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Title: Doctor Who: "The Time Monster"
Year: 1972
Network: BBC
Episodes: 6, at 25 minutes each; the last story (of five) from season nine
Creators: Sydney Newman, C.E. Webber, Donald Wilson
Director: Paul Bernard
Writers: Robert Sloman & Barry Letts
Starring: Jon Pertwee, Nicholas Courtney, Katy Manning
Music: Ron Grainer (theme); Dudley Simpson
My reaction
Synopsis: the Master manipulates time to summon an ancient, powerful creature
How I saw it: on video (rented from Netflix), over the past couple days
Concept: Bad.
Story: Bad.
Characters: Indifferent.
Dialog: Good.
Pacing: Bad.
Cinematography: Indifferent.
Special effects/design: Terrible.
Acting: Bad.
Music: Bad.
Subjective Rating: 5/10 (Indifferent). There's not anything especially wrong with it, except for the general lack of anything good about it. It's fairly dull and unimaginative (except for episode four, where two TARDISes are each one inside the other, which I think is kind of brilliant), but it's watchable.
Objective Rating: 1.4/4 (Bad).
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