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Classic Who "State of Decay" Parts 1&2 Full Reaction! (Patreon)

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Ryan

This may have been the toughest production of Tom Baker's tenure, and that's really saying something. He and Lalla Ward had just gone through a nasty breakup and could barely even look at each other, with that tension very much coming across onscreen. And neither of them were getting on well with Matthew Waterhouse, considering him unprofessional and irritated by his attempts to befriend them. Apparently Baker even came close to physically attacking Waterhouse once in response to being advised how to say a line, and had to be restrained by director Peter Moffat (no relation to Steven). And there was acrimony on the production level too, as the script editor was strongly against putting this kind of Hammer Horror story with what are essentially vampires into the show (one wonders how he'd react to certain episodes of the current series). But despite it all, Ward and Waterhouse both name it as their favorite of their stories.

Joe Crammond

for anyone wondering why we don't see much of K-9 or Adric (at least interacting with the Doctor or Romana in Adric's case), Terrance Dicks had to re-write this storyline as when originally written, it only featured the Doctor and Leela, we got Fang Rock instead

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"