Classic Who "The Android Invasion" Parts 1&2 Reaction

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  • @mrbrightside719
    @mrbrightside719 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    Wanted to let you know that you are quoted in the latest issue of Doctor Who Special Edition #61. It is all about guest stars in Doctor Who through the years. In there, there is a write-up about Michael Wisher as Davros in Genesis of the Daleks. It mentions you in the following quote: “Over 40 years later, Sesska, of the Sesskasays TH-cam channel, highlighted Wisher’s ‘very chilling’ characterisation and its ‘quiet creep factor’.” Pretty cool!!

  • @caroldollimore5538
    @caroldollimore5538 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    I have a soft spot for this story as it was filmed in my village the local pub has photos of Tom and Liz up in the bar and we all crowded around to have pics taken with them I was about 12 at the time most exciting thing that has ever happened around here

    • @paulhollett8415
      @paulhollett8415 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Well as exciting things go , that is quite up there , especially in a small village.

    • @Nikioko
      @Nikioko ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I always wondered where this lovely countryside actually is.

    • @caroldollimore5538
      @caroldollimore5538 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@Nikioko it’s a very old village in Oxfordshire called East Hagbourne which dates back to the doomsday book a lot of old black and white beamed houses even the pub is several hundred years old but only the exterior is the real pub the interior is a studio set

    • @Nikioko
      @Nikioko ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@caroldollimore5538 Lovely. I hope it still looks like 45 years ago.

    • @caroldollimore5538
      @caroldollimore5538 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Nikioko amazingly it does it really is a chocolate box village

  • @Payne2view
    @Payne2view ปีที่แล้ว +24

    The part when robo-Sarah-Jane's face fell-off properly traumatised me when I was a kid. Its one of my strong memories of Classic Who from the 70s.

    • @Redfern42
      @Redfern42 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Since you're the first to mention the dislodging face plate, I'll post my observation here. This visual was probably inspired by the (at the time) recent movie 'WestWorld". No, not the HBO series, but a theatrical film released in 1973. in that film there's a notable sequence that depicts the removal of a robot's face plate. (The robot was played by Yul Brynner dressed as his "Gunslinger" role from "The Magnificent Seven".) The visual proved so popular that "The Six Million Dollar Man" and "The Bionic Woman" used it in several episodes. Obviously, "Doctor Who" decided to join the bandwagon as well. This seemed to be the "go to" trope until 1979 when 'Alien" introduced the notion of androids "bleeding" fluids that looked like milk and 1984's "The Terminator" presented the motif of flesh torn away to reveal chrome plated "skeletons". But until those productions, a lot of robots were "losing face". 🤣

    • @Payne2view
      @Payne2view ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Redfern42 I remember being allowed to stay up to watch the original WestWorld film when I was a kid. There was quite a trend of bionic or robot plots for shows & films in those days it seems.

    • @benji274
      @benji274 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Snap! Was going to post the same comment, then saw this one. Agree totally.

    • @zoppie
      @zoppie ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Android faces popping off so easily would be problematic, one would think. Especially when they reveal two eyes but no mouth or nose mechanisms. 😅

  • @ihateunicorns867
    @ihateunicorns867 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    For some reason this isn't a highly-regarded story in the Whoniverse, but it's always been a favourite of mine. I love the creepy atmosphere.

    • @Nikioko
      @Nikioko ปีที่แล้ว +3

      The reason is that season 13 is the pinnacle of Doctor Who. Among all these masterworks, this story falls a bit short.

    • @williammcnirlan4820
      @williammcnirlan4820 ปีที่แล้ว

      This is one of my earliest memories of Doctor Who. The mechanic androids with fingers for guns terrified my younger self, so this one I have a soft spot for.

    • @SamuelBlack84
      @SamuelBlack84 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The way everyone in the pub is just standing there staring in silence is certainly creepy

    • @knavehart
      @knavehart ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Nikioko yes, This is great story, just surrounded by peak 70s Doctor Who. I say from Terror of the Zygons through to Sun Makers may very well be the some of the best Who ever...

    • @martynhill3479
      @martynhill3479 ปีที่แล้ว

      It suffers because it is an average story surrounded by classics, if this was in another season such as 17 it would be regarded much much higher

  • @kemmdog4444
    @kemmdog4444 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    You may notice that Tom’s voice changes a bit in different scenes because when he jumped in that lake he swallowed the water and got sick.

