Doctor Who: Doctor Who and the Silurians: Episode 1 starts as the Doctor (Jon Pertwee) & his assistant Liz Shaw (Caroline John) are ordered by UNIT commander Brigadier Lethbridge Stewart (Nicholas Courtney) to join him in an underground atomic research center that is conducting experiments on a proton accelerator in an attempt to create a new power source, unfortunately things having been going well & the Doctor's help is needed...
This Doctor Who adventure was episode 5 from season 7 that aired here in the UK during early 1970, directed by Timothy Combe this is an OK start to Jon Pertwee's second story after Spearhead from Space. The script by Malcolm Hulke starts off with with a traditional & somewhat clichéd 'hook' of someone meeting something nasty & being killed after which it becomes a pretty lethargic episode as there's no Silurians in it & only a paper mache dinosaur at the very end which happens to be part of the tired & lacklustre cliffhanger ending. For a good 20 minutes of it's duration this is solid build up & talk which to be fair is fine as hopefully what comes later (I haven't seen the other six episodes to this story yet) will have more meaning although as a stand alone episode Doctor Who and the Sulirians: Episode 1 isn't particularly exciting & I doubt I'd want to watch it again anytime soon.
I love the way these old Doctor Who's look, it looks horribly dated but I think it adds character to the story if you know what I mean & besides it's meant to set in the 70's anyway. Liz Shaw wears a great outfit in this one, she has a ridiculously short mini skirt on & boots which make for a pretty sexy look in a 70's sort of way. There's only one monster in this & it looks absolutely awful but then again what did you expect? This isn't Jurassic Park (1992) you know.
Doctor Who and the Silurians has had a slow start but since this story has a mammoth seven episodes there's plenty of time left for it to pick up.
This Doctor Who adventure was episode 5 from season 7 that aired here in the UK during early 1970, directed by Timothy Combe this is an OK start to Jon Pertwee's second story after Spearhead from Space. The script by Malcolm Hulke starts off with with a traditional & somewhat clichéd 'hook' of someone meeting something nasty & being killed after which it becomes a pretty lethargic episode as there's no Silurians in it & only a paper mache dinosaur at the very end which happens to be part of the tired & lacklustre cliffhanger ending. For a good 20 minutes of it's duration this is solid build up & talk which to be fair is fine as hopefully what comes later (I haven't seen the other six episodes to this story yet) will have more meaning although as a stand alone episode Doctor Who and the Sulirians: Episode 1 isn't particularly exciting & I doubt I'd want to watch it again anytime soon.
I love the way these old Doctor Who's look, it looks horribly dated but I think it adds character to the story if you know what I mean & besides it's meant to set in the 70's anyway. Liz Shaw wears a great outfit in this one, she has a ridiculously short mini skirt on & boots which make for a pretty sexy look in a 70's sort of way. There's only one monster in this & it looks absolutely awful but then again what did you expect? This isn't Jurassic Park (1992) you know.
Doctor Who and the Silurians has had a slow start but since this story has a mammoth seven episodes there's plenty of time left for it to pick up.