's distinctive 'VWORP' sound effect for the first time. Barbara gets yeeted off a cliff and then does a pet murder. Ian pronounces the villain's name as "Cocky lickin'" for some reason. It's a very full serial.

The episode starts with a long pan over some decent modelwork of a crashed spaceship. We get an introduction to Vicki: clever and excitable. She claims the rescue ship has landed but her bedridden companion Bennett claims that can't possibly be true. So what is it? The TARDIS has landed in a cave system nearby with the Doctor asleep at the wheel. In the process of preparing to disembark, The Doctor rather sweetly calls out for Susan before remembering she's left. I do like callbacks to old companions. Ian and Barbara explore while the Doctor takes a rock sample back to the TARDIS. They think he may be a bit depressed following Susan's departure. The Doctor's analysis of the rock sample, indicates they have arrived on the planet Dido, somewhere he's been before. Ian and Barbara come to a cliff from which they can see the crashed rocket but are interrupted by a strange creature who interrogates them. He sends Ian back for the Doctor, then pushes Barbara off a cliff. He then causes a cave-in to trap Ian and the Doctor.

Barbara survives, of course, and is hidden by Vicki. Vicki explains that the ship crash landed the crew were betrayed by the people of the planet and only Vicki and Bennett remain, held captive by a man named Koquillion. Ian and the Doctor move through the cave system, setting off some booby traps while they're at it. Back at the ship, Vicki tells Bennett that Barbara survived and he promptly faints. Vicki steps out, just in time to be menaced by a creature. So anyway, Barbara starts blasting and in a dangerously American moment kills Vicki's pet Sandy. Ian and the Doctor arrive. Vicki is understandably upset, but everyone sides with Barbara anyway. She's clearly the most dangerous member of the team.

The Doctor searched Bennett's room finding it empty.. and also finding a secret trap door. Ian and Barbara explain to Vicki that they are time travelers from 1963. Much to Barbara's chagrin, Vicki points out that this means they are over 500 years old. The trap door leads to a temple, full of ceremonial robes and gear... Koquillion appears to confront the Doctor who tells him that is blasphemy to wear the holy garb and he should remove it. Koquillion does so... revealing Bennett. Bennett murdered the crew of the ship and the people of Dido (apparently there's only one settlement on this planet? That's not important right now.) to cover up a murder he did before the crash. It's a nice little twist. Bennett attacks the Doctor, strangling him but two people of Dido appear (apparently, they were not all killed) and frighten Bennett until he falls off a cliff to his death.

The Doctor awakens on the TARDIS with Ian and Barbara. The Doctor goes to Vicki and asks her to come along. Ian and Barbara agree she should but it is up to Vicki who decides to come along. The TARDIS dematerializes...

...leaving the two people of Dido to smash up the radio system in the crashed rocket, making sure that rescue ship will never arrive.

The TARDIS rematerializes... and promptly falls off a cliff, a literal cliffhanger. And a good one. Welcome to the team, Vicki.

Two very fast paced episodes with a nice twist that probably couldn't have been sustained over more than two episodes. Koquillion's costume looks good, the model work is good. It's a nice little story, even if two random people of Dido turning up at the end to resolve everything is a bit anti-climactic. It is a sort of karmic justice, so it works. Barely. Honestly, if they hadn't smashed the radio at the end, it could have been up to the audience whether they were real or figments of Bennett's imagination or ghosts or something and the additional ambiguity would have made for a stronger ending. Audiences at the time enjoyed the story too, the second part of The Rescue was the first episode of Doctor Who to crack the top 10 most watched program(me)s of the week, increasing ratings from The Dalek Invasion of Earth

Next Up: The Romans. Now we're playing with fire.

[hansolostrickedoutweedvan]

Doctor Who Reviews: The Rescue

The Rescue follows on from the previous serial and the Doctor is clearly still distraught at the departure of Susan. When the TARDIS ends up on the planet Dido, the crew find a young girl from the 25th century by the name of Vicki, who along with her older companion, Bennet, are the lone survivors of a crashed starship, haunted by the space monster Koquillion.

It turns out that Bennet is Koquillion, and has been terrorising both Vicki and the local alien population for years, to keep her dependent on him. It's uh....it's pretty messed up and Vicki's actress, Maureen O'Brien really sells it. Bennet gets dealt with Disney Villain style, and the Doctor, clearly missing his granddaughter, chooses to invite Vicki to travel aboard the TARDIS with them, the first time we've seen him willingly open his ship to someone. This marks a shift in the Doctor's attitude to his companions, starting to view them as friends/surrogate children or grandchildren, rather then slightly bothersome travelling companions brought together by circumstance.

This is a short 2 part serial, and it's pretty good! Atmospheric, introduces a new companion and gives everyone enough screentime. The villain is decent, if not groundbreaking, and all in all, I had a good time watching it.

Rating: Sylvester McCoy out of David Tennant

[llpodcast]

(Literary License Podcast)

The Rescue

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02 - 09 January 1965

 On the planet Dido, the Doctor, Ian, and Barbara encounter Vicki and Bennett, two survivors of a space crash who are awaiting a rescue ship. They live in fear of Koquillion, a bipedal inhabitant who is stalking the area. The Doctor enters Bennett's room, and follows a trap door to a temple where he unmasks Koquillion as Bennett. Bennett reveals he killed a crewmember on board the ship and was arrested, but the ship crashed before the crime could be radioed to Earth. He has been using the Koquillion alias so that Vicki would back up his story, and had hoped the planet would be destroyed when his version of events was given. Just as Bennett is about to kill the Doctor, two surviving native Didonians arrive and force Bennett to his death over a ledge. With no living family and nothing left for her on Dido, Vicki is welcomed aboard the TARDIS.