    • @charlesclinton3305
      @charlesclinton3305 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      So that's why his voice was raspy on location. I thought he just had a smoke before filming.

  • @BeagleBabyBeastie
    @BeagleBabyBeastie ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The Sarah-droid cliffhanger is almost as iconic as Rocco honk-shuuing in the background during the wrap-up☺
    I hope he had a nice nap! 💙🐶💙

  • @seedhillbruisermusic7939
    @seedhillbruisermusic7939 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I remember watching episode 2 as a wee kid in the 70s on a saturday evening and next Monday at school the reveal of the Sarah android was the talk of the playground.

  • @mrdoctorgilmore
    @mrdoctorgilmore ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Really enjoy this story, an underrated classic.

  • @meropetied
    @meropetied ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Such fun. Not all conquering brilliant like the stories just before and just after it, but this story is a lot of fun to watch anyway. That second cliffhanger is so frigging classic too. Nothing like a companion without a face.

  • @jamesvinton5678
    @jamesvinton5678 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Always nice to see Unit back and a little Benton and Harry to help heighten the sense of weirdness with the first half of the story. :)

  • @TheElderBlotch
    @TheElderBlotch ปีที่แล้ว +17

    The eerie uncanny vibe of this one reminds me a lot of The Twilight Zone, with how nobody can be trusted and everything is slightly wrong. You could even rework it into a TZ episode by replacing the Doctor and Sarah with a newly crashed Guy Crayford as the protagonist and it would fit right in.
    Not my favourite episode as it goes a bit off the rails in its second half but the first two parts are excellent sci-fi mystery and the cliffhanger revealing Sarah Jane's android face is a corker.

  • @markbelsom3174
    @markbelsom3174 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Quite an underrated story,one I remember watching when I was a child.

  • @Wannabe_Baby
    @Wannabe_Baby ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Watching this now, that scene in the pub with all the androids gives me vibes of The World's End.

    • @Nosregni
      @Nosregni ปีที่แล้ว

      I thought Christopher Ryan didn’t make his first DW role until Sixth’s era?

    • @Wannabe_Baby
      @Wannabe_Baby ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Nosregni Oh damn, you're right. I thought I recognised his voice but I was mistaken. That's disappointing. I'll edit my comment.

  • @ooklathemokfan
    @ooklathemokfan ปีที่แล้ว +12

    You have to admit. The focus on them being androids based on the title totally had you misdirected on the planet not being Earth. Every so often, classic Who gave you a nice misdirect.

    • @lapelcelery42
      @lapelcelery42 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      They did so many invasion stories that it was incredible some of the things they worked out to keep it interesting. "Invasion of the Dinosaurs" has that lovely cliffhanger where Sarah wakes up on a spaceship three months away from Earth, none of which has even been hinted at in a story which has been dinosaurs and espionage up to that point.

  • @darrylgillikin30
    @darrylgillikin30 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    "You could usually be pretty sure what was gonna happen. If a story was called 'Return of the Daleks', you could be pretty sure a Dalek was gonna be in it. If a story was called [REDACTED, since you haven't gotten to it yet], its whodunnit? status was seriously compromised." --Steven Moffat, circa 2004.
    That quote just kept running through my mind when you'd mention the title being a spoiler. 🙂

    • @lapelcelery42
      @lapelcelery42 ปีที่แล้ว

      But I love how even that is a misdirect - you think the invasion has already happened, and at the end of part 2 it turns out they haven't even been on Earth.

  • @jeffgalus8454
    @jeffgalus8454 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    This story was directed by former DOCTOR WHO producer Barry Letts

    • @someguy3752
      @someguy3752 ปีที่แล้ว

      And was written by Terry Nation, creator of the Daleks (in one of only two non-Dalek stories he ever wrote for Doctor Who).

  • @paulhollett8415
    @paulhollett8415 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    With those strange pods and doubles behaving strangely, it sort of had a smidgeon of The Invasion Of The Body Snatchers about this story.

  • @Jaketherobonrd
    @Jaketherobonrd ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Underrated story, but I like it. I remember watching at my next door neighbours house, because he was a doctor who fan as well as I. He had a box mostly Tom Baker episodes and I use to cherry pick a story. Android Invasion was one of them, that cliffhanger for Part 2 is so creepy.

  • @wibblywobblytimeywimey4669
    @wibblywobblytimeywimey4669 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    It’s such a good story, I LOVE it! But it’s soo underrated.

