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Inferno - Episode 2
(Series 7, Episode 20)
With Jon Pertwee as the third Doctor
Companions: Caroline John as Liz Shaw
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Derek Newark had that kind of alpha aggressive physiognomy that suited the role, though Sutton is possibly his most romantic role on tv, too. He briefly had the more sanguine and genteel role of valet Mervyn Bunter to Ian Carmichael in the Lord Peter Wimsey mystery The Unpleasantness At The Bellona Club (the role of Bunter in that set of adaptations from 1972 to 1975 was normally played by actor Glyn Houston, who will appear later in Classic Who). Newark also played Spooner, the fierce all-in wrestler tenant of Leonard Rossiter’s landlord Rigsby in the sitcom Rising Damp. Apparently Spooner was afraid of the dark.
Sutton was played by Derek Newark, a man with an anagramatically-unfortunate surname. He'd previously played Za in the very first serial, and was well-known character actor, most notably, perhaps, for his recurring role in the sitcom Rising Damp. A true stalwart of British television up until the 1980s, more or less.
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I always loved this episode. My favorite scene is the "Doctor, I need answers" scene between The Doctor and the Brigadier. Then, the terror of Wyatt's transformation, becoming so animalistic that he forgets how to use his gun and starts wielding it like a club. And that shriek! OMG, so creepy! Fantastic sound design. Everything's already been said about this story, but it's just great.
Another great episode. The Doctor-Stahlman interactions are worth the price of admission alone
This had great background characters too never could get bored rewatching it
The music from this was a mixture of stock and music Delia Derbyshire had composed for a documentary and which had been broadcast a few years earlier. This has such a doom-laden feel this story and only Pertwee could sell it. A triumph.
Greg Sutton comes across as a brash, highly sexed, very 70s kind of macho man. A rather different Doctor Who role for Derek Newark from his previous one, as he had played Za the caveman way back in An Unearthly Child. In a way it is quite appropriate he appears here, as this was also the last story that would feature the original 1963 TARDIS console.
The Doctor is in waspish form, and apparently Pertwee was also being rather difficult behind the scenes when these first two episodes were being recorded, earning Camfield’s wrath by refusing to follow some of his directions. That may help explain, together with his subsequent heart problems, why Camfield did not return to the show until the fourth Doctor’s era. Incidentally, I don’t think Barry Letts and Terrance Dicks went into this story looking to consciously create a spectacular season finale, at this stage it was more a question for them of just getting Season 7 done and out of the way, after which they would have some breathing space to start moulding the show more in their own image than in that of their predecessors.
That was indeed Sutton's (edit: Newark's) bread and butter: very shouty, brash types. He played a role in The Avengers that was very much in that mold.
Every now and then the Dr Who production team say to each other: "You know what? We haven't done a werewolf story". I think this is the first of many. See if you can spot the rest as they turn up...
I see it as a zombie apocalypse story. Sure, they're not literal zombies, but merely being touched by one of them causes you to become one of them. I always said it was 28 Days Later 22 year earlier.
The incidental music: this is the last time library tracks were used; after this, the music was specially composed. One of the reasons it's library tracks here is because in 1965, the director Douglas Camfield fell out with composer Dudley Simpson and vowed never to use his services again.
I think the story about Camfield and Simpson has been disputed, being mere speculation on Simpson's part. Camfield, for his part, said it was because he simply preferred a different style of music, and if you listen to the composers he chose, Don Harper, Geoffrey Burgeon, etc., that style seems to be more musique concrete, eerie, or industrial, so that does check out to some degree. Eventually, they did work together again on Philip Hinchcliffe's show Target! in the late '70s.
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Camfield said a score that Simpson did for one of his TARGET episodes was one of the best scores he'd heard.
As you say, Camfield simply didn't want to be stuck with a house style and wanted to experiment with different styles on Doctor Who.
@@Darren79 I just found a detailed article about it online. Apparently, Simpson mistook a comment Camfield made at a dinner party to mean that he thought he was making too much money and didn't need the work. It wasn't true, apparently.
@@MichaelPhillipsatGreyOwlStudio I read an article about this years ago. What I recall was that Camfield and his wife were invited to dinner at Simpson's house. Camfield saw the big ,opulent house, felt that Simpson was making too much money and vowed never to use him again. That was all according to Simpson. Whether this was true or not I cannot say.
If you are a man there with high metabolism or body heat, you were miserably discriminatorily oppressed, by how comfortable Petra's outfit is, and how uncomfortable the men's stuffy suit outfits are.
Now, before I start, I want to remind you/viewers/readers of youtube that I have previous commended the opening episodes of all four serials in season seven. They are all brilliant and Spearhead had the added complication of introducing a new Doctor.
Last episode I said that I found the remaining six episodes (of Inferno) a slog to view and the first reason is right here.
Unexplained Power losses? Why, we had them in The Silurians only 2 stories ago, could they be returning?
NO! Unexplained power losses in such a quick turnaround just shouts "okay, we've run out of ideas"!
When it was decided to exile the Doctor to Earth, it was said there was only two stories to tell - Mad Scientists and Alien Invasion.
We haven't gotten to episode three yet and the sting in the tale - but had the Silurians re-appeared in epsiode 3, I might have a greater appreciation for how this series was constructed.
I'll be back later in the story.
Loving your reactions fellas!
Re. the show doing a season finale - the classic series never really does (the odd exception). It only happens in the sense of companions leaving or joining.
There's a point for the show when budget wise the final story of the season is generally one that struggles - there's a season where one of the most sumptuous productions that the show ever managed is at the end of a season and afterwards, the final story is always the cheapest - which shows sometimes more than others.
Be interested to know which season you think ends with a sumptuous production?
I think the series works better without obvious ‘extra special finales’ like the modern era. I actually dislike the vast majority of New Who season finales, too flashy and showy, and more importantly, too obvious, for my taste
Liz was the only companion who had both the non-events happen to her (one of which will be apparent by the red of this story and the other I the first episode of the next)🎩
"End" not "red"🎩
The site was an oil/gas facility at Hoo, appropriately.
@@curmudgeone Yes, Berry Wiggins Ltd., an oil refiner and manufacturer of bitumen.
I would say the pertwee era series finales are the most series finaley out off all I have seen so far bar the war games. I’f say all of his apart from maybe s9 (I haven’t seen that one properly yet) feel like proper series final stories in my opinion. If that makes any sense
It's funny how so often classic Who falls flat on season finales, so much so that the exceptions are often notable, e.g. The Talons of Weng-Chiang, The Seeds of Doom.
@@MichaelPhillipsatGreyOwlStudio yes I would definitely agree with talons and seeds of doom they definitely hit the end of series heights. I really need to revisit the the time monster I just couldn’t wait to get to the beginning of series 10 (if you know you know) so ended up skipping it. I’m sure that has the same feel as the rest of the Pertwee finales though.
@@rebeccaburgess8710 I would say TM has a very different feel from the rest of the Pertwee finales. On paper, it's a really good story, but the tone is very different and less serious than other finales. Personally, I've always enjoyed it, though. It's silly but fun IMO.