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Monarchs and miners, priests and chancellors, a galaxy of aliens and one hairy monster fight for power on the planet of Peladon. May the Just prevail! - with some help from a debonair Doctor and two remarkable women from Earth ... 5*

All hail Brian Hayles!, creator of Peladon, for these royal gifts from the Pertwee era. The writer who gave us the Ice Warriors brings his famous creations back into action in two tales of intrigue and conflict, as the feudal swords-and-sandals society of Peladon meets the technological aliens of the Galactic Federation. Should the Pels hold firm to their ancient traditions and their god Aggedor, or should they embrace change and join life in the wider Galaxy? And what will be the cost of their choice?

`The Curse of Peladon' has always been one of my favourite Third Doctor stories, like one of the old historicals in its tale of a king, his people and power struggles in a vast, gloomy Citadel - plus visitors from the stars. `Curse' has been likened to `Hamlet with aliens' and that's not a bad summary for the quality and style of the drama. Brilliant. 5*

`The Monster of Peladon', set 50 years later, is too often considered a poor sequel, but I think it's much better than that reputation suggests. The first three episodes are sometimes too slow and repetitive but the second half of the six-part story is very good indeed, there are some great effects and fight scenes and the Ice Warriors are back ... 4*

(This review has grown into a bit of a `Monster' so please don't `Curse' its length and thanks if you reach the end!)

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The Curse of Peladon: 5* (4 Episodes)

King Peladon of Peladon (David Troughton) is an enlightened ruler, keen to take Peladon into the Galactic Federation for the benefit of his people, as advised by Chancellor Torbis (Henry Gilbert). But he is also young, inexperienced and mindful of the old traditions of his world, as taught by Hepesh, High Priest of Aggedor (Geoffrey Toone). The opening scene defines this story with three excellent, dramatic guest performances that set the standard lived up to by the whole cast. Their argument is bitter and fundamental: In or Out? Should Peladon join the Federation or not?

Into this tense situation come the Doctor and Jo Grant, taking the TARDIS for a test flight. But the first death has occurred before they even arrive ... can it really be true, as Hepesh says, that the presence of aliens will bring down the Curse of Aggedor upon them all ... ? There follow four episodes of a well-scripted `whodunit' - it's obvious Hepesh is opposed to joining the Federation, fearing exploitation of their mineral wealth by alien powers, but how far will he go and does he have help - from his god Aggedor or from beyond the stars ... ?

I love this story and it's perfect for Jon Pertwee's Third Doctor, who looks totally at home hobnobbing in the throne room of the Citadel (impersonating the Chairman of the Federation committee), hunting the legendary royal beast of Peladon through labyrinthine tunnels, singing a Venusian lullaby(!) and (helped by stuntman Terry Walsh) wielding assorted weaponry in a great fight scene. Katy Manning has an excellent, adventurous and romantic story as Jo Grant, and it's no surprise that King Peladon falls in love at the first sight of "Princess Josephine of TARDIS", seeing her looking especially beautiful, "all dolled up for a night on the town with Mike Yates!" (Poor Captain Yates always missed out!)

Together they solve the mystery, helped and hindered by the Pels and the delegates of the Committee - logical Arcturus (a green weed-like creature in a life-support unit); the ultra-pacifist Alpha Centauri and the Ice Warriors Lord Izlyr and his Martian muscle man Ssorg. Alan Bennion is superb as Izlyr and its great to see Sonny Caldinez back in the carapace as Ssorg - but can they really be peaceful diplomats? The Doctor has met the Ice Warriors before and has his doubts ... Alpha Centauri defies description but it is the ultimate `bug-eyed monster', a delightful creation brilliantly played by a woman AND a man - most appropriate for this "hermaphrodite hexapod"! Ysanne Churchman is the voice and Stuart Fell the body and they work so perfectly together that it's easy to forget it's a double act.

