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Title: Doctor Who: The Black Guardian Trilogy ("Mawdryn Undead" / "Terminus" / "Enlightenment")
Year: 1983
Network: BBC
Episodes: 12, at 25 minutes; 3 stories of 4 episodes each, from the middle of season 20
Creators: Sydney Newman, C.E. Webber, Donald Wilson
Directors: Peter Moffatt / Mary Ridge / Fiona Cumming
Writers: Peter Grimwade / Stephen Gallagher / Barbara Clegg
Starring: Peter Davison, Janet Fielding, Sarah Sutton, Nicholas Courtney, Mark Strickson
Music: Ron Grainer (theme), Paddy Kingsland / Roger Limb / Malcolm Clarke
My reaction
Synopsis: a whiny schoolboy is enlisted by to kill The Doctor by an apparently omnipotent weirdo; meanwhile, The Doctor battles would-be immortals, lepers, nonsense and plot holes
How I saw it: on video (rented from Netflix), over the past few days
Concept: Terrible.
Story: Bad. Some of the basic plot ideas of the first two stories are sound, but the writing is awful.
Characters: Bad.
Dialog: Indifferent.
Pacing: Indifferent.
Cinematography: Bad.
Special effects/design: Bad.
Acting: Indifferent. A couple of the guest stars are quite memorably good, but there's a lot of crap.
Music: Indifferent. Kingsland's score is entertainingly bad. The others are unobtrusive.
Subjective Rating: 4/10 (Eh). 4/10 for "Mawdryn," 5/10 for "Terminus" and 3/10 for "Enlightenment." Not exactly your best Doctor Who, even by 80's standards.
Objective Rating: 3/10 (Pretty bad) 1.4/4 (Bad).
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