MORTON DILL: No, no Mam. No, I...I’m from Alabama.
This was an over the top hoot.
The premise of the piece is that the Daleks are chasing the Doctor and company through time and space in their own bigger-on-the-inside time machine. The TARDIS needs twelve minutes to recharge before it can dematerialize again. The travelers are looking to either shake the Daleks or meet them someplace where they can be dealt with.
The first stop is the observation tower of the Empire State Building in the then near-future date of 1966. Peter Purves who is introduced as the new companion in a few episodes does a turn as Morton Dill, a hick from the sticks visiting the big city.
Purves is really fun to watch. Ang and I found ourselves laughing on and off throughout this one and country bumpkin Morton Dill got us started.
The scene then shifts to an English sailing ship. Barbara wants to explore, but Ian gets seasick the second he steps out of the time machine. Barbara is luxuriating in the sea air doing her "king of the world" when an officer grabs her and calls her a stowaway. Vicki catches sight of this and gets above him with a belaying pin.
She knocks him out cold and then does the same to Ian when he comes to tell the ladies that they can depart.
The Daleks show up and everyone jumps overboard in terror. We discover afterwards that the ship is the Mary Celeste.
There have been some odd Dalek sounds in this story so far. I mentioned the grunting as the Dalek pulled itself out of the sand yesterday. Tonight we heard a Dalek scream as it fell in to the ocean and there was a point where Ang and I swear that a Dalek was muttering out basic math after it was asked to convert some figures.
This was a popcorn episode and there's nothing wrong with that.
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| I have no idea who this is, but she has a large hat. |
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