Writing Like POETRY! - Doctor Who: The Crusade (1965) - REVIEW
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The Ian Chesterton/William Russell links to the episodes are absolutely magic and canon in my head. He's just got that story teller twinkle down to a tee.
Yes, him reading the Target book is something special. Same for the first one, with the Daleks.
“There’s something new in you, yet something older than the sky itself” ugh that is such a fabulous description for 1
It must've been fun for William Russell to wear knight armour again after having previously played Sir Lancelot
Fun fact: Nicholas Courtney was offered the part of King Richard. One series latter he did get to work with William Hartnell. Oh and Jean Marsh.
David Whitaker's novelisation of this story for Target is one of my favourites. Really atmospheric.
Brilliant added opening TARDIS scene discussing the implications of time travel, too.
Whitaker has always been one of the more underated Who writers.
@@dddayesq5061 I had a schoolfriend who I nicknamed "Zarbi", because wore a shiny black plastic raincoat that vaguely made him look like a giant ant :)
Terrance Dicks thought he invented the myth that outgoing script editors were immediately commissioned by their successors. But it started with The Rescue. Then Spooner did Time Meddler ostensibly for Tosh. Gerry Davis did Tomb of the Cybermen, and later on it continued with Holmes doing The Sun Makers. Bidmead was a special case, of course.
Hartnell's angry performance with Leicester is wonderful. Best scene in the serial.
If anyone is interested, I am animating episodes 2 and 4 of the crusade to be finished by December. I am being helped by Ian levine and I plan to get it to the BBC standard of quality so they can accept it, making if easier for everyone to watch. 🙂 I hope you all like it when it's done
0:58 - 1:00 You just made a bit of a slight error you clearly said 'Four parter' and then you said 'Two of it's Six Episodes.'
Will commanded that there be two more parts so now it is the truth.
The scene with the Doctor and The Earl of Leicester is such a great scene, it must be my favourite from Season 2
Dennis Spooner? I hardly even know her!
*Passes coat.
There was proper threat from Joanna's reaction spoiling Richard's (admittedly ludicrous, but historically correct) leaked plan to marry her to the enemy leader's brother and end the war - Vicki and the Doctor were in real danger for a time, and even when King Richard found out the truth he could not (for morale reasons/politics) publicly contravene Leicester, his chief soldier, so the Doctor was essentially forced to flee and leave Royal protection. If Ian had not conveniently showed up then Leicester could well have executed the Doctor anyway.
Fun fact: Julian Glover (King Richard) later appeared in the Fourth Doctor story “The City of Death” and in the 1978 Blake's 7 episode "Breakdown" as Kayn, a surgeon on the medical facility XK-72
The opening fight scene and the dialogue was incredible
The problem with the early historical episodes is that the Doctor and companions go back in time and try not to change anything. This leaves them with nothing to do.
In the modern era, what tends to happen is that they go back in time and find that things have gone wrong. They then have to try to bring history back on course.
I for one can see the difference between an actor wearing dark makeup and someone wearing black face and acting a fool as in a minstrel show. They are actors acting a role.
Richard the Lionheart looks like a geography teacher. I remember being terribly bored as a 7 year old kid and being desperate for the Daleks to show up. Remember this was on the telly after Grandstand on Saturday and before the Black and White Minstrels, so should be fun - excellent costume drama with Shakespearean dialogue was for Sunday nights
David Whitaker would eventually return to Dr Who over a year later writing on Power of the Daleks.
If you find this story 🥱- try watching it while eating some Jaffa Cakes!
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Fun fact number two. Jean Marsh was Jon Pertwee‘s ex wife.
This is my fave of all the historical. I agree the dialogue is wonderful( probably the best there has ever been in Who) and the performances are wonderful too. The argument between Richard and his sister Joanna is outstandingly performed. Where I disagree with this review is that it is bland and uneventful. I find the story thoroughly entertaining and ten times better than some of the tripe of recent years in the New Series.
This story became one of my favourite Hartnell stories after watching it on the S2 boxset and its easily one of Whitakers best!
