This is part of a series of reviews of Doctor Who in chronological timeline order.

Previous Story: Psychodrome

After a dodgy start with Castrovalva, this is the story that has fully sold me on Peter Davison. He's captured the role completely.

Also, this is a perfect example of what can be done with 3 companions. They each get an equal role in the story and it proves that they can be balanced well without needing to sideline one or more of them.

The actual story itself was pretty good, I found the way they handled these different cultures to be fairly, not-racist? Normally this shouldn't be something that's necessary to point out but with the 70s/80s BBC this is a surprising change of pace, (I'm looking at you The Talons of Weng-Chiang). The scene where Tegan speaks to the Aboriginal in Tiwi is great and I'm glad Janet Fielding pushed to put that in.

Adric is written really poorly in this story, he's needlessly sexist at the beginning of the story and he sides with the villain for most of it, it's not at all how he was portrayed in previous stories.

Next Story: Kinda