"Well, I suppose you might say that I am a citizen of the universe...and a gentleman, to boot!"
"Incidentally a happy Christmas to all of you at home!"
So the poisonous atmosphere outside the TARDIS turned out to be Liverpool circa 1966.
I will say three things about this scene.
There is an in-joke between Hartnell and an extra who was in The Crusade.
This was supposed to have featured a crossover between Doctor Who and the popular police drama Z Cars.
The more that I think about it, the more Sara (not Jane) sounds like Leela.
After some uninspired hi-jinks, the Doctor and friends dematerialize and appear in the middle of a 1920's movie set. We are treated to the Keystone cops, Sara (not Jane) getting asked to take her clothes off, and every cliche of movie making from the silent era including interstial cards, dramatic piano music, and a fiendish death trap involving a sawmill.
This is 100% pure padding. They didn't want Christmas viewers turning in to witness death and destruction so they decided to insert some random, humorous, trips in the TARDIS. The silent screen stuff seems to work better than the police station scenes.
This is the one that ends with the Doctor breaking the fourth wall.
On the plus side, I believe that the rest of the serial is written by Dennis Spooner instead of Terry Nation. Although, it is based on a Terry Nation idea.
Next up: Volcano
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