Enlightenment

The White Guardian sends the TARDIS crew to a yacht race in space where a race known as Eternals are competing for the prize of Enlightenment. For the Eternals this is the key to ending their ongoing boredom as they are effectively immortal creatures who dwell outside of time, and their only source of entertainment and pleasure comes from the minds of lessler, more finite beings, those they call Ephemerals. Even the Time Lords are not resistant to the mind reading power of the Eternals and the Doctor must stay on his guard. Tegan also finds herself the centre of attention of one of the Eternals, and Turlough discovers that yet another is in collusion with the Black Guardian, much like himself.

Enlightenment is a pretty simple tale really and a tidy conclusion to this trilogy with the Black Guardian using Turlough as his puppet. I myself wasn't finding mich joy in the whole premise as it was very loosely held together, but at least they got the original actors who played the Guardians back in the Key to Time days to reprise their roles. Even with dead birds on their heads. In space, no-one can hear your stylist scream.

Check out Tegan's fancy dress in part three. And all that hair she suddenly had. Hooray for wigs! And hooray for boobies, as the saying goes; both Tegan and Captain Wrack get to show off a lot of cleaveage. Not that anyone notices. Where's Mr Mariner's cleavage shot? Show me a hot guy with his shirt off in Doctor Who please!

Effects wise... they did their best. It's not easy to build model boats at the best of times (inside or outside of a bottle) but to make them fly through space as well is a real challenge. Turlough falling overboard and being scooped by a net, not well done at all.

Black Guardian defeated. Turlough's one of the good guys after all, even if he is a greedy coward at heart. This ought to be interesting.

NEXT EPISODE : THE KING'S DEMONS