Doctor Who: Looking Back At The Multi-Doctor Stories

3. The Two Doctors (1985)

twodoctorsomega The last full fledged Multi-Doctor story so far, The Two Doctors sadly doesn€™t live up to the height of its predecessors. In a continuity breaking plot, the Second Doctor and Jamie are dispatched by the Time Lords to a space station in order to stop the time travel experiments taking place there. The Second Doctor is then put to death, disrupting his timeline and causing the Sixth Doctor and Peri to investigate after feeling the disruption. Add Sontarans and a brutal alien chef named Shockeye who wants to eat Jamie and Peri to that and you€™ve got just a bit too much going on for three 45 minute episodes. The whole thing feels too packed with story elements, a bit disjointed, and we don€™t really get a lot of Multi-Doctor action. Especially since the Second Doctor spends a lot of time captured by the story€™s villains. It also doesn€™t have the celebratory spirit of the other Multi-Doctor adventures. It€™s a solid enough story but it just lacks the warmth and spark of Multi-Doctor story, which is probably because it wasn€™t written as a celebration like the other Multi-Doctor stories and was always going to be just another Doctor Who story. Enjoyable enough, but not on the same level as its predecessors.
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JG Moore is a writer and filmmaker from the south of England. He also works as an editor and VFX artist, and has a BA in Media Production from the University Of Winchester.