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<blockquote data-quote="Willie Oleson" data-source="post: 424273" data-attributes="member: 8">Planet Of Giants (31-10-1964 / 14-11-1964)[ATTACH=full]56454[/ATTACH]It took two weeks to show this story? They must have been a very patient audience.I had expected them to land on a planet inhabited by giant alien spiders or something like that, but no, it&#039;s the Tardis version of The Incredible Shrinking Man.Needless to say I thoroughly enjoyed this enlarged world in which the mundane becomes extremely challenging.As usual it starts with an unexpected malfunction inside the Tardis (does it ever not&nbsp; go wrong?) and in this case it&#039;s an error in the materialisation process that is an essential part of time travel. I can&#039;t believe I&#039;m saying this but this actually makes sense to me.They actually arrive on planet Earth but it&#039;s far from a home sweet home. Reduced to the size of ants they have to overcome many physical obstacles and on top of that they stumble upon a dangerous corporate scheme and murder.Barbara sprains her ankle and somehow this looks familiar, maybe she&#039;s prone to this sort of accidents. At least it doesn&#039;t affect her bouffant which seems to get bigger in every episode.For an old-fashioned TV series primarely aimed at a younger audience it shouldn&#039;t be too surprising that we get some educational references every now and then, but not so much that it makes the dialogue sound unnatural.Insects are important because they help to make things grow, and it&#039;s interesting that in this episode none of the &quot;giant&quot; animals pose a serious threat to our beloved time travellers.The combination of the telephone service and the intentional &quot;bombing&quot; of the can that contains the dubious insecticide spray made me think of an operation by the résistance during WWII.Perhaps the most surprising thing about these episodes is that it allows the characters to become irritated or even a little catty, and it&#039;s usually very funny when the Doctor bosses his companions around or make them feel intellectually inferior. This makes it look more vibrant than the sanitised comradeship that we usually see/saw in children&#039;s TV programmes.Susan Scream Factor: 5/10The next episode will see the return (of what will become many returns) of the Daleks. They&#039;re so entertaining they don&#039;t actually need a story, they just have to behave very Dalek-sy.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Willie Oleson, post: 424273, member: 8"] Planet Of Giants (31-10-1964 / 14-11-1964) [ATTACH type="full"]56454[/ATTACH] It took two weeks to show this story? They must have been a very patient audience. I had expected them to land on a planet inhabited by giant alien spiders or something like that, but no, it's the Tardis version of The Incredible Shrinking Man. Needless to say I thoroughly enjoyed this enlarged world in which the mundane becomes extremely challenging. As usual it starts with an unexpected malfunction inside the Tardis (does it ever [I]not[/I] go wrong?) and in this case it's an error in the materialisation process that is an essential part of time travel. I can't believe I'm saying this but this actually makes sense to me. They actually arrive on planet Earth but it's far from a home sweet home. Reduced to the size of ants they have to overcome many physical obstacles and on top of that they stumble upon a dangerous corporate scheme and murder. Barbara sprains her ankle and somehow this looks familiar, maybe she's prone to this sort of accidents. At least it doesn't affect her bouffant which seems to get bigger in every episode. For an old-fashioned TV series primarely aimed at a younger audience it shouldn't be too surprising that we get some educational references every now and then, but not so much that it makes the dialogue sound unnatural. Insects are important because they help to make things grow, and it's interesting that in this episode none of the "giant" animals pose a serious threat to our beloved time travellers. The combination of the telephone service and the intentional "bombing" of the can that contains the dubious insecticide spray made me think of an operation by the résistance during WWII. Perhaps the most surprising thing about these episodes is that it allows the characters to become irritated or even a little catty, and it's usually very funny when the Doctor bosses his companions around or make them feel intellectually inferior. This makes it look more vibrant than the sanitised comradeship that we usually see/saw in children's TV programmes. Susan Scream Factor: 5/10 The next episode will see the return (of what will become many returns) of the Daleks. They're so entertaining they don't actually need a story, they just have to behave very Dalek-sy. [/QUOTE]

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