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Doctor Who - Black Orchid (Episode 121)
from BBC Warner
starring Peter Davison

Features:

• Color
• DVD-Video
• Subtitled
• NTSC

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• excellent change of pace DW story
  A quick 2 part story that has no sci-fi elements in it (expect the Doctor & co. & the Tardis). A purely historical adventure (first seen The Highlanders in season 4) although they6 don't meet anyone famous. Davison gets to play cricket which is what his Doctor is all about. The Tardis crew get to change clothes, dance, refresh themselves and even stay long after the adventure part is over instead of taking off as soon as the villain is pronounced dead. Nice to see things like in the midst of a... more info

• Largely forgettable
  "Black Orchid" is a milestone of sorts. It marks the last of the historical episodes of "Doctor Who", and it's fitting it was released at the same time as Doctor Who - The Time Meddler (Episode 17), which contained the first "pseudo-historical" adventure.
  The plot here is basically silly. The Doctor and crew ends up in 1920's England. There's a girl who somehow ends up looking exactly like Nyssa. Ok. That makes sense, I guess. Sort of.
  After suspending as much disbelief as one can, the plot kicks... more info

• Black Orchid
  The use of "twins" in this story was a nice change for Peter Davidson's doctor role, and the setting was a good represintation of the 20's.

• "Why do I always let my curiosity get the better of me?"
  "Black Orchid" is like a trip back in time. Well, obviously so in that the Doctor and his three traveling companions wind up in 1925 where a series of mistaken identities and coincidences conspire to have them taking part in cricket matches and fancy costume balls as the guests of a certain Lord Cranleigh only to come under suspicion for murder. And this is the BBC, mind you, so all their expertise with period dramas comes to the fore in this relatively short "Doctor Who" storyline to convincingly authentic... more info

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