The Smugglers
The TARDIS is in flight, and the Doctor turns from the controls to find that Polly and Ben have managed to get aboard. Shades of Ian and Barbara, the Doctor flips his lid, telling them that he has no control over where the ship takes them and they'll be lucky if they ever get back to 1966. Polly isn't too bothered, she's up for adventure, but Ben is going to be declared AWOL if he doesn't get back to his barracks.
The trio find themselves on the Cornish coast in the 17th century, where pirates and smuggling are all too common, the locag magistrates are corrupt, and strangers are treated with suspcion. The Doctor is entrusted with the secret of where to find a lost treasure that everyone is after, and he is abducted by the pirate Captain Pike who has come to claim it. Ben and Polly are arrested on suspicion of murdering the local church warden (Polly, like Vicki in The Crusades, is mistaken for a boy due to her attire) but become involved in the schemes of the local Squire, who is working with local smugglers as well.
There's not much of The Smugglers to actually watch, just some behind the scenes footage and a few clips that the Australian Censor removed from their copies prior to braodcast for being deemed too violent for the averange viewer. My CD copy made for good listening in the car driving back home from Toronto several times this week. In keeping with the tradition set with the audios so far, The Smugglers is narrated by one of the original cast, in this case Anneke Wills, who plays Polly. She does a good job in both capacities, as do the rest of the cast in this rather simple yet fun adventure. The script even succumbs to the cliche of having a pirate captain with a hook where his hand used to be, and everyone talks in those growly voices that more or less start every sentence with "arrrrr," ... I'll bet there were eyepatches as well. Maybe one day this will be one of those fluke discoveries, where all 4 episodes will magically reappear together. One can dream.
At the end of episode 4, the Doctor announces that the TARDIS has brought them to the coldest place on Earth, which is the setting for perhaps THE most historic adventure in the series, but before we go there, there is a side-trip of a novel which doesn't exactly fit in this continuity. When TV adventures all ran right into each other such as they did in the past there wasn't much room for additional adventures, save for ones in between seasons. So for argument's sake we'll slide this is somewhere in the few seconds between leaving Cornwall and materializing in the cold...
NEXT EPISODE : TEN LITTLE ALIENS
The trio find themselves on the Cornish coast in the 17th century, where pirates and smuggling are all too common, the locag magistrates are corrupt, and strangers are treated with suspcion. The Doctor is entrusted with the secret of where to find a lost treasure that everyone is after, and he is abducted by the pirate Captain Pike who has come to claim it. Ben and Polly are arrested on suspicion of murdering the local church warden (Polly, like Vicki in The Crusades, is mistaken for a boy due to her attire) but become involved in the schemes of the local Squire, who is working with local smugglers as well.
There's not much of The Smugglers to actually watch, just some behind the scenes footage and a few clips that the Australian Censor removed from their copies prior to braodcast for being deemed too violent for the averange viewer. My CD copy made for good listening in the car driving back home from Toronto several times this week. In keeping with the tradition set with the audios so far, The Smugglers is narrated by one of the original cast, in this case Anneke Wills, who plays Polly. She does a good job in both capacities, as do the rest of the cast in this rather simple yet fun adventure. The script even succumbs to the cliche of having a pirate captain with a hook where his hand used to be, and everyone talks in those growly voices that more or less start every sentence with "arrrrr," ... I'll bet there were eyepatches as well. Maybe one day this will be one of those fluke discoveries, where all 4 episodes will magically reappear together. One can dream.
At the end of episode 4, the Doctor announces that the TARDIS has brought them to the coldest place on Earth, which is the setting for perhaps THE most historic adventure in the series, but before we go there, there is a side-trip of a novel which doesn't exactly fit in this continuity. When TV adventures all ran right into each other such as they did in the past there wasn't much room for additional adventures, save for ones in between seasons. So for argument's sake we'll slide this is somewhere in the few seconds between leaving Cornwall and materializing in the cold...
NEXT EPISODE : TEN LITTLE ALIENS
Labels: Ben Jackson, Polly Wright, The 1st Doctor
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