Doctor Who: Inferno: Episode 3 (1970)
Season 7, Episode 21
10/10
Note to nu Who, this is how you do a parallel Earth story.
24 August 2015
After stealing power from the drilling project, the Doctor has managed to take off with the TARDIS console. Stahlman is starting to feel the early effects of touching the jar. The Doctor wakes up, but all is not as it should be, UNIT are shooting at him and Liz has had a makeover and a personality transplant, as has Brigade Leader Lethbridge Stewart. The Doctor realises he's slipped through to a parallel world, where the Royals have been executed and Britain is now a Republic. Central Records discover the Doctor does not exist, so he's sentenced to death.

This episode does not hang around at all, it moves along at a hell of a pace, not one second of Inferno has been flat or boring.

I've recently watched nu Who story Rise of the Cybermen/Age of Steel, it doesn't hold a candle to Inferno, which boasts a much better realised Parallel world.

I'm not sure if i'm right or not, but Sutton in the parallel world is paler then in the normal one. No sun tan....

A real chance for Carrie John to shine through, she makes the most of playing her other self, as does Nick Courtney.

What a truly wonderful idea to carry out the darkest of plots on a parallel Earth, this is so clever, it's a fantastic episode. The outstanding standard is maintained, wonderful!! 10/10
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