Watched the infamous Jon Pertwee 6-part serial 'Invasion of the Dinosaurs'. In many ways it's one of the very best Pertwee stories I've watched so far but by Grabthar's hammer the Dinosaur puppets are some of the sh*test FX I've ever seen x-D
A real shame as the story is brilliantly written, the characters are complex and believable and the politics are really interesting.
The villains are almost not villains, because they actually believe in something, even if it is crazy. They want to save the earth from mankind's 'wickedness' by reseting earth almost literally back to the stone age. Even one of The Doctor's closest friends is in league with them. Oh and they seem to think mankind's new golden future involves wearing top to toe blue denim ;-)
I'd like to see The Beeb do one of those Dr Who Special Editions for this serial. Even if reshooting the Dinosaur puppets was too expensive, the shots would benefit hugely from being digitally colour-corrected and tweaked (Adding film grain, adjusting contrast, masking out clouds, removing CSO outlines etc) to fit better with the location footage. The real shots have the expected blank grey sky of London but the sky on the FX shots is like the Bahamas!
For once with a six-parter, the end was entirely satisfying. Our heroes end by feeling sympathy for the "villains", Pertwee delivers a politically charged speech about where mankind is going wrong (You wouldn't be allowed to broadcast this kind of thing now) then goes off into a poetic reminiscence about some beautiful Alien planet (Gives Roy Batty a run for his money).
I've uploaded it so you can see how great it is...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Jb3te1A-hI
Again tragic that a serial that is so mocked because of it's FX work, has scenes of that quality ^.
