Doctor Who: The Chase - REVIEW - Dalekcember
Вставка
- Опубліковано 2 гру 2019
- The Daleks travel across the universe and fight Dracula and Frankenstein's monster in the oddly comical 'The Chase'.
Dalekcember Intro Video by Daniel Sherratt - / dansherratt01
MrTARDISreview's Facebook Page: / mrtardisreviews
Twitter Page: / trilbeereviews
#DoctorWho #Dalekcember
"LONDON 1965!"
You know what to do, folks! To appease the almightly algorithm, please "like" the video, share it around and leave a comment! Thanks for tuning into Dalekcember!
@Anti-Anti-SJW you will find out tomorrow :)
bruh i have not seen one of yo vids for a long time, luv ur content
The Daleks vs Dracula and Frankenstein’s Monster... 1. HOW AM I JUST NOW HEARING ABOUT THIS !!!!!!! 2. This is now the BEST Doctor Who episode ever !!!!!!!!!!!!
I can't believe the Daleks are a part of Universal Studio's Dark Universe...
The Hartnell era is still so underrated, and these videos are making me want to watch more of it!
@ghostgaming Just 73 episodes then. Should be a breeze. ;)
The fact the Mechonoids never appeared again in the show is such a sin to me. Especially with that ending battle. Imagine if in the RTD era they came back and had an upgrade like the Daleks did.
Weren't they in that weird animated miniseries for Time Lord Victorious?
There's an audio story where Davros uses the Mechonoids (he calls them "Juggernauts") as Dalek replacements because he's sick of the Daleks betraying him and only coming for him when they need help. The audio is called "The Juggernauts".
Still have happy memories watching this on Twitch and everyone celebrating the “LONDON 1965” moment.
Also, props for the obligatory Bradley Walsh cameo - had a great laugh watching that.
Hartnell is literal magic at times
The Chase is such an odd episode but the more serious moments such as Ian and Barbara leaving are Really well done.
Interestingly enough the first two companion departures both happen in a Dalek episode.
They probably stuck the departures in Dalek episodes bc they knew the greatest number of viewers would be tuning in for the Daleks
Also, even though Vicki leaves in the preceeding episode, in the Daleks Master Plan, even more companion departures happen.
William Hartnell was not acting at the end, he was genuinely sad that Russell and Hill had left as companions.
The laughter track over the Marie Celeste scene also needed a quote from "The Goon Show".
"He's fallen in the water."
The only surviving clip of The Beatles still to exist, and purely because of this episode. The Beatles at the time were fans, but were told not to make a real cameo by their manager.
I saw this when it was originally shown. We didn't really notice the bad Clone. Don't forget, most of us were watching on a 14 inch screen, from behind the sofa, the other side of our living rooms! It was really poor broadcast in the 60's, just 405 horizontal lines.
Fun fact: before it got found. That was the only footage of the beetle singing on top of the pops. The footage was wiped but was rediscovered a few years ago
"How long before we reach them?"
"Uh, uh, uh, four.. minutes"
Not many reviews make me want to stop what I'm doing and rewatch an episode but this one did, good job again MrTardis. Loving this series so far!
your video footage of the fight between the Daleks and Mechanoids is the clearest ive ever seen so far. All of the other clips of that seen of that was either in far too low a resolution or even blurrier than this, Keep up the good work Trillbee!!!
It's literally just a rip from the DVD. But thanks! :)
Love The Chase. Feels modern with its quick pace, frequent humor and dark undercurrents.
The Daleks encountering the Beatles,Dracula and Frankenstein then scooting around the Marie Celeste ? OK it's official- the drugs where stronger in the 60's.
Apparently they are stronger nowadays, seeing how you completely mixed up everything said in the video...
I wonder how he’ll cover the next Dalek story ‘The Daleks Masterplan’ since as of 2019 it still has 3 surviving episodes.
Soundtrack survives which helps a lot, as just reading a script doesn't do it justice.
@@kierenevans2521 I find watching the telesnaps isn't bad, just like watching the actual episode.
I always cry at the end of the this story. Ian and Barbara are some of my favorite companions.
Fun fact: Did you know that some of the static Daleks in the background were actually Peter Cushion Movie Daleks? Some were turned into the normal TV props but a few remained in their movie form.
To think a 3rd Dr Who movie could have been based on this - the mind boggles! 😳
Really enjoying this series so far. I've not seen many of the classic series Dalek stories so I was completely unaware just how the off the wall insane The Chase was. It looks very bizarre but I'm now more inclined to check it out. Also, I found it interesting that the whole "Daleks can't go up stairs" thing originated from within the show itself yet it something fans are still annoyed about when non-fans use that same joke.
Do check it out, it's brilliant in its own wacky way.
