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Classic Who - "State of Decay" Part 1/2 Full Reaction - EA

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Andrew Vignaux

"Ooh, look at their makeup!", sesskasays, "State of Decay" reaction I, and I'm probably the only one, see this as the third in an extremely loosely behind-the-scenes connected set of stories. Back when Terrance Dicks was script editor in the last season of Jon Pertwee he gave a story commission to Robert Holmes which became "The Time Warrior". Bob was not enthusiastic with the idea of a medieval story but Terrance told him to get on with it. When Bob Holmes was the script editor, Terrance submitted a story suggestion to do with vampires but because the BBC were already doing a non-Doctor Who Vampire production, Bob suggested another story idea which became "Horror of Fang Rock". Terrance wasn't enthusiastic about a writing story set in a lighthouse but Bob told him to get on with it. So, finally, Terrance gets to write that vampire story which was bumped in Season 15 and we get "State of Decay". "That's a lot of bats!", sesskasays, "State of Decay" reaction I think I like the "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil" actions the peasants use in supplication. We have a stowaway companion! We haven't had one since Zoe at the end of "The Wheel in Space". (I don't consider Sarah Jane getting into the TARDIS as stowing away - she was just being investigative) However, I note that after discovering him, K9 doesn't sit Adric down and tell him about their last Dalek encounter like the Doctor did with Zoe. "Well, it's quite a technocothica you've got here", The Doctor, "State of Decay"