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Reaction to 1970 Classic Doctor Who Season 7, Story 4
Inferno - Episode 4
(Series 7, Episode 22)
With Jon Pertwee as the third Doctor
Companions: Caroline John as Liz Shaw
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I adore cliffhangers with a build up and ESPECIALLY when it does that with a countdown. I could see this episode fitting incredibly into a new who finale.
Brilliant ending yes one of my favourite pertwee stories
Fun fact: The three main guest characters in this story have names inspired by geology/earth sciences
Petra - Greek for rock
Stahlman - literally "man of steel", a mixture of iron and carbon
Greg - Famously the inventor of the pasty and steak bake, both of which have a crust
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One of the great cliffhangers, and yeah, one of the greatest ever lines
This is one of those stories where I was enjoying the frustration so much, knowing The Doctor is right and not being believed, and he just keeps hammering home the same stuff over and over and they can't open their minds enough to listen , they've all been living for too long in a world where an open mind is dangerous.
And what a cliffhanger the countdown end fading out over the title music ! So good.
I wonder whether the line "the Earth screaming out its rage" was inspired by Conan Doyle's Professor Challenger story, "When the World Screamed" (although best known for his Sherlock Holmes stories, he also wrote science fiction). That story also featured deep drilling into the Earth with a predictably poor outcome...
Almost certainly. I seem to recall Barry Letts mentioning _When the World Screamed_ when he wrote about the "ideas stage" of Inferno in his autobiography.
I love Caroline John's acting in that scene. Just a very faint smile is all that's needed, like she's remembering something she found pleasant from the past, something that brought her happiness that she's now nostalgic about: her days reading physics at university, and perhaps thinking it would become her career before she somehow got sucked into the republican guards.
Also, one of the all-time best cliffhangers in the series, perfectly executed and timed.
You wouldn’t think a 7-year-old could be held by this in terms of its concentration on people but I was in 1970. Greg and Petra’s relationship; the doom-laden atmosphere of the drilling complex; Ian Fairburn who previously played the ill-fated Gregory in The Invasion is especially scary as the scientist who mutates into a Primord (the name for the creatures in the cast list), the urbane scientist who greets Slocombe and is seen talking on the phone becoming this feral being. The Doctor is hunted, isolated from those he’s come to look upon however reluctantly as his friends on Earth.
Its almost tipping into a zombie survival movie with the Primords now , classic bit of 'even a touch and you're done for ' danger
Sheila Dunn as Petra gives a wonderful performance, she maybe low key my fav character for her development, esp to come.
It's interesting, in our world, Greg is a decent bloke, if a bit unsubtle and cheeky , but he's the most unchanged in the other world , except here his personality has more serious risks involved, he can't fit in or try to that hard , unlike the others.
The third Doctor’s era would quite often touch on environmental themes, and Inferno is the first example of that. “The sound of this planet screaming out its rage” can be seen as a warning to humanity not to meddle with the Earth’s basic workings, because of the damage it could do. The Primords are the symbolic representation of that damage, and for the parallel Earth doom is now assured thanks to human arrogance and greed. The story keeps up the dark, gritty atmosphere well here, and the torture scene strikes me as perhaps the most brutal the show ever did, without crossing the boundaries of what is acceptable at teatime on a Saturday.
I have a question for your Season 7 review - how effective a team of regulars do you think the Doctor, Liz and the Brig are this season?
One of my favourite Pertwees even though I still think it would have been better as 6 not 7 episodes. Most of the actors - especially the regulars - must have loved playing two roles for their characters in this one.
Caroline John said she preferred playing Liz from a parallel universe.
Another question for your end of Season Live: What are your thoughts about Liz Shaw?
Season 7 question, was a season of 7 part stories too long, would they have better as 4 parts?
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🤣Brilliant.