Many Doctor Who fans, and I say this acknowledging that I was, at one point, a part of the problem, tend to take their show too seriously.
One thing I loved in this and following stories in this era was the idea that the Daleks have their own pseudo-TARDIS that they’ve invented. I wish that concept returned in New Who. Hasn’t been seen since the sixties and it’d be a nice way to up the ante with the threat of the Daleks and make for an interesting reference to sixties era Doctor Who.
I think a lot of the comedy elements in 'The Chase', as the guy from 'The Dalek Tapes' documentary says, was probably more down to the script editor, Dennis Spooner.
I thought The Chase was a fun ride from start to finish.
It's not particularly coherent, but it's snappier than most of Hartnell's stories, which is really refreshing when watching it today.
Ian jokes about the Daleks not liking stairs, but on the Marie Celeste, a Dalek is seen on the upper level of the deck, without any explanation how it got there.
There is a canonical episode where the Daleks fight Dracula and Frankenstein's Monster.
This is why I love Doctor Who
Reaaaaally hope this goes into some great novels or audio stories. Even then, what a top effort. You captured my love of The Chase & my issues with Invasion of Earth perfectly. Nuance! In discussing fandom favourites!
The one that goes "Uh, what?" when asked simple math is me as a Dalek.
Seriously, I swear I've seen The Chase. How do I not remember these hilarious Dalek moments???
I thought the battle between the Daleks and the Mechonoids was pretty awesome. The impressionistic editing works great.
I don't mind the fact that the Doctor's robot double is obviously not Hartnell, because it helps give the sense of uncannyness with the doctors double. It makes it more creepy.
I did wonder if at the end it was deliberate, a way to show the viewers which one was the fake.. 🤔🤔 Probably overthinking it but its a nice idea. 😁😁
dalek 1: "What is that noise!"
dalek 2: "It is you getting eattend by a monster! Destroy! Destroy! DESTROYYYY!!"
Sorry for my spelling and i just wanted to do that
Another brilliant video, and I love the juxtaposition of music from The (other) Chase!
Oh boi. Really curious to hear your thoughts on the Daleks' Master Plan
Almost like if the Chase was done with a serious tone
Saw the awful noise scene in this video, and it reminded me of Barbera’s comeback to the Doctor: “No, not that awful noise...”
Thanks again! Goodbye to Ian and Barbara. First Susan, and now them... the Doctor will become afraid of losing a companion with every Dalek encounter.
Can't wait for Death to the Daleks
Neither can I!
I'll have that @*+!!** clarinet tune stuck in my head all night now. Cheers ;)
Stop don’t move
@@BH-98, more like "stopdontmove".
MrTARDISreviews a cliffhanger for the ages
I love the Krusty cut away😂
I love These reviews Great work Cant wait for the Daleks Master plan!
Long before Destiny, Terry Nation felt a need to send up his creations. The comedy often lands flat and the next story he writes feels like an apology for it by being an epic and high-stakes deadly gambit.
Didn't know he had to cobble it up so quickly. That explains a lot.
How can Ian duck a Dalek blast so quickly?
Nice laugh track you put in! 👍
Also, 1:29 Daleks got to them and shot first? Nope. Their music acts like a shield. Didn't stop James Bond from using earmuffs on while listening to them!
Also, Krusty! 🤣 kudos to the production team for trying to make the battle look big, but Mechonoids on screen for 3 minutes tops didn't really make their resultant battle compelling. Seeing the promotional photo of Verity using one as a novelty cigarette lighter was. Because that was just weird in a cool way.
Met Peter Purves whilst on work experience during my second year of Uni. Lovely guy!
Jacqueline Hill reappears in 1980's Megalos as Lexa. William Russell reappears on Doctor Who in 2022 at 97 years old. I hope he reappears on his 100th birthday celebration with Doctor Who. :)
It should be note that this is the first time that the Daleks has their square things on their body where their guns are.
I just watched the fourth episode of The Chase, it is like a crazy fever dream
I'm not sure whether to punch you or kiss you for the Bradley Walsh joke. For now, I'll settle on both 😂
Originally found your channel from the brilliant blu ray unboxing vids (looking forward to season 26's)but have been enjoying these all be it backwards for a few days. I've got to pull you up on what said about the robot doctor though. The reason Hartnell couldn't be used in some single shots to double for the robot is the way the show is produced. It was shot as live with a maximum of 3 video edits and episode (some times due to budget constraints these would be taken up by special effects inserts. So Hartnell would be in another scene ready for the next studio camera to switch in and wouldn't be able to get from one place to the other without stopping the cameras and reshooting. It's why so many of his fluffy lines made it in. The shot you used of the robotdoc, Vicki and Barbara would of had Hartnell on the other side of the studio waiting for the camera to move to him. Interestingly enough there are a few times where movie dalek probs from the 1st cushing film were borrowed and used to bolster numbers in the Dalek time machine. Also I've never heard anyone say Nation was trying to get a Dalek spin off this early. The introduction of the mechaniods was more about giving the popular dalek comic strip and annual a new adversary. The first instance of Nation actively trying to get a dalek spin-off off the ground and show they worked without doctor who was mission to the unknown. Dalek6388 is a great website and youtube channel alllll about everything dalek and I'd highly reccomend it for reference. Lastly I am really enjoying these vids throughout December but I hate it when you use the term Tardis team.... its a term from the newest of the old series and it greats on me. Especially since hartnell almost exclusively calls the Tardis "The Ship".
