People were a bit
surprised when they first saw Tom Baker as the Doctor. They had grown used to
the velvet jacketed flamboyance of Jon Pertwee so this new fellow took a bit of
getting used to as the Brigadier might put it. Unlike `Spearhead from Space` or
`Castrovalva`, Tom’s debut is no real indication of what’s to come either.
Caught in the crossover of production teams it seems a modest introduction to a
new era. Yet it does –appropriately for the 2018 re-release as part of a blu
ray boxset- contain a female antagonist. Plus if the Giant Robot that gave the
Target novelisation its name is a bit of a disappointment the normal sized
version is impressive enough.. Best of all over the course of four episodes Tom
Baker eases gently up through the gears so that by the end he has become the
Doctor.
