Doctor Who - Ghost Light (DVD)

...have a new series of Doctor Who which is utterly brilliant. However, I've not made major revisions to the text as Ghost Light remains very much the end of an era) Doctor Who effectively died in 1989. The franchise grasped the full significance of its key theme of regeneration, and reinvented itself as a series of bottom-kicking novels embracing the darker elements that had remained implicit in the original series. The flame was kept alive, and occasionally ...
...adventure, but basically, the Doctor walked into his time-travelling Police Box for the last time in the last decade but one. But it's generally agreed that the producers saved the best until last. Doctor Who's last season was its strongest for many years, with all of its four stories finding fanatical support among some sections of the fan community. It wasn't supposed to be the end, script editor Andrew Cartmel had a definite idea of where he wanted ...

Olly_Plimsoll 26.06.2005 · Read full review
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Review of Doctor Who - Ghost Light (DVD)

...Sophie Aldred) and the Seventh Doctor (played by Sylvester McCoy) land the TARDIS at Gabriel Chase (an old Victorian House that we later learn was destroyed by fire in the late 20th Century) in Perivale in 1883. Here they meet a variety of weird characters that emerge once the clock strikes, to show night has fallen. The time travelers have to deal with murder, an evolved alien called Josiah Samuel Smith, a plot to kill Queen Victoria, Neanderthals ...
...in the end ~ the Doctor saves Earth from destruction by convincing Light that his study of the planet can never be completed because everything is evolving constantly. We also learn a little more about Ace and see her relationship with the Doctor evolving too ~ lots of good character acting and emotions! This story was originally broadcast on TV from the 4th to the 18th of October 1989. An interesting fact is that this was the last story to be made ...

tange 21.03.2005 · Read full review
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