While Ian tries to force Lobos to release the Doctor from the museum, Vicki joins the Xerons in trying to gain the weapons needed to start a revolution against the occupiers.While Ian tries to force Lobos to release the Doctor from the museum, Vicki joins the Xerons in trying to gain the weapons needed to start a revolution against the occupiers.While Ian tries to force Lobos to release the Doctor from the museum, Vicki joins the Xerons in trying to gain the weapons needed to start a revolution against the occupiers.
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- Glyn Jones
- Sydney Newman(uncredited)
- Donald Wilson(uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaThe story's cliff-hanger also presented fans with a preview of the Daleks' third appearance. Their return was awaited impatiently, a fact that was baited by the appearance of a Dalek shell in The Space Museum (1965).
- GoofsJust after Sita suggests going to look for Tor, Barbara confuses the two names, referring to Sita as "Tor."
- ConnectionsFeatured in Defending the Museum (2010)
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S2: The Space Museum: Starts really interestingly before becoming a standard goodies/baddies plot
This four part serial starts really well. The group find themselves weirdly changed out of the clothes they were wearing and into their normal ones but with no memory of doing it; a glass of water that is dropped and breaks instantly repairs itself as if it never happened and generally things are a little weird. When they leave the Tardis they find themselves in a strange exhibition of machines and creatures - like a museum almost. The people in the museum cannot seem to see the four travellers and, just when they think it cannot get weirder, they stumble upon the most alarming of all the exhibitions.
The first episode is a great start and it really grabbed since there seemed to be so many ideas and potential here - a museum in space, an ominous fate, time loops etc - but by the time the second episode draws to a close it is clear that none of this is really where the serial is going to exist. Indeed before the writers fail to notice the paradox of destroying a woollen cardi in the present that Barbara was seen wearing in the future, these things have already mostly been jettisoned. This is a real shame because I generally like the idea of not being able to change timelines etc and enjoy this type of content, so when it becomes young rebels versus mean old authority figures, I was quite bored. By the end this is all that remains and you know where it is going already and thus it does. It doesn't help that it isn't even a particularly good example of this storyline and it feels quite a waste considering how much else had originally been put on the table.
The main cast are good as usual and they work well enough with this familiar arrangement. The story cast are not so good though - the Moroks are generally dull while the rebels are quite annoying little oiks who think that sincerity in their delivery can make up for the lack of much else, but it can't. The sets are standard although would have been good enough if the ideas had been followed through - but they weren't and by the end the museum seems a very dull place indeed.
It is hard to watch this off the back of the 50% lost serial The Crusade, which seemed nicely complex and filled with good action and plotting - it got trashed but somehow this survived; although I guess in fairness if half of this serial had been destroyed it would have looked better with only the first and third episode remaining. Overall a great start brimming with involving ideas but then it proceeds to do nothing with it and heads into a very simple and dull formula.
The first episode is a great start and it really grabbed since there seemed to be so many ideas and potential here - a museum in space, an ominous fate, time loops etc - but by the time the second episode draws to a close it is clear that none of this is really where the serial is going to exist. Indeed before the writers fail to notice the paradox of destroying a woollen cardi in the present that Barbara was seen wearing in the future, these things have already mostly been jettisoned. This is a real shame because I generally like the idea of not being able to change timelines etc and enjoy this type of content, so when it becomes young rebels versus mean old authority figures, I was quite bored. By the end this is all that remains and you know where it is going already and thus it does. It doesn't help that it isn't even a particularly good example of this storyline and it feels quite a waste considering how much else had originally been put on the table.
The main cast are good as usual and they work well enough with this familiar arrangement. The story cast are not so good though - the Moroks are generally dull while the rebels are quite annoying little oiks who think that sincerity in their delivery can make up for the lack of much else, but it can't. The sets are standard although would have been good enough if the ideas had been followed through - but they weren't and by the end the museum seems a very dull place indeed.
It is hard to watch this off the back of the 50% lost serial The Crusade, which seemed nicely complex and filled with good action and plotting - it got trashed but somehow this survived; although I guess in fairness if half of this serial had been destroyed it would have looked better with only the first and third episode remaining. Overall a great start brimming with involving ideas but then it proceeds to do nothing with it and heads into a very simple and dull formula.
- bob the moo
- Sep 21, 2013
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- Runtime22 minutes
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- 1.33 : 1
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