Returning to present day Earth the Doctor & Sarah discover London is deserted.
They soon discover UNIT is managing the emergency. As the mystery deepens they learn that dinosaurs have invaded London.
Why? Who is behind it? What’s the goal? Who’s the traitor?
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#InvasionOfTheDinosaurs
#nowwatching #DoctorWho #InvasionOfTheDinosaurs 💿📺🦖🦕 First time I saw this story was on #UKGold, starting Monday July 5th 1993, an episode a night, with episode 1 in B&W. They aired the omnibus version on the Sunday, before episode 6 had been shown, which was nice. 😎
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#DisplacedDinosaurs
The reference is to the somewhat infamous #InvasionoftheDinosaurs and its wild overestimation of the ability to portray the the title animals with technology available to the mid-70s BBC. (1/3)
Aside from #Courtney's gloriously deadpan performance balancing #Pertwee, the #Brigadier was the #ThirdDoctor's perfect ally because he was capable of playing the politics of the 🇬🇧 #MilitaryIndustrialComplex at the highest level as #InvasionoftheDinosaurs shows. But equally that meant he would (1/2)
The conspiracy aspects of #InvasionoftheDinosaurs land better than remembered. #Yates was the only choice to be the traitor, really. It was too valuable to keep #Benton's and the #Brigadier's characters inviolate. But nobody ever cared one way or another about Yates's moral fate. So his (1/2)
Holy cats, I forgot #InvasionoftheDinosaurs was the debut of the #Whomobile; #Brigadier's face as he watches that thing drive away for the first time should be a meme.
The great pleasure of #InvasionoftheDinosaurs and of 1975 #DoctorWho in general is watching #ElizabethSladen seize her moment and start to take over the whole show. #RogerDelgado having tragically died early in production, #JonPertwee was very rapidly over the role, and it was high time for (1/3)
The thing about #InvasionoftheDinosaurs is that even if the execution of the conspiracy thriller elements is dopey, the conception is very interesting, and unsurprisingly from #MalcolmHulke has some actual politics of substance at the heart of it.
Now there's the unavoidable fact that the (1/2)
After meeting and cautiously feeling each other out in the previous story, #InvasionoftheDinosaurs is where #SarahJaneSmith and the #ThirdDoctor settle into their all-too-brief friendship. Fun fact: by classification methods based on common descent, #birds are literally a type of #dinosaur. (1/2)
It’s easy to forget #CarmenSilvera is in #InvasionOfTheDinosaurs
No one mention #MadameEdith, or the #FallenMadonnaWithTheBigBoobies!
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I’ve got classic #drwho story, #InvasionOfTheDinosaurs on in the background.
1) #PeterMiles was in full #Nyder mode.
2) The BBC spent most of the dinosaur budget on #Chewits
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Work in progress test run... #invasionofthedinosaurs
There we go. I've used as much of the chroma recovery as possible. I can't quite make out what is to the left of that front door but I'm bound to at some point lol #invasionofthedinosaurs
The extent of the colour loss in this scene isn't very obvious at first. I am experimenting with reintroducing colour to it. It's not clear what colour the van was so I have just taken a guess #invasionofthedinosaurs