  • @andrewmacey3606
    @andrewmacey3606 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I visited East Hagbourne several years ago to see the locations used in this story and the village hasn't changed since 1975. Also had a drink in the village pub. One of my favourite stories, loved watching your reaction

  • @Clayton-S.
    @Clayton-S. ปีที่แล้ว +1

    As others have said, this is an underrated gem!. Yes it's silly in places but it's also genuinely atmospheric and creepy in places too. I've always enjoyed this one as I like the whole spooky deserted village vibe. Great fun and loving your reactions Jess 😆👍

  • @joshuajoshua2732
    @joshuajoshua2732 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The Doctor and companions splitting up is a tradition in Doctor Who.

  • @ajivins1
    @ajivins1 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    That 'Robot with face falling off' bit was common in the seventies. The Bionic couple came up against it too!

  • @mikenelson3632
    @mikenelson3632 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    this was my first doctor who story way back in junior high in the early 80s, thank you for bringing back a great memory

    • @mikenelson3632
      @mikenelson3632 ปีที่แล้ว

      also, Rocco needs some camera time, we all love him!

  • @stevetheduck1425
    @stevetheduck1425 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    If you want to see the origins of this story, try 'Invasion of the Body-Snatchers' for the duplicates and the pods; or the cheap British SF film 'The Earth Dies Screaming' for the robot men in spacesuits, who have no explanation or reason to exist in this story.
    It's a slight change for Terry Nation, but that this could have been a Cybermen story quite easily is rarely addressed.

  • @TheMoonRover
    @TheMoonRover ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Yeah, that's the problem with quite a few classic Doctor Who stories. There's supposed to be a dramatic reveal of who the villain is, but the title already spoils it. Actually the new series sometimes does that too. Special mention to _Invasion of the DInosaurs_ for averting that by just calling the first episode _Invasion._

  • @meropetied
    @meropetied ปีที่แล้ว

    Let's talk about the popular horror/thriller tropes that this era wears on its sleeves.
    Robot - King Kong riff and A.I. 25 years early;
    The Ark In Space - Alien 4 years early;
    The Sontaran Experiment - original? ;
    Genesis of the Daleks -riffing on Wells' The Time Machine and WWII;
    Revenge of the Cybermen -some James Bondiness.
    Terror of the Zygons - invasion of the Body Snatchers, Loch Ness Monster;
    Planet of Evil - Dr Jekyll and Mister Hyde;
    Pyramids of Mars - The Mummy,
    The Android Invasion - more Invasion of the Body Snatchers and Westworld.

  • @mark-s
    @mark-s ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Loved this story the end of part two was one of my favourite memories where the Dr says this is not real wood real leaves and your not the real Sarah real shock when her face falls off and Harry back yeahhhh for a final hurrah

  • @Skeezer66
    @Skeezer66 ปีที่แล้ว

    I like that the twist isn't about the androids, but the location. I always liked the rhino-looking aliens, but the Terror of the Zygons did the 'replace the humans' better. Sweet dreams Rocco!!

  • @HudsonMedia
    @HudsonMedia ปีที่แล้ว

    This is my favourite story of Season 13! I knew nothing about it and my expectations were pretty low cause of the title.
    So this story surprised the hell out of me. It’s eerie, creepy and such a lot of fun with some great twists.
    Interms of not having the story spoiler, some reaction channels don’t read the title for the first part.

  • @thomasstevens2746
    @thomasstevens2746 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    So happy your enjoying this season

  • @stevehawkins1744
    @stevehawkins1744 ปีที่แล้ว

    I remember watching this story as a kid when it was first broadcast. Sarah Jane's face falling off gave me nightmares!

  • @geoffmason7215
    @geoffmason7215 ปีที่แล้ว

    LOVED LOVED LOVED your reactions to Harry and Benton returning ..... great stuff to come as well (looking forward to that)

  • @kemmdog4444
    @kemmdog4444 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    A non-Dalek Terry Nation story

    • @jeffgalus8454
      @jeffgalus8454 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      His second non-Dalek story

    • @kemmdog4444
      @kemmdog4444 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@jeffgalus8454 Yes,Keys of Marinus.😊

    • @jeffgalus8454
      @jeffgalus8454 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@kemmdog4444 Got to love the classics

    • @kemmdog4444
      @kemmdog4444 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@jeffgalus8454 most definitely.😊

  • @whobp8
    @whobp8 ปีที่แล้ว

    Nice. Because they moved up from a January season premiere to an autumn season premiere for this season, Nicholas Courtney wasn't available at the time this was filmed, hence the Brig being in Geneva. Tom Baker caught a bad cold from that scene where the Doctor submerges himself in the water, so he sounds a little raspy in some scenes.

