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

Previous Story: The Blazing Hour

And this story begins Doctor Who's history of filming in the Canary Islands and hey! I've been there before! This unique filming location does a lot to set this story apart from others, atleast visually. It also serves as the place where we first meet Peri. Her eagerness to travel is shown immediately along with an American accent that managed to fool the country. It'll be interesting to see her character develop.

We also say farewell to Turlough, it's good to see the shady side of Turlough; hiding things from the Doctor but what surprised me more is how heroic he is here. There really are no companions like Turlough. Not only is he so unique but he also gets such a satisfying character arc, going from coward to hero. It's good to finally get all the mysteries surrounding him resolved aswell.

I seem to rarely praise him but Anthony Ainley as the Master is one of the best castings in the show, he veered a little too far on the side of camp here in my opinion but that's mainly down to being a tiny Master trapped in a box than any grievances I have with Ainley's portrayal.

Peter Davison was really good, especially his dynamic with Mark Strickson and their characters really feel like good friends. The plot is alright, it's a stereotypical "spaceship-crash-turned-primitive-civilisation" story (that's a surprisingly common thing) but it makes up for it in a solid supporting cast.

This is also Kamelion's last story, a rather anticlimactic end to a puzzling character but atleast he got a great run on audio. Overall, it's a solid story and a definite improvement on the last. It is a bit strange to consider that this is Peter Davison's penultimate story on TV, he's really grown on me.

Next Story: Red Dawn