TV serie: 3 wins & 2 nominations

Doctor Who: Stato di putrefazione

(Doctor Who: State of Decay)

1980, regia di Peter Moffatt

Scheda: Nazione: GB - Produzione: BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) - Distribuzione: BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation), BBC Video, CBS/Fox, Fox Video, The Sci-Fi Channel, TROS (Televisie Radio Omroep Stichting) - Soggetto: Terrance Dicks - Sceneggiatura: Terrance Dicks - Fotografia: Fintan Sheehan - Montaggio: John Lee - Scenografia: Christine Ruscoe - Costumi: Amy Roberts - Musiche: Paddy Kingsland - Effetti speciali: Tony Harding, Dave Chapman, Sid Sutton - Formato: Color, film tv - Durata: 22' ognuna delle 4 parti.

Cast: Tom Baker, Lalla Ward, Matthew Waterhouse, Dean Allen, Thane Bettany, Rachel Davies, Stacy Davies, Clinton Greyn, Arthur Hewlett, Emrys James, John Leeson, Rhoda Lewis, William Lindsay, Iain Rattray, Fernand Monast, Reg Woods.

Trama e commenti: doctorwhoitalia.it: «Cercando una via d'uscita dallo Spazio-E, Doctor, Romana e il giovane clandestino Adric si materializzano su un pianeta spaventosamente simile alla Terra medioevale. La gente vive nella paura, sotto il giogo dei Tre Che Governano, crudeli Signori che hanno soppresso ogni forma di cultura per mantenere la gente ignorante e indifesa. Doctor è catturato da un gruppo di ribelli e scopre un deposito con materiale tecnologico bandito dai Tre Che Governano. Chi sono questi spietati monarchi? Incontrando i tre, ed esplorando la loro torre, Doctor e Romana scoprono un agghiacciante segreto. Doctor si rende conto che un antico male sta per sorgere nuovamente, una terribile minaccia per l'universo, combattuta dalla sua stessa razza secoli prima e che solo lui ora puo distruggere. Per la prima volta durante le riprese di questo episodio a Tom Baker dovettero fare la permanente ai capelli, perché l'attore aveva perso i suoi ricci naturali perché in quel periodo era malato».

Plot Summary, Synopsis, Review: IMDb - allmovie.com - heropress.net - thefilter.com - fandango.com - dvdverdict.com - taliesinttlg.blogspot.com: «...This story (told over four episodes) not only features vampires but also my favourite incarnation of the Doctor as played by Tom Baker – so you know I’m going to like this one. I did review the novelisation of this here, but the simplistic language made for an average review. A shame as the story is great. Indeed the poorest thing about this is the fact that the BBC has not seen fit to release the story on DVD yet – though you can still find the VHS. The story sees the Doctor and his Time Lord companion Romana (Lalla Ward) stuck in E-space and, in itself, makes up part of a trilogy. They find a planet which, despite detecting technology, seems to only have a tower and a village making up a feudal system. Let us for a moment look at the toy tower – now, in some eyes such an effect looks absolutely rubbish but this is one of the things that makes original Doctor Who endearing. All is not as it seems. The Lords of the land, Lord Zargo (William Lindsay), Lady Camilla (Rachel Davies) and the councillor Aukon (Emyrs James) are all vampires. They select villagers to either be guards or snacks. They were changed into such by the Great Vampire – we’ll get to that in a second. There is a rebel group trying to reclaim technology, knowledge and their freedom and the Doctor has a stowaway in the form of Adric (Mathew Waterhouse). The vampire lore is impressive, let us look at the humanoid vampires first. The tower is actually a space ship drawn into E-Space, by the Great Vampire, 1000 years before and the vampires are the Captain, First Officer and Science Officer. They have fangs and drink blood. Camilla states that the blood of the dead is stale and flat and we hear of a draining. We also see desiccated bodies drained and their blood siphoned to the Great Vampire. That said we do not actually see a vampiric attack. ...».

Episodio in quattro parti della stagione 18 della serie tv Doctor Who, conosciuto anche con i titoli: The Witch Lords; The Vampire Mutations; The Wasting.

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