Regenerations #1-11 and What’s in Store for #12 A twelve part
series on the episodes, serials, and one Movie that surround the most iconic
piece of Doctor Who Cannon, The Regeneration and what will be coming for Peter
Capaldi
Part three- For whom the Bell Tolls
When Tom Baker decided to leave I’m sure the BBC was in a
lurch. Would the show survive? But this is what regenerations are made
for! In a three part series, The Keeper
of Trakken/ Logopolis/ Castrovalia, Tom Baker left the show and Peter Davison
took over the role of The Doctor.
Logopolis is a kind of messy episode, jumping all over the place. This is the first time the Cloister Bell is
heard, sounding alarm. The Doctor
decides to fix the chameleon circuit after who knows how many years it’s been
broken. Then the Master shows up. Then we are on an alien planet to fix the
TARDIS and the Master follows. It seems
like a script writer was given certain elements and told to make it work. But it doesn't. Then we have the Doctor crossing his own time
stream. Don’t cross the streams. Then the Doctor has trouble with his
regeneration. What do his companions
decide to do? They play “Which Way” with
the TARDIS, immediately falling into a trap set by the Master. It is not till the end of Castrovalia that we
get a idea of what the new Doctor is about.
This may have been done on purpose to place more time between Tom Baker
and Peter Davidson. When we do get the
Doctor new clothes, it is an outfit of cricket clothes(that aren't really
cricket clothes) and celery. I’m sure at
the time no one knew what to think.
Later producer said that this costuming was because of a newly growing
American audience. We also have a superfluity
of companions. No Doctor until David
Tennant has ever had more “companion” in the TARDIS at once. This overload of characters caused issues
with plot development. They were
eventually written out to help concentrate on character development.
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