Series Two Review

Best Story.

The Dalek Invasion of Earth.

Worst Story.

The Romans

Season rating, (Taken from the average rating which I gave to each story in this series.) :

7.2222222

The rating was slightly down overall from Series 1 which was 7.5 . I think this is largely down to The Romans getting such a low score. 

The series again took in a lot of different Sci-Fi stories and historical pieces. 

Barbara and Ian and such important parts of Series 1 and 2 I wonder if I am going to like the next companions as much.

Season 3 is a bit of a nightmare with missing episodes I am going to do my best to review what I can find.

I am going to take a little break from my Doctor Who Re watch for a little bit, I will start back again soon.

Story 016 - The Chase

This story has 6 episodes that aired from the 22nd May to the 26th June 1965.

Official Synopsis:

The travellers learn from the Time-Space Visualiser (taken from the Moroks' museum) that Daleks, equipped with their own time machine, are on their trail with orders to exterminate them. They flee in the TARDIS.

The chase begins on the desert planet Aridius and takes in a number of stopping-off points, including a spooky haunted house which is actually a futuristic fun-fair attraction.

Eventually, both time machines arrive on the jungle planet Mechanus, where the Daleks try to infiltrate and kill the Doctor's party with a robotic double of him. The travellers are taken prisoner by the Mechonoids — robots sent some fifty years earlier to prepare landing sites for human colonists who never arrived — and meet Steven Taylor, a stranded astronaut who has been the Mechonoids' captive for the past two years.


The Daleks and the Mechonoids engage in a fierce battle which ends in their mutual destruction. The Doctor's party seizes this opportunity to escape. The Doctor reluctantly helps Ian and Barbara to use the Daleks' time machine to return home.

My Opinion:

We say goodbye to Ian and Barbara at the end of this story, which only leaves the Doctor as the original cast member. We get introduced to a new companion in this Steven Taylor.

The story takes us to very differnt places a haunted house, The Mary Celeste, a future planet with fighting mechnoids.

The Haunted House episode is quite odd and could have just been skipped, I feel this story probably runs a couple of episodes long.

My Rating:

9/10

Story 015 - The Space Museum

This story has 4 episodes which aired between the 24th April and the 15th of May. 

Official Synopsis:

The TARDIS jumps a time track and the travellers arrive on the planet Xeros. There they discover their own future selves displayed as exhibits in a museum established as a monument to the galactic conquests of the warlike Morok invaders who now rule the planet. When time shifts back to normal, they realise that they must do everything they can to avert this potential future.


Vicki helps the native Xerons obtain arms and revolt against the Moroks. The revolution succeeds and the travellers go on their way, confident that the future has been changed.

My Opinion:

 It’s an interesting story. The museum is an interesting place, full of weird and wonderful things. The early time “out of sync” plot line is good. The “trying to avoid becoming a museum exhibit” by changing the future sub-strand. The Doctor’s Dalek escape – is quite funny. When you hear the Doctor giggling and he pops his head out of a Dalek is both funny and a little cringy. 

This story gets a lot of stick from the fans but I did quite enjoy it, the first episode has a mystery to it which is very interesting. He does suffer in the other 3 episodes and they lack a bit of Uniqueness.

The Morok/Xerons story line is very bland and feels like it has been done a thousand times.

My Rating:

7/10

Story 014 - The Crusade

This story has 4 episodes which aired from the 27th March to the 17th of April 1965. Currently only episodes 1 and 3 survive. 2 and 4 are on the DVD as voice recordings.

 Official Synopsis:

The TARDIS arrives in 12th century Palestine where a holy war is in progress between the forces of King Richard the Lionheart and the Saracen ruler Saladin. Barbara is abducted in a Saracen ambush and the Doctor, Ian and Vicki make their way to King Richard's palace in the city of Jaffa.

My Opinion:

It is sad the the Beeb lost these episodes of Doctor Who I think I would have liked it a bit more if I could have watched it in it's entirety. I did like it though it has a good support cast which includes Julian Glover who plays Richard the Lionheart,  latter he plays Pycelle in Game Of Thrones and his in Indiana Jones And The Last Crusdae.Oh and Star Wars so not a bad Actor for them to get was early in his career. 

Vicki is kind of side lined in this story which usually happens to one of the characters so not a big deal. 

I did like this story was enjoyable enough and a decent period piece again and using the Beebs extensive costume department which is something Doctor is very fortunate to get use of.

My Rating:

7/10