Hi Sasskia! Nev here. I’m the partner of the actress who plays Peri. Just to say, she did fall down that volcano herself (no stuntman) and yes, she did cut her legs to ribbons. Perhaps the production team shouldn’t have put make up on them to disguise the wounds!
Just wanted to say that the stories you've written for big finish are fantastic. I haven't heard all of your stuff, but I've loved all the ones I have listened to. Kingmaker and Widows assassin are probably my favourites.
@nevfountain Your Big Finish work is absolutely brilliant and so, so wonderfully hilarious. It's hard to pick a favourite between Omega, The Kingmaker, and The Widow's Assassin!
Just have to say Nev if I see you’re a writer on the BF’s I go straight to them. Not dissing the other writers at all but you definitely get “the vibe” for any incarnation.
I feel like Turlough gets forgotten within in the fandom (at least back when I paid attention), but he is genuinely one of my favorite companions. He's just so interesting and different. I'm happy to hear you love him, too!
The Fifth Doctor's most underrated story. It juggles several important elements and milestones but balances and executes them all pretty well. The introduction of Peri, return of The Master which organically links to bringing back and actually utilising Kamelion and, best of all, unravelling the mystery of Turlough's origins. Nicola Bryant (Peri) is a great actress, even if she's saddled with the American accent and this is one of Anthony Ainley's more menacing performances, his relentless pursuit of Peri gives vibes of The Terminator. And the location filming in Lanzarote, Spain really sells the arid, volcanic planet of Sarn.
Yeah, this story had a lot of housekeeping to do - writing out Kamelion, Turlough gets a backstory, introducing the new companion. Sort of clearing the decks to set up the next season. I enjoy it, but there are points at which you can tell it's there to get these plot points sorted.
@@paulhammond6978 I feel it would have been interesting to see Nine visit Turlough, because I feel, in some ways, Turlough was the companion who was the closest to Nine
The scene in which Turlough saves Peri from drowning was disrupted by German nudist, who thought Nicola Bryant was actually drowning, after the man learned that she was just acting, he was very unhappy about it, and later ruined a take filmed on the beach by running through the shot.
Tegan and Turlough are my favourite pairing of companions Jess. Glad you can see how awesome they both are too. Forget the wisdom of fandom. I've found that most of the time it doesn't know what its talking about!!!🤣🤣
A long does happen in this one! Peri processes things pretty quickly, I have to say lol I've always liked Turlough enormously, Mark Strickson gives such conviction to everything he does and you really feel he has an inner life and is thinking independently. He's also a great example of a sarky exterior with a genuinely decent person underneath. He could do almost anything and make it believable. Good chap.
Factoid - The actor playing Malkon (Turlough's brother) is Edward Highmore - in real life he is the father of Freddie Highmore who starred in 'Bates Motel'
Up until you said at the end, I didn't know that Turlough wasn't a liked character. I think he's great! I love having a companion who is a bit more abrasive (and when he first joined, evil). It's a great concept.
Peter Wyngarde, who played Timanov, was quite a character in real life. He variously claimed to have been born in 1924, 1927, 1933, or 1937, and to have been born in either Singapore or Marseilles, and claimed various different fathers.
I also always enjoyed Turlough as a companion, he's definitely one of the most underrated and he only has a handful of Big Finish stories between the last story and this one to focus on him and 5 whereas 5 and Nyssa have countless audios between Time-Flight and Arc of Infinity so even in the EU he can be a little overlooked (a lot of this could be down to Mark Strickson's availability/desire to keep playing the role but still). I like Peri's introduction, it's not often in Classic Who you meet familial relatives of the companion and Peri's is one of the more grounded introductions that feels a lot closer to NuWho than it does classic. Also the swimming thing might just be her getting exhausted from swimming too far or she just enjoys the drama.
After filming in Lanzarote wrapped, the cast and crew returned to London to film The Caves of Androzani: Part One (1984). Unfortunately, while Lanzarote was summery, the temperatures in London were freezing cold. As Nicola Bryant had to wear the same summer outfit she wore in this episode, she fell ill with pneumonia and frostbite during filming.
Planet of Fire is an underrated gem in the Fifth Doctor's Era, giving Turlough the spotlight he deserved. With the introduction of Peri as the new companion, producet John Nathan-Turner wanted to capitalise on Doctor Who's growing popularity in the US by having an American companion. Peter Davison felt this ended being a mistake, considering that Nicola Bryant, Peri's actress, was actually British. In fact, JNT insisted that she kept her American accent at all times throughout her time on the show, even when promoting it.
Great reaction! I’ve always had a soft spot for this story. Peter Grimwade was given a laundry list of things his script had to include and I think he pulled it off remarkably well. Nicola Bryant is afforded a strong debut as Peri, and as you rightly pointed out, she’s given a crash course on traveling in the TARDIS. I love how sassy Peri is with “My name is Perpugilliam Brown and I can shout just as loud as you can!” being one of my favorite lines. The location filming in Lanzarote is gorgeous. I’m sure someone has already mentioned it, but on the other side of the beach where Peri’s drowning scene took place was a nude beach. Nicola’s screams for help were so authentic that one of the nudists thought she was really drowning and swam to her aid!
