Story Title: The Sensorites
Episode Count: 6 Series: 1 Story No: 7
Doctor: 1st Companions: Ian, Barbara & Susan
Date(s) Watched: Monday 29th December 2008 (Episodes 1-4) & Tuesday 30th December 2008 (Episodes 5 & 6)
So after the rather good Keys Of Marinus & great Aztecs I was hoping that the series was on a role. Sadly with the Sensorites this wasn’t the case. Oh hum, what can I say that is positive about this story? Well, Hartnell is absolutely superb throughout the entire story, playing the role with aplomb, Ian is also great as well, especially in the “ill scenes” where William Russell plays an ill Ian convincingly. However Barbara is sadly missing for a large chunk of this story which kind of takes something away from the story sadly.
As for the Sensorites themselves, erm, well they looked like a really poor, early concept of the Ood, in fact the costumes looked like something a child would have come up with after watching Planet Of The Ood. I’m really struggling with this story; it was slow, dull and tedious & never really went anywhere. I found the City Administrators & his “sidekick” (seeing as a name wasn’t given to him I’ve decided to call him sidekick) were more comedic than threatening. I also found the City Administrators dislike of the humans somewhat OTT at times.
Even by episode 6 I found the City Administrators further attempts to destroy the humans more like an example of episode padding rather than actually being part of the plot, along with the appearance of the humans in the aqueduct (they may have been in the plot somewhere but the story was so dull that I had forgot if they had been mentioned in the story earlier on)
Overall Rating: 1/5 – The first real turkey, only Hartnell saves it from being less than 1/5, just pointless.
Episode Count: 6 Series: 1 Story No: 7
Doctor: 1st Companions: Ian, Barbara & Susan
Date(s) Watched: Monday 29th December 2008 (Episodes 1-4) & Tuesday 30th December 2008 (Episodes 5 & 6)
So after the rather good Keys Of Marinus & great Aztecs I was hoping that the series was on a role. Sadly with the Sensorites this wasn’t the case. Oh hum, what can I say that is positive about this story? Well, Hartnell is absolutely superb throughout the entire story, playing the role with aplomb, Ian is also great as well, especially in the “ill scenes” where William Russell plays an ill Ian convincingly. However Barbara is sadly missing for a large chunk of this story which kind of takes something away from the story sadly.
As for the Sensorites themselves, erm, well they looked like a really poor, early concept of the Ood, in fact the costumes looked like something a child would have come up with after watching Planet Of The Ood. I’m really struggling with this story; it was slow, dull and tedious & never really went anywhere. I found the City Administrators & his “sidekick” (seeing as a name wasn’t given to him I’ve decided to call him sidekick) were more comedic than threatening. I also found the City Administrators dislike of the humans somewhat OTT at times.
Even by episode 6 I found the City Administrators further attempts to destroy the humans more like an example of episode padding rather than actually being part of the plot, along with the appearance of the humans in the aqueduct (they may have been in the plot somewhere but the story was so dull that I had forgot if they had been mentioned in the story earlier on)
Overall Rating: 1/5 – The first real turkey, only Hartnell saves it from being less than 1/5, just pointless.
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