The Doctor and Jo escape from Axos but then the Doctor offers the Master a deal:if he helps him repair the TARDIS, they can flee Earth together.The Doctor and Jo escape from Axos but then the Doctor offers the Master a deal:if he helps him repair the TARDIS, they can flee Earth together.The Doctor and Jo escape from Axos but then the Doctor offers the Master a deal:if he helps him repair the TARDIS, they can flee Earth together.
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Did you know
- TriviaThis episode was watched by 7.8 million viewers on its original transmission.
- GoofsBarry Letts points out on the audio commentary that the TARDIS can be seen in shots of the power complex - after it has supposedly dematerialised.
- Quotes
Brigadier Lethbridge Stewart: This time loop... thing, how did you get out of it?
Doctor Who: I simply boosted the circuits and broke free.
Brigadier Lethbridge Stewart: And you came back of your own accord?
Doctor Who: Well I...
Jo Grant: Doctor?
Doctor Who: No. No, I'm afraid not. No, obviously the Time Lords have programmed the TARDIS always to return to Earth. It seems I'm some kind of a galactic yo-yo!
- ConnectionsFeatured in Now & Then: The Locations of the Claws of Axos (2005)
That said it does still do the job since it plays it fairly straight and without too much padding. The characters are mostly broad caricatures in the various supporting role, and this reflects their use within the plot. Generally the plotting and the characters lack shading and detail, instead just fulfilling their broad roles within the narrative. The monsters themselves do work well though; the spaceship looks very much like a cheaper TV set and attempts to give it an organic feel later on are not wholly successful, but the monsters are actually pretty effective. Okay they are basically the same as many others in terms of their modus operandi, but their messy organic appearance full of wet-looking tendrils and nodules was pretty effective. They are helped by the way they are filmed since the camera and the audio effects have a decent stab at a creepy unsettling presentation of them.
The main cast do okay with all of this (although for the regularly dispatched UNIT soldiers, they barely get a day's work out of this serial); mainly this is because the show is running through the basics with a decent enough pace, so it gives them enough to do without ever making things too difficult. This works well for them all, but again the chance to have some very good interplaying between the Doctor and the Master is not really made the most of. It does all still work reasonably well though, and in some ways it is interesting in how it is delivered, but generally it is not one that really jumps out as being great (although it also doesn't standout as bad either.
- bob the moo
- Oct 4, 2014
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- Dungeness Beach, Kent, England, UK(Setting where the Axos landed and Doctor Who and the team go to investigate.)
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