Let's Review Doctor Who: Season 22
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Great video for me Attack Of The Cybermen was the best story of Season 22 😀
@@PaulGibbons13 my number 2 of the season right behind mark of the Rani!
I absolutely love season 22. It’s maybe my favorite season in Doctor Who because it has so many returning characters. Yes, it was a violent season from Lyton’s hands being crushed, the acid bath, the Sontaran’s dismembered leg, and Professor Stengos turning into a Dalek and I loved it! lol Below is my ranking from greatest to worst.
Revelation of the Daleks
The Mark of the Rani
The Two Doctors
Attack of the Cybermen
Vengeance on Varys
Timelash
Yes, indeed! Definitely wouldn't put Revelation at the top but it's an all-round MAGNIFICENT season, to be sure.
I do enjoy this season some good stories.
1. Attack of the cybermen
2. Mark of the rani
3. Revelation of the Daleks
4. The 2 doctors
5.vengeance on varos
6. Timelash
I totally agree I prefer attack of the cybermen to earthshock.
Great video as always😊
@philippaine2169 many thanks!
My top 3 are Attack of the Cybermen, Revelation of the Daleks, and Vengeance on Varos.
It's actually the 40th Anniversary of this excellent season right now (It ran from January to March 1985). I've been watching one episode per week just as it was shown 40 years ago. I just watched episode 2 of The Mark of the Rani and all these Years later I STILL love the chemistry on screen between Baker, Ainlely and the wonderfully menacing Kate O'Mara. The location filming one this episode was as good as anything we got in the classic series. It still saddens me (all these Decades later) that Colin Baker didn't get the opportunity to flesh out his performance of the Doctor (in real time and not years later on Big Finish). I know Nicola was more eye candy than an actress but again she didn't get a chance to flesh out her performance either. This season was Doctor Who for Adults and for American Audiences for sure. The arguments against this season always seem unfounded to me.... especially the violence. It had been on the air for 22 years by this point and it REALLY needed to evolve. And as for all the complaints about too much continuity references and villains from the past is nit picky seeing that the show was between its 20th and 25th season...It was a time to celebrate the shows history.
Thank you for this post! I appreciate you reviewing what is STILL my favorite season!
P.S. looking forward to season 25 blu ray release just about two weeks away!!
Such a good season. 22 doesn't get enough attention.
Great video has there been an official announcement about them releasing the war games colorized on blu-ray? I have heard somewhere that it might be January 1 2026.
there are listings for it on amazon and zavvi but no release date yet.
Do you think the colorized episode the Daleks and the war games will be included in the Doctor Who box sets? If so will this delay possibly season 6 release until 2027? The BBC may want to wait 18 months as well as the animated for these colorized episodes to make money before releasing it in the box sets, if it chooses so.
@@mamasaurous I think so, and yeah that means we will wait a while for season 6 probably.
@@mamasaurous yeah around an 18 month wait after the release of the war games i would assume.
My favourite 80s season, and I'm more of 60s/70s fan
1. Revelation of the Daleks(I love the body horror element of this, it's black comedy element and it has great characterisation - definitely one of Saward's best works as a writer).
2. Vengeance on Varos(good society commentary, Sil is a great character, but there are some nagging flaws : flat direction, the electric golf cart buggy chases scenes are just silly, the totally pointless "lets turn Peri into a bird" sequence and Jason Connery's performance is a little underwhelming).
3. Attack of the Cybermen(I appreciate it a bit more nowadays. Good to see the character of Lytton return, Brian Glover and a non Davros Terry Molloy are good as well. I like that they show that there are Cyber-rejects - that the process can't work on everyone. The sequence in the tunnels is quite atmospheric, echoing earlier Cybermen stories. It's good to see the Doctor getting the chameleon circuit working for a brief period of time. Downsides: there's a bit too much plot and it's reliant on knowing earlier Cybermen stories.).
4. The Two Doctors(it's a mid 1980s romp. Okay - perhaps the story lacks depth, especially considering it's from Robert Holmes - but it's enjoyable enough. Troughton and Hines ease back into their old roles, and it's good to see Jacqueline Pearce in Dr. Who).
5. Mark of the Rani(interesting introduction of a new adversary for the Doctor, being another renegade from his own race. The Master isn't needed in this story - and that perhaps hampers it. Interesting concept for the story, but it perhaps isn't developed particularly well).
6. Timelash(not quite as bad as everyone makes it out to be. It's hampered a bit by bad production values : the creature and the portal scenes. It's just not that interesting as a story though).
Have you seen timelash with the updated effects?
@@AnotherScifiGuy Not yet.
@@alphabetaxenonzzzcat they help.
I had no issue with S22, Attack, Mark, and Two really made me like six at a young age. Timelash is weak, Colin's performance could've been toned, it's weaker than Twin Dilemma. As much as I love Two Doctors, it could've been something else. Shockeye's soundtrack sounds really carnivorous, no pun intended, that animalistic carnal tune with a hint of the victim's survival being scarce. Production error- you can see the blood pad on James Saxon's stabbing. Attack did not need so much continuity, that's a main criticism I have. There's also a silly cutaway of the doctor running in the corridors between some tense Cryon dialogue and Lytton's hands being crushed. I never got on well with Vengeance but Revelation of the Daleks is better. Mark of the Rani is filler that isn't wasteful. I'd rather the Rani was some historical scientist allying with the master.
It's the last of the truly great classic Who seasons. Everything that follows is pretty mediocre stuff, in comparison.