Doctor Who - The Horns of Nimon Reviews

Rating		Votes
10	9%	6
9	3%	2
8	5%	3
7	23%	15
6	26%	17
5	21%	14
4	12%	8
3	0%	0
2	0%	0
1	2%	1
Average Rating 6.2
Votes 66

Synopsis

From: http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/episodeguide

The inhabitants of the planet Skonnos have been promised by an alien Nimon that he will restore their empire to greatness if they in return provide young sacrifices and radioactive hymetusite crystals, both of which they are obtaining from the nearby planet Aneth.

With the TARDIS immobilised for repairs, the Doctor and Romana encounter the Skonnan spaceship transporting the latest sacrificial consignment from Aneth. Romana is captured and taken to Skonnos on board the ship, while the Doctor follows in the now semi-repaired TARDIS. Once there, they are consigned by the Skonnans' leader, Soldeed, into the Nimon's labyrinthine power complex.

The two Time Lords discover that the Nimons are a race of parasites moving from planet to planet like a plague of locusts. The bull-headed creatures send a lone representative to an unsuspecting world, offering assistance in order to gain the trust of its inhabitants, then arrive in force to drain it of its resources.

The power complex, fuelled by hymetusite, uses a black hole to create a space tunnel through which the Nimons cross from one planet to the next.

The Doctor manages to destroy the complex on Skonnos, thereby trapping the Nimons on their last home, the dying planet Crinoth.

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5.7

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4th Doctor

Romana II

The Nimon

Cast

The Doctor - Tom Baker

Romana - Lalla Ward

Voice of K9 - David Brierley

Co-Pilot - Malcolm Terris

Nimon - Robin Sherringham

Nimon - Bob Appleby

Nimon - Trevor St. John Hacker

Pilot - Bob Hornery

Seth - Simon Gipps-Kent

Sezom - John Bailey

Soldeed - Graham Crowden

Sorak - Michael Osborne

Teka - Janet Ellis

Voice of the Nimons - Clifford Norgate

Director:

Kenny McBain

Writer:

Anthony Read

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Reviewed By: adamelijahReview Date: 7/15/18 5:05 am

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The story is a bit of a mixed bag. On the positive side, it features some truly funny moments, with Tom Baker providing a stream of hilarity through the first two episodes. In addition, Romana has one of her strongest episodes. The villain was delightfully over the top.

On the other hand, the sets were really rather cheap, the direction was a bit dodgy, and the actors playing the juvenile leads were more than a bit stiff. It's not as horrible as some say, but it's also far for being Doctor Who's finest hour.

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Reviewed By: TCar96Review Date: 9/4/16 9:30 pm

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One or two lines of dialogue so awful as to merit the 1/10 aside - incredibly bad. If Nightmare of Eden is a recycled Invisible Enemy, Nimon is a recycled Underworld: unimaginative Hellenic tale ripped wholesale; lame guest characters on a nondescript adventure against a heinously poor villain.

The Nimon are Michael Grade sympathisingly terrible, with the effects across the board warranting double takes. Sets are poor and so bland as to be not even be recognisable as we leap from planet to planet! 40 minutes worth of plot is dragged out over 100 minutes and every. minute. is. felt. by. the. viewer.

After three seasons, Shada aside, this is the parting gift of the Williams era. After three seasons, Holmes and Hinchcliffe let out the jaw-dropping Talons of Weng-Chiang. All this after a run of serials from good to superb barring the sole exception of Revenge of the Cybermen. Many may feel comparisons to be unwelcome but I really must disagree. From script to effects, lighting to performances, Nimon is awful Who but marginally below average for Williams' run - with rare exception (City of Death) a step backwards for the show, where the 'peaks' (Sun Makers, Ribos, Stones, Pirate Planet) in all honesty are marginally below the 'average' Hinchcliffe era serial.

A stinker, and easily my least favourite serial from my least favourite era of the show.

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Reviewed By: AlfredReview Date: 10/2/15 8:13 am

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Pantomime acting, something of a regular occurrence in the last 2-3 years of Tom Baker's reign, goes close to ruining what could otherwise have been a reasonable story.

The Nimon don't quite work as a monster, they are more ridiculous than scary.

I can see that some reviewers have scored this one highly. I presume they are applying the so-bad-that-it-is-good criterion.

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Reviewed By: kiwifluffyReview Date: 7/9/15 3:52 am

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This is the worst episode of doctor who if you think it's a serious TV show.

If you've accepted the truth and think it would be absolutely hilarious as pantomime, it's the best.

'HOW MANY NIMONS HAVE YOU SEEN TODAY?'
(I'm pretty sure someone has set that line as a recurring loop on Youtube.)

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