121: Black Orchid

8/7/08

121: Black Orchid

The TARDIS materializes in England, 1925. We get to see the Doctor utilizing his cricket uniform by actually playing cricket, which he actually seems really good at.

The Doctor is greeted and taken to an old mansion where an old fashioned murder mystery unfolds. Think Agatha Christie. This episode, while brief, had a lot that I enjoyed. The old mansion was like something out of the game CLUE, and had lots of corridors, dusty closets and secret passages.

Nyssa annoyed me less again, and Tegan looked beautiful in her first time out of her flight attendant uniform and into something a little more glamorous. Adric...meh. Come on Earthshock!

There's really not much else to say. It was only 2 episodes, and it got in and got out quickly. Nothing particularly science fiction at all about it, but it works.

I give it 6/10