tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9987513.post5152899961254859933..comments2024-03-17T11:05:22.464+00:00Comments on The Life And Opinions of Andrew Rilstone: Doctor Who 14.3 (1976)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9987513.post-62816366545299895892021-03-06T18:23:04.847+00:002021-03-06T18:23:04.847+00:00Apart from the 'CIA' being the kind of top...Apart from the 'CIA' being the kind of topical reference that someone I know who was a big Whovian said that Old Who never had (apart from something about the tax system in 'The Sun Makers'), I am wondering if there is a more general point about time and space? 'Dr Who' is of the same vintage as 'The Avengers' and 'The Prisoner', both of which exist in a world that is not quite fantasy in the wizards & spaceships sense, but certainly not in the same Britain as 'Coronation Street'. Arguably 'The Deadly Assassin' is using the same kind of surreal dream-reality as shows aimed at a slightly older audience were using a few years ago. There was also a strong sense of rebellious, antiestablishment disrespect for authority, in which the Time Lords are the British 'establishment', underneath the pomp and ceremony of former Great Power status a worn-out, senile civilisation in decline. Somewhere between 'The War Games' and 'The Deadly Assassin' was a Suez crisis, and they are now firmly in a 1970s era of managed decline. Even the optimism and White Heat of the 1960s is over. The cry for the lost magic of 'Dr Who' is a cry for the lost magic of our own nation. I think that is probably as much as I can write without actually ever actually seeing 'The Deadly Assassin', but I leave you with one curious fact: in January 1976, a woman was sentenced to life imprisonment for trying to assassinate presidential hopeful Gerald Ford: her name was Sarah-Jane Moore...<br />Richard Worthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09025201422909987658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9987513.post-2202179480761342912021-03-06T18:19:05.534+00:002021-03-06T18:19:05.534+00:00I very vaguely remember watching TDA when it was f...I very vaguely remember watching TDA when it was first broadcast, but I think I had still not really got over the strange new chap playing Jon Pertwee's role. Accepting the decaying zombie as the Master as well was a step too far for me to be properly on board with.Mike Taylorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06039663158335543317noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9987513.post-26949535938662939082021-03-06T15:54:40.145+00:002021-03-06T15:54:40.145+00:00I read the novelisation of The Deadly Assassin at ...I read the novelisation of The Deadly Assassin at the same time the Beeb was showing ‘The Five Faces of Doctor Who’.‘I remember get quite excited because something in The Deadly Assassin was footnoted ‘see The Three Doctors’ and I was excited to watch this actually happen in The Three Doctors<br /><br />I think this led me to thinking the Whoniverse was more coherent than it actually wasNick Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03741867414321172768noreply@blogger.com