A Quick Guide to Classic Who Season 13

0:17 the piece season 13 was unlucky for no one except for that poor sod trout and finally couldn't handle of the show would evolve changed and moved on since their day hmm take that me it began on the 30th of August 1975 and finished on the 6th of March 1976 there were six stories and overall it's a better and more

1:02 consistent season than the last one we open up with terror of the Zygons where we were introduced to the only iconic new alien to the Tom Baker era the Zygons who recently appeared in day the doctor which was their second appearance how'd they manage to become iconic and appear in the 50th anniversary special based on one appearance honestly it's because this story is really good and because they're the best designed aliens the show has had since the Daleks the Brigadier and unit er and Scotland invested in the destruction of oil rigs and sightings of the Loch Ness monster figuring the doctor might be interest he sends for him it's from the Brigadier he's in trouble again they did comedy Wales in the green death and they do comedy Scotland here those Scotland's

1:48 much better handled than Wales was a Zygon ship crashed on earth the eons ago and since their crash their home planet has been destroyed I think that since then this has been retcon for the time war and the aim to take earth as a new home even though there's only about three of them okay there's more than that but they still have a distinct numerical disadvantage oil rig killing Loch Ness monster or not this is the last of a series of stories that pretty much have to be back to back there's pretty much no space for extra stories between robot and this I only bring this up because for much of the classic show that was pretty unusual Harry Sullivan left at the end of the story with for being the youngest doctor thus far there was just no need for him he was the last male companion until Adric

2:33 near the end of Tom Baker's time terror of the Zygons is four episodes long and it is a classic it's great to see unit again and it's nice to see them treated semi respectfully with a script in many ways this would have been the natural land for season 12 with the second story planets of evil we have her first story commissioned by Philip Hinchcliffe it's four episodes long I set at Zeta minor a geological expeditions been accidentally up with an antimatter universe so creatures have been killing them off it gets even worse when the expedition's leader gets turned into the ante man it's like the Tom tit thing in the time monster what more onlet ante man gets a broadcast I know that is short for antimatter man but time wasn't exactly at a premium you

3:20 could have just called him that auntie man sounds like he's either a supervillain powered by misandry or possibly a guy who thinks he's someone's Antin become a superhero this is one of the stories that lifted pre-existing ideas though it's not quite as blatant as smothers the ante man is a little bit of a riff on mr. Hyde with a few other elements that were inspired by Forbidden Planet which was inspired by The Tempest which was written by William Shakespeare who the doctor first mentions knowing in this story in the Shakespeare code there was originally a line that explained that the Shakespeare the fourth doctor knew was older than the one the tenth doctor met but they cut it out the most interesting Elms this story is the planet itself a dense eerie jungle bildt's ascent the BBC were so impressed with it that they would use it as a

4:06 reference for good jungle sets for years afterwards from that we have another mostly earthbound story the pyramids of Mars this season has two stories which are pretty much recognized as absolute top-of-the-range classics and this is the first a doomed archaeologists discovers a lost tomb in Egypt and is murdered by sue tech a not very pleasant Egyptian god he's from an ancient and powerful race called the sirens that the ancient Egyptians mistook for gods you ever heard the phrase The Simpsons did it first well that's doctor who did it first Egyptian god aliens that can possess human bodies Doctor Who the flux capacitor is part of a time machine Doctor Who a vast computer simulation that you can enter and is indistinguishable from the

4:51 real world and is called the matrix Doctor Who planet Vulcan well Star Trek got that one first but only by a couple of months an away suit act is voiced by Gabriel wolf and he is the best voiced villain in the whole of Doctor Who history here before the might of suit in my presence you are and a termite a base yourself you're groveling in seconds do you recognize him you probably should he also voiced the beast in the Satan pit I'm still surprised that didn't just have suit actor the main villain of that story he was basically the ancient Egyptians Satan after all I just think it's a bit

5:38 weird to cast a really distinctive sounding guy to basically play the same part all over again but claim that they're different people when they could easily be the same regardless Gabriel wolf is amazing whether he's playing suit tech or the Beast I'd really suggest you buy the story on DVD for the DVD they created a short fake documentary about su tech as a retired actor who was most famous for playing himself on Doctor Who thus I've got all my hobbies to keep me occupied entomology base yourself before me you are nothing but an ant you and this is the real plaything of sudoc his name's Neil Neil Neil before the might of su

