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TARDIS Guide

Overview

First aired

Wednesday, November 1, 2023

Written by

Philip Martin

Directed by

Ron Jones

Runtime

93 minutes

Time Travel

Future

Tropes (Potential Spoilers!)

Reality TV

Location (Potential Spoilers!)

Varos

Synopsis

Seeking the rare mineral Zeiton-7 to repair his TARDIS, the Doctor arrives on Varos, a world where political prisoners and their guards are all subjected to sadistic tortures and executions which the colony's inhabitants view and vote on through interactive television. Accused of being alien infiltrators helping the colony's rebel factions, the Doctor and Peri find themselves the latest unwilling subjects in this most extreme form of reality TV.

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The opening and closing segments here really highlight how much we lost out because of Colin Baker's firing. With great writing and a much better costume, his Sixth Doctor is incredible, and his relationship with Peri is so much more enjoyable. It feels like an extension of where they were in Season 23.

 

The story itself is excellent, and truly ahead of its time. As Peri alludes to in the closing scene, we don't feel a million miles away from the society depicted here in the 21st century, which is a little unnerving.


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