“You must travel with understanding, as well as hope.”

A great concept for a story, with the four parter being split equally over two different time periods on the same shop, seeing how the Doctor and his presence can affect people. It’s just a shame that the execution and writing is very dull.

The villains aren’t very interesting, and neither are any of the human characters. The Monoids design is unique and fun, but doesn’t make them very threatening in the slightest. The human characters are irritating at best, boring and lifeless at worst.

Even our three leads feel rather distant here. Hartnell is on autopilot, Purves doesn’t get to do anything, and our new addition Jackie Lane isn’t really explored particularly well, other than having her look fairly stupid and annoying in her scenes.

Theres some decent set designs, but it doesn’t help a boringly written and frightfully dull story.