Wednesday 21 July 2010

Horrorview review of Doctor Who: The Dominators


To those of us who first became aware of and grew up with “Doctor Who” during the Pertwee years of the early seventies, when the series developed something of a progressive agenda with regard to subjects such as ecology, and a certain amount of cynicism when it came to tackling the uneasy relationship between, for instance, big business and science -- to have a look now at the series during the Troughton years (or what remains of it) can occasionally provide something of a culture shock. The Cold Warlooms large in the show’s dealings with the threat of alien invasion during this period in its history, with the usual story pattern involving a base or colony of some kind -- either onEarth or some other planet..........


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