Doctor Who fans it's been quite a long time since i've last covered a classic Doctor Who serial and well then the serial that i've chosen to review for all today is well and truly iconic. I will well and truly admit that the only reason that I chose this serial to review for all today was that I just fancied watching it and then thus reviewing it and so then join me as I review the serial that is the first ever post regeneration serial with the serial in question being called simply just "The Power Of The Daleks" enjoy.
The plot of this serial is a recently regenerated Doctor takes him and his companions Polly and Ben to the planet Vulcan where a scientist is trying to turn some old enemies of The Doctor's into his slaves and it's up to The Doctor and his companions to save the day before it's far to late. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very serial well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very serial was in all honesty really good and was also rather shockingly suspenseful as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Starring in this serial is Patrick Troughton as The Doctor , Anneke Wills as Polly and Michael Craze as Ben Jackson. Also starring in this serial is Bernard Archard as Bragen , Peter Bathurst as Hensell , Robert James as Lesterson , Nicholas Hawtrey as Quinn , Pamela Ann Davy as Janley , Martin King as The Examiner , Edward Kelsey as Resno , Richard Kane as Valmar , Steven Scott as Kebble and Peter Hawkins as The Voice Of The Daleks.
Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very serial well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very serial was in all honesty really good. With all three of the series main leads turning in some really good performances and this serials guest cast more then holding there own performance wise when compared to the series three main leads that is in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
For the absolutely life of me I cannot find out who did the actual animation for this serial which is a shame. Simply because the actual animation that was actually featured / presented to us in this very serial was in all honesty not that bad for the most part however there where one or two very dodgy looking shots which isn't a knock against the animators but is a more a knock against the BBC who give these animators such a short amount of time to animate six episodes and so then of course we are going to end up with one or two very dodgy looking animated shots in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Daleks creator Terry Nation once said that he didn't like this serial because he felt that they made the Daleks to kind and sweet. I have to disagree because of the fact that they made the Daleks alot more manipulative which to me is alot more scary then them being just a pure force or pure evil since this way you never know what there going to do next and you don't know how there really feeling in any given situation and that right there makes them alot more scarier in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
This episode is iconic for the fact that it's the shows first ever post regeneration episode and this is where we get into the negatives of the serial. Simply because this serial really didn't really explore the effects of regeneration which is to be expected since this was the first post regeneration episode but at the same time I feel that it really would have added something to this serial if they did explore the after effects of regeneration in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
To me if you want any actor to prove that they are The Doctor then you pit them against the Daleks and so having The Second Doctor go against the Daleks in his outing. Is a good way to get across who this character is because no other villain is going to push The Doctor further then The Daleks and so having the Daleks be the first foe that this incarnation of the Doctor goes up against is more then enough to give you a very good idea of who this Doctor is in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Now then while I cannot remember whatever this serials running time even was I do know that for a fact that this serial had a grand total running time of roughly two hours and fifteen minuets. With this serial being six episodes long which is more then enough time and more then enough episode count in order to tell this and do this story some freaking justice and do it well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
So now then since there is some action in this serial that means that I have to actually talk about the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very serial and well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very serial was in all honesty not that bad. With this serials action really making the Daleks look like a real threat which is what you want from an action scene that's featuring the Daleks in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Overall this serial is perhaps the best if not one of the best Dalek serials ever made simply because it makes the Daleks an actual threat which is what you always want a Dalek story to do in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very serial in this very review and as such that means that this very serial erns itself a grand old score of exactly an 8.5 out of 10 from me.
Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from the official Doctor Who fandom wiki page and Google Images. With my personally preferred website that I personally preferred to use to get the images that I personally used in this very review being the wonderful Google Images since all of the images that are currently up and and featured / presented to us on freaking Google Images are all fairly freaking high in freaking quality and as well as being very fairly freaking high in definition.