Doctor Who does the wild west! You can tell its on a budget - but there is a contagous sense of fun to the whole thing.

The Doctor having his tooth removed by the inexperienced dentist has to be one of my highlight scenes "you'll be our first customer!" Its always nice to see a character you know really well put in an awkward situation and seeing how they deal with it. The first cliffhanger of Steven singing at gunpoint, very funny! I love it!

The Doctor is mistaken for Doc Holiday, the fastest shooter in the west, a dozen people now want to kill him and Steven is going to be hung if he doesn't show himself - another great cliffhanger!

It would be fair to say however, that there is not a lot of room for subtlety in this story. The saloon is literally called "The Last Chance Saloon". There are good guys, bad guys and every western trope - which presumably would have been higher in public consciousness in 1966. "This is utterly absurd! Nothing would reduce me to raising a gun in anger", the doctor makes a great sheriff, its just a shame that it never goes anywhere. There is no depth - a lot of episode three onwards is to needlessly fulfill tropes.

The specially written musical interludes are perculiar - they don't ruin the feel of the story by any means, but it certainly contributes to the feel of this being a "novalty" story.

Once again Dodo is made to look useless. With the exception of Barbara, at this point Doctor Who has been very poor in properly representing their female regular characters! Dodo holds up Doc Holiday in an impressive and interesting way, then it is imediatly undercut to show how 'useless women are in reality' - for laughs!

The shoot out at the end is great though - a fantastic ending to a mixed story.