The fun bit of this story (among others) is there is a village in the same county of me, called "Sarn". So every time they say "We are from Sarn" I think "ha ha, they don't sound Welsh".
They might not have been visible on screen, but in real life, actress Nicola Bryant had quite a few marks on her legs after sliding down that rocky slope. The scene where she was swimming was shot at a clothing optional beach in Lanzarote and a naked German tourist tried to come to her rescue when she was pretending to drown, ruining their first take on that scene.
Peri's actress is British but did an American accent so well that both Davison & C. Baker didn't know she was British when she 1st appeared in Doctor Who.
I too am a fan of The Doctor's floral waistcoat/vest. very 80s, but very in keeping with the palette of his regular cricket outfit. Actually, a big part of what I like about this show is seeing the fashions throughout the years... Also, Enter Nicola Bryant as Peri!! I always love watching your reactions to meeting new characters for the first time!!
A lively well written story from the underrated Peter Grimwade. Curiously my memories of this story are the smell of spot cream and wood (I had carpentry on college day release on Thursdays when this was first transmitted). Peri had a positive effect on my 15 year old self whilst my mother enjoyed this story as she fancied Peter Wyndgarde. Gorgeous location work. good to have a backstory on Turlough at last
"Have I seen everything today. A transgalactic payphone, a step-father who turns into a robot and a robot who turns into a gangster!" Loving the new couch decor. The black & white striped cushion gets an extra point from me. 😅⚫⚪
Peter Davison was specifically given the waistcoat for this story due to the climate where they were filming. I quite like it, I wish we could've seen it with his coat.
Wonderful location filming in Lanzarote and a very dignified performance by Peter Wyngarde as Timonov - it would've been easy to play the part of the zealous religious leader in a much broader way but he really commits to the role as a true believer.
In this episode the actor who plays Timanov is Peter Wyngarde. He also appears in The seminal TV series The Prisoner where he plays Number#2 in the episode Checkmate. He is one of four actors to appear in Dr.Who and as Number#2 in The Prisoner. The other 3 actors are George Baker who appears in Full Circle as Login. He appears as the second Number#2 in the first episode of The Prisoner called Arrival. The second actor to appear in both Dr.Who and The Prisoner is Colin Gordon who appears in The Faceless Ones as The Commandant. He is also one of two actors who appear twice as Number #2. He appears in the episodes A,B&C and The General. Finally there is Mary Morris who appears in Kinda as Panna. She appears in The Prisoner episode Dance Of The Dead. Mary Morris also has the distinction of being the only female Number#2 in The Prisoner series in terms of appearing in the title sequence of The Prisoner. Sess/Jess you should consider reviewing The Prisoner if you haven't done so already. If you haven't you should review it. The Prisoner is a fantastic series!!!
@sesskasays I love how you now suss pretty quickly that the Master’s in there somewhere; thinking back to your “I’m mad at myself!” and not knowing what to do with your coffee mug when Roger Delgado walked into the room posing as the Sirius 4 colony Ambassador in Frontier In Space parts 3 & 4 - one of the funniest reactions by you I’ve ever seen… (Just who could be behind all this? 😂)
This arc, from Resurrection to (REDACTED) was some of the best, out-of-it's-mind Classic Who. I don't want to say anything else - I'm just very excited for the shenanigans & reactions ahead (not just Peter's best work as the Doctor, but arguably one of the best acting stretches by any of the classic Doctors in the entire era of Who)
No comment for the Turlough speedo?!? For Whovians of a certain age, I believe that rescue scene helped some of us answer questions we didn't know we were asking.
New Year, New Companion. As you can tell from her accent, Nicola Bryant is actually from Guildford, although she was actually spotted putting on an American voice in a production of 'No No Nanette'. Having seen off some actual Americans at the audition stage, she then had to find work quickly to earn her Equity (actor's union) Card in time for filming. Only to discover this involved slip-sliding around the volcanic island of Lanzarote - later the surface of a giant egg in 'Kill the Moon'. In a bizarre attempt to court the tiny but growing fanbase in the United States, she was actually persuaded to use the accent even when not filming; in interviews and even in private with other members of the cast and crew! Purpugilliam Brown is supposedly from Baltimore, but I will leave the truth of that to those with better ears. And if you think the bikini is gratuitous, bear in mind she also wore it in a publicity shot with Peter Davison - the latter sporting a tux and wielding a hand-gun, in emulation of James Bond!
I say Seska the Kamelion android turning into Howard Foster, and then into the Master was well scary and Peri is outspoken like Sarah Jane Smith was and also the location looks very much an alien planet.
