Re: Dr. Who The Pirate Planet Revisited (was: What Did You Watch? 2024-06-08 (Saturday))

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.
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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.
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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.
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The commentators were the director and the actor who
played the pirate captain.
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The mystery of the facial injury of Tom Baker was
explained by the director. YAY!
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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.
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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.
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So for all of you who have been losing sleep wondering
about the Doctor's mysterious injury can now get some
sleep.
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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
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Yay! I think I speak for everyone here when I thank you
for your sacrifice.
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 :)
 Nyssa, who was willing to take one for the team
 

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.