A Quick Guide to Classic Who Season 11

0:13 CES know myology Treasures of hisory to be found the leg of all the only season 11 started on the 15th of December 1973 and ended on the 8th of June 1974 It's the End of pere's Time in the show and the beginning of Elizabeth slayen as Sarah Jane Smith Sarah Jane is

1:00 the third iconic classic Who companion she's a journalist and unlike Joe Grant she's clever and competent but just like Joe Grant I'm not really sure of her appeal I don't dislike her she's fine it's not like a rose situation but I just don't understand her appeal having said that her spin-off from new who the serogen adventures is the best Doctor Who spin-off ever made miles ahead of K9 and Company Torchwood and that Australian K9 show we open with a revamped intro this look carried over to Tom Baker's era probably the single most iconic intro the show ever had and the season begins with the four-part the time Warrior as Saran called Lynx has crashed into medville England and has kidnapped scientists from the future to repair his ship he's also claimed the Earth for the glory of the Saran Empire

1:46 by virtue of my authority as an officer of the army space Corp I hereby claim this planet its Moon and satellites for the greater glory of the Saran Empire you can't claim us we live in 500 million of us do you have a flag the Sans are a brilliant creation from Robert Holmes many of his best stories and Creations are actually semi subtle parodies of something that was pissing him off at the time and the sarons are no different there a commentary on soldiery colonialism and uniformity and believe it or not the only reason we pronounce the race sarin and not soron is because Kevin Lindsay who played lyns was an Australian and that's how he pronounced it and he knew best because he was one at least that's

2:31 what he told the director during an argument about the pronunciation while they filmed this I think you'll agree his logic was impeccable the Sans are one of the races that throughout the classic series got worse looking with every story at times The Masks weren't even touching the actor's Faces Sometimes the casting people forgot that they're meant to be short luckily we don't need to deal with that right now Lynx is the best looking Saran of the classic show I'd even say he's better looking than the ones from the new show but that's only because I really hate the blue costumes they wear make them silvery black and you who will win easily the time Warrior is another great Robert Holmes script a very strong opener for the season the invasion of the dinosaurs is a six parter and I think the story that most perfectly captures the whole per era it's

3:17 Earthbound there are soldiers there's an ecological subtext the doctor drives a funky vehicle people are messing with time travel and the monster effects are [ __ ] terrible good grief just theasaurus the only thing that's missing is for Roger Delgado to Walton and say it was me the master the whole time it also throws a massive curveball one of the regulars is revealed to have betrayed the heroes pretty damn unexpected in 1970s television but I'm not going to go into that because you should watch it for yourself London's been evacuated due to mysterious dinosaur appearances and there's a crazy conspiracy who aim to reverse time destroy civilization and rebuild in short this is the perfect per story it's not the best that's Inferno

4:03 it's not even the best this season but it is the perest of all the per stories per even looks like a parody of himself death to the Del is next it's pere's last story with the Del and is four episodes long humans have arrived on the planet Exelon to find a cure for a plague that's been killing people the DS claim to have the same goal but we all know that's [ __ ] unfortunately for the D there's a massive energy G occurring on the planet which means most of their weapons won't work and so the dels and the humans are forced to work together at least until the dels improvise now in an earlier episode had commented that Terry Nation had a tendency to rejig his original dialect stories to create new ones and I stand by that but credit where credits due this is one of his more original dialect stories in fact I'm not even sure it needs the Del in it at all all in all

4:50 this is one of the more interesting late Pere stories it doesn't quite work but it's always nice to see them experimenting I mean much of the last episode features the doctor taking on puzzles it's not your usual per Story the next story is the monster of paladon it's the sequel to The Curse of paladon and last for six episodes king paladon is dead and the planet has joined the Galactic Federation but Intrigue and politics vaguely based on real world events keep happening as local miners go strike to protest about how [ __ ] they're being treated there's more to it than that but you'll have to see the story this story sees the return of alfas and Tor this scient fullbody condom it is nice to see actually alien looking aliens every so often the ice Warriors also return their last appearance until Cold War in season 7 of new who they were meant to appear with

5:37 Colin Baker but I'll get to that later this story is uh there I don't have very strong feelings either way about it if you like the idea of Star Trek dpace 9 and early '70s Doctor Who style then check it out if you don't like that idea then it's not really a mustsee the final story of the season was Planet of the spiders it's six episodes long and introduced the term regeneration you might remember how originally the master was supposed to reappear and sacrifice himself in Peru's final story now obviously that didn't happen because of Roger delgado's death but Kismet Delgado Roger's wife makes an appearance as one of the spiders of the title the events of this story were set up by the doctor stealing the blue crystal from metabus 3 back in the green death and he has to return it even though it'll mean his own

6:22 death it's a nice way for three to go out doing the right thing to correct an earlier mistake something so small becoming so important down the line his actions having unforeseen consequences it's really good and dramatic of course then during hide in season 7 of new who the 11th doctor reveals that he went back and stole another one or that three went back to return the Crystal and received a fatal dose of radiation in the attempt but forgot to actually return it either way it looks really bad all the way from metabolis 3 and 11's attempt to cover it up by mispronouncing metabus is just silly we also meet ano an elderly Time Lord who was the doctor's mentor and moved to Earth to run a Tibetan Buddhist Monastery the producer of bar lets at some point decided that the time

7:07 Lords were Buddhists the spiders of the title also sometimes possess people and we can see them holding on to their victim's backs aladon in turn left now I don't mean to indicate that new who playes classic Who but it kind of does sometimes sorry and about the plagiarism this time I'm only referring to the imagery the imagery of having a semi My Invisible evil invertebrate attached to your back for reasons of sinister so that's it for the Third Doctor his was the most successful ear of the show had ever seen until the next guy turned up anyway like the rest of the show per whole run at its strengths and weaknesses when it's Earthbound the stories are generally better but often syy when they're in space they're generally more interesting and imaginative but usually not as good the

7:54 whole per era feels slightly more adult than the Harel or trouton ears and that'll continue as we go into the next season when the legend takes over Tom [ __ ] Baker and yes that is his middle name join me next time when we'll meet an iconic scarf we'll spend much of a season without the Tardis and we'll have the first male companion in 5 years dream