To celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the longest-running science-fiction show in the world, I’ll be taking weekly looks at some of my own personal favourite stories and arcs, from the old and new series, with a view to encapsulating the sublime, the clever and the fiendishly odd of the BBC’s Doctor Who.
Delta and the Bannermen originally aired in 1987.
Hey, this doesn’t look like Disneyland.
No, well, according to my reckoning, it seems to be somewhere in, er, Wales.
– Murray and the Doctor get in touch with the “real fifties”
Delta and the Bannermen is quite terrible. That said, it’s not terrible in the same way that, say, Timelash or Attack of the Cybermen or The Twin Dilemma is terrible. It doesn’t offer a demonstration of everything intrinsically wrong with this era of the show, and the frustration isn’t compounded by the sense that nobody producing the show seems interested in watching it and maybe learning from their mistakes.
While that is certainly a promising thing from the perspective of the show, it doesn’t really do the viewer that much good when they are watching it.
Large ham, incoming!
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