Right, I've decided to go back into the vaults of this blog once again (I know! I know!) and dig out one of my old posts and give it an overhaul of sorts. So, the post in question is my review of a Doctor Who story from the Tom Baker era, The Brain of Morbius, which hails from the acclaimed Philip Hinchcliffe producer era of the show.
So, with that all said let's take another look at this classic story from the original show...
And the usual warning is coming up...
PLOT SPOILERS ARE AHEAD!!!
STORY
So the story is set on the planet Karn and begins with the TARDIS materialising on the planet and the Doctor (Baker) angrily storms out and looks up at the sky and curses the Time Lords, blaming them for dragging him off course. Accompanied by his companion Sarah Jane Smith (Elisabeth Sladen) they both soon stumble across a headless body of alien insect lifeform and look out to see there are dozens crashed spaceships over a valley. The Doctor and Sarah then spot a castle in the distance just as the rain comes on they make their to it, but they are being spied on by a girl wearing a strange headdress.
The girl, Ohica (Gilly Brown) then reports back to the leader of the sisterhood on Karn, Maren (Cynthia Grenville) of the arrival of the TARDIS, which alarms Maren who insists that no spaceship can land on the planet without their presence. Maren also warns Ohica that the Elixir, they use to prolong their lives is running dangerously low and there is precious little left. Maren also suspects the Time Lords may have sent agents to steal the Elixir and tells Ohica to summon the other members of the sisterhood.
Meanwhile the Doctor and Sarah arrive at the castle and are greeted by its owner, Solon (Philip Madoc) a once renowned surgeon, who resides there with his dim-witted manservant, Condo (Colin Fay) who has only one hand and a hook in place of his other. The Doctor asks Solon about the wrecked spaceships who tells him that it must due to the magnetic radiation around the planet that they crashed and Solon also tells them that he saved Condo's life as he dragged him from a wrecked spaceship as well.
The Sisterhood meanwhile chant together using their powers they manage to physically summon the TARDIS to their shrine and they examine it and realise it is a Time Lord spacecraft and that they must have sent an agent to steal the Elixir. Maren then decides they must try and locate the Doctor and bring him to them and they began their chanting again. The Doctor in the meantime sharing a drink with Solon, tells Solon that he has heard of him and of his advanced work involving microsurgical tissue transplants and also how he was rumoured to be linked with the cult of Morbius, a former renegade Time Lord who was executed after he formed a rebellion army against his race.
The Doctor soon realises however that Solon has a statue of Morbius in his castle but he suddenly falls over unconscious as Solon had his wine drugged. Solon now intends to use the Doctor's head for a surgical operation of which will soon be revealed. Meanwhile Sarah fakes unconsciousness and sneaks downstairs into Solon's laboratory where she finds to her horror the body of a headless creature made of different body parts. The Doctor's body however is transported by the Sisterhood to their shrine before Solon and Condo can start the operation.
The Doctor then comes to in the shrine where Maren accuses him of being there to steal the Elixir which the Doctor denies and tells them the last thing he remembers was having a drink with Solon and Morbius, an impression leaves him shaken, as he realises he felt the mind of Morbius reach out to him. Maren however insists that Morbius is dead as he was executed on Karn and that he too will soon die.
Meanwhile Solon and Condo discover the Doctor is missing and Solon realises the sisterhood must have taken him and he swears for revenge and tells Condo they must go to the sisterhood and get the Doctor back. The Doctor is then tied to a steak and the sisterhood began chanting with torches they prepare to burn the Doctor, but Solon and Condo intervene. Solon pleads with the sisterhood to let him have the Doctor, and even offers Condo when Maren reufses, who tells Solon to leave who does so with Condo. Maren and the sisters then resume the ceremonial sacrifice of the Doctor, who is released by Sarah, who is digsuised in the sisterhood robes, but as they escape Maren fires a bolt of energy from her ring at Sarah which blinds her.
The Doctor then returns to Solon's castle and asks that he examine Sarah, but Solon tells him that her eyesight is almost completely destroyed and only the Elixir could restore her vision, which sets the Doctor off to the sisterhood again. Solon writes a note for the sisterhood to warn them of his ruse to send the Doctor back and he dispatches Condo to deliver it before the Doctor arrives there.