Even so keep up the good work
Loving this series! a highlight of my day
I should see this story, great vid!
Awh mann, I don't think there's a story more bizarre than the Chase
Dracula and Frankenstein's monster aren't 'real' they're robots in an amusement park.
4:12 Insert obvious Goon Show reference.
I've just watched this story and checked in for a review. I quite liked it overall, but then I do enjoy the idea of covering multiple places and scenarios and with the added element of danger because they are being chased through time and space. I couldn't understand a word the Mechanoids were saying so that was ... interesting. I'd say, given the time and budget, the battle scene between the Daleks and Mechanoids was more of an abstract idea than a practical one (which likely would have looked naff), its a creative way around the barriers of the time so I applaud the production crew for that. It was sad to see Ian and Barbara leave but another stellar performance from Hartnell as he didn't want them to go but also didn't want to show it.
The Aridians confounded me the most -- how does a fish-humanoid species survived a dead, dried up planet with very little food to cultivate? How does the Mire Beasts survive too? Incidentally, the Aridians would find any way they can to get off a dead planet to relocate. There a lot of unbelievability in this serial like the Mechanoids and the Aridians.
Ironically Bradley Walsh, the host of The Chase, is on Doctor Who
They need to make a special edition dvd of the chase with the added laugh track option
What DVD ripper did you use? Btw, I agree with Krusty
Love David Graham’s scream at 4:11
Graham O'Brien! What are you doing here? Oh, wait. It's just Bradley Walsh on The Chase TV show.
It's great entertainment and there has been nothing quite like it since! 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
It’s a good episode. I cried when Ian and Barbra left. I know they can sometimes be a little one note but I still love them
Just finished watching The Chase. A very entertaining set of episodes. The ending was moving because Hartnell seems genuinely sad that Ian and Barbara are leaving, and I've read that was sad to see the actors leave the show.
Hear me out when I say maybe the difference in how Daleks talk scene-to-scene from dramatic soliloquies about conquering the universe to one shouting “hostile plantlife: destroy!” And the other going “you destroy! You destroy!” is because the less intelligent of the bunch are Dalek Children.
They’re newly-spawned mutants that have just got their first travel machines and are just learning how to talk. It’s an interesting idea, don’t you think? 😂
Just watched it for the first time and it’s…not what I expected. The only things I knew about this story was that both the Daleks and the Mechanoids was in it and I certainly don’t expect a Dalek episode to make me laugh. And it did. Both because it’s funny and because, honestly, I was thinking “god, this is bad by today’s standards” certainly an episode I won’t forget anytime soon.
Did the Mechanoids come back? They seemed like such a missed opportunity, with all of those panels, they could have produced any kind of weapon, mind probe, or propulsion system. They seemed pretty cool.
1:57 Graham? That you?
That Dalek never went to school! LOL!
I now really want to watch The Chase for the weird shit alone!!! 🤣🤣🤣
The Chase is a hot mess, but it’s a HOT mess. Love to laugh along with and at it.
Did you know the footage used for the Beatles was the only footage of the Beatles on the top of the pops before it was found
Sort of goes unremarked, but I suppose this is the unceremonious end of the era of companions being stuck with the Doctor against their will because he lacks the ability to return them home... with the lone (and temporary) exception of Tegan, of course. But in general, those days are over. Nobody's looking or longing for home anymore.
Probably for the best. That kind of Gilligan's Island, Quantum Leap, Incredible Hulk dynamic - where if the main characters ever get what they truly want, then their story is over, so you can be absolutely certain that it won't happen in any random episode - tends to wear thin pretty quickly.
I wish Dalek's Invasion Earth hadn't underperformed and stopped this being adapted as the third film. Time TV, pirates, American cowboys, a haunted house with Dracula & Frankenstein's Monster body slamming Daleks (just like Mary Shelly wrote) and the Mechonoids trying to take the no1 villain job....it would have been wild. Title would have been "the Dalek time chase/chase through time" or something else particularly 60's and groovy.
