Title: Doctor Who: “Timelash“
Year: 1985
Network: BBC
Creators: Sydney Newman, C.E. Webber, Donald Wilson
Director: Pennant Roberts
Writer: Glen McCoy
Starring: Colin Baker, Nicola Bryant
Music: Ron Grainer (theme), Elizabeth Parker
Episodes: 2, at 45 minutes; the 5th story (of 6) from season 22
Synopsis: an alien planet has a dictator, and they force the Doctor’s involvement by kidnapping Peri
How I saw it: on video (rented from Netflix), April 2008
Subjective Rating: 2/10
Objective Rating: 0/10
Terrible Doctor Who is better than no Doctor Who, on principle. But this is pretty universally terrible. Even the DVD featurette talks about how unforgivably bad this episode is.