In the meantime Sarah stumbles blindly around the dining room and knocks over a glass, after which we hear a voice call in the distance. Sarah blindly walks downstairs into Solon's lab to find the source of the voice, a glowing brain which turns out to be the remains of the renegade Time Lord, Morbius...
THOUGHTS
The Brain of Morbius for its time and era remains one of the series most graphic and macabre stories, which understandably caused some controversy at the time of its original broadcast and outrage with the prim and proper Mary Whitehouse, the head of the National Viewers and Listeners Association (NVALA) who was said to have been horrified by some of the story's content.
Some of the scenes in the story certainly reflect that such as the moment where Solon and Condo struggle with one another in the lab and Solon shoots Condo in the chest and we see blood spatter on his shirt. This certainly is one of the most violent scenes in the original show and of that era and was also followed by the scene where during their struggle Morbius's brain is knocked onto the floor along with a puddle of green goo! (which was the fluid used inside the tank to support Morbius's brain). It is in itself a fairly sickening scene even though it is still pretty tame in comparison to your average horror film.
But the story itself is still a very entertaining one and its brooding atmosphere makes for a welcome change and the Frankenstein-esque storyline also makes it a bit more unique. The story also expands on the history of the Time Lords a little with the introduction of Morbius, a former renegade Time Lord as well as the Elixir of life used by the sisterhood and was once shared by the Time Lords.
It also event hints at the Doctor's birth place was within "a couple of billion miles" from Karn and also further utilises the Doctor telepathic abilities in the scene where he says to Maren how he felt "the mind of Morbius reach out and touch mine". Terrance Dicks also who initially wrote the draft for the story had the story heavily re-written by the script editor of the time, Robert Holmes, which angered Dicks and insisted he wanted his name to be taken off the credits. And Holmes asked Dicks what name should he use instead and Dicks famously said to him "I don't know. Why not use some "bland pseudonym!" after which Holmes used the pseudonym of Robin Bland, much to the amusement of Terence much later on!
PERFORMANCES AND NOTABLE SCENES (Warning: this section may contain spoilers!)
Performance wise the cast are all excellent here.
Starting with Tom Baker who does yet another wonderful job as the Doctor and by now he really had started to find his feet in the role, given that it was his second season. In Tom Baker's second season (and 13th overall of the show by then) he showed different sides to the Doctor's personality where in stories such as Pyramids of Mars and The Seeds of Doom he was deadly serious, but here Baker give the Doctor's character a nice balance of playfulness and seriousness.
And Tom has various highlights in the story such as in his opening scene where he storms out of the TARDIS and looks up at the sky as he rants at his own people "Come out! Meddlesome interferring idiots! I know you are up there so come out and show yourselves! Messing about with my TARDIS! Dragging us a thousand parsecs off course!". And later in the scene the Doctor stubbornly refuses to look around the planet and sits playing with is yo-yo and Sarah asks if he is coming and he says "No thanks. I'm just going to sit here and practice my double loops!".
Tom also of course shares some nice chemistry with Lis Sladen especially in the scene where Sarah has been blinded by Maren's ring he examines her eyes and says "Flash probably numbed the optic nerve" and as Sarah pities herself the Doctor says "If you're going to sit their wallowing in self pity, I'll bite your nose!".
Another amusing moment is where the Doctor goes back to the shrine of the Sisterhood and he arrives inside and says "Ding dong!" and all of the sudden the sisterhood all surround him and throw a net over him and he says "We can't go on meeting like this!". And the Doctor later on tells Maren when she says to him that he has been condemned to die "Look if I wanted to steal from you, would I have come in through the front door?!". And as the Doctor tells Maren about Morbius, he soon also takes a look at the sacred flame and how low it is and he then uses a small item looks like a firecracker and he says to the ladies "Stand back" and Maren asks what it is and he says "A little demon!". However the flame goes out as a result of the flash bang that the Doctor uses, which forces Maren to have the Doctor seized and ready to be killed but at that point the flame is restored by the Doctor's flash bang. So, the Doctor cheerily tells them "Soot! That's all, there will be no charge!".
