Commentary 2 by Tom Baker, Mary Tamm and script or Anthony Read.Commentary 1 by Bruce Purchase and director Pennant Roberts.6′ 01″) – design, production and publicity stills for the story 0′ 40″) – BBC1 trailer for the forthcoming season. 2′ 06″) – off-air continuity links from the story’s original BBC1 transmission. Featuring interviews with actors Nigel Plaskitt, Paul Seed, Mary Tamm, Prentis Hancock and Stuart Fell, with Doctor Who Magazine or Clayton Hickman. 19′ 36″) – cast and crew look back at the making of the story.
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Featuring interviews with Graham Williams in extracts from two 1980’s conventions, actors Tom Baker, Louise Jameson, Mary Tamm, Lalla Ward (her first interview for the DVD range), John Leeson and Paul Seed, script ors Anthony Read and Douglas Adams (interviewed in 1992), writers Bob Baker, Dave Martin (his last interview) and David Fisher, directors Pennant Roberts, Michael Hayes, Ken Grieve, Christopher Barry and Darrol Blake, designers Richard McManan-Smith and Dick Coles, visual effects designers Mat Irvine and Colin Mapson, new series writer Gareth Roberts, DWAS founder member Jeremy Bentham, and Graham’s widow, Jackie Williams. 60′ 00″) – the flagship documentary of this boxset, this new 60-minute documentary written by Nicholas Pegg and produced by Ed Stradling, covers not only the Key to Time season but the entirety of Graham Williams’ eventful three years as producerof Doctor Who in the late 1970s.
Getting the fourth segment of the Key was the simplest part of the trip to Tara, which is a nice respite compared to the other planets they have encountered. The search for the third portion of the Key takes The Doctor and Romana to the English countryside and an ancient stone circle called The Nine Travelers. The Search for the Key’s second portion The Doctor and Romana to the well-heeled world of Zanak, where the inhabitants are blissfully unaware that space pirates are in charge.
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The Doctor and Romana track the first-segment of the Key to a remote planet full of con artists, spies, and 32-year-long winters. Overall - 8/10.Join the popular Fourth Doctor (Tom Baker) and the beautiful Romana (Mary Tamm) on a 26-episode intergalactic treasure hunt for the six segments of all-powerful Key of Time. I am a bit sad that it gets a lot of criticism.
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Tom Baker and Mary Tamm are as effervescent as ever as The Doctor and Romana and while the story is no classic it is a solid serial in my opinion. I also enjoy the political clash of the human characters who are well acted with the wonderful Phillip Madoc especially convincing.
There is an ecological underlying theme of exploiting resources and lack of regard for nature or indigenous people as well as another element of superstition versus science.
The swamp beast looks poor by the standards of the best technology of the time or by modern possibilities but I feel it was a decent effort for the age this was made and it is a fun creation with some enjoyable scenes of its attacks. If you replaced the swampies with effectively created alien natives it would eliminate that issue so is it really a major problem? I feel the writing is strong enough and the acting decent enough to gloss over the visual shortcomings. I think that given the restrictions of the age and budget that is forgivable. The acting of the 'swampie' natives is nothing impressive but not awful and their poor visual creation with green make up and dreadlock wigs is really the only issue that really stands out as silly. It is nowhere near his best work but it has good dialogue, some thoughtful themes, some believable writing of characters and some smart humour. The thing that lifts it for me is the writing from the great Robert Holmes. The storyline of The Doctor and Romana searching for the next segment of the key to time on a planet being exploited by outsiders for its resources and encountering an uprising from the natives as well as a giant swamp monster is a pretty run of the mill setting for a filler story but is a reasonable enough plot. It is nothing special and pales in comparison to the greatest serials but it is a perfectly decent, standard adventure in my opinion rather than the weak disappointment that others seem to see it as. Review for all 4 parts: I think this is a very underrated story.
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