Peladon looks excellent; this all-studio production designed by Gloria Clayton created a huge, gloomy Citadel of long corridors and secret passages filled with dim light and smoky shadow by genuine flaming torches (which caused serious problems with soot!) and daringly low lighting by Howard King that gives the show great atmosphere and reality. Some very impressive model work gives us the `exterior' world of storm-wracked mountains and sheer cliffs and with Lennie Mayne's great direction and some well-placed filming on the larger stages at Ealing, this feels a bigger production that its studio setting would suggest. The restored picture quality is quite soft compared with some stories, but that really doesn't hurt this tale of smoke-filled rooms and ominous shadows.

As the Doctor investigates, the plotters' scheme unravels with their ever-more desperate attempts to hold power and brilliantly staged sword-fights reaching the throne room itself - before the Doctor's final, decisive intervention with a most surprising ally ... A victorious ending then for Peladon's new future in the Federation and we must be pleased, but it's a sad ending too, for in this cleverly written tale of progress versus tradition and belief, a man may act wrongly for sincerely-held motives. And who knows? Perhaps he was right all along ... but that's the next story ...

SPOILER NOTE: The cliff-hanger for episode 3 is brilliant and designed to leave us wondering what happened, but the editing of the start of episode 4 doesn't make it that clear (no doubt to avoid showing too much `goo' at Saturday teatime.) It's obvious if you are watching closely - Arcturus fires his heat ray at the Doctor but Ssorg saves him, turning Arcturus to pulp with his sonic gun. Go Ice Warriors!

DVD Special Features:
The commentary is chatty and great fun, with Katy Manning, producer Barry Letts and script editor Terrance Dicks proving a lively and informative trio as usual, this time also joined with enjoyable comments from production manager Chris D'Oyly John.
NOTE: Most of the special features cover both Peladon Tales, so if you don't know `Monster', leave them until you've seen both stories to avoid spoilers. And, as usual, the main menu background clips give too much away so press `Play' quickly if you don't know the details already!

`The Peladon Saga - Part One' (24 min) - an enjoyable `making of' documentary, though you might not agree with the nostalgic hopes for 1970s Britain that some express in the rather politics-heavy first half - I never saw the last two episodes of this fantastic story in 1972 because of power cuts caused by strikes and only found out how it finished by reading the `Target' book three years later!! The second part of the feature is much better, looking at the production of the two Peladon stories.
`Warriors of Mars' (15 min) - the four classic-series appearances of the Ice Warriors, good, but inevitably duplicates interviews etc. from other DVDs.
`Jon and Katy' (7 min) - a short feature paying tribute to this splendid Doctor and companion pairing, a nice thought but too short for any depth.
`Storyboard Comparison (2 min) - how the model work progressed from plan to screen.
`Photo Gallery' (7 min) - a large photo gallery but the bright flash lighting means nothing looks as good as in the actual production. Note the early version of Aggedor with small eyes and long eyelashes!

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The Monster of Peladon: 4* (6 Episodes)

Fifty years have passed when the Doctor returns to Peladon with new companion Sarah Jane Smith. Queen Thalira, the late king's daughter (Nina Thomas), is on the throne and the Federation is at war with Galaxy 5. Peladon's minerals are needed urgently, but the fears of Hepesh have proved true - little wealth has come to the people of Peladon, the Spirit of Aggedor is on the rampage and the miners are on strike ...

This story is all about division: it divides fan opinion, it's a tale of a divided society and it's divided into a bad half and a good half! The strong second half is very good indeed, though not quite in the same league as `Curse', but I'll get the negatives out of the way first (though I don't like criticising one of `my' Doctor's stories.)

`Monster' looks like a clear example of a strong 4-parter being stretched out to make a weaker 6-parter. In this case, all the `padding' is in the first three episodes (which could have been condensed into one) and so it's a bit of a beast to watch to begin with. But stay with it because things improve hugely at half-time and it's great (as it was in 1974) to see some familiar `faces' return for the sequel.

A major problem is that `Monster' is over-lit compared with `Curse'. The flaming torches are still there but now the studio sets look like studio sets and not the mysterious, shadowy Citadel of Peladon. The stripy-haired miners have been likened to a colony of badgers and the hairpieces certainly do distract from their story.