Then there is the scene where the Doctor teases Morbius by commentating on his monsterous body "You know, you can't really go on calling yourself Morbius. There's very little Morbius left! How about Potpurri?" and Sarah pitches in with "How about Chop Suey?!" and the responds the Doctor "Chop Suey the galactic emperor!". And the Doctor says to Morbius taunting him "Brain getting a little overheated is it? Careful, not as strong as it was!" and Morbius says "My brain functions perfectly!" and at that moment the Doctor lunges forward and shouts "I DOUBT IT MORBIUS!! All that time in a tank it's gone soft! All that time in a tank its gone soft! You dare put it to the test!". So, Morbius asks "What test?" and the Doctor says "I challenge you to a mind-bending contest!" and Morbius scoffs and says "I am a Time Lord of the first rank! Who are you?!" and the Doctor shouts back "Nothing! A mere nobody but I don't think you're in the first rank anymore!". So, as the two of them prepare to engage in a mental battle, the Doctor says to him "Engarde, Morbius!".
Philip Madoc is also terrific in his role as the villainous Solon who intends to resurrect Morbius and use the Doctor's head as the icing on the proverbial cake (so to speak, although its not a very tasty cake!).
Madoc has numerous highlights in the show and even from the first scene he provides a very commanding presence with his deep booming voice. And in the scene he takes the head of an alien insect that Condo killed and he looks at in disappointment he shouts at Condo "That is an insect!! Even a half-witted cannibal like you can see it won't do!". Condo however says to Solon "But the big heads never come to Karn, Master" and Solon insists "They MUST, Condo! One day, a true humanoid species, warm blooded, with a central nervous system. One such specimen, just one, and I can complete my work here!".
And later when the Doctor and Sarah arrive at the castle, Solon greets them warmly and takes the Doctor's hat off and says to him "What a magnificent head!" and later when they have wine and dinner he says to the Doctor "You know I always knew that one day I would have a guest with a head for such a good vintage!".
And one of my favourite lines comes in the scene after Solon and Condo discover that the Doctor has vanished after the sisterhood have transported his body away. And Condo says "Doctor gone!" and Solon in a silent rage says "I can see that you chicken brained biological disaster!". Solon then asks Condo regarding the drugged wine that rendered the Doctor unconscious earlier "Did you put it all into the wine?" and Condo says "Yes, Master, all little bottle in big!". Solon then angrily says "Then he must still be unconscious! He CAN'T have moved!". However it soon dawns on him what has happened and he says with anger "That squalid brood of harpies, the Sisterhood! That accursed hag Maren found I was holding a Time Lord and rescued him! May her stinking bones rot! I'll see her die, Condo. I'll see that palsied harridan scream for death before Morbius and I are finished with her!".
Later on Madoc has other good moments such as the scene where having shot Condo he grabs Sarah and forces her to work the pump during the operation. And in the scene after Solon shoots Condo, he shouts after him "You murderous animal!". Sarah, who is strapped to a table and still blind asks "Solon, what has happened?!" and Solon emotionally tells her "It was an accident. Morbius's brain was knocked on the floor. I don't know what damage has been done!". So, Morbius then releases Sarah and tells her "You've got to help me. I can't do the operation on my own!" and he forces Sarah to stand by a pump next to the operating table and he tells her "Put your hand on this pump! Now every three seconds..." and Sarah in a panic shouts "What if I make a mistake?!" and Solon grabs her and says threateningly "If he dies, you die!".
Elisabeth Sladen is also really good once again as Sarah Jane Smith and she has some good scenes in the story such as the start where she looks out onto the valley of wrecked spaceships and Sarah says "There must be a dozen wrecked spaceships out here! Its like the Sargasso sea!".
Also there is the scene where Sarah is blinded by Maren's ring and she tells the Doctor she can't see after they escape. So, in the scene the Doctor and Sarah stop for a breather after they escape the Sisterhood and the Doctor says "I think we've given them the slip! The barbecue is off!" but Sarah then says "I can't see!" and the Doctor asks "What!" and Sarah panicking says "I've gone blind!". So, the Doctor examines her and says "I can't see anything, they look perfectly normal to me" and Sarah says "Oh, is that hopeful?" and the Doctor reassuringly tells her "Of course it is. The flash probably numbed the optic nerve, it should wear off in a few hours". Sarah however soon starts to feel sorry for herself and wraps the sisterhood robe around her head "Hey, you know I could always sell flowers. You know luvly fresh violets, guvnor. If we ever get back to Piccadily!". So, the Doctor tells Sarah they hare going back to Solon's and she warns him "No, Doctor, he's maniac! He's got a body there! No head. Just made out of lumps and things!".