6:26 tech it's amazing anyway the assyrians trapped su tech in a tomb and now he's possessed the archaeologists and plans to use his robot mummies to lay waste to the world we also get one of the time tricks that Moffat loves so much as the doctor takes Sarah Jane to her own time to shore what will become of the world if they don't stops to take in the past that's the world as sue tech would leave it desolate planet settling a dead son I can't be I'm from 1980 timey-wimey in short get this it's one of Tom Baker's best and the next is not one of his best the Android invasion is inspired by stuff like invasion of the Body Snatchers and was by Terry nation one of

7:12 his few non Dalek stories The Doctor and Sarah Jane arrive and what appears to be a small English village there's inhabited by Android replicas of real people it's a training ground of sorts for an Android invasion of Earth this is the last appearance of both sergeant Benton and Harry Sullivan in the show both could mentioned later on but neither appear again in March who played Harry Wilson novelizations of Doctor Who stories and a non mate screenplay for a Fourth Doctor movie where he was going to battle the devil he died in 1986 John lavinia played Benton is still alive and kicking so maybe he'll return one day the Brigadier was supposed to appear as well but Nicholas Courtney wasn't available this isn't terrible it's far from terrible it's just an average four-part story carpeting to classics the next

8:00 story is the brain of Morbius this one riffs heavily in Frankenstein a renegade Time Lord called Morbius was executed for trying to conquer the galaxy as you do his brain was taken by a supporter of his called Sol on a master surgeon he was since set up on the planet Karn last seen in night of the doctor he's been grabbing people things monsters and stuff to steal parts and create a new body so Morbius can live and conquer again yes this is very silly but it's a great type of silly I mean Solon wants the doctors head for more business new body super well I'm glad you like it I have had several I used to have an old gray model before this some people like this but he can't get it he's forced to use this

8:45 glass thing I'm mystified by how someone could be as good at surgery as dr. Solan is but not realize that that is a terrible idea that bit of confusing insanity is one of the reasons Terrance dicks insisted his name be taken off the script in his original draft dr. Solon was a malfunctioning medical robot so it would have made sense for him to be demented this story created a minor fan meltdown in one scene with a doctor in Morbius of a psychic battle as the doctor fights they cycle through images of his previous incarnations but after reaching Hartnell they keep going the production crew intended these to be earlier versions of the doctor making Tom Baker the twelfth doctor but obviously that can't be so fandom came to the rescue and developed a few different theories the most popular

9:31 insane one is that they were earlier incarnations of Morbius this is also one of the stories where the doctor flat out murders someone not of simple shooting them in combat or manipulating someone else to kill themselves he deliberately siphons poison gas into a room to try and kill so long before he puts the finishing touches to Morbius as new body all in all this is a deeply silly classic but a classic nonetheless for parts of brilliant Hinchcliffe you're a grisly craziness and proud of it the final story is the seeds of doom a six-part R that manages to be a musically similar to two previous stories while ripping off a book that would later become more famous as a film yeah like the seats of death this includes green stuff that kills you unlike the arkin space this includes green stuff that reproduces by slowly turning you

10:17 into a green thing an act that kills you an alien pod is discovered frozen in the Antarctic permafrost and slowly begins to wake up it's an alien plant called a cry noid and if it touches you you will slowly turn into yeah this is the plot the thing this was inspired by who goes there the book the thing was based on and please note before you mention it I have seen the thing from another world it is a very good film I'm just not talking about it in this video the biggest difference between this and the thing is that like geniuses remove the cry note from the Antarctica's seine plant obsessed millionaire he wants the human race we destroyed by a master race of plants so he's poison ivy but he's disguising his tits very well I love the seeds of doom

11:02 it's not as good as Morbius or pyramids but I adore it terrible special effects are not it's genuinely horrific it might be ripping off half a dozen things at the same time but it's wonderful and it's one of the most disturbingly violent stories the show has ever done basically I'd love more like this season 13 is much better than 12 12 had its ups and downs but this mostly has its ups and averages nothing truly terrible here and the heights are really high this is a great time for classic Doctor Who join me next time when the borrowing from earlier works will hit critical mass will loose Sarah Jane and for the first time of a story without a companion

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