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Doctor Who - The Armageddon Factor (The Key to Time Series, Part 6)

Doctor Who - The Armageddon Factor (The Key to Time Series, Part 6)

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Get this video!
Review: This is one of the finest episodes of Doctor Who I have ever seen. The story is wonderful. It starts off on a planet that has been at war with another planet for hundreds of years. They have a "no prisoners" attitude and that provides for an extremely interesting plot twist later on in the film. THIS STORY ROCKS!!! END

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Baker Unhinged!
Review: This is very entertaining stuff. You need a sharp wit and sense of the fantastic to enjoy this one. If you want pretentious nonsense stick to the stilted McCoy stories. Only Tom Baker could carry this story off with such style. All the other doctors who came after him are pale imitations.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Baker Unhinged!
Review: This is very entertaining stuff. You need a sharp wit and sense of the fantastic to enjoy this one. If you want pretentious nonsense stick to the stilted McCoy stories. Only Tom Baker could carry this story off with such style. All the other doctors who came after him are pale imitations.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: The search for the Key to Time, ends....now
Review: This serial climaxed an entire season spent tracking down the pieces of the fabled "key to time and space". While some episodes were light hearted or satiric (in one serial, the key is located almost immediately, but plot twists rapidly turn the serial into a send-up of "The Prisoner of Zenda"), this serial is downright dark and foreboding.

BACKGROUND: the Dr., an incorrigible 700 year old expatriate of a master race, journeys across time and space (and delightfully bad special effects) in a time machine whose exterior resembles a London Police call box. In the season capped off with this story, the Dr. was recruited by the mysterious but apparently benign "White Guardian" to recover the key to time, the pieces of which have been scattered and their appearance altered. There was a Black Guardian as well, and the search is also a race to recover and complete the key before the Black Guardian. Though the BG makes no appearance until this story, the Dr. (and his comely if brainy assistant Romana) know their luck won't hold out.

In "Armageddon", the Dr, knows that he's on the verge of completing the key and, therefore, knows the BG is around. The story starts out on Atrios, one of two planets caught in an endless and debilitating nuclear war. Under direct control of The Marshal, an agent of the Black Guardian, the planet hurls at and absorbs devastating attacks from its neighbor, Zeos (not to be confused with the similarly situated planet in the Classic Trek episode, "Patterns of Force") while Atrians alleviate their suffering with a steady dose of propaganda TV. Arriving in a dingy corner of Atrios, the Dr. soon learns that the last piece of the keys figures in the interplanetary war that is slowly destroying both planets. In typical "Who" fashion, the Dr. arouses suspicion from those he first meets - the autocratic Marshal and his bumbling aid, Shap. There is a beautiful princess (Lalla Ward) in love with the heroic (but not quite as heroic as the script thinks) Merak, and the Marshal (in league with evil) is bound to exploit them all. The story shouldn't work - it's much too slow and not a lot even happens , and the nominal villain, another BG lieutenant called "Shadow" is unintentionally funny- but the script hints at the darker evil of the Black Guardian, and the tension he exudes keeps it all together.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Go buy this video! It 's the best of the Key to Time series
Review: This video has the Doctor and Romana arriving on a planet fighting against another planet. To make matters worse the leader of the planet is kidnapped by the Shadow.The Doctor,Romana and K9 discover who is really behind the war.The Doctor must eventually fight the Black Guradion and save the planet where the TARDIS landed. In this story a person actually is the piece of the Key To Time.The Doctor confronts the Black Guradian , but the Shadow losses his servant the Shadow.The Doctor uses the Key to stop the war from going any further. This story is fast and it got the futuure Romana playing the role Of Astra! In the end the Doctor installs a new machine to control the TARDIS! It 's possibly the best of the season and one of my favorites from the Key To Time series! also in this episode look for an actor from the movie "An American Werewolf In London" John Woodvine as the Marshall of Astrios!

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Dr Who at its worst!
Review: This was a dreadful story, from the Shadow's hamming it up - "the key to time is mine!" - to the endless running around in caverns and corridors. There is barely enough plot to sustain four episodes, let alone six. A very disappointing end to the "Key to Time" series.


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