Doctor Who Season 1: Difference between revisions

no edit summary
No edit summary
No edit summary
Line 42: Line 42:


004: '''Marco Polo'''
004: '''Marco Polo'''
*The Roof of the World ''[[1964]] [[February 22]]''
*The Singing Sands ''[[1964]] [[February 29]]''
*Five Hundred Eyes ''[[1964]] [[March 7]]''
*The Wall of Lies ''[[1964]] [[March 14]]''
*Rider from Shang-Tu ''[[1964]] [[March 21]]''
*Mighty Kublai Khan ''[[1964]] [[March 28]]''
*Assassin at Peking ''[[1964]] [[April 4]]''


Reconstruction (First watched 2007-02-22, -23, -28, 03-02, -04, -06)
Reconstruction (First watched 2007-02-22, -23, -28, 03-02, -04, -06, -08)  First, watching a reconstruction is very different.  It reminds me of some old [[Richard Scarry]] and Masters of the Universe VHS tapes we had as youngsters that were more like narrated storybooks.  It was amusing to see the same picture used in different situations, or a single image of a person used with different backgrounds.  Much harder to keep one's attention when there's literally no action to follow.
 
Honestly the actual goings-on didn't seem the most captivating in this serial, though it did have quite a scale.  It seems like with the previous adventures put together, the series had taken place throughout the space of about a week.  This serial frequently had jumps of several days; they were traveling in a caravan through pre-China for weeks.  Most of that was a repetition of "Oh, let's try to escape!"  "Oh, we're foiled!"  "Oh, Tegana is against us!"  I did quite enjoy in the last two parts how the Doctor and Kublai Khan seemed to get along so well, sharing the experience of being old men with failing bodies.
 
I also must admit, watching episodes of a show from over 40 years ago makes me feel a bit like a time traveler myself.  If I wonder what the actors went on to next... I can find out.  The [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0581617/ young actress] who played Ping-Cho is now over 60 and has had an extensive acting career.


---
---


[[Doctor Who Season 2]]
[[Doctor Who Season 2]]