The Interplanetarian

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

Previous Story: 1001 Nights (My Brother's Keeper)

We're onto the second story, it does have some elements of the framing device present throughout this anthology but this part is mainly self-contained. Another interesting idea, this time Nyssa is under possession by and entity called the Interplanetarian.

It's a fairly alright story but due to it's shorter nature it doesn't feel fleshed out enough and ends up being fairly standard fare. There's a weird romance plot aswell that I really don't think was necessary especially with an already short runtime.

Next Story: 1001 Nights (Smuggling Tales)

would love to write a thoughtful review, but honestly all I have to say is that this episode is here. It's fine. It's setting the threads for the rest of the boxset, and it wasn't bad to listen to. I feel like if I had listened to this one straight away after the first, and then plunged right into the third, I would barely remember this one at all. As I say, it's fine, it's just like half an hour of nothingness.

Nyssa tells the Sultan another story of a posh woman and her butler (who have a very strange romance for some reason), and the person trapped upstairs with a 'demon' in their head. And of course, this person turns out to be Nyssa, and the Doctor exorcises the alien being. Who then jumps into the butler's head. And gets exorcised. And then it's buns for tea.

I feel like this story tried to be more mysterious than it really ever could be - it was too generic for the plot beats to be anything except for what they were. Which was fine. It just wasn't anything special.