Peter Davison
Season Nineteen
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Peter Davison |
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| Script Editor: Anthony Root |
558. Part One 18.01.1982 6.55pm - 7.20pm 8.6M/66th 559. Part Two 19.01.1982 7.05pm - 7.30pm 8.8M/61st 560. Part Three 25.01.1982 6.55pm - 7.20pm 9.1M/63rd 561. Part Four 26.01.1982 7.05pm - 7.30pm 9.6M/53rd
Also on board are four groups of androids designed to look like Greeks, Chinese, Mayans and Aboriginal Austrailians. The androids perform many dances known as recreationals.
The Monarch plans to poison Earth and re-populate it with millions of his androids. The Doctor locks many of the androids into their ritual dancing before destroying the Monarch with his own poison.
Episode ?: Look closely at the Chinese Dragon to spot the dancers underneath, dressed in their most authentic Ming Dynasty jeans and T-shirts!
Episode ?: In the room where the TARDIS is when something visits it, not the crew or the Doctor, a member of the studio staff is seen hiding behind a crate in the foreground.
Episode ?: The scene with the Doctor space-walking and using a rebounded cricket ball to propel himself back to the TARDIS would have Isaac Newton spinning in his grave! As anyone with at least a half-decent knowledge of basic physics would tell you, the Doctor couldn't have been propelled backwards that fast by such a relatively small object as a cricket ball. What would happen, if the Doctor were to actually try it, would be this: After releasing the ball in the first place, he would have started moving backwards by the action of throwing the ball. [Remember Newton's Third Law?] And not just moving in a straight line, mind you - he would have spun backwards in a slow cartwheel as a result of pitching the ball cricket-style, as he did. Assuming he was lucky enough to get a perfectly perpendicular bounce from that spacecraft, the ball would have caught up with him, impacting with whatever part of his body was facing that way at the time, increasing the rate of his spinning motion.
