Kill the Doctor!

A masterclass in how to bring back an old villain via audio. This somehow managed to do The Legend of Ruby Sunday - a story I love to pieces - six years before it was even a twinkle in RTD's eye, and arguably even better! Leela's adventure on the side with the lower-class was a welcome detour to the Doctor getting chased Tom and Jerry style across the planet while Sutekh ominously monologued in the billionaire woman's head. The interactions between 4 and Sutekh are just as good as Pyramids, albeit with a bit more flippancy than you'd expect. The cliffhanger was absolutely brilliant and I watched the next one immediately afterwards.

10/10!

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

Previous Story: The Bad Penny

This story is a unique take on Sutekh, I don't think it really does him justice, his plan here just feels a bit off and he lacks the menace that he had in 'Pyramids of Mars'. It's still not a bad start and I hope he regains some of this menace in the next one. Gabriel Woolf does such a good job at voicing Sutekh, he's probably one of the best voiced villains in all of Doctor Who. I will say that turning an entire city against the Doctor is fairly menacing, I just think the means with which Sutekh did it don't feel like something he'd do.

I did really like the arguement Leela and the Doctor had over overthrowing dictatorships just because there were homeless people. I think it raised some interesting moral questions about where the Doctor is willing to step in and where he isn't.

Next Story: The Age of Sutekh