May's Doctor Who DVD roundup, part 1 ;-)
CITY OF DEATH - Tom Baker (and Romana 2)
Tom Baker's Doctor has always looked and acted like Harpo Marx...
...but in this 1979 four-parter, thanks to Douglas Adams' script, he's firing off sarcastic comic quips as fast as Groucho. I loved it and was laughing all the way through. Despite Douglas apparently knocking this script together over a weekend fueled by a steady stream of coffee and whiskey, it's got dialogue to rival the quality of H2G2.
Julian Glover looks like he's having a whale of a time playing the campy pantomime villain. Of course, his casting only adds to my growing "GL copied Doctor Who" conspiracy theory LOL. He must have filmed this mere weeks after appearing in ESB but this wasn't Julian's first appearance in the Whoniverse. What's more notable, is that the character he plays is essentially the same as the one he would later play in 'The Last Crusade'. A similar profession in antiquities, the same self-satisfied attitude and even a similar taste in fine cut suits. Of course in TLC the big reveal is that he's secretly a Nazi but in this he's secretly a cycloptic green-tentacle-faced alien. And the Jagaroth spaceship...
...reminded me of something else JL later had a hand in (btw it takes off in the same way as the Federation Starships from that same sequence).
More SW tie-ins to come...