6. City of Death (Story 105, 1979)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rl-7mFH8Fgo Probably the most popular of the back-end of the Baker stories, this one has Julian Glover as an alien, has John Cleese in a cameo role, was co-written by Douglas Adams and was filmed on location in Paris and features Tom Baker at his manic, late years best, and Romana (Lalla Ward) at her very best. Now Ill admit that the green-tentacled, bug-eye face of the bad guy in this one justdoesnt work. It makes Scaroth a bit more of a laughable threat than he should be, though the scenes of his ship are quite well-done. But make-up aside, everything else about this story is just glorious, and you really have to love the wonderful scene of the Doctor scribbling this is a fake! on canvases designed to be used for painting the Mona Lisa.
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