I think this season Peter Davison nailed it as the doctor, he stopped being “a” Doctor and became “the” Doctor. 13 year old me’s heart breaks knowing he was going soon. I’m not against the Doctor travelling with Turlough solo for a bit either, another story or two, it was an interesting dynamic
Has anyone noticed how, over the past few stories, Jess has been using the term “love,” at the end of some of her sentences? Watching Doctor Who for so long has got her using British terms of endearment - maybe without her consciously knowing she is doing it? What British word will she pick up next? I’d love her to use the word “Blimey,” when being surprised at something she first reacts to! 🤣
Welcome Perpugilliam “Peri” Brown!!! or as we liek to call her Just Peri! The only American companion in the classic series...Well.....American accented companion..lol Peri will grow on you!
Maybe there was a rip current? IDK either. It was a weird thing. Wait, hold up, people don't like Turlough? I love him! Mostly. Sometimes he can be defeatist, but he usually does the right thing in the end. I had a friend back in the day who used to ship Turlough and the Doctor - Turtor, Thurlough, Doclough? LMAO
'Planet of Fire' is a rather sad final contribution to the show for screenwriter and director Peter Grimwade, who died of leukaemia in 1990. Involved in the series since the beginning of the 1970s (there's a shot of him on the TARDIS set with Tom Baker and Liz Sladen during the recording of 'Pyramids of Mars' for instance), he had slowly risen through the ranks at the BBC and even made it into Dr Who lore; after complaining that he was always working on stories that involved robots, Chris Boucher inserted the made-up term 'Grimwade's Syndrome' to describe the fear of creepy mechanical men in 'The Robots of Death'. His directorial credits on Who started with 'Full Circle' and the epochal 'Logopolis', but he's best remembered for the high tension he wrung out of the cast on 'Earthshock' in 1982. As a writer, he was behind 'Time-Flight' and the equally timey-wimey 'Mawdryn Undead' (creating the character of Turlough in the process). Unfortunately, things got out of hand on this one and script-editor Eric Saward had to step in. There is always one story in a season that has to suffer.
Big Finish are probably all over this (and you would basically have to remortgage to afford their entire back catalogue in order to find out), but there is nothing that Kamelion hasn't been active in some form since his introduction. Even if it was mostly off-screen. And given how incurious the Tractators were about the Doctor's insistence that Tegan was an android, wouldn't it be funny if she really was at that moment?
It’s a bit of a mess really, but isn’t a bad story. Certainly not as bad as is often made out. As a 14 year old boy at the time, I recall Nicola Bryant’s bikini as being the definite highlight (welcome to Peri btw, an odd mix of annoying and awesome as a companion) I always assumed it was the length of the swim while also carrying the bag and artefact that tired her out. And yeah I also like Turlough. He’s a different spin on a companion, it doesn’t always come off, but a valiant attempt nonetheless
Peter Wyngarde gives a performance way to good for the episode he's in. If you think The Third Doctor has good fasion, you should see the character Wyngarde is most famous for, Jason King. I often feel that he would have made of the great Sherlock Holmes had he not disappeared during the 70s.
Well goodbye tegan hello peri last of classic dr who companions you never met in classic who I'm so glad kamelion was such an iconic companion lol but this story was one I don't remember much. All I can say with this story is next one is a classic btw last episode was my favourite dalek story of the 80s but another on horizon in 1988
That was a real stunt and was on volcanic glass. Heard the story first hand at one of the conferences I attended with Nicola Bryant as guest. Perhaps not all direction options were a good idea, like trying to slide down that slope. It is like the now legendary fall with a stunt double doing it while filming "Terror of the Autons". Acting is a job and some do what they can to get it done. Today we can use CGI and other filming tricks so that the job is less dangerous today. The pyrotechnics crew was something special as well at the time. Lanzarote is one of a list of locations beyond the UK used for filming Doctor Who. We dreamed that one day they would come to America to do filming . . . en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanzarote
@@Rocket1377 Indeed. Annoys me that Tegan got such a long run with Doc 5. At least Big Finish did a lot of stories with just him and Nyssa (and some of them like Spare Parts and Creatures of Beauty were spectacular).
I always feel with this story, Doctor Who "grew up" a bit further - The flesh on display! the bigger budget location filming! The domestic drama! It all felt a bit less "cosy BBC"!!!
Kamelion was such a wasted character that could've been so much better. And that prop never worked like it was supposed to. They should've gone the C-3PO route and had a guy in a suit, or even just painting an actor silver would've worked too. 😉👍
Pretty sure this episode made me gay, a lover of ginger haired men, and distrust organized religion. I of course later found out that Mark Strickson was actually blonde but whatever.
