The TARDIS arrives in a white void after making an emergency escape from the volcanic eruption on Dulkis.The TARDIS arrives in a white void after making an emergency escape from the volcanic eruption on Dulkis.The TARDIS arrives in a white void after making an emergency escape from the volcanic eruption on Dulkis.
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- Sydney Newman(uncredited)
- Derrick Sherwin(uncredited)
- Donald B. Wilson(uncredited)
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- TriviaThis story was planned as a four-part serial, but was increased to five after the previous adventure, The Dominators, was reduced from six to five episodes. As a result, the first four episodes were only between 19 and 22 minutes in length and episode five was the shortest Doctor Who episode ever at just over 18 minutes. For this to happen, the first episode was cobbled together by the production team, making Peter Ling very unhappy.
- GoofsWhen the Doctor, Jamie, and Zoe re-enter the TARDIS, a caption on the scanner reads "Producer Peter Bryant". The scanner screen is showing the output of the camera that was due to film the episode's end credits.
- Quotes
Jamie: Come on, back to the TARDIS.
Zoe Heriot: Is that the right way?
Jamie: Of course it's the right way... Oh... Err... No, it could be... erm... oh.
Zoe Heriot: We're lost, aren't we?
Jamie: No, I wouldn't say that. We're just err... well, the... um... We're just a...
[beat]
Jamie: You want to know something?
Zoe Heriot: What?
Jamie: I think we're lost.
Zoe Heriot: Oh, this isn't a joke, Jamie!
Jamie: No, you're right. The Doctor was saying that those images we saw on the scanner were put here to tempt us out.
Zoe Heriot: Well, if somebody was trying to tempt us away, where are they? And who are they?
Jamie: Aye. Aye. Well, let's not be in too much of a hurry to find that out, ey?
Zoe Heriot: But, what are we going to do?
Jamie: Well, the TARDIS can't be that far away. No, if we stand here and shout for The Doctor, when he hears us, he can guide us back. Doctor!
Zoe Heriot: Doctor! Can you here us?
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Fact of Fiction (2005)
This particular adventure saw the threesome transported to a world where fictional characters somehow become real leading to a showdown between the Doctor and a reluctant head-librarian who wants the Doc to take his place as the guardian of fiction. Whilst some of the story seems padded unnecessarily, never more than when Jamie is replaced by a near- lookalike actor for half an episode (although I've since learned this was due to actor Frazer Hines falling ill during the shoot) and the would-be threatening robots and toy-soldiers wouldn't scare my granny, it just about hangs together even if the literary "guest stars" like Gulliver and Rapunzel seem somewhat arbitrary and you feel much more could have been done with so many other historical characters from which to choose.
That it entertains as much as it does is almost entirely due to the force of Pat Troughton's personality, who has the enthusiasm and energy of an actor half his age and effervesces every time the camera's on him. It really is a sin and a shame that so many of his episodes have been wiped by cultural vandals at the BBC, but then I suppose I should be grateful some episodes exist at all, especially such a good set as this.
- Lejink
- Dec 20, 2012
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- Runtime22 minutes
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- 1.33 : 1