S22.E7

The Two Doctors: Part One

Episode aired Feb 16, 1985
PG
45m

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Colin Baker, Clinton Greyn, and Patrick Troughton in Doctor Who (1963)

The Time Lords have dispatched the Doctor (in his 2nd incarnation) along with Jamie to a space research station to see Dastari, the Director of Projects, about dissuading two of his scientis... Read allThe Time Lords have dispatched the Doctor (in his 2nd incarnation) along with Jamie to a space research station to see Dastari, the Director of Projects, about dissuading two of his scientists from further experimentations on time travel that are rattling the fabric of time. The ... Read allThe Time Lords have dispatched the Doctor (in his 2nd incarnation) along with Jamie to a space research station to see Dastari, the Director of Projects, about dissuading two of his scientists from further experimentations on time travel that are rattling the fabric of time. The Doctor is further alarmed over Dastari's latest genetic experiments, boosting the intellig... Read all

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Colin Baker

The Doctor

Patrick Troughton

The Doctor

Nicola Bryant

Peri

Frazer Hines

Jamie

John Stratton

Shockeye

Jacqueline Pearce

Chessene

Laurence Payne

Dastari

Aimée Delamain

Doña Arana
(as Aimee Delamain)

James Saxon

Oscar

Carmen Gómez

Anita
(as Carmen Gomez)

Tim Raynham

Varl

Nicholas Fawcett

Technician

Nej Adamson

Juan
(uncredited)

Jay McGrath

Dead Androgum
(uncredited)

Fernand Monast

Space Station Professor Shot Dead by Sontarans
(uncredited)

Director
- Peter Moffatt
Writers
- Robert Holmes
- Sydney Newman
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6/10

The Two Doctors: Part One

The Two Doctors should had been the highlight of Season 22. The return of Patrick Troughton as the second Doctor along with Frazer Hines as his companion Jamie.

Robert Holmes on writing duties. Jacqueline Pearce as the guest villainess and location shooting in Seville.

Unfortunately Peter Moffatt was not regarded as one of Doctor Who's best director especially in the Colin Baker era. He hardly uses Seville as a backdrop.

Holmes story has grotesque villains but very little by way of plot or a coherent story. It was too talky when it needed action. The first episode keeps both Doctors apart when the audience would want them to interact.

The second Doctor is sent by the timelords to stop a renowned scientist to do research on time travel. Meanwhile the Sontarans are hanging about wanting to get their hands on time travel.

The sixth Doctor later follows by which time the Sontarans have taken over the station. It looks like the timelords might have destroyed it instead.

Prismark10
Nov 21, 2024
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Trivia
At three 45 minute episodes, this was the longest serial to be transmitted during the 1980s and made it similar in length to the six-parters which had been common in the 1970s.

Goofs
When Sra. Arana asks "Who's there?" in Spanish for the second time, she says "¿Quién está?", which is a phrase hardly used in common Spanish. The most correct phrase would have been "¿Quién es?" or "¿Quién está ahí?".

Quotes
Chessene: We must ask Stike to make a descreet landing. This planet is greatly over-populated.
Shockeye: By the time I leave it Madam, that may not be a problem.
[chuckles]
Shockeye: Oh, did you learn much from the dead mind?
Chessene: It was a puny thing: This region of the planet is called Andalucia. We are four kilometers from the city of Seville.
Shockeye: Oh, ho, and is the eating good there?
Chessene: Dona Arana had little interest in food. Her mind was full of religion.
Shockeye: [turning disagreeable] Religion? I'm not interested in the beliefs of primitives - only in what they taste like!