Doctor Who:
The Sontaran Experiment
By Bob Baker & Dave
Martin
“Your Waterloo, Marshal.
Your intelligence mission has been destroyed and your invasion plans are in our
hands. One move across the buffer zone, Marshal, and your entire fleet will be destroyed.”
After the events on space
station Nerva The Doctor, Harry and Sarah Jane have transmated to Earth to fix
the faulty transmat component. They
soon realize that they are not alone on Earth a planet that is supposed to be
deserted. Harry and Sarah decide to go
and investigate and as you would know Harry falls down a hole that was covered
up as if it was a trap but a trap for whom?
Sarah decides to go and get help but runs into Roth who says they are being
experimented on. Meanwhile The Doctor
hears a scream and goes and investigates. What the Doctor doesn’t know that the
man he finds dead was fleeing a robot that is sent out to capture the humans to
be experimented on by his master.
The Doctor is then accused
by the rest of the crew that had crashed on Earth. The Doctor tries and
explains that he is from Nerva but to no avail. Sarah and Roth end up freeing
The Doctor and head for the hole Harry fell in.
Harry is no longer there as he found a way out of the hole. The Doctor ends up falling in himself and
finds the way out that Harry found. The
robot then captures Sarah and Roth and brings them into and to the being that
is doing the experiments. To Sarah’s horror it is a Sontaran that is doing the
experiments and he is doing this as research for the Sontaran invasion fleet.
The Sontaran Experiment is
a fun story to watch. Even though it is
the shortest story of the Seventies it does have a particular charm to it. I do like the fact that it is filmed entirely
on location and it does give the viewer a sense of an Earth that is just coming
back from being damaged by solar flares.
Plus they had good weather as it looked cold and rainy and not bright
and sunny which does help with the atmosphere of the story.
I love seeing the
Sontarans return in this story. Styre
has a minor role and is mainly conducting test but he does have a good fight
with The Doctor. I like how he is
lumbering around and doing his experiments on the humans from the GalSec
colonies that crashed there. Seeing the
Sonataran trying to see what makes a human tick and what our limitations are is
a brilliant story and one that its in perfectly with Sontarans. Plus it has a cool cliffhanger involving
Styre as he comes out of his ship and sees his new specimens to experiment on
and then takes off the helmet. That
scene is pretty cool and makes the story memorable.
The Sontaran Experiment
also has a very funny looking robot. It is one of the flimsiest things I have
seen and it seems comical that it would hold up to the rigors of Earth in an
area that is extremely rocky. Plus all
it took was for The Doctor to use his sonic screwdriver on it and it crumbled
to pieces. The noise it made was pretty
funny also. It makes you wonder how it
snuck up on people and captured them. I would have thought the Sontarans would
have a better robot since they always claim to be superior.
I like The Sontaran
Experiment because it is a fun story but also because it is an easy story to
watch and a good one to watch if you want to unwind because you do not have to
think hard to enjoy it. It has a
classic monster in it and it has Tom Baker fighting Styre in a duel. It just all around fun to watch and one I
really enjoy.
Grade B+
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