Doctor Who - Dragonfire Reviews

Rating		Votes
10	1%	1
9	1%	1
8	11%	10
7	16%	14
6	48%	42
5	14%	12
4	9%	8
3	0%	0
2	0%	0
1	0%	0
Average Rating 6.1
Votes 88

Synopsis

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

The TARDIS materialises in Iceworld, a space trading colony on the dark side of the planet Svartos. The Doctor and Mel encounter Glitz and learn that he has come here to search for a supposed treasure guarded by a dragon. Also on Svartos is Kane, a - literally - cold-blooded criminal who has been imprisoned here by his own people from the planet Proamon.

The Doctor and Mel, aided by Ace, a disaffected waitress, discover that the 'dragon' is a biomechanoid and the 'treasure' a power crystal held within its head. Kane is desperate to obtain the crystal and the Doctor uses it to bargain with him for Ace's freedom. It turns out that Iceworld is a huge spacecraft and the crystal the key that Kane needs in order to activate it.

Iceworld takes off and Kane determines to return to Proamon and take revenge on his people. The Doctor however reveals that Proamon no longer exists. Kane despairingly opens a viewing port, allowing bright light to flood into the control room and causing himself to melt.

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Plot

6.2

(29)

Acting

6.7

(29)

Effects

6.2

(29)

Replay

6.1

(27)

7th Doctor

Ace - Dorothy McShane

Melanie Bush

Sabalom Glitz

Cast

The Doctor - Sylvester McCoy

Ace - Sophie Aldred

Melanie - Bonnie Langford

Anderson - Ian Mackenzie

Announcer - Lynn Gardner

Archivist - Daphne Oxenford

Arnheim - Chris MacDonnell

Bazin - Stuart Organ

Belazs - Patricia Quinn

Customer - Shirin Taylor

Glitz - Tony Selby

Kane - Edward Peel

Kracauer - Tony Osoba

McLuhan - Stephanie Fayerman

Pudovkin - Nigel Miles-Thomas

Stellar - Miranda Borman

The Creature - Leslie Meadows

Zed - Sean Blowers

Director:

Chris Clough

Writer:

Ian Briggs

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Reviewed By: AlfredReview Date: 10/8/15 7:08 am

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The best of McCoy's first season, although it has the indefensible and appallingly executed literal cliff hanger at the conclusion of the first part. The villain is not bad, Ace is interesting, McCoy is finding his feet. I was debating whether to score it a 5 or a 6 but then I remembered that Mel is gotten rid of at the conclusion, so I gave it an extra point.

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Reviewed By: adamelijahReview Date: 4/30/15 1:48 am

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The plot of Dragonfire has some potential, and there are a few very good performances. Tony Selby is very good as Glitz. While Ace isn't immediately likable, this is her introduction story and there's certainly enough revealed about Ace to make the audience want learn more about her. And Edward Pael has some great maniacal moments as the villain Kane.

Yet, the story suffers from often being incomprehensible. There are moments like the literal cliffhanger at the end of Part One that has the Doctor lowering himself over a precipise via umbrella for no good reason. There's Glitz and the Doctor's attempt to steal back Glitz's spaceship and the Doctor suddenly abandoning the idea. ANd then there's that little girl running around. She's cute. Okay. What's she doing here. It's a confused mess of a story that still manges to be fun most of the time in spite of itself.