Doctor Who 0047 The Krotons Four part story that aired December 28 1968 to January 18 1969. Written by David Maloney and directed by Robert Holmes.
After watching the serial today I read my old post from 2013, link above, and I still think the story is about average. There's nothing too astounding about any of it and the big alien robot guys are still pretty funny looking. I'm happy to sit through the episodes without bothering to look at all the extras. I'd looked at them in the past and they really eat up the time, still I'm glad they are there. Next time I watch the series I'll do the extras too.
Doctor Who 0048 The Seeds Of Death Six part story that aired January 25 to March 1 1969. Written by Brian Hayles, directed by Michael Ferguson. Script editor Terrance Dicks rewrote episodes 3-6 but is uncredited on the episodes. Terrance is credited on the VHS and the US DVD but not the UK DVD. The Wikipedia says that Terrance thought the script needed some punching up and the delay in Frazier Hines leaving the show caused some rewrites. The Tardis trio will call it quits at the end of the 6th series, only two more serials to go.
The return of the Ice Warriors is a bit more entertaining than the previous serial. There's certainly more going on, not that it couldn't have been a 5 or even 4 episode story. It seems more padded than I remembered. Nice big sets though.
I see from my old post that I hadn't listened to the commentaries on the episodes. Sometimes I skipped the commentaries, some busy Sundays I didn't have time to get to it all, occasionally I had to get the disc back to the library on a Monday, Doctor Who DVDs often had a wait list and that meant no renewals. I'll be getting to those commentaries tomorrow, too late now.
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