And later on in the scene where Sarah (having recovered her eyesight) and the Doctor are trapped inside a room of Solon's castle, the Doctor makes cyanogen gas and places it above the vents to let it filter upstairs into Solon's lab. And Sarah afer having asked if it will work and the Doctor says "Well if we are still here in a month...." and she says "It hasn't worked!" and the Doctor replies "Correct!" and Sarah then asks "How many hours in a month?". Then Sarah asks "How many seconds are there in a month?" and the Doctor quickly replies "2,678,400" and Sarah says "Short month!" (although that is how many seconds there are in 31 days, so strictly speaking that's not entirely accurate for all months of the year!).
Cynthia Grenville is also very good in her role as Maren, the leader of the Sisterhood on Karn and she shares some good scenes with the Doctor.
And some of her good scenes include the one where the Doctor has been transported to the sisterhood via their special telekinetic powers and Maren condemns him to death for allegedly trying to steal the Elixir.
So, Maren says to the Doctor in the scene "Confess that you were sent to steal the Elixir of Life and your death will be made easy" but the Doctor insists "I haven't faintest notion of what you're talking about! The last thing I remember was having dinner with Solon and Morbius" but Maren says "Morbius is dead" and the Doctor says "Yes, Morbius is dead..." but is shocked by his admission and says "How did I get that impression?!". So, Maren says to him "The Time Lords destroyed Morbius here on Karn for his crimes" but the Doctor tells her "Solon had a clay model of his head but it was more than that, it was a living mental contact. I felt the mind of Morbius". Ohica however explains how Morbius's body was destroyed in a dispersal chamber but the Doctor still insists he felt the mind of Morbius. So, Maren says to the Doctor "I suppose you think raising these old fears can somehow help you, but I was present at his execution. Morbius is dead, Doctor, and you will join him very shortly!".
Another good scene is when the Doctor returns to shrine and is captured again and taken to Maren where she warns him "You have been condemned to die!" and the Doctor says "Oh come on, not all that again! If I really wanted to steal through would I come in through the front door?!". So, Maren asks him "Why did you come to Karn if not to steal?" and the Doctor tells her "I can't answer that, Maren until I know what Solon intends but I have a feeling something incredibly evil is brewing".
Maren then says "Nothing on Karn happens without our knowledge!" and the Doctor tells her "A Time Lord could live on Karn without your knowledge and place a barrier around his mind!". Maren then asks "What are you suggesting?" and the Doctor says "Morbius was a Time Lord" and Maren with disgust says "That name again! I tell you, I saw his execution. I saw his body placed in the dispersal chamber. Nothing of Morbius, not the smallest atom, still exists!". The Doctor then asks her "Was Solon on Karn at the time?" and Maren tells him "I believe so. There were many on Karn at that time. They came from all across the galaxy to attend the trial of Morbius".
WARNING: NEXT PARAGRAPH HAS A SPOILER IN IT!!!
And last of all is the scene where the Doctor is dying from his mental battle with Morbius and he is taken to the sisterhood where Maren contemplates saving his life. So, in the scene Maren says to Ohica "The Time Lord dies. Only the Elixir of Life can save him" and Ohica says "And we have none". Maren however then goes over to the flame door and opens it and takes a goblet and says "Enough has formed, Ohica. Enough for the Doctor" and Ohica says "But High One, your OWN need!" and Maren says quietly as she gives Ohica the goblet "Here take it. Perhaps the Doctor was right. There should be an end" and she she proceeds to sacrifice herself to the flame.
Gilly Brown also does well in her role as Ohica, Maren's second in command of the sisterhood although she does have a tendency to overdo when she widens her eyes, so much so in fact she could give David Tenant a good run for his money in that department!
And Gilly has some good moments in the story also such as the one where Ohica expresses her concerns after one of the sisterhood has been killed at the hands of the Morbius creature. So, in the scene after looking at the sister's dead body, Maren gravely asks "Who could have killed our sister? and Ohica says "She was found near Solon's habitation, High One" and Maren asks "Solon?" and Ohica says "The sister who found her saw a creature high among the rocks". Maren asks "What creature?" and Ohica tells her "She only saw it briefly, but then she later saw the Doctor and Solon hunting for it". So, Maren gravely says "So, Solon has succeeded in his vile experiments!" and Ohica fearfully says "And if the Doctor is right, High One, he will have given it the brain of our ancient enemy, Morbius!".
