Mike was nice enough to pass along a couple of the newly discovered Doctor Who serials that turned up in Nigeria. The BBC announced them found on Oct 11 and the serials showed up on iTunes that midnight. The Enemy Of The World is the 40th serial and it's a 6 part story. It was the 4th serial of the 5th season and it aired from December 23 1967 to January 27 1968. All but episode 3 had been missing. That episode is on a compilation disc that had a lot of extant episodes from the mostly missing serials. There's a single disc dvd of TEOTW due November 25 but it just has the shows, no extras. I hope to see an extra filled disc in the future but right now I can enjoy Patrick Troughton as the 2nd Doctor, Frazier Hines as Jamie McCrimmon and Deborah Watling as Victoria Waterfield. I like the 2nd Doc more than the rest of the Doctors that I've seen so far and Jamie and Victoria were a pretty good pair of companions. Patrick gets to play two parts in this story, so that's extra fun. When the Tardis gang lands on a beach the Doc strips down to his long johns and jumps into the ocean. Watching a distance away are some soldiers. They mistake the Doctor for Salamander, a powerful man in the world government, and start shooting. Even though Salamander has done much good for the world he isn't liked for his ambitions and there are people who want to kill him. The gang runs off into the dunes and the adventure begins. Set a bit into the Earth's future, it's 2017. The world has changed and Salamander looks like the Doctor. Not much else needed to enjoy the story
That's Patrick as Salamander up on the left. He has an accent, dramatic eyes and combs his hair differently. That's Frazer and and Deborah in the other two pictures. I hope they have some commentaries on the newly found material. I liked their commentaries for the most part. The story moves along fairly well, especially considering it's a 6 part one. I often find those have too much catch and release filler. There's some of that but it still works fairly well. The script was written by David Whitaker and it was directed by Barry Letts. Whitaker wrote 8 serials for the series between 1963 and 1969. He was the script editor 1963-64. He wrote some of the noelizations and died in 1980. Letts would go onto become the series producer. It's a good thing to finally see the whole serial, There were some good plot devices and the story was actually fairly interesting.
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