It's not highly regarded as one of the best stories but it's alright for what it is. Unpopular opinion but unfortunately this where the 80's companions for me started to get worse and worse and gone backwards back to the damsel in distress route we go from the complaining australian to the insuffereable american companion (not you jess or any offense to any americans out there just the character) and the next one after is just as bad but the last one got great again and became one of my favourites who i won't name until you get there. Peri although she is hot her character was just insuffereable i felt sorry for actress Nicola Bryant that she was forced to use that annoying fake american accent i never understood why she couldn't had just simply used her british accents i have the same similar problem with David Tennant who had to use a fake english accent instead of his scottish accent. Turlough i found to be like Dr. Smith from "Lost in Space" in a way yes he helps people sometimes but mostly for purely selfish reasons he mostly gets up to mischief. What i find weird about Kamelion's return was where was he during"Frontios" when the TARDIS was destroyed?
For me this episode gets preachy - Tells vs Shows - but you have to watch it because of the ending. This writer (Chibnall) has a habit of over-explaining the flaws of humanity. A 20-min wait in silence before anyone spoke to ask what the name of the air hostess was is a far more compelling indictment of the flaws of humanity. Murray Golds music makes this tolerable.
This story . . . is a story. Not a great Master story. It's all jumbled up! Kameleon's back, New American(?!!?) companion, Turlough's backstory, and, oh yeah, The Doctor! After the last 2 stories and what's to come ("AaaaeeAAAAA!!!") this one is just serviceable.
I was raised in a Christian household; church every sunday, sunday school learning about the bible... and I never, ever believed any of it. I can remember my dad dismissing Doctor Who as a load of made up rubbish, and meanwhile being forced to attend sunday school and be told "true" stories about a talking burning bush, and men living for hundreds of years. Yeah, Doctor Who was rubbish. Ahuh. This story really stood out to me due to that "struggle" in my life. A story about a made up religion dominating these people's lives - most of them in a negative way.
Hi Sasskia! Nev here. I’m the partner of the actress who plays Peri. Just to say, she did fall down that volcano herself (no stuntman) and yes, she did cut her legs to ribbons. Perhaps the production team shouldn’t have put make up on them to disguise the wounds!
Just wanted to say that the stories you've written for big finish are fantastic. I haven't heard all of your stuff, but I've loved all the ones I have listened to. Kingmaker and Widows assassin are probably my favourites.
@nevfountain Your Big Finish work is absolutely brilliant and so, so wonderfully hilarious. It's hard to pick a favourite between Omega, The Kingmaker, and The Widow's Assassin!
love your stories, plus if you don´t mind me saying, you´re a lucky guy, your wife is beautiful
Just have to say Nev if I see you’re a writer on the BF’s I go straight to them. Not dissing the other writers at all but you definitely get “the vibe” for any incarnation.
Omega. Just genius. I shall leave now.😊
I feel like Turlough gets forgotten within in the fandom (at least back when I paid attention), but he is genuinely one of my favorite companions. He's just so interesting and different. I'm happy to hear you love him, too!
I love that The Master now illicits the same reaction as when your irritating coworker sits next to you
The "oh right, it's him again" reaction to the Master at the end of ep 1 was priceless.
The Fifth Doctor's most underrated story. It juggles several important elements and milestones but balances and executes them all pretty well. The introduction of Peri, return of The Master which organically links to bringing back and actually utilising Kamelion and, best of all, unravelling the mystery of Turlough's origins. Nicola Bryant (Peri) is a great actress, even if she's saddled with the American accent and this is one of Anthony Ainley's more menacing performances, his relentless pursuit of Peri gives vibes of The Terminator. And the location filming in Lanzarote, Spain really sells the arid, volcanic planet of Sarn.
Yeah, this story had a lot of housekeeping to do - writing out Kamelion, Turlough gets a backstory, introducing the new companion. Sort of clearing the decks to set up the next season. I enjoy it, but there are points at which you can tell it's there to get these plot points sorted.
Yes I like this story and the setting. I feel "fandom" gives it a bit of a hard time
@@paulhammond6978 I feel it would have been interesting to see Nine visit Turlough, because I feel, in some ways, Turlough was the companion who was the closest to Nine
They really prove what an amazing pair they make as The Doctor and his companion in the next story. They have real chemistry as good friends.
The scene in which Turlough saves Peri from drowning was disrupted by German nudist, who thought Nicola Bryant was actually drowning, after the man learned that she was just acting, he was very unhappy about it, and later ruined a take filmed on the beach by running through the shot.
HE was unhappy?
So...she was a good actress is what I took from that
Sesska: “You never know when a wild Tegan may appear” 😂
That was a good line....
*pokémon battle music starts*
Took about 25 years
@@dwilborn1257 She literally appears twice in the wild in the next season and later this season
Peri should have waited an hour after eating before going for that swim 😁
Tegan and Turlough are my favourite pairing of companions Jess. Glad you can see how awesome they both are too.
