The Time Monster - Episode 6
See, I told you we'd see another "Star Wars" connection. David Prowse, the man in the Darth Vader suit in the original trilogy, plays the Minotaur. And gets beaten by Jon Pertwee in about 2 minutes flat. The whole Atlantis thing is still silly. Poor Roger Delgado, instead of interesting writing and plotting, he is forced to chuckle and laugh like a third-rate B-movie villain. He's better than that. The series is better than that. Also a shame is that this is the last story featuring the famous "UNIT family", of the Doctor, Jo, the Brigadier, the Master, Mike Yates, and Sergeant Benton. They would never all be together again.
A reluctant thumbs down for "The Time Monster". This may have been the origin of the "any story with 'Time' in the title will suck" rule. Sloppy writing and not very convincing acting cannot be saved no matter how hard Roger Delgado, Jon Pertwee and Katy Manning try, and that's too bad.
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