The Doctor Who Discontinuity Guide by Paul Cornell Martin Day & Keith Topping

Author:Paul Cornell, Martin Day & Keith Topping [CORNELL PAUL, DAY MARTIN, TOPPING KEITH]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Orion Publishing Group
Published: 2013-09-04T16:00:00+00:00

Links: Sarah finds one of Victoria’s old dresses.

Location: The Old Priory, 1911 (‘An excellent year, one of my favourites,’ says the Doctor).

Untelevised Adventures: The Doctor was given his picklock by Marie Antoinette.

Q.v.: Dating the UNIT Stories, ‘The Invasion’; The Location of Gallifrey, ‘Terror of the Autons’.

The Bottom Line: ‘You pit your puny will against mine? In my presence, you are an ant, a termite. Abase yourself, you grovelling insect!’ ‘Pyramids of Mars’ features one of the series’ most chilling enemies. There is a fascinating discussion between the Doctor and Laurence about being able to ‘choose the future’, and a seeming explanation of the Doctor’s motivation: that he is a prisoner of moral obligation, unable to leave anywhere without attempting to ‘do his duty’. The scene in which Sarah criticises the Doctor for his lack of feeling after the death of Laurence, and he describes the horror of what will happen if Sutekh isn’t stopped, is another classic Doctor Who moment.

83 ‘The Android Invasion’

22 November 1975 – 13 December 1975, 4 episodes

Writer: Terry Nation Director: Barry Letts

Roots: Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Stepford Wives, Pohl’s Tunnel under the World, Star Trek (the mind probe in ‘Errand of Mercy’). On waking up, the Doctor mixes up Chekhov and Carroll.

Goofs: The Doctor lets go of a branch and it slaps Sarah in the face. A large piece of cardboard appears behind the pod for the Doctor to lie on. The Doctor’s robot detector in episode four would have been very useful earlier on. The Kraal plan has several flawed aspects: their indestructible androids’ faces fall off when they trip, and their complete memory prints don’t include a dislike for ginger pop. Why do the Kraals need the androids at all, as the virus will wipe out all human life in three weeks? [The virus canister breaks at the end and only Styggron is affected, so perhaps the virus has a tiny range, and has to be spread manually.] The village, the Space Centre and all the people were copied from Crayford’s mind, so why is there an android of Harry (he wasn’t a member of UNIT two years previously), and why isn’t there one of the Brigadier (who does, after all, have his own office at the Space Centre)? Why do the Kraals bother if their own planet is all right for them, the Doctor and Sarah walking about with no ill effects? Why do they need to destroy their duplicate village? Chedaki and the rest of the fleet are left unmentioned at the end of the story, especially odd since the Doctor says the Kraals could take Earth by force if they wanted to! As the Daily Mail reviewer in 1975 wondered, how can the Doctor use his own android against Styggron if all the androids have been neutralized? Crayford has never looked under his eyepatch to find his intact eye! (And nobody at Space Control notices this acquisition, either.)

Fashion Victims: Styggron’s silver Doc Martens. The android mechanics’ space helmets. ‘I don’t like the look of them,’ says Sarah.

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