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Classic Who - "The Visitation" Part 3/4 Full Reaction - Sesskasays

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Andrew Vignaux

"I feel as though you've just killed an old friend.", The Doctor, "The Visitation" The sonic screw-driver - oh no!!! JNT didn't like the sonic screw-driver feeling that it made it too easy for the Doctor to get out of any situation. RTD had the sonic in New Who for exactly that reason - the Doctor is seldom delayed by a silly locked door and we can get more quickly to the real story. "How do you feel, now?", "Groggy, sore and bad-tempered.", "Oh, almost your old self.", The Doctor and Tegan, "The Visitation" "Try and think what the Doctor would do if he were here.", "He'd probably get angry.", "I said empathise, not be silly.", Nyssa and Adric, "The Visitation" "Come on, Doctor, be grateful. If nothing else, it saved us a long walk.", "I *like* long walks.", Tegan and the Doctor, "The Visitation" There are some nice quotes in this story - good interactions between our various TARDIS pairs. And the story was quite well rated at the time - 10 million viewers - that's on the very high end. "Won't it confuse the archaeologists?", Nyssa, "The Visitation" There's a joke from an old 1960s comedy radio show a bit like this. I wonder if Eric Saward had got the joke from there. (It's not a new idea when you time-travel into the past and leave some high-tech gadget behind, but I always think of the ISIRTA show when I hear this line.) "I have a sneaking suspicion this fire should be allowed to run its course.", The Doctor, "The Visitation" I'm not sure what details you know about the Great Fire of London in 1666. It burned down a huge area of the old medieval city of London. The Catholics were blamed. The French were blamed. The Dutch were blamed. But, strangely, there is no mention in the historical record of a TARDIS. The fire was supposed to have started in a bakery (so it was probably an accident) in Pudding Lane and that was what was on the sign the Doctor noticed. And in the next scene the Doctor hums the "London's Burning" tune. One of diaries I enjoy reading is the diary of Samuel Pepys who lived in London and kept a daily (private) diary during the 1660s. He is one of the sources of this time that gives us a first-person reaction to the events of that week and the aftermath. A tie-in to New Who: The Twelfth Doctor warns Ashildr/Me of the upcoming Great Fire. She saucily replies: "Maybe I start it" but the Doctor replies: "No, that was the Terileptils." And I do like the red and green and blue Terileptils at the end.