68: The Space Museum
"Time... like space... although a dimension in itself... also has dimensions of its own."
TECHNICAL SPECS: Part 1 of The Space Museum, available on DVD, packaged with The Chase. First aired Apr.24 1965.
IN THIS ONE... The TARDIS arrives at the Space Museum, but its crew has jumped a time track and now one can see them, until they find themselves in museum cases and sync up.
REVIEW: Today, so-called "timey-whimey" stories are Doctor Who's bread and butter. And they uses to big good for Star Trek too, until Voyager and Enterprise started using them too much. But early Doctor Who? I wish they didn't. Now, I'm all for seeing The Space Museum through the positive lens introduced by Rob Shearman in the DVD documentary (and in his book, Running Through Corridors), but those elements don't really kick in until the next episode. This is the exploration of a new environment episode, the "what the hell is going on?" episode. And even if I accept Rob's vision of the story as a sort of parody of such stories (and I do), the direction really lets it down. That's why we need to be convinced of the merits of Glyn Jones' script. No wonder, the director is Mervyn Pinfield who also gave us The Sensorites and Planet of Giants. Expect blank, empty, cardboard-looking sets, some measure of technical achievement (in-camera phasing effects), and little focus on performance or making sense of the science involved.....
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