Forget the wisdom of fandom. I've found that most of the time it doesn't know what its talking about!!!🤣🤣
A long does happen in this one! Peri processes things pretty quickly, I have to say lol
I've always liked Turlough enormously, Mark Strickson gives such conviction to everything he does and you really feel he has an inner life and is thinking independently. He's also a great example of a sarky exterior with a genuinely decent person underneath. He could do almost anything and make it believable. Good chap.
Factoid - The actor playing Malkon (Turlough's brother) is Edward Highmore - in real life he is the father of Freddie Highmore who starred in 'Bates Motel'
Ah, the introduction to Peri when i was a very hormonal 14 year old. Happy days! 😏
as john nathan turner said 1 for the dads
According to the novelization Peri cramped up during the swim and panicked. I guess it's hard to demonstrate that on camera.
Yes i mean it's fairly obvious from the TV.
Up until you said at the end, I didn't know that Turlough wasn't a liked character. I think he's great! I love having a companion who is a bit more abrasive (and when he first joined, evil). It's a great concept.
Peter Wyngarde, who played Timanov, was quite a character in real life. He variously claimed to have been born in 1924, 1927, 1933, or 1937, and to have been born in either Singapore or Marseilles, and claimed various different fathers.
I also always enjoyed Turlough as a companion, he's definitely one of the most underrated and he only has a handful of Big Finish stories between the last story and this one to focus on him and 5 whereas 5 and Nyssa have countless audios between Time-Flight and Arc of Infinity so even in the EU he can be a little overlooked (a lot of this could be down to Mark Strickson's availability/desire to keep playing the role but still). I like Peri's introduction, it's not often in Classic Who you meet familial relatives of the companion and Peri's is one of the more grounded introductions that feels a lot closer to NuWho than it does classic. Also the swimming thing might just be her getting exhausted from swimming too far or she just enjoys the drama.
Didn't he quit acting and move to New Zealand after he left the show?
@ I’m not that familiar with his life so could be the case, yeah
The first of many dog days for Peri while hanging out with The Doctor.
Welcome aboard, Peri!
After filming in Lanzarote wrapped, the cast and crew returned to London to film The Caves of Androzani: Part One (1984). Unfortunately, while Lanzarote was summery, the temperatures in London were freezing cold. As Nicola Bryant had to wear the same summer outfit she wore in this episode, she fell ill with pneumonia and frostbite during filming.
Planet of Fire is an underrated gem in the Fifth Doctor's Era, giving Turlough the spotlight he deserved. With the introduction of Peri as the new companion, producet John Nathan-Turner wanted to capitalise on Doctor Who's growing popularity in the US by having an American companion. Peter Davison felt this ended being a mistake, considering that Nicola Bryant, Peri's actress, was actually British. In fact, JNT insisted that she kept her American accent at all times throughout her time on the show, even when promoting it.
@@ryanpollard1166 it’s JN-T by the way. 😏
Not true
Great reaction! I’ve always had a soft spot for this story. Peter Grimwade was given a laundry list of things his script had to include and I think he pulled it off remarkably well. Nicola Bryant is afforded a strong debut as Peri, and as you rightly pointed out, she’s given a crash course on traveling in the TARDIS. I love how sassy Peri is with “My name is Perpugilliam Brown and I can shout just as loud as you can!” being one of my favorite lines.
The location filming in Lanzarote is gorgeous. I’m sure someone has already mentioned it, but on the other side of the beach where Peri’s drowning scene took place was a nude beach. Nicola’s screams for help were so authentic that one of the nudists thought she was really drowning and swam to her aid!
I'm a big fan of Turlough, and am quite glad they gave him some great stories in Big Finish, some which are quite amusing (Ringpullworld)
The fun bit of this story (among others) is there is a village in the same county of me, called "Sarn". So every time they say "We are from Sarn" I think "ha ha, they don't sound Welsh".
I thought it was very mature of you to ignore the obvious joke with that device Peri was happy to handle.
The Fifth doctor and his companions are often talked down by fandom Jess. I'm glad you're seeing them for how great they are!!
They might not have been visible on screen, but in real life, actress Nicola Bryant had quite a few marks on her legs after sliding down that rocky slope.
The scene where she was swimming was shot at a clothing optional beach in Lanzarote and a naked German tourist tried to come to her rescue when she was pretending to drown, ruining their first take on that scene.
Turlough was never very popular, but he grew on me after he stopped trying to kill the Doctor. There are other companions I like far less than him.
The Master has a small problem
Peri's actress is British but did an American accent so well that both Davison & C. Baker didn't know she was British when she 1st appeared in Doctor Who.
Eventually all got revealed and they were fine with it according to the actress
There are odd occasions when the American accent drops, but its mostly quite convincing.
Her most memorable performance is probably the Blackadder Christmas special.
I can tell, her accent gets better though
Better than Howard's accent.
The moment Master takes over Kamelion, and says, "I am the Master, and you will obey me!" Is still one of the most exciting moments of his return.
