Not all blobs of hate wear travel machines with plungers attached. Mike Smith, serving as potential love interest for Ace before she and the viewer learn what truly resides in the heart of this seemingly dashing hero.
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The guest cast does a great job, from Brigadier stand-in Group Captain Gilmore (Simon Williams) to dutiful scientist and Barbara surrogate Rachel Jensen (Pamela Salem), but the late Dursley McLinden has perhaps the hardest task as Sgt.
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The old show didn't often give us such insight into the Doctor's own troubled thoughts, and the result is a beloved highlight for the McCoy era and the series in general.
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There's even a heartfelt, contemplative scene that stands out in classic Who, a moment of quiet and charm when the Doctor sits down for some tea and ruminates on the future with a waiter in a cafe.
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Davies when he brought the series back in 2005. Sure, some of the commentary is heavy-handed, but the show was really trying to be relevant and it did a fine job for the time and its own limitations.īesides its pleasing adherence to the show's latter-day Dalek continuity and a funereal atmosphere punctuated by rousing action, there's a polish to the production and a depth here (and in a few of the later McCoy/Aldred adventures) that points directly to the style employed by showrunner Russell T. The Daleks had often been a metaphor for racial hatred and were directly equated with the Nazis in the classic 1974 origin story, "Genesis of the Daleks." As recently as this year's "Victory of the Daleks," that association to the other historic "master race" is still being hammered home, but here in this story the exploration of that theme took on a frankness previously unseen in a series aimed at young viewers and their families. It has an evocative setting that specifically ties into both the fictional and real-world timing of the very first story, "An Unearthly Child" (including visits to both I.M Foreman's junkyard and Coal Hill school), it showcases the series' greatest monsters and it has a weighty undercurrent of social relevance, as Ace discovers that bigotry can come disguised with a kind face. " Remembrance of the Daleks" is not the show's official 25th anniversary special celebration – that honor fell to a story aired later in 1988 called "Silver Nemesis" (more on that one day when it finally hits DVD) – but by all rights it should be.
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Ace is used to "the Professor" always being one step ahead of everyone – including her – but this time even he hasn't prepared for the possibility that in addition to fighting the Doctor and the planet Earth, the Daleks may be waging war on each other! And they're not the only ones, because as history has shown, human beings have a gift for turning on their fellow man for as meaningless a reason as the color of their skin. There's unfinished business to attend to, an ancient Gallifreyan artifact to employ against the most evil force in the universe, and it falls to the Doctor's seventh incarnation to pick up where his first persona left off. It's November 1963 in fact – ringing a bell, Who fans? That's right William Hartnell's First Doctor has only just left with companions Susan, Ian and Barbara as seen in the series' premiere episode, which aired on November 23, 1963, but now we find out the wily old Time Lord left something behind. The Doctor ( Sylvester McCoy) and Ace (Sophie Aldred) arrive in 1963 England just ahead of not one but two Dalek armies.