Watched another Patrick Troughton show, this time the four-parter 'The Krotons'.
The Doctor, Zoe and Jamie arrive on a desolate planet and by their mere presence they disrupt a civilisation that has existed for a 1000 years. The Gonds (A humanoid) people are ruled over by The Krotons who feed The Gonds their knowledge of Science and Mathematics but only the parts The Krotons want them to know. So chemistry isn't on the cariculum because it can be used to make bombs or gunpowder for guns, that The Gonds might use against them. It's the Apartheid problem being addressed again and The Krotons themselves are supposed to have South-African accents (I thought it sounded more brummie or midlands though).
The script is brilliantly constructed with Jamie and Zoe integral to the plot (Unlike most companions) and helping The Doctor succeed. The learning computer scene felt very remeniscent of the Vulcan test Spock undergoes in ST3 and there is even some hand animated visuals to simulate the advanced computers (Very cool stuff). Troughton is also on top form with him mucking about with The Krotons headsets and dancing across the planet's rocky landscape with a umbrella like Gene Kelly.
When the Doctor and Joe get subjected to the Dynotrope machine in episode 2, it got very trippy, almost like an out-take from Eraserhead. It was nice to see Phillip Madoc playing the "villain" again as he was one the best things about the 2nd Cushing movie.
