This lord is well past his time
- Publication: Sunday Express
- Date: 1989-09-10
- Author: John Russell
- Page: 39
- Language: English
DR WHO said it all really, as he remarked in the opening moments of the 26th year of desperately low budget adventures: "This could be the beginning of something terrible."
Now played by Sylvester McCoy, Dr Who (BBC 1, Wednesday) faced the usual predictably daft situation this time it's a stranded nuclear convoy mixed in with that old favourite, the Knights of the Round Table with understandable gloom.
Trying to look frightened when attacked by a lumbering oaf in armour, firing a ray gun that looked about as life-threatening as a damp sparkler, would stretch any actor.
The only variation in the long-running theme appears to be a hint of fashionable, anti-military "greening" of the twittish time lord.
When the curvaceous Brigadier Bambera (Angela Bruce) failed to detect his amazing brainpower, he snorted: "Among all the varied wonders of the universe there's nothing so firmly clamped shut as the military mind."
Meanwhile out of blissful retirement was racing a slightly less alluring Brigadier, the famous Mr Lethbridge-Stewart.
Of course it had been obvious from the opening frames, when he insisted "My blood and thunder days are over", that he would be back in action by the end of the episode.
Dr Who aficionados are said to love all this deeply predictable twaddle and less than special effects.
Caption: McCoy: Another Who too many
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