#some fun amongst the gloom too‚ particularly Five passing off poor Tegan as a robot and pretending to yuk it up with the Gravis

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#continuing to catch up on those DW eps that somehow passed me by as a nipper; in this case I really don't know what happened‚ bc it was#certainly available on video and uk gold would have shown it. i just missed it somehow? i certainly remember reading the target novel which#painted a very disturbing vision... some of which is surprisingly well realised now I can finally see the episodes! the production design‚#sets and yes even the tractators are all really quite impressive when you consider the budget Who was working on (and the sudden death of#the original designer‚ shortly before production began). there's quite an apocalyptic feel to the first two eps in particular‚ and the plot#is typically intelligent and sciencey for Bidmead. it does feel a little rough around the edges; editing is quite hectic in places and#there's some general handwaving (not least restoring the tardis...). nice to see Bill Lucas playing quite against type as a fuddy old#science type (another last minute replacement‚ after Peter Arne's murder) and Gilmore is fun in a baying military kind of way#some fun amongst the gloom too‚ particularly Five passing off poor Tegan as a robot and pretending to yuk it up with the Gravis#have there been any follow up stories in the dweu? both frontios and the gravis feel like prime material for revisiting mr rtd...

Doctor Who: Frontios (21.3, BBC, 1984)

"It's, um, very good of you to help us, Mr..."

"I'm not helping, officially. And if anyone happens to ask whether I made any material difference to the welfare of this planet, you can tell them I came and went like a summer cloud."