  • @suddenlyfrogs1906
    @suddenlyfrogs1906 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It feels like an episode of The Avengers (Not the MCU guys), Quatermass 2 or Hammer's first film 'The Earth dies screaming' in the 50s, deserted town, killer robots. I guess it's got a best of general sci fi with the details of the invasion being the draw.
    Though there is an infamously dumb moment coming up in the last part.... When it happens you'll know. The cast and crew just laugh about it in documentaries and interviews.

  • @Nikioko
    @Nikioko ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I like The Android Invasion. It would have been better if the Brigadier wasn't off to Geneva, though.

    • @RangaTurk
      @RangaTurk ปีที่แล้ว +1

      At least his name is on his office door in very mid-1970s English font. If he turned up in the same attire that he had in Planet Of The Spiders in the control room in the last episode of this story instead of Colonel Faraday that would do it for me. Good vibes when British Rail HST was introduced.

  • @jpr0328
    @jpr0328 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    They asked Nicholas Courtney to be in this one but he was busy unfortunately. Still a great story though.

  • @paulshorney3465
    @paulshorney3465 ปีที่แล้ว

    When doctor who was unmissable! Fantastic stuff

  • @markcruise
    @markcruise ปีที่แล้ว

    Four years ago you reacted to Wholock.
    The guy who created that recently released a VFX reel showing that he’s been doing VFX on Doctor Who for the past five years. It’s impressive stuff.

  • @alexfletcher5192
    @alexfletcher5192 ปีที่แล้ว

    In the Dr Who universe it sometimes feels like people forget that writers did other things or could do other things. Riding the popular wave of 'person who turns out to be an android' stories (thank you, 'The Six Million Dollar Man' and its offshoot), Terry Nation's latest outing now looks more in tune with the times than his Nazi pastiche or the one with the Daleks set on a technicolour planet. There's some nice dialogue here too. And, just as with the Tennant period decades later, anything set during the show's mid-1970s Imperial Phase now seems above criticism. But what, in truth, is going on?

  • @TheYoungDoctor
    @TheYoungDoctor ปีที่แล้ว

    I was born on 28th of November, 1975 the day before episode two aired.

  • @johnyesjustjohn
    @johnyesjustjohn ปีที่แล้ว

    If there is a Doctor Who drinking game, it should include “bad guy says to kill/capture the Doctor but changes his mind seconds later.”

  • @JustB3NJI
    @JustB3NJI ปีที่แล้ว

    I had that wall paper in that pub on my living room walls when I was a little kid. Seeing it Doctor Who is weirdBut then so was seeing it in a living room LMAO. I remember asking why we had the same wall paper as the local pub. The answer involved theft lol..

  • @DoctorWhoBookClub
    @DoctorWhoBookClub ปีที่แล้ว

    This is the Doctor Who story that feels most like a 1970's Lynda Carter "Wonder Woman" episode to me. Peak 70's.

    • @DoctorWhoBookClub
      @DoctorWhoBookClub ปีที่แล้ว

      @Brad1980 Plenty of alien & android duplicates throughout Wonder Woman as well. I’ve never watched an episode of Bionic Woman - or Six Million Dollar Man - but did see the TV movie spinoff in the 80’s guest starring Sandra Bullock as the Bionic gymnast. 🤸‍♂️

  • @owenwildish331
    @owenwildish331 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    One (minor) problem with classic-Who (and sometimes with new-Who but not so much), and I can understand why, is that often the story titles can be a bit too spoilerly, mostly when it's a returning villain or, you know what in particular... (That being said, if you didn't know it was androids, you might have assumed it was Autons until the reveal, I guess?)

    • @paulhollett8415
      @paulhollett8415 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Especially when the major villain is stated in the title , then is suddenly revealed at the end of the first episode. I think nearly every Dalek story does this and we the viewer are supposed to be shocked with surprise.

    • @ajivins1
      @ajivins1 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@paulhollett8415 'Descendents of the Kaleds' might sidestep that!

    • @adamprior8744
      @adamprior8744 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      They tried to avoid that with the dinosaur invasion where the first episode was just called The Invasion it wasn't until the dinosaurs turned that they changed the name.

