Dr Who Review, Part 7 - The Colin Baker Era

The seventh episode in my ongoing series of reviews, with analysis, of the BBC science-fiction show, Doctor Who.

In this part, the era of the Sixth Doctor, Colin Baker, is considered. We take a look at how Peter Davison's departure spurred John Nathan-Turner to gamble with the creation of an incarnation wildly different from what went before. We consider how social hysteria informed one of the stand-out stories of the era before moving on to look at how the show came under fire from an executive who had no love for science-fiction.

Chapter Selection:
0:00 An actor prepares
1:15 The gamble of the Sixth Doctor
3:34 Arc of Infinity
5:13 Colin Baker
9:10 A wedding
11:08 That costume
12:39 The Sixth Doctor
17:56 The Twin Dilemma
23:32 Season 22
28:03 Vengeance on Varos
30:10 The social/historical context
34:33 The acid bath scene
37:47 The Two Doctors
40:15 Revelation of the Daleks
44:24 Enter Michael Grade
46:15 Doctor in Distress
48:23 The Trial of a Timelord
53:48 A difficult phone call

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