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Subject: Re: Dr. Who The Pirate Planet Revisited (was: What Did You Watch?
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Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2024 11:25:09 -0400
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In article <v55om3$3kc1k$1@dont-email.me>, arthur@alum.calberkeley.org wrote:
> On 6/17/2024 2:36 PM, Nyssa wrote:
>> anim8rfsk wrote:
>>> Nyssa <Nyssa@LogicalInsight.net> wrote:

>>>> This all started because Ubi watched The Pirate Planet
>>>> and complained that Tom Baker's cold sore distracted him
>>>> from the story.
>>>>
>>>> I have the DVD for The Pirate Planet, so watched the
>>>> episode to see what was going on. The injury was written
>>>> into the story with the Doctor having a face-plant into
>>>> the Tardis console when he and Romana went through some
>>>> temporal turbulence.
>>>>
>>>> Since the DID was already in the player, I decided to
>>>> finish watching the rest of the episodes this afternoon.
>>>> Afterward I noticed that there was a commentary track, so
>>>> restarted the first episode with commentary on.
>>>>
>>>> The commentators were the director and the actor who
>>>> played the pirate captain.
>>>>
>>>> The mystery of the facial injury of Tom Baker was
>>>> explained by the director. YAY!
>>>>
>>>> It seems that Baker was playing with a friend's dog, and
>>>> the naughty dog bit him on the mouth, leaving the two
>>>> cuts around the corner of his mouth. (Didn't the dog know
>>>> that he was playing with a big celebrity?) The director
>>>> and writer came up with the cover-up scene of the
>>>> face-plant that gave a reason for the cuts for the rest
>>>> of the four episodes.
>>>>
>>>> The intro to the initial scene on the Tardis where
>>>> Baker's mouth was unhurt was taped after the cuts healed
>>>> and was edited in to lead into the face-plant portion of
>>>> the scene.
>>>>
>>>> So for all of you who have been losing sleep wondering
>>>> about the Doctor's mysterious injury can now get some
>>>> sleep.
>>>>
>>>> Nyssa, who probably could have found more productive
>>>> things to do this afternoon, but at least she finally got
>>>> the answer we've all been wondering about Doctor Who and
>>>> his blemish
>>>
>>> Yay! I think I speak for everyone here when I thank you
>>> for your sacrifice.
>> 
>> :)
>> 
>
>This is considered a bad episode?  I haven't watched it in at least 20 
>years, but I have fond memories of it being my favorite in the key to 
>time series.  And it's the only story in that series that I have any 
>real memory of the plot.  In particular I recall K9 vs. the parrot.

I had fond memories of it too before I started to watch it, too...
It was really bad, and not in a "so bad it's good!" way, either.

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Let's go Brandon!