    • @DoctorWhoBookClub
      @DoctorWhoBookClub ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes, Autons or Zygons comes to mind for this one...

    • @owenwildish331
      @owenwildish331 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@adamprior8744 It was pretty clever how they did that. I had a similar idea for how they could change the main title of a spin-off miniseries concept... Imagine there was a docu-drama style prequel to Dalek Invasion of Earth, except the fact it the audience isn't exactly supposed to know what's going on too soon as the miniseries is mostly a mystery story, preluding the certain space invasion and that this is a Doctor Who spin-off and a Dalek story, etc., that's supposed to be a big surprise until the Daleks actually show up in a big reveal at the halfway point's cliffhanger close of an episode and then ending the miniseries in a recreation of the opening moments of Dalek Invasion of Earth as the Tardis arrives.

  • @Jamestopboy
    @Jamestopboy ปีที่แล้ว

    She's trying to work out the plots?
    *WE HAVE HER, FOLKS! WE HAVE HER!*

  • @letsexchangecansandbadadvi4245
    @letsexchangecansandbadadvi4245 ปีที่แล้ว

    Love the Classic Who reactions!! Keep up the great work!!

  • @mikalmos369
    @mikalmos369 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Wasn't this a red herring at the time and people thought they were autons instead of androids because of the finger guns?

  • @M-E_123
    @M-E_123 ปีที่แล้ว

    I find a lot of Tom Bakers 4 part stories are perfectly paced - this is the era where the writers really nailed the structure of stories at this length to keep it all very engaging throughout.
    His longer stories can be great too, but just lots of stories feel like they fit the chosen number of episodes perfectly - earlier Doctor's often had stories feel stretched with repeated "capture & escape" cycles & for later Doctor's some feel too fast and they don't always make the most of their idea's / the idea's behind the stories are poorly communicated to the audience.

    • @lapelcelery42
      @lapelcelery42 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Agreed. My favourite era is the Pertwee era, but the worst thing I can say about it is that some of the stories are clearly stretched out for budget, and have one too many capture cycles exactly as you say (Frontier in Space, The Sea Devils, The Mutants, The Silurians, Ambassadors of Death, Planet of the Daleks etc)

  • @jeffgalus8454
    @jeffgalus8454 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Can't wait for next week 😞😞😞I really don't have the heart

  • @dblauveltify
    @dblauveltify ปีที่แล้ว

    I skipped the intro so I was a little weirded out by the heavy breathing throughout the video but then clued in and it's adorable... my husky lab would probably be farting through the entire video #doglove

  • @jpr0328
    @jpr0328 ปีที่แล้ว

    "Well that's a look!"

  • @joshuajoshua2732
    @joshuajoshua2732 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You can't go wrong with Tom Baker all his stories are fantastic and this is so underrated.
    This is also the first appearance of his grey coat also the last UNIT adventure until 1989.
    Sarah Jane's face coming off the android frightened me as a kid.

    • @stickytapenrust6869
      @stickytapenrust6869 ปีที่แล้ว

      No spoilers. You mentioning UNIT stories is a spoiler.

  • @HarmonySwamp
    @HarmonySwamp ปีที่แล้ว

    You can hear at the end of Part 2 that Tom has a rotten cold. That was from too many takes of the pond scene.

  • @markleneker9923
    @markleneker9923 ปีที่แล้ว

    Kind of a "meh" story before a bunch of ABSOLUTE BANGERS (IMO)

  • @joshuaverran9443
    @joshuaverran9443 ปีที่แล้ว

    No your super right they are androids.

  • @Gingerprince521
    @Gingerprince521 ปีที่แล้ว

    Not one of my favourites from this era but fun enough and it's the story that started airing the week I was born.

  • @ryanpollard1166
    @ryanpollard1166 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Definitely one of those cases where a title spoils the mystery of the story. Decent story otherwise.

  • @Eltonlaleham
    @Eltonlaleham ปีที่แล้ว

    I think this story was fun but sadly like Terror of the Zygons it was very underrated in millions of ways

  • @Eltonlaleham
    @Eltonlaleham ปีที่แล้ว

    I thought this story was very sad for John Levene and Ian Marter given they both leave dr who for good and never return and neither did they get onscreen farewells

  • @jasonthayer1309
    @jasonthayer1309 ปีที่แล้ว

    Not the best, but still fun!

  • @kierenevans2521
    @kierenevans2521 ปีที่แล้ว

    The title is very annoying as it does spoil the surprise.