The plot of the first three episodes is repetitive, going over and over traditionalist, power-hungry High Priest Ortron's suspicions about the Doctor and the dispute with the miners. The Doctor is condemned as a spy, then recognised as an old friend, then condemned to death, then it's OK and he and Sarah are having tea with the Queen, then he's imprisoned again ... The miners are striking, then negotiating, then revolting, then negotiating AND revolting and so it goes on. Part of this is because the miners are divided and so are the nobility, but mostly it looks like padding and is rather dull.

Earth engineer Eckersley (Donald Gee, an excellent performance) wants mineral production back on line and is urging Ambassador Alpha Centauri to take some decisive action. Sarah is trying to convince young Queen Thalira to assert her royal authority as Queen, and thinks something nasty is lurking in the refinery control room ...

Elisabeth Sladen played Sarah wonderfully from her first appearance, and she does again here, but she's being asked to give two very different performances in one story. For much of the first three episodes the writing makes Sarah unusually loud and tactless, even recklessly so when the Doctor is trying to talk their way out of trouble. I think it was a rather unsuccessful attempt to write `feminism' into the character, but not nearly as well done as Robert Holmes' writing for her in `The Time Warrior'. It's well played but a very different Sarah from the surrounding stories or later seasons - then partway through episode 3 she abruptly changes back into the familiar Sarah Jane, independent and with a clever scheme to help the Pels and the Doctor, but sensitive to the situation and their surroundings - and one of my favourite companions from any Doctor's era.

That point in episode 3 is where the whole story switches round into an excellent and worthy sequel to `Curse'. Sarah is of course right, there IS something nasty in the refinery and it's giving little away to say the Ice Warriors are back and they're a lot less diplomatic this time! Alan Bennion is brilliant again, this time as Ice Lord Azaxyr, with a whole green gang of Martian thugs to back him up. What exactly he's up to and who is with him makes up the rest of the story and I won't spoil it here, but just say it's a very good story as the Doctor and Sarah try to work out who can be trusted and how to save Peladon.

After the dull first half, episode 4 is a transformation, full of tense moments and action, it seems to fly by, culminating in probably the most brutal fight scene the Doctor was ever involved in (mostly and quite visibly played by stuntman Terry Walsh). Miner Ettis (Ralph Watson) has gone from class war agitator to murderous revolutionary over the three episodes and this is where his story ends, great special effects too. By contrast, the miners' real leader Gebek (Rex Robinson) has grown from simply negotiating about `pay and conditions' into a statesman working with Ortron (Frank Gatliff) and the Queen to save Peladon - with some help from the Doctor of course. `Monster' has sometimes been called `Socialist' but looking at the fates of Ettis and Gebek, to me it seems like normal `Doctor Who' meritocracy - the good and wise almost always come out on top, the bad and violent meet a sticky end.

With the Doctor invoking `the spirit of Aggedor' to help them, victory is won after a few more exciting twists and turns - but at a cost that leaves me feeling rather sad even at this age! However, with the changes Queen Thalira makes at the royal court, it perhaps symbolises the end of the old era on Peladon and the true start of the new future King Peladon dreamed of fifty years before.

(Thanks very much for reading if you made it this far!)

DVD Special Features:
On Disk 1: The commentary is very entertaining through all six episodes thanks to a gallery of contributors. Barry Letts and Terrance Dicks are joined for various episodes by Nina Thomas, Donald Gee, Ralph Watson and Stuart Fell. Some well-known fans commentate on episode 4, which is probably the best episode of the story, so lucky them!

On Disk 2:
`The Peladon Saga - Part Two' (22 min) - this much better half of the `making of' documentary looks at the actors and how the various aliens were created, including Nick Hobbs on playing Aggedor.
`On Target - Terrance Dicks' (21 min) - an excellent feature about the king of `Doctor Who' novelisations, with many interviews and readings including by Caroline John and Katy Manning. (My personal favourite of all `Target' books is his `Day of the Daleks', a classic.)
`Deleted Scenes' (2 min) - two short scenes, one with audio and stills only.
`Where Are They Now?' (2 min) - Ysanne Churchman interviewed by David Jacobs, describing her original brief for the voice of Alpha Centauri!
`Photo Gallery' (8 min) - extensive photo collection but again, the bright flash lighting doesn't do any favours.
Two Easter eggs - a fun BBC news item found from the Menu screen, and another one sneakily hidden on the PDF info page! It's a 5 minute `behind the scenes' compilation from the filming at Ealing - audio only but still very interesting for fans.