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The Romans

 16 January – 6 February 1965

 The First Doctor (William Hartnell) and his new companion Vicki (Maureen O'Brien) investigate intrigue surrounding the death of a lyre player en route to perform at the palace of Nero (Derek Francis) in Rome, while companion Ian Chesterton (William Russell) travels to Nero's palace to save his fellow schoolteacher Barbara Wright (Jacqueline Hill), who had been sold to Nero's wife Poppaea (Kay Patrick) as a slave.

 Opening Credits; Introduction (1.27); Background History:  The Rescue (4.57); The Rescue: Plot Synopsis (5.22); Let's Discuss (7.43); Overall Thoughts (15.39); Let's Rate (17.10); Background History:  The Romans (19.38 ); The Romans:  Plot Synopsis (19.57); Let’s Discuss (22.52); Let’s Rate (34.18); Tune In Next Time (35.30); Closing Credits (37.11)

 Opening Credits– Doctor Who Theme. composer Ron Grainer and realised by Delia Derbyshire at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Copyright 1963 BBC World Music.

 Closing Credits:  Rescue Me by OneRepublic. Taken from the album Human. Copyright 2019 Interscope/Motley Records.

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Original Music copyrighted 2020 Dan Hughes Music and the Literary License Podcast. 

 All rights reserved.  Used with Kind Permission.

 All songs available through Amazon Music.

[romanadvora]

The Rescue

season 002 : story 011 : episodes 052-53

02 - O9 JAN 1965 || 15 MAR 2023

The second two-parter of the show, and just like The Edge of Destruction, is one that my opinion changes drastically whenever I watch it. The story overall is quite slow and… empty… but I like Vicki so I’m just glad to see her full stop, and Koquillion is a bit more creepy than I remember. Like him scaring Barbara off a cliff is kinda goofy, but him being ambushed by his ex-crewmates he thought he’d killed is great. Also by the way, Koquillion is actually Bennett from VIcki’s crashed UK-201 ship, and he killed a bunch of his crewmates and the native Didoans in an attempt to escape justice for murder. Yeah this story gets pretty dark, and the confrontation between the Doctor and Bennett conveys that well (right in time for his surviving crewmates to make their presence known). 

Also really dark, is when Barbara ices VIcki’s pet Sandy.

Honestly there’s really not much to talk about here; I love seeing Vicki and the Koquillion & Doctor dynamic is good, but it’s quite barebones even for a two-parter, and as has been pointed out, it’s effectively a murder-mystery with one suspect. 

★★★☆☆

[dailyclassicwho]

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[autisticiantojvnes]

[ID: Six gifs of Classic Doctor Who. Vicki Pallister is nervously pacing about her little room while Barbara Wright is sitting at a table, watching her. Vicki says to herself: "I wonder if Koquillion's gone?" Barbara asks: "What are the other people like?" She answers: "Mmm? Oh, he's the only one we see. They live quite near here, I believe." She walks over to a cabinet and pulls out a flare, excitedly showing it to Barbara, telling her: "This fires a flare." Barbara asks: "Is that for the rescue ship?" Vicki says: "Yes, I always keep it ready. There's room to land round here, you know." Barbara says: "It'll all be ending for you soon then." Vicki hesitantly says: "Um...yes." Barbara responds: "Well, you don't sound very sure." Vicki says, afraid: "There's always Koquillion. He could stop us. He could keep me here forever." End ID]

“Oh, he’s the only one we see.”

The Rescue - season 02 - 1965

[kcdahippie]

The parallels of Vicki and Steven both surviving being on a random planets. And in this particular episode Vicki takes an extra moment to be upset about her situation with the TARDIS being awash at sea while Steven jumps to next steps and survival- which almost perfectly mirrors how they handled their initial crashes (Vicki just staying with Koquillion/Bennett & Steven adapting to survive the Mechanoids)

I'm sure there's more parallels but this is my mini rant

[adventure-showdown]

What is your favourite Doctor Who story?

ROUND 2 MASTERPOST

synopses and propaganda under the cut

The Rescue

Synopsis

The Doctor, Ian and Barbara arrive on the planet Dido. They find a crashed spaceship, the only two survivors of which are terrorised by the monster Koquillion. But who is Koquillion?

Propaganda

god I love this story, its short and sweet, but the implications, the everything of vicki’s life before the doctor, the firey passion with which I hate bennet is boundless, as is my love for sandy. ITS SO GOOD! VOTE FOR IT! (@sandymybeloved )

The Ice Warriors

Synopsis

The TARDIS arrives on Earth in a new ice age. The travellers make their way into a base where scientists, commanded by Leader Clent, are using an ioniser device to combat the advance of a glacier.

A giant humanoid creature, called an Ice Warrior by one of the scientists, has been found buried in the nearby glacier. When thawed, it revives and is revealed to be Varga, captain of a Martian spacecraft that landed on Earth centuries ago and is still in the glacier. Varga sets about freeing his comrades and formulating a plan to conquer the Earth — Mars itself is now dead.

 Propaganda no propaganda submitted

[ollierachnid]

practicing some creechers w DW stuff