I too am a fan of The Doctor's floral waistcoat/vest. very 80s, but very in keeping with the palette of his regular cricket outfit. Actually, a big part of what I like about this show is seeing the fashions throughout the years...
Also, Enter Nicola Bryant as Peri!! I always love watching your reactions to meeting new characters for the first time!!
A lively well written story from the underrated Peter Grimwade. Curiously my memories of this story are the smell of spot cream and wood (I had carpentry on college day release on Thursdays when this was first transmitted). Peri had a positive effect on my 15 year old self whilst my mother enjoyed this story as she fancied Peter Wyndgarde. Gorgeous location work. good to have a backstory on Turlough at last
"Have I seen everything today. A transgalactic payphone, a step-father who turns into a robot and a robot who turns into a gangster!"
Loving the new couch decor. The black & white striped cushion gets an extra point from me. 😅⚫⚪
Peter Davison was specifically given the waistcoat for this story due to the climate where they were filming. I quite like it, I wish we could've seen it with his coat.
Yea, we finally get to learn some stuff about Turlough's past. You guessed right, say hello to Perpugilliam "Peri" Brown!
I think the previous time Tegan left was Janet's excuse to get a costume change.
11:48 The only time Anthony Ainley's Master says "I am the Master, and you will obey me" like Roger Delgado always did.
Wonderful location filming in Lanzarote and a very dignified performance by Peter Wyngarde as Timonov - it would've been easy to play the part of the zealous religious leader in a much broader way but he really commits to the role as a true believer.
In this episode the actor who plays Timanov is Peter Wyngarde. He also appears in The seminal TV series The Prisoner where he plays Number#2 in the episode Checkmate. He is one of four actors to appear in Dr.Who and as Number#2 in The Prisoner. The other 3 actors are George Baker who appears in Full Circle as Login. He appears as the second Number#2 in the first episode of The Prisoner called Arrival. The second actor to appear in both Dr.Who and The Prisoner is Colin Gordon who appears in The Faceless Ones as The Commandant. He is also one of two actors who appear twice as Number #2. He appears in the episodes A,B&C and The General. Finally there is Mary Morris who appears in Kinda as Panna. She appears in The Prisoner episode Dance Of The Dead. Mary Morris also has the distinction of being the only female Number#2 in The Prisoner series in terms of appearing in the title sequence of The Prisoner. Sess/Jess you should consider reviewing The Prisoner if you haven't done so already. If you haven't you should review it. The Prisoner is a fantastic series!!!
I can't hear Peri's name without hearing The Doctor shouting "PERRRRRIIII" at the end of Slipback part 3.
@sesskasays I love how you now suss pretty quickly that the Master’s in there somewhere; thinking back to your “I’m mad at myself!” and not knowing what to do with your coffee mug when Roger Delgado walked into the room posing as the Sirius 4 colony Ambassador in Frontier In Space parts 3 & 4 - one of the funniest reactions by you I’ve ever seen… (Just who could be behind all this? 😂)
This arc, from Resurrection to (REDACTED) was some of the best, out-of-it's-mind Classic Who. I don't want to say anything else - I'm just very excited for the shenanigans & reactions ahead (not just Peter's best work as the Doctor, but arguably one of the best acting stretches by any of the classic Doctors in the entire era of Who)
No comment for the Turlough speedo?!? For Whovians of a certain age, I believe that rescue scene helped some of us answer questions we didn't know we were asking.
YUP
New Year, New Companion. As you can tell from her accent, Nicola Bryant is actually from Guildford, although she was actually spotted putting on an American voice in a production of 'No No Nanette'. Having seen off some actual Americans at the audition stage, she then had to find work quickly to earn her Equity (actor's union) Card in time for filming. Only to discover this involved slip-sliding around the volcanic island of Lanzarote - later the surface of a giant egg in 'Kill the Moon'. In a bizarre attempt to court the tiny but growing fanbase in the United States, she was actually persuaded to use the accent even when not filming; in interviews and even in private with other members of the cast and crew! Purpugilliam Brown is supposedly from Baltimore, but I will leave the truth of that to those with better ears. And if you think the bikini is gratuitous, bear in mind she also wore it in a publicity shot with Peter Davison - the latter sporting a tux and wielding a hand-gun, in emulation of James Bond!
People seem have a mixed opinion on Turlough, though to me he's great, nice to have a companion who is a little bit more intriguing
0:47 "I can't carry it for you. But I can carry you!"
Turlough is loved
I say Seska the Kamelion android turning into Howard Foster, and then into the Master was well scary and Peri is outspoken like Sarah Jane Smith was and also the location looks very much an alien planet.
I think this season Peter Davison nailed it as the doctor, he stopped being “a” Doctor and became “the” Doctor. 13 year old me’s heart breaks knowing he was going soon.
I’m not against the Doctor travelling with Turlough solo for a bit either, another story or two, it was an interesting dynamic
I mean: we know we didn't loose Tegan, as we know she indeed pops up again...much much later.