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The Curse of Peladon
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Brian Hayles had created an enduring race of Martian Reptiles in "The Ice Warriors" and so for the start of the ninth season, Letts and Dicks wanted to bring back some classic foes from the past. The Ice Warriors, en route became part of these plans. In The Curse of Peladon we see a story about an unprepared King facing decisions that will either make or break his planet. Its a wonderful story, there is a menagerie of monsters old and new, a brilliantly cast David Troughton as King Peladon and of course Jon Pertwee and Katy Manning at the height of their Saturday teatime power. The story exudes atmosphere, the dark and echoing corridors of the citadel look fantastic. Director Lennie Mayne does some pretty brilliant direction here, the story is very well made and considering that this story was made in 1972, it boasts some remarkable production standards.

At the heart of this tale are more of those Pertwee era political undertones, this time its the EEC. Great Britain was facing some dilemmas of its own back in the early 70's concerning the future of the country and its position in the EU, and so these dilemmas and choices certainly shine through in this adventure. The people of Peladon are not too happy about joining the Galactic Federation {EEC} and the King must decide what is best for his people, not let their primitive superstition dictate the planets future. A King must lead and lead courageously. Unfortunately for the good King, his desire to see Peladon as a great world amongst the community of neighboring planets are continually objected to by Hepesh, the High Priest. Over the duration of this cracking adventure, Hepesh is unmasked as the traitor and killed by his "God" Aggedor.

Overall this is a brilliant little 4 parter from the middle of Jon Pertwee's reign as the titular Time Lord. There's some great incidental music from Dudley Simpson, David Troughton's acting is superb and the direction is exquisite. A Must for any Pertwee era fan and highly recommended to even the casual viewer. 10/10.

The Monster of Peladon
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1974's The Monster of Peladon is a not too different a beast to "Curse", here we have another young and inexperienced monarch not really ready to lead, Ice Warriors, a meddling High Priest, great directing from Lennie Mayne, great design work and of course Jon Pertwee returning for seconds. Except this time there's no Katy, Jo Grant having by this point left the series and handed the role of companion over to Sarah Jane Smith {Liz Sladen}. Like Curse, Monster has underlying political themes, this time its not the EEC its the miners strike of 74'. The costumes are not the greatest the series has ever produced, the badger like hair style of the miners is quite odd compared to everybody else's normal hair-dew.

Donald Gee puts in a brilliant performance as the galaxy 5 agent Eckersley, funny thing really that Donald has appeared in both Pat Troughton and Jon Pertwee's penultimate serials. Alan Bennion returns for his third time as an Ice Lord, this time playing Azaxyr. Alan's portrayal of the Ice Lord is brilliant and adds that bit more atmosphere to the serial. This story marks the last time that Brian Hayles wrote for the series and the last appearance of The Ice Warriors. They are hopefully set to make a return in the new series in 2012, but this is just a rumour at present. Overall a very enjoyable 6 part romp with Jon Pertwee and Liz Sladen. 10/10.

So, two great Jon Pertwee serials finally released on to the ever expanding range of Doctor Who DVD's. Both these adventures have been lovingly restored and remastered by the Doctor Who Restoration Team for their release on to DVD. The BBC have seen fit to release both serials packed with bonus content, both stories feature a half-hour documentary about Peladon and the themes and politics involved in each. As ever, these documentaries are fascinating and highly entertaining so I suggest that when you have finished watching these Pertwee classics, you take a look and enjoy. Highly recommended release.

Many thanks for your time, its greatly appreciated.

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Curse

So the TARDIS is kinda working, is it, and Jo's got her best frock on? Uh huh. Now we're halfway up a mountain.

