Doctor Who fans it's been about almost three or possibly even four months since I last reviewed anything to do with Doctor Who and while yes I did say that I would review the recent New Year's special i've just not been bothered to even watch the recent New Year's special. As such for this review I thought that I would hop into my own TARDIS and review an episode from the classic era of Doctor Who and so join me as I review the Doctor Who tenth anniversary special / serial / story / episode that is called simple "The Three Doctors" enjoy.
The plot of this story / serial / episode / story is something is someone is seeking revenge on the time lords and the threat is so severe that it's up to the first three incarnations of The Doctor to put a stop to this threat once and for all. In terms of what I thought about the plot of this serial / episode / story I honestly really did like the plot to this serial / episode / story since it was a great way to honour the legacy of Doctor Who as well as a generally interesting story but I will admit that the story does gets a bit boring in episode three in my opinion tho that is.
Starring in this episode / story / serial is Jon Pertwee as The Third Doctor , William Hartnell as The First Doctor and Patrick Troughton as The Second Doctor. Also starring in this episode is Katy Manning as Jo Grant with other people starring in this episode being Nicholas Courtney as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart , John Levene as Sergeant Benton , Stephen Thorne as Omega , Roy Purcell as The Timelord President , Clyde Pollitt as The Timelord Chancellor , Graham Leaman as A Time Lord , Rex Robinson as Dr. Tyler , Laurie Webb as Mr. Ollis and Patricia Prior as Mrs. Ollis.
In terms of what I thought about the acting that's presented to us in this serial / episode / story in al honesty I thought that the acting that's presented to us in this serial / episode / story was in honesty really good and alot of makes the acting really good in my opinion. Is the fact that alot of the main cast epically the three actors their incarnation of The Doctor and indeed some of the regular cast have played their characters for years and as such those actors would know what performance would best fit their respective character and it really does help that the script for this adventure is so good that all the actors would have to do is say the lines as they are written and boom a good performance would come out of these actors naturally in my opinion.
Now this is honestly that I never even considered when choosing to review this particular Doctor Who adventure but this particular doctor Who adventure is the last Doctor Who adventure to feature William Hartnell as The First Doctor. As for why he only appears on various TV screens well that's because William Hartnell was in the final few years of his life and as such that's all he could really afford to do which is a shame because it would have been so cool to have all three of the first three incarnations of the doctor in one scene together but I get why that simply wasn't going to happen but it is nice to see that actor William Hartnell managed to make one final appearance as The First Doctor before his death on the 23rd of April 1975.
As alot of you Doctor Who fans will know for the first few years of Jon Pertwees run as The Third Doctor. The Doctor was stranded / exiled on earth with all his knowledge of how to time travel taken away from him and his TARDIS broken well this is something that is fixed in this adventure and how this plot point is handled while it does seem right for this version of The Doctor the plot point could have been handled a bit better in my opinion.
That being said tho i'd honestly have no idea how you could make that plot point much better maybe you could show the timelords sending a gift but we don't hear them say what the gift is and more importantly we don't hear them them saying who this gift is for. That way when it appears / dematerializes we the audience would be able to work out where that gift came from and you won't The Doctor to spell it out for us where the gift came from but that's just my idea tho and yes I do realise it's a pretty idea but give me credit where it's due for at least trying to come up with what is in my opinion a semi good idea.
In terms of what I thought about the villain of this Doctor Who adventure which for those that either don't know or have forgotten is called Omega and he was played rather freaking brilliantly in my opinion by Stephen Thorne. In my opinion Omega was a great villain but I do wish that he could have been fleshed out more since this adventure had more then enough episodes to give the character a bit more dimension (pun intended) but I do like the fact that we see Omega come to the realisation that he's basically dead and seeing how he reacts to that news is honestly really interesting in my humble and honest opinion.
This adventure was four episodes long with each episode having a running time of around twenty five minuets for each episode and I feel that four episodes is more then enough to tell this story. Since there really isn't enough story to justify any more episodes but at the same time if this particular Doctor Who adventure did have more episodes even if it was just one more episode that would have meant that we would have meant that we could get to know a little bit more about the character of Omega as an actual character but that's just what I think tho.
I will admit that even tho the effects in this adventure are incredibly dated which is honestly that's to be expected in the classic era of Doctor Who. It was honestly still fun trying to work out how each of this adventures many effects shots were achieved with perhaps the best effect in this Doctor Who adventure being how each of the objects that I guess this slim type creature touches vanishes which I honestly was a pretty looking effect even the slim type creature itself looked pretty a good as an early special effect type of creature in my opinion.
Overall this was honestly a really good special even if this tenth anniversary special aired at least ten to eleven months before the actual tenth anniversary of Doctor Who. Just like with all of the good things that are in this adventure i've discussed the bad things that are in this adventure in this very review (which you are hopefully or possibly currently reading) as such this adventure gets a 7.5 out of 10 from me.
As for where I got the images that I used in this review well I got all of the images that I used in this review from either the official Doctor Who fandom wiki page , Google Images and Wikipedia and if i'm being honest it's hard to for me to say which one is the best website to use if you want to use images from either this particular adventure or from any Doctor Who adventure. Simply because the quality of the images is roughly the exact same across all three websites and so I say use whichever website that you guys either want to use or feel comfortable using since in this case it really doesn't matter since like I said the quality of the image is roughly the exact same across all three of the above mentioned websites and no I will not be doing a review of any episode from the classic era series eight of Doctor Who simply because I forgot that the Blu-ray was coming out and by the time that I remembered that the Blu-ray for season eight of the classic era of Doctor Who was being released it was already freaking sold out.