Along with missing from archives "The Massacre " one of the few male companion only stories🎩
I don't consider a male companion story, Peri is there too.
Whilst swimming Peri got foot cramp and became distressed.
Not to mention the German nudist.
Kamelion was also supposed to appear in The Awakening and they actually filmed material which ended up getting cut
Those fake American accents were torture 😆
Yes! I'm always shocked when people think it's amazing!!
Hi Seska this story has an awesome location abroad, in the canary islands and also I loved this story.
Peri Peri Sauce. Teenage crush.
Has anyone noticed how, over the past few stories, Jess has been using the term “love,” at the end of some of her sentences? Watching Doctor Who for so long has got her using British terms of endearment - maybe without her consciously knowing she is doing it? What British word will she pick up next? I’d love her to use the word “Blimey,” when being surprised at something she first reacts to! 🤣
Not sure if you're new but she's been saying 'love' for years
Welcome Perpugilliam “Peri” Brown!!! or as we liek to call her Just Peri!
The only American companion in the classic series...Well.....American accented companion..lol
Peri will grow on you!
Maybe there was a rip current? IDK either. It was a weird thing.
Wait, hold up, people don't like Turlough? I love him! Mostly. Sometimes he can be defeatist, but he usually does the right thing in the end. I had a friend back in the day who used to ship Turlough and the Doctor - Turtor, Thurlough, Doclough? LMAO
Doctourlough
the guy with the tash u might know he was klytos in flash gordon always played a villan or a smoothie is name is peter wingard
'Planet of Fire' is a rather sad final contribution to the show for screenwriter and director Peter Grimwade, who died of leukaemia in 1990. Involved in the series since the beginning of the 1970s (there's a shot of him on the TARDIS set with Tom Baker and Liz Sladen during the recording of 'Pyramids of Mars' for instance), he had slowly risen through the ranks at the BBC and even made it into Dr Who lore; after complaining that he was always working on stories that involved robots, Chris Boucher inserted the made-up term 'Grimwade's Syndrome' to describe the fear of creepy mechanical men in 'The Robots of Death'. His directorial credits on Who started with 'Full Circle' and the epochal 'Logopolis', but he's best remembered for the high tension he wrung out of the cast on 'Earthshock' in 1982. As a writer, he was behind 'Time-Flight' and the equally timey-wimey 'Mawdryn Undead' (creating the character of Turlough in the process). Unfortunately, things got out of hand on this one and script-editor Eric Saward had to step in. There is always one story in a season that has to suffer.
I always love how random Chameleon’s placement is here. They cut him out of a previous episode so it just feels out of nowhere.
Big Finish are probably all over this (and you would basically have to remortgage to afford their entire back catalogue in order to find out), but there is nothing that Kamelion hasn't been active in some form since his introduction. Even if it was mostly off-screen. And given how incurious the Tractators were about the Doctor's insistence that Tegan was an android, wouldn't it be funny if she really was at that moment?
I'm so happy that you've gotten to peri ❤
Not my favourite companion but she is great to look at
Hey look,it’s Klytus from the 1980 film Flash Gordon.
I love the special edition of this episode
Hiya. Slowly but surely is an understatement, 107k now. Onwards and upwards into 2025. Stay safe. All the best to you.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the Doctor next meets Tegan in the Jodie story 'The Power of the Doctor'.
a chozen land called teneriffe
with mt tide
"SHUN the disbeliever!!!!! SHUUUUNNNNNN......"
So, the way to fire up Jess's interest in a story was to give her some Turlore.
Great story and very underrated
It’s a bit of a mess really, but isn’t a bad story. Certainly not as bad as is often made out.
As a 14 year old boy at the time, I recall Nicola Bryant’s bikini as being the definite highlight (welcome to Peri btw, an odd mix of annoying and awesome as a companion)
I always assumed it was the length of the swim while also carrying the bag and artefact that tired her out.
And yeah I also like Turlough. He’s a different spin on a companion, it doesn’t always come off, but a valiant attempt nonetheless
Peter Wyngarde gives a performance way to good for the episode he's in. If you think The Third Doctor has good fasion, you should see the character Wyngarde is most famous for, Jason King. I often feel that he would have made of the great Sherlock Holmes had he not disappeared during the 70s.
Ironically, he did appear in the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes story, The Three Gables, as Langdale Pike which was made in roughly mid 90's.
@MechaDot1 He also narrated an excellent BBC 4 documentary about the various screen versions Sherlock Holmes
So underrated as a story 🔥
all those volcanoes and sulphur. More like "The Planet of Farts"
1 thing about nicola bryant shes totally english
Well goodbye tegan hello peri last of classic dr who companions you never met in classic who I'm so glad kamelion was such an iconic companion lol but this story was one I don't remember much. All I can say with this story is next one is a classic btw last episode was my favourite dalek story of the 80s but another on horizon in 1988
the master is in his own tardis he sueing chamelion
They actually wanted Peter O'Toole to play Timanov but that obviously didn't happen.