And lastly there is the scene where Ohica pleads with Maren to help out the Doctor in his fight against Solon and Morbius and to lead the Sisterhood to cast out Morbius. So, Ohica asks Maren "IS it right for the Doctor to fight our own battles for us?" and Maren asks "What are you saying?" and Ohica says "Morbius is our enemy also" but Maren insists there is no proof and that it is only the Doctor's theory. Ohica however remains vigilant and says "One that makes meaning of Solon's meaningless work. And Solon himself is evil. The blood of our sister Kelia stains his hands!". Ohica then insists that they should do what they can to help the Doctor and Maren wearily says "I'm too old, Ohica to leave the Shrine. I cannot lead you" and Ohica then says "Then let ME, High One! Let me lead the Sisterhood!".
Colin Fay also puts in a good performance aswell as Condo, Solon's slow-witted but sympathetic manservant.
Fay (who was an opera singer) has some good moments in the story as well such as the scene where he get's angry over Solon offering Condo up as a sacrifice to the sisterhood in order to spare the Doctor from being sacrificed by the sisterhood. And Condo says "Condo, good servant. You give sisters, let kill Condo! Condo kill you!" and he grabs Solon and says "You make Condo fool! Now you die!" but Solon tries to get out of it by saying it was just a "stupid joke" and Condo says "Condo not joke, you lose hand!". Solon then makes a least desparate plea for his life and offers Condo his real arm back, so Condo cheerfully asks "Take hook. Give good arm?" and Solon tells him "I have the arm and that's what you've always wanted, isn't it?" and Condo says "Give arm, Condo not kill".
Also later on there is scene when they prepare for Morbius's operation and Condo looks over at the headless body that Solon has created for Morbius and he notices that one of the arms is human and he puts two and two together, realising that it is his own hand. And Condo says to Solon in shock "You take Condo's arm for this!" and they have their fight which ends with Condo being shot in the stomach, but he survives and limps out into the corridor (poor guy).
There is also an amusing scene where Condo goes to find Sarah who at this point is still blinded by the effect's of Maren's ring and he picks her up and takes her away saying "Better you come now. Master want" as Sarah is kicking and screaming (although in this scene I can swear I hear Lis Sladen actaully laughing!).
And last of all Michael Spice does an excellent job as the voice of Morbius and Spice's powerful voice is electronically treated as he delivers Morbius's potent threats (yet impotent as he is just a brain in a jar for the most part).
Spice is also given quite a dramatic and effective entrance when Sarah stumbles downstairs into Solon's lab and he angrily asks her "Are you one of the sisterhood?! Did Maren send you to destroy me?!" and Sarah says no and Morbius angrily replies "Yes she did! You she-devils want to destroy me! Now before I can have my revenge!".
And later Spice has another good moment where Solon talks to Morbius, who angrily tells Solon "Trapped like this! Like a sponge beneath the sea. Yet even the sponge has more life than I! Can you understand a thousandth of my agony?! I, Morbius, who once lead the High council of the Time Lords, now reduced to this, to a condition where I envy a vegetable!".
Then there is the scene where Solon tells Morbius the Doctor is a Time Lord and he intends to use his head to incase Morbius's brain. So, Solon says to Morbius "It will be the crowning irony!" but Morbius furiously shouts "FOOL!" and Morbius says sheepishly "I'm sorry, the pun was irresistable!". Morbius then continues to rant "You fool, Solon! Don't you see what this means?! The Time Lords have tracked me down!" and Solon says "No, you're wrong!" but Morbius insists "I am NOT wrong! I know the Time Lords! Pallid, devious worms! You had the Doctor here and you let him go. You were tricked!". Solon then asks "You mean the Doctor and Maren plotted together?" and Morbius shouts "Of course they did! And now the Time Lords will return to finish their work! They'll destroy me! Because of you, they'll destroy me!".
And last of all is the scene where after Solon successfully completes Morbius's operation and Morbius soon wakens (just after Solon is killed by poisonous gas released by the Doctor) and goes after the Doctor and Sarah. So, in the scene, Morbius in his new body says to the Doctor "What an ingenious idea, Doctor but ineffectual. Your poison only worked on Solon. I have the lungs of a biristrophe!" and the Doctor says "With a methane filter!". The Doctor then mockingly asks Morbius "What does it feel like to be the biggest mongrel in the universe, Morbius?!" and Morbius says to the Doctor "Solon designed this body for efficiency, not for its appearance. To be free again is all that matters!". The Doctor then asks "Free to cause more havoc and destruction?" and Morbius says "The Time Lords will not oppose me again, nor the Sisterhood. When it is learnt that I, Morbius, have returned from the grave, my followers will rise in their millions!".
