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Andrew Vignaux

"His cousin will arrive at Schiphol Airport tomorrow morning at ten thirty.", Hostel Receptionist, "Arc of Infinity" Tegan's back!! Is it a massive plot coincidence to be involved in a story with the Doctor again? Who cares? I love it! "Peace and quiet is just what the doctor ordered.", The Doctor, "Arc of Infinity" Well, that didn't happen. The Amsterdam locations are great. They used a lot of locations around the Amsterdam and it really makes it visually interesting. Always nice to have a callback to Leela when we visit Gallifrey. But we have yet another different actor playing Borusa! I realise that it wouldn't really be reasonable to get the previous actor back to play the role, but we are racing through Borusa regenerations like anything - faster than Doctor regenerations! And nice to see Michael Gough back in Who, this time playing Hedin. As we recall, he had previously been the original Celestial Toymaker in 1966. (BTW: I can't wait to get my hands on the new animated release of that.) Michael Gough's got acting credits back into the 1940s and was in lots of British TV. And he later went to on play Alfred in the early "Batman" movies. Elspet Gray (Thalia) doesn't have a big role in this story - but she had a long career stretching back into the 1940s as well. I'm trying to think of something else you would have seen her in - she was in "The Psychiatrist" episode of "Fawlty Towers". She was also in the first season of "Blackadder". "You are extremely privileged, Maxil. It's given to very few to supervise the destruction of a Time Lord.", Castellan, "Arc of Infinity" And Colin Baker(!!!) is bureaucratically intense as Maxil. But, I can't justify the skeletal bird figure - that is certainly not a highlight of the story.

Joe Crammond

of the three companions five has had so far, I feel Nyssa is more suited to his doctor, even Peter Davison agreed when they considered writing her out instead of Adric, the fact that only Nyssa is with the doctor for most of this story shows that, she didn't get much focus last season and this is an improvement already

Steve Webster

This incarnation of Borusa was played by Leonard Sachs, who had previously been Adniral de Coligny in The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve. But he was better known as the wonderfully ebullient MC in the extremely popular Victorian/Edwardian music hall show The Good Old Days, which ran for thirty years from 1953 to 83. Everyone, from the star performers, to the orchestra, to the audience, had to be dressed in period costume and the whole thing was treated as pretty much an actual historical performance - think Talons of Weng-Chiang and Henry Gordon Jago - and the show reached ratings of ten million viewers in its heyday. Assorted clips are all over YouTube, thankfully.