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"Time-Flight" is the four-episode serial that concluded Peter Davison's first season as the fifth Doctor. Arriving at Heathrow Airport with companions Nyssa (Sarah Sutton) and Tegan (Janet Fielding), still grieving after the death of Adric in "Earthshock" (1982), the Doctor is soon involved in solving the mystery of a Concorde that has literally vanished into thin air. Tracing the lost plane's flight-path in a second Concorde, the travellers find themselves flying through a hole in time into the prehistoric past. Here the Master (Anthony Ainley) under the rather camp persona of Kalid (which strangely he maintains even when alone) is planning to harness the power of the currently disembodied alien Xeraphin who are stranded on Earth. Echoing both the classic 1960 Twilight Zone episode "The Odyssey of Flight 33" and prefiguring Stephen King's chilling The Langoliers (1990), at heart "Time-Flight" is a reworking of the superior Tom Baker Doctor Who story "City of Death" (1979). Ending on a minor cliff-hanger, what makes the story really distinctive is that it was the first drama of any sort to be given permission to film in and around a genuine Concorde. --Gary S. Dalkin
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All is not well aboard the TARDIS - in an attempt to cheer up Nyssa and Tegan after the recent death of fellow companion Adric, the Doctor plans a trip back to the year 1851 and a visit to the Great Exhibition in London. However, the journey is unexpectedly interrupted and the TARDIS mysteriously appears in Terminal One of Heathrow Airport in modern-day London. At the same time, a routine incoming Concorde flight disappears without a trace.Are the two events connected?
A second Concorde, carrying the Doctor, his companions and the TARDIS is dispatched to follow the same flight path as the missing aircraft in an attempt to discover the fate of the missing passengers. But when this Concorde arrives back at Heathrow, they discover that things are not quite what they appear to be.
What sinister force is behind the kidnapping of the Concorde passengers and crew? Is an ancient malevolent power at work, or something with which the Doctor is much more familiar?
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Peter Davison is the best Doctor Who ever!,
By Adrian Sherlock "Ade" (Australia) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Doctor Who - Time-Flight [1982] [VHS] [1963] (VHS Tape)
As Davison's defender and champion, what can I say? This has a reputation as a prize dud, but...it's actually very witty and charming and amusing, even if it lacks the atmosphere and glossy look of many others. Davison is on particularly good form, parking the Tardis mid-air in the path of Jumbo jets, then hopping the ship into an Air Port terminal, getting busted by the guards while checking the Cricket scores, gleefully name dropping UNIT and the Brig (as a foreshadow of the Brig's return in the next season?) and generally coming out with funny lines. He startles a top level meeting and says Concord flew into a time contour "and we can't have a navigational hazard like that hanging about the galaxy!" He runs a scientist up the wrong way, too. "Scientifically speaking..." The Doctor interrupts with, "Scientifically speaking, I think it's time we found the others!" I love when he tilts the Tardis, pops his hands behind his head and says "So much better when you want to maintain a dignified attitude!" Very Doctorish! The Master has a nice set for his control room, too. All in all, this is fun on a budget, not terrible by any means, just cheaply done. The main thing is the story is well paced and entertains. To be honest, I've seen plenty of Dr.Who stories with better production values and better plots, but which were far less entertaining. Enjoy it for what it is, a story which gets by on the energy of the cast and the wit of the dialog, rather than money. The scientist dude's advice for combatting alien mind control is a big winner in the dialog department. "Focus on something you're really sure of...like fish and chips!" Fish and Chips!! ONLY in Dr.Who!!!
3.0 out of 5 stars
Don't write it off, give it a chance.,
By kenttype40@lineone.net (Southeast England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Doctor Who - Time-Flight [1982] [VHS] [1963] (VHS Tape)
I must confess that I cannot remember this story the first time around. So I have had to rely on reviews, which have been somewhat unflatering.But give it a chance,there are some superb location shots and the story is really rather good. Don't listen to the people who slagged this story off.If you are a fan of the doctor you will buy this video and give it the credit that is due...
3.0 out of 5 stars
A mediocure production but by no means the worst ever made,
By A Customer
This review is from: Doctor Who - Time-Flight [1982] [VHS] [1963] (VHS Tape)
A reasonable Doctor Who story that leaves much to be desired. It has many good points, the major one being that somehow the Dr.Who team managed to film at Heathrow at all, and not least there is some genuine surprise when Khalid turns out to be the Master. However it does seem dated in terms of special effects (if they can be called that) - and this can be a distraction to an otherwise reasonable plot, and the Master's Blobs have to be seen to be suffered ! A story that may lack visually, it is nevertheless better in story terms than some of its contemporaries - Its well worth the purchase -If just to frighten yourself that Adric is not dead after all !
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