We knew back when it was announced that Disney was acquiring the distribution rights to Doctor Who that there would be alot more spin offs happening. Well to kick of it's anniversary month the BBC have dropped all six episodes of it's first spin-off series as well as announcing the name of the shared Doctor Who universe as well and well it's really one of those episodes that i'm going to be talking about today and so then join me as I review the episode that really celebrated the shows tenth anniversary with the episode in question being called simply just "The Three Doctors" enjoy.
The plot of the episode is when the creator of the experiments that allowed the time lords to travel in time seeks his revenge against the time lords it's up to the first three doctors to stop him meanwhile Jo and Clyde reunite in the Tardis. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about thew actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode 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 episode was in all honesty really good with the story also being really entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Starring in this episode is Jon Pertwee as The Doctor , Patrick Troughton as The Doctor and William Hartnell as The Doctor. Also starring in this episode is Katy Manning as Jo Grant , Nicholas Courtney as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart , John Levene as Sergeant Benton , Stephen Thorne as Omega , Roy Purcell as President , Clyde Pollitt as Chancellor , Graham Leaman as A Time Lord , Rex Robinson as Dr. Tyler , Laurie Webb as Ollis , Patricia Prior as Mrs. Ollis and The Sarah Jane Adventures star Daniel Anthony as Clyde Langer.
Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode 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 episode was in all honesty. Really good with all of the cast both in the original episode and in the newly filmed scenes really do turn in some really good performances with this really being helped by the fact that not only are these a bunch of really good actors but also because of the fact that this episodes script again both in the original episode and in the newly filmed scenes as well is just so good that all the cast just have to do is say the lines as they are written and a good performance will come out of them naturally.
With this show we see the launch of the Whoniverse which us the brand name for anything to do with Doctor Who and all of it's related products. With not only this show launching but also a new documentary hosted by David Tennant and over eight hundred hours of classic Doctor Who which doesn't include all of the episodes mostly because of the fact that alot of the episodes but in the case of An Un Earthly Child it's because the son of the episodes writer falsely believes that alot of the Doctor Who iconography that was introduced in that episode was first thought up by his father but either way we have never had and mostly never will have this much Doctor Who all in one place with the whole idea of the Whoniverse really is to basically be Doctor Who's answer to the modern day cinematic universe.
The best way that I can describe this show to those of you who are outside of the UK right now is that it's basically Doctor Who's answer to Mystery Science Theater 3000. As both shows do have their own plot lines with their own cast and crew working on them but they also integrate either a full length movie or in this case a full length episode of classic Doctor Who however that's where the similarities end as where as Mystery Science Theater 3000 frequently makes edits to the movies that there showing and has alot of host segments in each episode this show leaves the original episode untouched an only has two host segments one at the start of the episode and one at the end of the episode or at least that's how it was interms of this episode.
Altho I will admit that while this episode is mostly perfect that are some issues that I have with this episode. Like the fact that even this episode is being told from Jo's point of view we are being shown things that she wouldn't have seen and as such this is a case were removing those scenes would have made sense in the context of this show the other really major issue that I have with this episode is the fact Clyde really doesn't get alot of love and attention in this episode which does make sense as he never traveled with the Doctor but f your going to go to the trouble to bring back a character that hasn't been seen on screen for the first time in well over ten years then you really should give him some attention even if it's just him telling us what he's been up to in the years since we last him.
I have to admit that even tho it was rather understandable as why we couldn't have gotten all three of the actors playing The Doctor in the same room together. It still would have been to see how all three doctors would have acted when they are in the same room as each other and while we do get hints of what a scene would have looked like thanks to William Hartnell not being able to commit to studio filming due to his health all we get is his doctor being trapped and only appearing on the TARDIS TV screen with his doctor acting like an older brother type of figure to the second and third doctors younger brothers which is something that would have been great to see with all of three of them in the same room as each other and it would have been fun seeing how all three of them would have come up with a solution to defeat Omega.
Noe then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and forty two minuets and five seconds. This is a bit on the long side for the episode to last as even tho both the newly filmed scenes and the original episodes have plenty of story to help tom cover that large amount of running time there are parts of the stories that do drag on a bit and really don't feel needed in the grand scheme like for example we don't really need to see as much of the time lords as we do in this episode and the ending with Jo and Clyde could have been trimmed down a bit as the ending really does start to drag on a bit but I will however admit that this episode really does have some really good pacing to it tho.
So now then as this is an action show that means that I have to actually talk about thew actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode 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 episode was in all honesty really cheesy at best. As even tho they obviously make it obvious when there using a stunt double it's when we get to Jon Pertwee's but fight scene where things get really cheesy as for some strange reason the whole thing is show in slow motion and mostly consists of both The Doctor and the creature that he's facing flipping each other with them occasionally chopping over and that's really it which just makes the whole fight look really bad and really cheesy as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Overall this was a rather solid both from the original episode and the newly filmed scenes as well and incase your wondering you can only watch this show on BBCIPlayer as the whole show was funded by the BBC with no money coming in from Disney with this show so far being a really great way to start to celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of this truly iconic show 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 episode in this very review and as such that means that this very episode earns itself a grand old core of exactly a 7 out of 10 from me.
Now then as 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 age and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from these very episodes that I used in this very review being Google Images simply just due to the fact that really alot if not all of the images that are on Google Images are all really fairly high in quality and as well as being fairly freaking high in definition.