The Tiger Who Came To Tea: Dr. Who and the Daleks

What the actual... WRONG MUSIC.

This does not sound remotely creepy or alien AT ALL.

50dw50@50dw50

its quite catchy though

‏@GreenLeftie

I will leave a Lava Lamp in my window in homage!

50dw50@50dw50

so close you can feel its fire?

Physics for the inquiring mind. The science of science. The Eagle.

Dr. Who and his grandchildren, Susie Who and Barbara Who are waiting for Barbara's boyfriend Ian Chesterton.

50dw50@50dw50

Susie Who sounds like a punk singer

Ian turns up and sits on some chocolates, so Dr. & Susie Who. show him their latest experiment, Tardis.

Tardis looks like a police box on the outside, but inside is a room full of crap.

Ian sits on a plunger and Tardis is off...

What a beautifully built and lit set that petrified jungle is.

Susie finds a beautiful flower which Ian crushes mercilessly when he hears Barbara scream at a metal lizard...

50dw50@50dw50

mr moffat liked the exterior at least, the inside is a bit terrible

Bek Hobbes@Greebobek

Funny how most of the Moffat series has been based upon these films. Now we have a Doctor who resembles Cushing.

I think to a large degree we already had the absent minded professor in Matt Smith.

Bek Hobbes@Greebobek

And now we have his double. I hope Capaldi grows a moustache.

We're more closely mirroring the TV serial at this point.

Some lovely Disney-esque music in this part. I bet Dr. Who has a bottomless bag like Mary Poppins'.

There is something that looks like it could be the console there, but the lever for taking off's separate from it.

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Slightly different scenario here in that it's Ian's fault they're here.

Meaning there's not quite the same moral highground for him when Dr. Who fakes the business with the fluid link.

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The local drug dealer's left them some free samples.

Some risible comedy guff here with Ian unable to pass the automatic doors. Ooh sliding doors, futuristic!

50dw50@50dw50

its a bit painful

Must admit I prefer the stronger colours on the previous DVD version to this more washed out look on Blu-Ray.

Sadly we're denied any equivalent of the part 1 cliffhanger.

There's been a clever economy here - 20 mins in & we've covered a serviceable equivalent to An Unearthly Child & the 1st 30mins of #TheDaleks, with the villains themselves revealed no sooner or later than we needed.

50dw50@50dw50

the TV version does bot feel padded but the film condenses the plot beautifully and does not leave anything out

Any future movie version could certainly learn from this structure.

Hilarious that the Daleks are colourful as hell, but only seem to have black and white TV.

In this more serious little scene as the others worry about Susan, Roy Castle really acts his socks off.

He's momentarily able to slip the shackles of comedy goof and give us a real character in his delivery of those few lines.

In this version, the Thals really are horrible mutations: they've evolved horrible wigs and blue eye make up.

The Dalek control room is mostly just monitors, but for sheer size the TV production team must have been jealous.

The Daleks are into stark functionality. And lava lamps.

One Dalek has a novel suggestion: "Why not exterminate them?"

Hilarious talk & walk scene between the black & red Daleks here. Total myth that the West Wing invented that.

This one Dalek talks ridiculously slowly until attacked. "Why... do... not... the... doors... close? Helpmehelpmehelpme!"

50dw50@50dw50

building up his screen time

Chris Cwej@chriscwej

it's related to that Ogron in Day of the Daleks.

Bek Hobbes@Greebobek

Ah, that would be the William Shatner Dalek.

Shat-lek sees Barbara through a vaselin-ed lens & rips his shirt (but not his collar) in the fight scene.

Bek Hobbes@Greebobek

Shat-lek? Sounds like something old men use to stop themselves pooping themselves silly.

*must resist Captain's log jokes*

*fail*

In this version, rather than being stuck in the Dalek, Ian's "disguise" simply won't fit in the lift.

So how do all the other Daleks get about? Who *else* are the lifts for!

50dw50@50dw50

i like the irony of fire extinguishers causing explosions

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Not that the Thals are presumptious, but having been offered food, they've brought GIANT whicker baskets.

Bek Hobbes@Greebobek

The Daleks couldn't have built the city. If they need static, how could they possibly have constructed it from scratch?

The Dalek creatures must have ventured out of their casings to start construction. Massive H&S no-no doing building work nekkid. But that's just how the Daleks roll.

Bek Hobbes@Greebobek

The Daleks are naked in their metal shells? How gauche!

A plan devised whilst off their Dalek bumps on radiation & lava lamps, I suspect.

Bek Hobbes@Greebobek

Off his head on 'radiation pills', Davy Ross suggests building a bumper car and thus the trouble starts...

"Yes, I would do it! With that power, I would be up above Archie Gemmill's goal against Holland in 1978!"

Bek Hobbes@Greebobek

That is the prequel, Dalekspotting. A young Scotsman goes to Skaro and ends up with a bunch of smack-head snot monsters.

Trying hard not to picture Begbie as Nyder now. "Thank you, that's what I wanted to know." *throws pint glass over shoulder*

Well that's that, they've escaped the city and are ready to leave. That was a short film.

I like that they manage to edit down about 3 episodes into 10 minutes with the trek back to the city here.

Dr. Who has burnt Susie's buns. "Madam!"

This chasm-jumping bit's mad. Their rope is only tied to each other, if 1 falls they both fall!

Barbara's bouffant is pretty indestructable. Ian better keep that burning torch away from it though.

Unsurprisingly, when suicidal Thal falls, he nearly takes Ian with him. In this version he's still alive...

I recently watched the *proper* version, mis-remembered & thought it had the same outcome, but in that he *does* die.

Shame the Daleks' alarm is literally just a bell ringing. I expected some more sci-fi sounding awooga. :-(

"There were no Daleks at the walls, we came into the city easily" Oh, now you figure that out, *after* Ian, Barbara & the Chuckle brothers have trekked through the lake of mutations and jumped chasms.

I don't really see how we're supposed to feel their fire with all those extinguishers going off.

And that's the Daleks extreminated. Piece of cake.

When they exit Tardis there, you can see that all 4 inner walls are painted white.

Ian can't wait to get home and try out that splash-proof cape. Dr. Who slips on his patented Cush-puppies (as *not* seen in Star Wars) as he kicks back in the good ship Tardis, job done.