Meanwhile, we've got a more or less absolute monarchy, and the more or less absolute monarch looks a great deal like his dad (is that Peladon of Peladon, or the Second Doctor?), his progressive chancellor is mysteriously dead, and his conservative high priest is trying to force the royal hand against alliance with - well - aliens, and all this in a quasi medieval society, where the weapon of choice is the sword.

First among the aliens is Alpha Centauri, one of the most idiosyncratic characters of 1970s Who - one eye, six arms, with little Stuart Fell inside it, and Ysanne Churchman providing the voice - the hermaphrodite hexapod imbued with a nervous disposition and near terminal goodwill.

Next, Arcturus; a tentacled skull in a tank, with stroppy personality, trusts nobody, his own life-supporting travel machine with built in gun - hard to think well of anything that seems so like a Dalek, except...

The other delegate is a big green scaly brute from Mars, the Ice Warrior, Lord Izlyr with a similar green heavy named Ssorg. This pair are going to be trouble.

It's against this backdrop that Jo Grant pulls off her best ever entrance `Josephine, Princess of Tardis', and that is just to set the ball rolling, because it's now up to the Dr to solve the mystery of who did for the poor chancellor in order to keep Peladon out of the Galactic Federation.

It's a fine idea, and if it gets a little mired in itself (occasionally) over the next two episodes, that's forgivable. Alan Bennion and Sonny Caldinez (should that be Ssonny Caldinez?) do sterling work as the honourable Ice Warriors, while Geoffrey Toone presents an intelligent view of a man driven to villainy by the highest motives, and David Troughton plays an engagingly maladroit young king. It's only the arrival of the real Earth delegate that stops Jo marrying him. This is a lovely story.

My only quibble is the end of Episode 3, when the whole question of `who shot who?' is never made properly clear, because we never properly see Arcturus get blown up, and that's a pity.

4/5

Monster

I do wonder now just what motive the Dr could possibly have for taking Sarah to Peladon - with Jo, turning up in a court ruled by such murderous, misogynistic barbarism was an accident, but with Sarah it's deliberate and without any warning vis 'I'm OK to visit KIng Peladon, but they might kill you just for being female and getting too near him. You're not so lefty as to be a republican as well as a feminist are you?' or 'You thought Irongron was sexist, better check this lot out!'

Peladon is dead, and his daughter Thalira is on the throne, and the High Priest is another vexing conservative (Frank Gatliff this time - in the same frock and possibly the same beard and wig as Hepesh), and the miners, headed by Rex Robinson as Gebek, are getting stroppy about this new Galactic Federation thing. The first story being `Shall we join the EEC?' this is about `What happens now we have?' - slavery to the aliens?

Initially, the aliens are represented as two very reasonable engineers - Vega Nexos and that nice Mr Eckersley (well played, Donald Gee) - while the miners are the malcontents, with High Priest/Chancellor making things worse whenever possible, and the whole thing could be wrapped up in three episodes (if that), but for the Ice Warriors appearing at the end of Part Three. Silly Alpha Centauri! (He gets much more to do in this) Why did you think of summoning Federation troops? Didn't they teach you anything about peace-keeping forces in the Diplomatic Corps? It's not just the Pels that can be reactionary, the Ice Warriors can too, and when they go bad it's with a lot more firepower - this time under Commander Azaxyr - great name - and another delightfully nuanced performance from Mr Bennion; I do like the way that when Azaxyr finally gets killed, it's with a sword, not a blaster.

(Not sure what was adrift with the Ice Warrior costumes, but they are not the identical trio they were in Seeds of Death; one head's too big, one's heads too small, and the result looks a bit silly)

So how worthy a sequel is it? For all the extra running time and more warriors, it's still not quite as exciting as the original; the plot treads water in Episodes Three and Four - the only major development being the arrival of the warriors as the cliffhanger of Ep 3. Inevitably, political allegories both bear the wear of time, each being more useful in their own day; Brexit does make Curse more relevant now, but it's also a better story. The big problem with Monster is that it never really decides what exactly it's about - workers' rights, Europe, Feminism, xenophobia or enemy infiltration.