Very 80’s with the pan up shot of Peri in her bikini.
Skilfully edited from this video.
well no wonder he cant make it the nearest hotel was just behind him out of shot it was filmed in tenerife
That was a real stunt and was on volcanic glass. Heard the story first hand at one of the conferences I attended with Nicola Bryant as guest. Perhaps not all direction options were a good idea, like trying to slide down that slope. It is like the now legendary fall with a stunt double doing it while filming "Terror of the Autons". Acting is a job and some do what they can to get it done. Today we can use CGI and other filming tricks so that the job is less dangerous today. The pyrotechnics crew was something special as well at the time.
Lanzarote is one of a list of locations beyond the UK used for filming Doctor Who. We dreamed that one day they would come to America to do filming . . .
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanzarote
Hey look that robot we picked up a couple months back and never showed again
Mad story.
And so the clear out of the TARDIS crew begins.
These things happen
It should have happened a lot sooner. Davison said he only wanted one companion: Nyssa.
@Rocket1377 occasionally the Tardis crew works best when there's more than 1 companion
@@Rocket1377 Nyssa was awesome.
@@Rocket1377 Indeed. Annoys me that Tegan got such a long run with Doc 5. At least Big Finish did a lot of stories with just him and Nyssa (and some of them like Spare Parts and Creatures of Beauty were spectacular).
I always feel with this story, Doctor Who "grew up" a bit further - The flesh on display! the bigger budget location filming! The domestic drama! It all felt a bit less "cosy BBC"!!!
escuse me thats how u rescue a person who is in trouble im a rescue scuba diver
Kamelion was such a wasted character that could've been so much better. And that prop never worked like it was supposed to. They should've gone the C-3PO route and had a guy in a suit, or even just painting an actor silver would've worked too. 😉👍
Alex, those Misfits will offer for all the time.Doctoring becoming obsessed yes depressed
its chamelion
Please do a reaction to @fifth doctor she does amazing commentaries and some are comedy gold.
Pretty sure this episode made me gay, a lover of ginger haired men, and distrust organized religion. I of course later found out that Mark Strickson was actually blonde but whatever.
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It's not highly regarded as one of the best stories but it's alright for what it is.
Unpopular opinion but unfortunately this where the 80's companions for me started to get worse and worse and gone backwards back to the damsel in distress route we go from the complaining australian to the insuffereable american companion (not you jess or any offense to any americans out there just the character) and the next one after is just as bad but the last one got great again and became one of my favourites who i won't name until you get there.
Peri although she is hot her character was just insuffereable i felt sorry for actress Nicola Bryant that she was forced to use that annoying fake american accent i never understood why she couldn't had just simply used her british accents i have the same similar problem with David Tennant who had to use a fake english accent instead of his scottish accent.
Turlough i found to be like Dr. Smith from "Lost in Space" in a way yes he helps people sometimes but mostly for purely selfish reasons he mostly gets up to mischief.
What i find weird about Kamelion's return was where was he during"Frontios" when the TARDIS was destroyed?
For me this episode gets preachy - Tells vs Shows - but you have to watch it because of the ending. This writer (Chibnall) has a habit of over-explaining the flaws of humanity. A 20-min wait in silence before anyone spoke to ask what the name of the air hostess was is a far more compelling indictment of the flaws of humanity. Murray Golds music makes this tolerable.
This story . . . is a story. Not a great Master story. It's all jumbled up! Kameleon's back, New American(?!!?) companion, Turlough's backstory, and, oh yeah, The Doctor! After the last 2 stories and what's to come ("AaaaeeAAAAA!!!") this one is just serviceable.
I honestly enjoyed this one that the previous one but I think Barbara Shelley was rather wasted in this one.
I was raised in a Christian household; church every sunday, sunday school learning about the bible... and I never, ever believed any of it. I can remember my dad dismissing Doctor Who as a load of made up rubbish, and meanwhile being forced to attend sunday school and be told "true" stories about a talking burning bush, and men living for hundreds of years. Yeah, Doctor Who was rubbish. Ahuh.
This story really stood out to me due to that "struggle" in my life. A story about a made up religion dominating these people's lives - most of them in a negative way.
So you came to believe Doctor Who was real, then. That seems to be where you're going
We've had an Australian companion of Indigenous decent and now we're about to get an American one. I'd love to see a European companion at some point
Reality check: The United Kingdom is in Europe, no matter how many times they forget.
The UK is part of Europe, but I know what you mean. I'd like to see a French companion, ideally someone like Eva Green.
@paulwatson9486 you know what I mean
A Greek companion played by Marina Sirtis. Maybe they'd have gotten a black companion in the early 90s.
@@paulwatson9486we would be much better off if we could