Watched the very short 2-parter 'The Awakening' from the Peter Davison era. I do love the world-weary chemistry of the Turlough, Tegan and Davison trio so I was looking forward to this but sadly it was all a little meh.
The 50 minute running time leaves precious little time to develop the characters who were really promising and even short changes the setup. A shame because it was a great basic concept, of the Doctor and Co trapped in an otherwise sleepy English village recreating the English Civil War, very, VERY seriously. I honestly don't really know what the Malus was, or why, or when, or how, or how it's plan worked? etc etc (But it looked cool).
It never felt like our heroes were ever in much danger as a couple of the villagers themselves, openly voice their decent of the nominal baddie's plans without any reprisals. For the most part they are wondering round the village playing along with the jolly war games. Come to think of it (Leaving the very final showdown aside) I don't think a single person died in it? Surely some kind of unique feat of tensionless writing, in the history of the usually body-count-high classic era of the show.
A final postive note. Eric Pringle's location direction was fantastic.