Showing posts with label Philip Madoc. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Philip Madoc. Show all posts

Sunday, April 21, 2013

Doctor Who 50th Anniversary: The Power of Kroll





Doctor Who: 
The Power of Kroll 
By Robert Holmes

“Doctor? Sometimes I don't think you're quite right in the head.”

The Doctor and Romana have landed on the swampy moon of Delta Magna where there sits a methane refinery.  The factory is run by a group from Earth who the Swampies he inhabit the moon believe they have been taken for fools and believe they will lose their home.   To make matter worse there is a weapons dealer giving the Swampies guns to help in their battle with the people from Earth.

The Doctor and Romana have gotten themselves stuck in the middle of the disput between the two sides and Romana gets herself captured by the Swampies and is going to be sacrificed to Kroll.   It turns out to be a Swampie in costume as The Doctor comes to her aid.   To make matters worse the real Kroll has decided to rear his head after many years and this time he is going after everyone.  So not only does The Doctor and Romana have to find the fifth segment of the Key to Time but also have to find a way to defeat a humongous giant squid like creature in Kroll.

Sunday, April 7, 2013

Doctor Who 50th Anniversary: The Brain of Morbius By @Blackadder345





Doctor Who:
The Brain of Morbius
By Robin Bland
Reviewed  By Will Barber
   
The Doctor: You can't really go on calling yourself Morbius. There's very little of Morbius left! Why don't you think of another name? Potpourri would be appropriate!
Sarah: Or how about Chop Suey!

The Doctor: Chop Suey, the galactic emperor!

Morbius: YOU will be the first to die!


The Time lords have sent The Doctor on a mission. They have discovered that Morbius, the former Time lord president has returned from the grave. It is up to The Doctor to stop him before all the universe falls to the might of Morbius.


The Brain of Morbius, is Doctor Who at its gothic best. We have all the ingredients of a Hammer Horror: a monster, a mad scientist, his deformed assistant, an all-female cult and lots of lightening. Though Doctor Who is a science fiction programme, this serial feels more in line with the gothic horror stories of the nineteenth century than the Flash Gordon adventures of the twentieth.

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Philip Madoc RIP



Long time character actor and multi classic Dr Who appearances as some of the more memorable villains in the series died on Monday.  He is best known as playing Solon in the Brain of Morbius and The Warlord in The War Games.  He was also in The Power of Kroll and The Krotons plus he made an appearance as Brockley in the Peter Cushing Doctor Who movie The Dalek Invasion of Earth 2150 AD.  He also had roles in cult favorites The Avengers, Z- Cars, The Saint, UFO, and Space 1999.  Philip Madoc was 77 years old.

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