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Doctor Who: Season 26, Episode 5Ghost Light: Part 1 (4 Oct. 1989)The Doctor take Ace to an old 'haunted' house called Gabriel Chase in the year 1883. 100 years before events that took place within that very house in her personal past. Director:Alan WareingWriter:Marc Platt |
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The Doctor takes Ace to Gabriel Chase. An old Victorian house which stands in the teenage s home town of Perivale. But the location and the name of the house is unknown to Ace as the Doctor has an ulterior motive for bringing her to the sinister building. As they make their presence in the house known to those who reside within It's walls. The Doctor and his companion discover an odd assortment of characters. Josiah Samuel Smith, an ambitious and ruthless man, who is not what he seems. Redvers Fenn Cooper, an eccentric explorer who saw something in the cellar of Gabriel Chase and has gone mad as a result. Josiah's Butler Nimrod who strongly resembles a Neanderthal. The stern housekeeper, Mrs. Pritchard and Josiah's pretty but unusual Niece Gwendoline. And then there is Control. A 'depraved monstrosity' as Josiah insists. A mysterious creature that is kept locked away in the Cellar of Gabriel Chase. Along with what seems to be a large stone spaceship which contains a dark secret. All ... Written by Robert McElwaine
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The Doctor: I can't stand burnt toast. I loathe bus stations - terrible places, full of lost luggage and lost souls. And then there's unrequited love, and tyranny, and cruelty.
Ace: Too right.
The Doctor: We all have a world of our own terrors to face.
Ace: I face mine on my own terms!
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Written & Composed by J.F. Mitchell
Performed by Katharine Schlesinger and Alasdair Nicolson
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Ace: Don't you have things you hate?The Doctor: I can't stand burnt toast. I loathe bus stations - terrible places, full of lost luggage and lost souls. And then there's unrequited love, and tyranny, and cruelty.
Ace: Too right.
The Doctor: We all have a world of our own terrors to face.
Ace: I face mine on my own terms!
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"That's the Way to the Zoo"Written & Composed by J.F. Mitchell
Performed by Katharine Schlesinger and Alasdair Nicolson
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I like convoluted plots. "Convoluted," not disjointed, impenetrable, and impossible to rationalize, all of which describe "Ghost Light." Cheesy monsters with grand plans to destroy/take over the Earth are a staple of Doctor Who, but the motive for this story's monster makes absolutely no sense when considered in combination with its intelligence and level of scientific advancement. Why do the antagonists fight each other in one scene and then have a formal dinner party in the next? Why does no one wonder what the Doctor and Ace are doing running around a private home? What was with the snuffbox? The whole thing's a mess.
I kept rewinding and watching scenes again and again, figuring I must have missed something. Other reviews have said that the DVD extras make things more clear. That's sad. Who would want to subject themselves to more of this nonsensical story? I didn't.
This was the first time I've ever watched a Doctor Who DVD without watching the extras. If you need a commentary to explain what's happening and why, your script is a failure.
The lines whispered by Control through the door are impossible to hear. If you're going to have an actress hiss and slur her lines, don't have her also use made-up words. "Free-ness?" That would have been fine if you could have heard what she was saying underneath all the clanging music, otherwise, use "freedom," and give the viewer a chance. I'm not used to needing subtitles in an English television show. (Glaswegian accents excepted.
As always in the McCoy era, the theme and opening titles are a joke. The music has been sapped of its urgency, and somehow the enormous technological advances since 1963 resulted in amateurish-looking graphics in 1989.