DIRECTOR AND MUSIC
As for the director, Christopher Barry does an excellent job here with the story and he keeps the atmosphere very intense and brooding throughout and expertly keeps the lighting dark to suit the tone of the story also. Barry also previously directed several stories, most notably the original Dalek story during the William Hartnell era and later on The Daemons during Jon Pertwee's era.
The music is again by Dudley Simpson and his score is excellent as well and it has plenty of dramatic passages which work well for the story and it showed once again how Simpson was the perfect choice of regular composer for the show and its remarkable to think just how prolific he was during the show's early years.
FLAWS
So regarding flaws does The Brain of Morbius have any worth mentioning? Well, yes it does have some.
For starters the one that springs to mind straight away is why did the sisterhood decide to give the Doctor back to Solon after he helps them out by reviving the flame of their Elixir????? I mean it should be a case of "Thank you, Doctor, you have restored our scared flame!" but no instead "we will render you unconscious and take you back to Solon and leave you for dead!". Now that is gratitude!! Not unless of course the Doctor planned it that way to make it look like he was dead although he simply woke up when Sarah found him at the start of the last episode of the story. And it has to be said the logic of that scene just isn't very well explained at all and you are just left to imagine how and why the Sisterhood decided to give the Doctor back rather than just let him travel back himself!
Further to this point, it was pretty naive of Solon to assume that by writing a note to Maren that should would willingly just hand over the Doctor's head to him! I mean was she wasn't too willing to hand over the Doctor's head the first time round when he interrupted the Doctor's sacrificial ceremony, so why would she more inclined to do it a second time?! So, basically I always felt that this was another poorly thought out scene in the story.
Another issue is with the set production, which is largely excellent but one of the backdrops is clearly a canvass that has been painted of a blue sky in the background in the scene where Sarah stumbles blindly around the surface of Karn when Condo finds her, and it basically looks pretty cheap and obvious in that instance.
And another thing that bugged me was the scene where the Doctor challenges Morbius to a mind bending contest at the end of the story and we see images of the Doctor's previous lives come alive on a projected image while they do mental battle with one another. And as we know the doctor has only regenerated three times up to this point yet we see other faces prior to that of the first doctor (William Hartnell of course) all of which are actually members of the Doctor Who production team of that time which included Robert Holmes, the script editor, George Gallaccio, production unit manager, Graeme Harper, the production assistant and one of the show's directors, Douglas Camfield. Hinchcliffe at the time said he wanted to imply that William Hartnell was not the first doctor, however if that were the case by then the Doctor would have been on his 8th or 9th regeneration by then!
However with this all in mind, the background of the Time Lords was just in its infancy back then of course and it would be The Deadly Assassin where it would introduce the concept of a Time Lord having a maximum regeneration cycle of 12 times. So again it did raise some inconsistencies in the story and also the history of the Doctor and the Time Lords lifespan as well.
Also lastly another plot hole is in the scene where the Doctor makes cyanogen and he places it next to an airduct so it filters through into Solon's lab. However as the cyanogen gas kills Solon, the Doctor was taking a bit of a gamble as what if Solon hadn't finished the operation and Morbius was still inert then he and Sarah would still have been trapped inside the room! So it was just as well the Doctor timed it just right to use the cyanogen gas otherwise Morbius wouldn't have got up and found them in time!
Anyway that's it for the flaws.
SUM UP
So, to sum up, The Brain of Morbius is an excellent story from the Baker era and it has plenty of atmosphere and menace to it and even remains one of the most graphic and macabre stories from the Hinchcliffe era with its use of blood and brains (yuck!) it stirred quite a bit of trouble from Mary Whitehouse! The story also features fine performances from the main cast of Tom Baker and Elisabeth Sladen and the supporting cast are all great too, particularly Philip Madoc as the twisted surgeon, Solon. And despite any of its drawbacks that do little to prevent this story from being a classic from one of the original series strongest eras.
Right, so that's it for now and I will be back soon with another post.
Till then its bye for now!
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