Doctor Who #7: The Sensorites

Doctor Who: "The Sensorites," 1964 (the seventh story of eight from season one). A human spaceship is trapped in orbit around a planet of telepaths.

Directed by Mervyn Pinfield (4 episodes) & Frank Cox (2). Written by Peter R. Newman. Starring William Hartnell, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill & Carole Ann Ford.

Concept: 2/4 (Indifferent)
Story: 1/4 (Bad)
Characters: 1/4 (Bad)
Dialog: 1/4 (Bad)
Pacing: 0/4 (Terrible)
Cinematography: 2/4 (Indifferent)
Special effects/design: 1/4 (Bad)
Acting: 0/4 (Terrible). Often the only emotion conveyed is triumph at having made it through a line successfully.
Music: 2/4 (Indifferent)
Subjective Rating: 2/10 (Terrible, 0/4). Usually when 1960s Doctor Who is bad, it's due to the time constraints they had to work in - no time to work out the kinks or take a second take when things didn't go right. (And they do have all those problems here, in greater abundance than usual.) In this case, though, there's nothing anyone could have done to save it, short of having the writer shot. It would have been better if they'd just had the actors make it up as they went along. Sometimes I think they did.
Objective Rating (Average): 1.0/4 (Bad)