The funniest thing about it is, you can tell that the Daleks don't want to be in a comedy, and they're SO pissed off about it because there's nothing they can do. Just have to wait until Mission to the Unknown so that they can kick ass again.
someone please do a sitcom edit of the chase
The Chase is very easy to understand if you just grasp the concept that it's three separate 2-part stories, linked together.
As for the Daleks fighting Frankenstein and Dracula, it's 100% explicit that they were animatronics, not the real thing. That's the real sin, that the Daleks were defeated by funhouse robots.
Thank you for this video. Where can one watch or buy the chase?
It's available on DVD, it'll be coming to Blu-Ray with the rest of Season 2 in November or December and you can also stream it on Britbox.
@@MrTARDIS Thank you Mr TARDIS 🙂
@@MrTARDIS Thank you. Just ordered the DVD, space museum/the chase.
I had to collect William and Patrick collection and I loved it. They don't make classic like this and the Muesum.
Scooby doo is right my friend, at first I thought they were the real Dracula and Frankenstein’s monster (which the doctor theorised were willed into existence by the human imagination), but I’ve recently watched the chase and like the tenth doctor’s clockwork droid episode we see something he doesn’t. A ticket booth. The doctor and his companions had in fact landed in an abandoned haunted house attraction and Count Dracula and Frankenstein’s monster are just a couple of malfunctioning wax droids, which I found was a bit of a disappointment.
I have to confess that The Chase is my guilty secret story. My only regret is that this story was never remade as the third Peter Cushing Dr. Who movie.
They did the shenanigans with his stunt double because they wanted kids at home to recognize who the fake was before their fight scene.
This story is not good on a script level but it's so insane and crazy I do really enjoy watching it. The approach to comedy is really good and I'd love to see more farcical stuff like this (although The Romans is even better in that regard earlier in the series). It's a massive guilty pleasure. I think that the Dalek/Mechanoid mythology is insanely fascinating and I'd love to see the Mechanoids return in a more serious story because their segment in this story is by far the best bit.
Out of interest, have you listened to 'Jubilee' by Big Finish? That's a Mechanoid/Dalek story.
@@MrTARDIS Yes but I don't recall Mechanoids in Jubilee. Perhaps we're mixing it up with The Juggernauts.
@@benw4409 Definitely The Juggernauts. I would recommend it if people haven't listened to it.
@@benw4409 you saw "we" are mixing it up when it's entirely me mixing it up. My only excuse is that both begin with "J" XD
One of the best epsiodes
If I had a nickel for every time Space Nazis visited the Empire State Building I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice
1:51 So good xD
"Don't touch it Rose. These Daleks are the most dangerous creatures in the universe, powerful enough to challenge the Time Lords themselves!"
*Cue Dalek screaming as it falls helplessly overboard.*
The chase is my favorite story from William Hartnell's time.
4:44 stairs. Daleks inspired polanaerff in jojo p3 and p5 to be afraid of stairs hahahah
I never thought of it before, but as a Classic Who fan - why haven't I ever used the Hartnell comedies as Classic Who gateway serials - this one might even get the Nu-Who fusspots to not complain about the length of a Six episode serial!
The..actual Dracula? Really? Oh.. robot recreations of frankenstein and dracula? Nothing is funnier then a dopey dalek. :D
London 1965 Also this story is great
the music from the chase game show made this video
I love the chase it is a really good doctor who story and episode has got the best chlifhanger out of all the episode of this doctor who classic story and William Russell and William Hartnell and Barbara and Vicky actor and actress are amazing in this doctor who classic story and Peter purves is amazing as Steve Taylor is amazing in episode six of the chase i really like this doctor who story i have got this doctor who story on dvd it came with the space museum and I love this story because It Is my favourite series of the William Hartnell era and my favourite William Hartnell series of classic Dr who is series 2 of classic Dr who and I think this doctor who story has one of William Hartnell best profamce as the first doctor in fact series 2 of classic Dr who has got some of William Hartnell doctor who storys
I coulda sworn my dvd & later bluray had the Beatles scene, but nope! Mine R region 1 BTW.
its like Doctor who meets lost in space!
Pay closer attention, they aren't Dracula etc....they're fairground automata
So the Daleks are basically Team Rocket in this?
I like The Chase
Oh hi soon to be and former Blue Peter Presenter Peter Purves.
"Morton Dill" has to be my favourite character name in the history of Doctor Who.
Whatever happened to HiFi anyway? Steven's mascot was never mentioned again...
In the story the Daleks visit the Empire State Building. Just to see Peter Purvis do a terrible American accent. Next time they visit let’s hope there are people a better accent.
I always found Barbara and Ian really irritating most of the time - Barbara more than Ian lol. I preferred Steven. Vikki was good.
Loving this series so far - I wonder how Destiny will fair in your review. That, to me, is among the worst Dalek stories to date.