A Quick Guide to Classic Who Season 9

0:00 [Music] Changez [Music] Doctor Who season 9 ran from the 1st of

0:45 January to the 24th of June 1972 it's kind of a midway point between the earlier Pertwee era with the doctor completely earthbound and the extended cast of unit personnel and the later Pertwee era when he to start us back so he wasn't limited to earth and the regular unit cast were relegated to being recurring characters having learned their lesson from the last season we actually get stories for the master is not the villain I love the guy but season 8 was ridiculous the first story is the four-part day of the Daleks guess who turns up ten points of his head ogron's the ogron's are one of the two races of the new show put into a blender with some police badges and so crated that you do the other race was the Sontarans and rhinoceros don't tell me can't see it the ogron's

1:31 our intergalactic mercenaries big dumb violent and they'll kill anyone they're paid to kill they're a bit like space gorillas with guns and the regrettable shade of makeup chosen probably makes them seem more possibly racist that I'm sure was intended but I'm not that surprised that never come back anyway they've been hired by the Daleks their first appearance in season 4's evil of the Daleks five years now that's a gap to generate mystique in you're a bad guy because of the young age of much of the audience and because there were no repeats or VHS or DVDs or internet there were a large one two kids who there didn't see or didn't remember season four and all they had were stories about the Daleks and the last two stories they appeared in were two of the best Dalek stories ever done so this

2:16 was massive it's just a pity that this isn't that great it's much more memorable for it's unorthodox use of time-travel them for the Daleks I'm afraid although it is also fairly memorable for having the doctor gun down ogron's [Applause] what I'm not going up well a brigadier I appear to be gunning down sentient aliens in a way that my later incarnations would swear that I never would well doctor that sounds Bally silly of them I know I can be such a prick sometimes and a way onto the curse of paladin another for parter paladins an alien planet for the kings agonizing over whether they should join the Galactic Federation how surprised would you be if I mentioned that this was made about the time the UK was deciding

3:03 whether it wanted to join the European Union no that's surprised I'm shocked king paladin falls in love with Joe and he's played by David Trenton Patrick Troughton son he appeared briefly in the war games played professor Hobbes in midnight one of new whose best episodes and recently appeared in the five ish doctors reboot playing a Dalek operator this is a usual tale for modernizing monic running afoul of a curse court intrigue ambassadors old school religious leaders and a monster God called agador the most interesting thing about this story is not the plot but the characters we get a rare non villainous Ice Warrior and an ambassador from Alpha Centauri that I'm not sure I shouldn't sensor if blip decides to pull this video you will know why the more I think about this story the more I realize it's

3:49 a little bit like Star Trek Deep Space 9 religion tradition joining a federation random aliens usually evil alien races given a more 3-dimensional treatment of course now I'm wondering how the story would a gone of the Sisko was involved it probably would have been much shorter and way too cold but an early seventies British TV more's the pity next we have the sequel to Doctor Who and the Silurians cleverly not called Doctor Who in the Sea Devils this is also the story where the master returns ever since his crimes against fashion in the demons he's been held in a private unit prison because what the is a fair trial doctor who is so ahead of its time sometimes the Masters being held in an old sea fort and claims to be reformed he spends much of his

4:35 time either thinking kids TV is real [Music] are you lucky it seems to be a roster industry extraterrestrial life-form only puppets you know for children mmm or trolling people into believing that he thinks kids TV is real the bit for the master watches Teletubbies in the sound of drums as a direct reference to this by the way I'm guessing Russell the Davey's thought he was being serious because he's really got no reason to troll anyone had not seen in sound of drums I'm fairly sure the only other person in the room of the time was a takla fain anyway his guards have been trained to resist his hypnosis Garry outside his litter with mind and

5:22 he's constantly being watched so will he get out oh course he will the see Devils are the aquatic relatives of the Silurians meaning what if the Silurians from classic who I knew who are not the same type then there's at least three different and distinct types of Silurians and they don't call themselves the sea Devils a guy who sees one calls them Sea Devils which explains why in the Peter Davison era they're calling themselves the Sea Devils but I'll get to that later this is six episodes long it has a bunch of padding but I like most of it especially the iconic shots on the Sea Devils rising from the sea to attack the land I really think they should return in a story with HP Lovecraft maybe they can be the accidental inspiration for the Cthulhu Mythos fun fact the only reason they're

6:07 wearing netting is because the director and sister and the reptiles not being naked because it to be indecent so the costume guys do that on them the mutants another six Parker is next interestingly the story the Daleks from season 1 was often referred to as the mutant until the story happened and yeah sorry gotta do this [Music] Amos [Music] the doctor and Joe have been sent on a mission to the planet solos for the Time Lords humanity colonized the pond at ages ago and they're now planning on pulling out unfortunately the guys currently in charge of the colony don't want to pull out hate the locals are planning on

6:52 terraforming the planet because indigenous life forms and have been killing the locals the Salone uns who are spontaneously mutating seriously this planet is like x-men this was intended to be a parable against racism but it was fairly bungled in execution bungled enough that salman rushdie insulted it from being racist in the Satanic Verses weird to think that Rushdie took time off from doing that really annoyed a lot of people to complain about racism and a doctor whose story but what can you do I suppose you could ask him where he was when the show was being deliberately racist I mean by the time the mutants came out it hadn't quite finished with that we still have a couple of stories to go so onto our last story of the season the time monster remember the underwater Menace well it's time to go back to Atlantis I completely

7:39 different Atlantis because it's apparently no such thing as continuity and Doctor Who the master is back and so is the Brigadier and the rest of unit there are experiments going on with time the transmission of matter through interstitial time or Tom to experiment for short Tom ditch that's what it's all about a demonstration of Tom tip Tom tit what on earth does that stand for well it's the the transfer transmission of matter through interstitial time is exactly what I was gonna say prompted I'm amazed any of them can say that without giggling I only managed because I'm a semi-professional Tom Tisch that's what it's all about a demonstration of Tom tit right we better be on my way from Newton Institute the master plans to use a monster from the time vortex Chronos

8:25 to destroy unfortunately Chronos is worshipped as a God in ancient Atlantis so everyone heads there where alas there are no surgically altered fish people this time but there is a Minotaur random people getting aged and EH leaving at least one semi-regular wearing a nappy which is uk4 diaper and TARDIS is land inside each other like the underwater menace this is insane is it too much to ask for story but a mythical sinking city that makes some sort of sense I mean in the demons as I'll claimed he destroyed it we can't have the giant goat leg thing be the same as treating for the destruction of Atlantis it's just not fair what else about this story hmm the TARDIS interior is terrible and the master gets away season 9 was more bad than good Pertwee's earth fine stuff really holds

9:12 up on average better than his space stuff and his stuff that's heavy an imagination holds up even less well I applaud them for trying to do some new stuff and day at the Daleks in the time monster but they weren't rousing successes join me next time for the last appearance of the master in a long time the return of the first two doctors I'm Joe grants departure I'm in a sea of comedy Welsh people [Music] I wouldn't do that if I were you that's

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