The heart of the story isn't that difficult to find - it's Queen Thalira's struggle to be a queen in her own right rather than a puppet of the ghastly Ortron - and the turning point of the narrative really ought to be Sarah raising the queen's sisterly consciousness, and going rather further than this script allows her, Sarah challenges Thalira notably less that Jo challenges King Peladon. From then on, it should be Thalira's story (aided by Sarah and Alpha Centauri), with the Dr taking a back seat, as the women deal with Ortron (whose grossly sexist lesse-majestie goes largely unpunished), Azaxyr and Eckersley - I'd much sooner see the queen killing the Ice Lord and then taking Eckersley hostage, with the threat of feeding him to Aggedor. On that subject, killing the beast off at the end is unkind and unnecessary.

Of the Ice Warriors, the abiding impression - of the basic squaddies at least - is of leaden slow wittedness, leading me to wonder just how militarily effective they really are.

In the light of Brexit, I think Peladon might be ripe for another visit, but of course they won't do it.

3/5

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Neither of the stories in this set are highlights of Jon Pertwee's tenure as the Doctor, but both are unusually political ones drawing on the UK's uncertain state in the early 70s. The Curse of Peladon sees the Doctor finally released from his exile on Earth and getting the TARDIS working again only to find himself in the forbidding fortress palace of Peladon on a dark and stormy night, where there's much debate among alien delegates as to whether the planet should be allowed to join the Galactic Federation. If this is not a million light-years away from the debate over whether the UK should join the Common Market, at least Ted Heath didn't have to deal with homicidal saboteurs and the not-so mythical royal beast of Peladon, Agador...

In many ways it's The Old Dark House with aliens, a gothic number with the Ice Warriors now on the side of the angels, former Doctor Patrick Troughton's son David Troughton on the throne and Pertwee displaying both his pitfighting skills and his ability to sooth the savage beast with a Venusian lullaby. It's a good story but a surprising one to generate a direct sequel, even if it does move the story ahead a generation.

Six-parter The Monster of Peladon is interesting for the even more political (and often overtly Socialist) slant the script takes. Whereas social revolutions have been a staple of science fiction even before H.G. Wells wrote The Time Machine, it's rare for a film or television entry in the genre to focus on labour relations and class warfare so explicitly. Just as Frank Herbert's Dune saga was an allegory for the Middle East's political tensions during the oil boom, The Monster of Peladon is an allegory of its own time and place. 70s Britain is now almost ancient history, so many of the references will be lost on a new generation of viewers, but for those who lived through it, watching this show again brings it all back.

For Peladon, standing on the brink of great wealth or even greater disaster, read Britain, for its coveted rare minerals, read North Sea Oil. Joining the Federation (read the Common Market) has not improved the lot of the workers, only the rich; the miners striking for improved wages and conditions (read any of the militant trade unions of the early 70s) are dismissed as bolshie rebels by rulers who would rather confront them than negotiate; while outside enemies manipulate their divisions not so much for conquest as for profit (read the growing trade deficit that saw Britain hover on the verge of bankruptcy). Add a subplot where the Doctor's assistant urges the figurehead Queen of Peladon to seize power by explaining something they have on Earth called Women's Lib, and you've got a perfect reflection for the concerns and paranoias facing 70s Britain - that dark, depressing time of strikes, power cuts, IRA bombing campaigns, the three-day week and inept government.

As drama, it works well enough, but as social history, it's positively fascinating, and the documentaries on the decent extras package go into the parallels with 70s Britain in some depth. It's a shame that the Doctor Who restoration team aren't fond of the Jon Pertwee era despite it being every bit as much a part of the series' golden age as Tom Baker's: the Pertwee episodes tend to need more restoration work than most but always seem to be something of a low priority, and consequently The Monster of Peladon certainly doesn't have as good picture quality as the presumably better stored Curse.

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Enjoyed the "Curse", the "Monster" was OK? Bought this as I'm still in the process of replacing my VHS collection. Good price. I actually picked this up from Amazon cheaper than a good used one elsewhere! Worth a go if you can get it at the right price?

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