And the following story is quite possibly the biggest drop off in quality between stories in Doctor Who...
Julian Glover here was in the Third Crusade...
*24 Years Later*
Julian Glover will be in the Last Crusade!!!
Third Crusade
@@mimkyodarI thought Mr Tardis said first, Thanks for the Edit!
Still Julian Glover and his Crusades!!!
Don’t forget city of death. I would put Julian Glover in the 60s in the rising star box.
General Veers certainly got around. :P
@@minicle426 He would later be in Fantasy afterwoods...
I think you'd be hard-pressed to find anyone who'd put The Crusade even in their Top 10 60s Doctor Who stories.
But I also think you'd be hard-pressed to find anyone who truly disliked it - It's just there....An average Doctor Who story of the Classic era.
Even amongst the pure historicals of the 60s it's neither the best {probably The Aztecs unless you want to count The Time Meddler} nor the worst {Gunfighters}.
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One of the problems I've found with the pure historicals and which probably led to their demise; was the issue of the Doctor and Companions having to be forced to stick around BUT also to be required to be as non-influential in the story as possible because they can't actually change the established known history of our own world.
The Time Meddler bypassed that second part of the problem by having the Monk be the one trying to change history and having the Doctor stop him from doing so BUT the existence of the Monk in that story makes it not actually a pure historical.
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P.S. Most British Children over 5 years old in the 1960s would have had some knowledge of The Crusades - If only through watching and reading Robin Hood stories and the fact that Richard was and possibly still is our most beloved King since the Norman Invasion! {Yes even despite the revisionist historians trying to drum into our adult heads how bad he actually was as a King - The Robin Hood image of him is ingrained in our hearts}.
And of course the UK was much much more Christian in the 1960s than it is today and almost every child over 5 years old would have known what was meant by "The Holy Land".
This 4 part Historical Doctor Who story (What there is left of it), is just pure Absolute POETRY To watch.
While I like this episode, I wish they did an animated reconstruction of the missing two episodes first. They did say it would be hard to do so given the lack of characters and costumes to work with and animate.
sick, love these so much, thankyou!
I forgot they wrote a connection to The Witchfinders novel in that linking narration William Russell did in 1998, absolutely wild lol
Ian is such a Chad
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Am I an idiot for holding out for this one to B animated? Should I just get the season 2 blu ray & B done with it??
The guy who's in charge of a lot of the animated reconstructions apparently said in 2019 that it'd be a while before this one received the animated treatment.
@@someguy3752 Well, Underwater Menace seemed like it'd never get animated, but it's getting it now, so there's hope(?)
Julian Glover becomes the first Doctor Who/Star Wars crossover. In Space Museum, which actor played in Star Wars too? Can you name the person?
Where can i find this episode
Love the Shakespearean hint in the lines just before 11 minutes
OK, for Winnie, I'll subscribe. Ha ha. I was going to anyway, since you do such a good job of program.
Fun fact to anyone following the stories chronologically: Jean Marsh becomes one of the Doctor's companions, Sara Kingdom. Unfortunately, we don't get to see her as the filming of Daleks' Master Plan were scrubbed.
13:25-Anyone who's looked up scaphism is wondering how the hell did they get way with even referencing it
I love the crusaders because It has got Juliana glover from the city of death in it and from for your eyes only and indana Jones and the crusaders
How crazy is it that of all the missing episodes, only two from this story are missing from all of season 2?
I dont understand the praise this serial gets. Barbara as a damsel has been done several times by this point including in the previous 2 serials. The doctor and vicki have a couple good moments but spend most of their time standing in one room and talking. Ian gets knighted and then does basically nothing. He's tortured in the desert for 2 episodes and then doesn't even fight the villain. The villain just dies to a knife in his back in the most anti climactic way possible. The only really good scene is where Joanna blows up on King Richard in episode 3.
You made an error: WIlliam Russell did not do the stake scene, his stunt double did the scene. Russell refused to allow ants to crawl up his legs and arms.
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Iambic pentameter. I need a dictionary.