Review The Nightmare of Eden (1979)

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Your thoughts on this story....

A cruise ship loaded with passengers to the planet Azure collides with a trade ship as it comes out of warp, leaving the two ships merged but unstable. The Doctor, Romana and K-9 arrive to help out but discover there's also a problem with unidentified smugglers running a cargo of vraxoin, a forbidden organic drug that's as highly addictive as it is fatal.

On to the next story....

THE HORNS OF NIMON

https://www.imdforums.com/threads/the-horns-of-nimon-1979.3701/


Back to the previous story....

THE CREATURE FROM THE PIT

https://www.imdforums.com/threads/the-creature-from-the-pit-1979.5297/

 

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I saw this on broadcast, once only, but relived it much more through the novelisation and grew to really like it as a concept and as a story, forgetting what I had witnessed in black and white in 1979.

Revisiting it, in full colour, on vhs many years later was one of the major disappointments as the lovely story was buried in cheap, tacky visuals, but buried even more by the cast not taking it seriously, especially Tryst and his ridiculous accent.

There is still a great story and script underneath it all, and I remember reading the book and absolutely loving the "Galactic Salvage: I wondered why I hadn't been paid!" line, a line that doesn't really sing in the show, but does in the novelisation.

The book version sings. The television version is a throaty croak!

A new producer was well overdue. It was clear by this point that poor Graham Williams just couldn't compete against the intellectual bullying of Tom Baker and the show was suffering as a result.

 

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